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Thomas Haller authored
The timestamp of the host-id is the timestamp of the secret_key file. Under normal circumstances, reading the timestamp should never fail, and reading it multiple times should always yield the same result. If we unexpectedly fail to read the timestamp from the file we want: - log a warning, so that the user can find out what's wrong. But do so only once. - we don't want to handle errors or fail operation due to a missing timestamp. Remember, it's not supposed to ever fail, and if it does, just log a warning and proceed with a fake timestamp instead. In that case something is wrong, but using a non-stable, fake timestamp is the least of the problems here. We already have a stable identifier (the host-id) which we can use to generate a fake timestamp. Use it. In case the user would replace the secret_key file, we also don't want that accessing nm_utils_host_id_get_timestamp*() yields different results. It's not implemented (nor necessary) to support reloading a different timestamp. Hence, nm_utils_host_id_get_timestamp() should memoize the value and ensure that it never changes.
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