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Id: 73253
Status: new
Priority: 0/
Queue: Bloom-Faster

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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: jtk [...] iorc.depaul.edu
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Severity: Normal
Broken in: 1.7
Fixed in: (no value)



Subject: srand() seed
The random number generator is seeded with a small static integer value. In bloom.c there is srand(CONS) where CONS is defined as 1234567 in bloom.h. Is this necessary? Perhaps at least seed with time()? Or is there some reason the sequence should be reproducible?