Re: The madness of ad hoc special IDs (was: [PATCH] machine: do not crash if default RAM backend name has been stollen)

[Thomas Huth]

On 23/05/2023 14.31, Markus Armbruster wrote:
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> To stop creating more moles, we need to reserve IDs for the system's
> use, and let the system pick only reserved IDs going forward.

Just something to add here: We already have a function for generating 
internal IDs, the id_generate() function in util/id.c ... our convention is 
that we use "#" as prefix for those, so for new code (which is not affected 
by migration backward compatibility problems), we should maybe take care of 
always using that prefix for internal IDs, too.

 Thomas