[QPID-5487] [linearstore] Replace use of /dev/urandom with c random generator calls

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: C++ Broker
• Assignee: Kim van der Riet
• Reporter: Kim van der Riet
• Created: 16/Jan/14 16:23
• Updated: 06/Sep/16 16:21
• Resolved: 16/Jan/14 21:02

Description

The use of /dev/urandom for random numbers is considered unfriendly to other systems on a machine that might depend upon this source.

The current use-case is for Journal serial numbers; the randomness of the C rand() call should be good enough, but it requires a 64-bit number. Construct this using several smaller numbers from rand() or random()