What‘s the difference between srand(1) and srand(0)

Question

I just found out the hard way that srand(1) resets the PRNG of C(++) to the state before any call to srand (as defined in the reference). However,

Answer 1

How glibc does it:

around line 181 of glibc/stdlib/random_r.c, inside function __srandom_r

  /* We must make sure the seed is not 0.  Take arbitrarily 1 in this case.  */
  if (seed == 0)
    seed = 1;

But that's just how glibc does it. It depends on the implementation of the C standard library.