[pve-devel] [PATCH network v2 1/5] sdn: add global lock for configuration

[Thomas Lamprecht]

Am 29.07.25 um 09:59 schrieb Stefan Hanreich:
> On 7/29/25 9:28 AM, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
>> nit: might be better to avoid the "secret" terminology here? As this is not really 
>> a secret but rather something like a token, handle or maybe even cookie.

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>> Could be fixed up though, if you agree with changing this and have an opinion
>> on what variant (handle, token, cookie, ...?) would be best.
> 
> Makes sense, I'm gravitating towards token then - although handle would
> be fine by me as well. Cookie has the same issues with pre-existing
> sentiment / connotations imo?

While lock handle is common term, those handles more often refer to file
handles, so token might be indeed the least problematic / overloaded
term here.

> Gabriel mentioned something similar about the used characters, because
> the current character set is also inconvenient for running CLI commands.
> UUIDv7 sounds sensible for this use-case and since we already use the
> UUID module in our stack we could just opt for that?

ack.