Lennart Poettering
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We allow reading them, and we allow creating them, but we so far did not allow opening existing ones for write – if the machine ID is not initialized. Let's fix that. (This is just to fix an asymmetry. I have no immediate use for this. But test code should in theory be able to use this, if it runs in an incompletely initialized environment.)
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