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  1. Ruby Driver
  2. RUBY-3305

Support linking against libbsd on non BSD systems

    • Type: Icon: Improvement Improvement
    • Resolution: Won't Do
    • Priority: Icon: Trivial - P5 Trivial - P5
    • bson-5.0.0
    • Affects Version/s: None
    • Component/s: BSON
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      Building bson-ruby 5 on a BSD system will use the superior arc4random utility to generate cryptographically secure random numbers. Without that, the ObjectId generation code falls back to the inferior rand() function.

      GitHub user midnight-wonderer has submitted a PR that allows arc4random to be linked and used on non-BSD systems if the libbsd library is present.

      https://github.com/mongodb/bson-ruby/pull/314

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            jamis.buck@mongodb.com Jamis Buck
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