Comment 2 for bug 1767097

Thanks for your response.

So, if this is the case then the behavior of the function is essentially this: given a set of inputs it returns a number. Given the same set of inputs again, it may return the same number or it may return a completely different number. It is basically undeterministic, since it is impossible to guarantee that nobody outside of my control will change the files on the file system. Why would you want it to behave this way instead of returning the same value every time for the same (path, id) pair?