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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 11External:
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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25* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29* register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31* zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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36* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40* write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59Regularly:
60
61* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65* pahole
66
67* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
72
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73Janitorial Clean-ups:
74
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75* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
76
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77* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
78 semantics, like we do for device.c now
79
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80Deprecations and removals:
81
82* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
83 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
84
85* 2019-10 – Remove POINTINGSTICK_CONST_ACCEL references from the hwdb, see #9573
c6407108 86
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87* remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
88 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
89 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
90 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
91
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92* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
93 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 94 is only supported for such old kernels.
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9eb41aab 96* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 97 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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98 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
99 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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100 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
101
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102* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
103 baseline is 5.8.
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105* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
106 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
107
3345802c 108* rework our PID tracking in services and so on, to be strictly based on pidfd,
9eb41aab 109 once kernel baseline is 5.13.
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111* ~2023: remove support for TPM_PCR_INDEX_KERNEL_PARAMETERS_COMPAT
112
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113Features:
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115* sd-stub/sd-boot: write RNG seed to LINUX_EFI_RANDOM_SEED_TABLE_GUID config
116 table as well. (and possibly drop our efi var). Current kernels will pick up
117 the seed from there already, if EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL is not implemented by
118 firmware.
119
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120* sd-boot: include domain specific hash string in hash function for random seed
121 plus sizes of everything. also include DMI/SMBIOS blob
122
123* accept a random seed via DMI/SMBIOS vendor string that is credited to the
124 kernel RNG, as cheap alternative to virtio-rng
125
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126* sd-stub: invoke random seed logic the same way as in sd-boot, except if
127 random seed EFI variable is already set. That way, the variable set will be
128 set in all cases: if you just use sd-stub, or just sd-boot, or both.
129
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130* sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
131 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
132 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
133 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
134 affect PCR values.
135
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136* systemd-measure tool:
137 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
138 - sign pre-calculated hashes in a way compatible with TPM2 PCR hash signature
139 policies, in a way they can be included in unified PE kernel images, and
140 made available to userspace. There, this should be consumed by
141 systemd-cryptsetup to implement PCR signature based TPM volume unlock
142 policies.
143
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144* in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
145 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
146
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147* sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
148 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
149
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150* sd-device: add an API for opening a child device, given a device object
151
152* sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
153 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
154
155* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
156 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
157
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158* add small wrapper around qemu that implements sd_notify/AF_VSOCK + machined and
159 maybe some other stuff and boots it
160
e1b45a75 161* maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
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162 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
163 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
164 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
165 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
166 use it.
167
168* portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
169 file system paths to enable on start.
170
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171* sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
172 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
173
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174* PID 1 should look for an SMBIOS variable that encodes an AF_VSOCK address it
175 should send sd_notify() ready notifications to. That way a VMM can boot up a
176 system, and generically know when it finished booting.
177
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178* add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
179 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
180 what it was signed.
181
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182* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
183 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
184 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
185 be safely written to disk, then.
186
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187* systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
188 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
189 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
190 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
191 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
192 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
193 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
194 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
195 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
196 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
197 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
198 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
199
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200* building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
201 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
202
8c776523 203* bootctl: add "gc" verb that loads all type #1 .conf files, and then removes
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204 all files from the set of files from the ESP/XBOOTLDR matching the entry
205 token that are not referenced by any. Then, change kernel-install to use only
206 this to remove auxiliary files, and never remove them explicitly. Benefit:
207 resources such as initrds/kernels/dtb can be shared between entries.
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208
209* networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
210 via the credentials logic.
211
e1b45a75 212* fstab-generator: allow defining additional fstab-like mounts via
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213 credentials (similar: crypttab-generator, verity-generator,
214 integrity-generator)
215
216* getty-generator: allow defining additional getty instances via a credential
217
218* run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
219
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220* resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
221 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
222 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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223 Similar, allow picking up DNS server IP addresses from credential.
224
225* repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
226
227* tmpfiles: add snippet that provisions /etc/hosts, /etc/motd,
228 /root/.ssh/authorized_keys from credential
229
230* timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
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232* define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
233 runtime state. Then, expose it:
234
235 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
236 about the unit.
237 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
238 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
239 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
240 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
241 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
242 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
243
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244* show SUPPORT_END= data in "hostnamectl" output (and thus also expose a prop
245 for this on dbus)
246
247* Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
248 what to do if support ended
249
250* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
251 login time, á la motd
252
e1b45a75 253* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 254 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
e1b45a75 255 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 256 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 257 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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259* make tmpfiles read lines from creds, so that we can provision SSH host keys
260 via creds. Similar: sysusers, sysctl, homed
261
262* mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
263 initrd transition. Specifically:
264 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
265 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
266 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
267
268* implement varlink introspection
269
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270* we should probably drop all use of prefix_roota() and friends, and use
271 chase_symlinks() instead
272
d486b26f 273* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 274 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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275 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
276 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
277 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
278 depending on desired level of persistency.
279
280* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
281 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
282 in oneshit mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
283 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
284 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
285 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
286 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
287 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
288
289* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
290 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
291 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
292 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
293
294* make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
295 usr=
296
297* add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
298
299* ask dracut to generate usr= on the kernel cmdline so that we don't need to
300 read /etc/fstab from the root fs from the initrd and do daemon-reload
301
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302* add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
303
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304* homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
305 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
306 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
307 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
308 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
309 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
310 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
311 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 312 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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313 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
314 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
315 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
316 not unprivileged code.
317
318* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
319 that hooks up userbdctl ssh-key stuff.
320
321* allow embedding a signature blob for PCR hashes into separate section in
322 unified kernel binaries. This section should be picked up by sd-stub, and
323 passed in a file to the booted kernel (via initrd cpio, as usual). Usecase:
324 this way we can implement disk encryption policies that bind to specific
325 kernel PCR state, without breaking things on every kernel update. As long as
326 the kernel includes the PCR signature blob we should be good, as disk
327 encryption can then pass the signature to the TPM to unlock their secrets.
328 Why do this via a separate PE section? That's because the PCR state depends
329 on the measured kernel/initrd of course, thus we cannot put the signature
330 into the kernel/initrd itself, because that would require a time machine.
331 Hence we have to find a separate place. A simple solution is a PE section
332 of its own, because then it is next to the kernel and initrd which after all
333 are stored in PE sections of their own too. Building a unified kernel would
334 thus mean, calculating PCR values for the raw kernel image, and raw initrd
335 image, then signing those PCR values with a vendor key, and then combining
336 sd-stub, raw kernel image, raw initrd, and PCR signature into a unified
337 kernel image.
338
339* a new tool "systemd-trust" or so, that can calculate PCR hashes offline, and
340 optionally sign them. for that we should extend our syntax for specifying pcr
341 policies (e.g. the string like "4+7+9") so that it can also include explicit
342 hash values, i.e.
343 4=sha256:0ef149998289474e4bb31813edda6ad7f3c991b2d8dec6e8fe4db7a1f039f2d1+7=sha256:87428fc522803d31065e7bce3cf03fe475096631e5e07bbd7a0fde60c4cf25c7+9=sha256:0263829989b6fd954f72baaf2fc64bc2e2f01d692d4de72986ea808f6e99813f
344 and file names to calculate hashes from, i.e.
345 4=file:/boot/vmlinuz+7=file:/boot/initrd/+9=file:/etc/fstab"
346 The systemd-trust tool should then be able to resolve any "underspecifed"
347 form into the form with explicit hash values.
348
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349* maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
350 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
351 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
352 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
353
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354* tmpfiles: for f/F/w lines, if the argument columns is left unspecified, look
355 for a service credential named after the file path to write to, and load
356 contents to write from there. Usecase: provision arbitrary files from
357 credentials. Example use: with a line like "f /root/.ssh/authorized-keys
358 0644 root root" in a tmpfiles.d/ snippet add
359 LoadCredential=root.ssh.authorized-keys via drop-in to
360 systemd-tmpfiles.service, and then provision an SSH access key through
361 nspawn's --load-credential=, through qemu's fw_cfg, or via systemd-stub's
362 credntial pick-up. The latter is particularly interesting to implement SSH
363 access to an initrd.
364
365* systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential sysemd.homed.register
366 or so with JSON user records to automatically register if not registered yet.
367 Usecase: deploy a system, and add an account one can directly log into.
368
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369* add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
370 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
371 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
372 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
373 it. when developer mode is entered generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
374 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
375 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
376 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is only way to enter developer mode, by
377 binding it to locality/PCRs so that that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
378
379* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
380 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
381 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
382 order.
383
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384* TPM2: add auth policy for signed PCR values to make updates easy. i.e. do
385 what tpm2_policyauthorize tool does. To be truly useful scheme needs to be a
386 bit more elaborate though: policy probably must take some nvram based
387 generation counter into account that can only monotonically increase and can
388 be used to invalidate old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to
389 old signed PCR sets whenever they want. Usecase: encrypt the rootfs with LUKS
390 with a key that can only be unlocked via a pristine pre-built Fedora
391 kernel+initrd.
392
393* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
394 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
395 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
396
397* add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
398 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
399 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
400 acquire.
401
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402* sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
403 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
404 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
405 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 406 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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407 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
408 IN_IGNORED again)
409
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410* systemd-fstab-generator: support addition mount specifications via kernel
411 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
412 virtio-fs.
413
414* for vendor-built signed initrds:
62471289 415 - make sysext run in the initrd
5b06ad51 416 - sysext should pick up sysext images from /.extra/ in the initrd, and insist
62471289 417 on verification if in secureboot mode
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418 - kernel-install should be able to install pre-built unified kernel images in
419 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
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420 - kernel-install should be able install encrypted creds automatically for
421 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
422 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
423 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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424 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
425 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
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426 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
427 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
62471289 428 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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429 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
430 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
431 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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433* Add a new service type very similar to Type=notify, that goes one step
434 further and extends the protocol to cover reloads. Specifically, SIGHUP will
435 become the official way to reload, and daemon has to respond with sd_notify()
436 to report when it starts reloading, and when it is complete reloading. Care
437 must be taken to remove races from this model. I.e. PID 1 needs to take
438 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, then send SIGHUP, then wait for at least one RELOADING=1
439 message that comes with a newer timestamp, then wait for a READY=1 message.
440 while we are at it, also maybe extend the logic to require handling of some
441 specific SIGRT signal for setting debug log level, that carries the level via
442 the sigqueue() data parameter. With that we extended with minimal logic the
443 service runtime logic quite substantially.
444
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445* firstboot: maybe just default to C.UTF-8 locale if nothing is set, so that we
446 don't query this unnecessarily in entirely uninitialized
447 containers. (i.e. containers with empty /etc).
448
598e4315 449* beef up sd_notify() to support AV_VSOCK in $NOTIFY_SOCKET, so that VM
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450 managers can get ready notifications from VMs, just like container managers
451 from their payload. Also pick up address from qemu/fw_cfg if set there.
452 (which has benefits, given SecureBoot and kernel cmdline are not necessarily
453 friends.)
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455* mirroring this: maybe support binding to AV_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
456 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
457 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 458 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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459 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
460 directly to host service manager.
461
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462* maybe write a tool that binds an AF_VFSOCK socket, then invokes qemu,
463 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using fw_cfg to
464 configure socket address.
465
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466* sd-boot: rework random seed handling following recent kernel changes: always
467 pass seed to kernel, but credit only if secure boot is used
468
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469* sd-boot: also include the hyperv "vm generation id" in the random seed hash,
470 to cover nicely for machine clones. It's found in the ACPI tables, which
471 should be easily accessible from UEFI.
472
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473* sd-boot: add menu item for shutdown? or hotkey?
474
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475* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
476 no api to query the device id
477
478* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
479 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
480 also be queried.
481
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482* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
483 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
484 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
485 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
486
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487* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
488 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
489 latter).
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491* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
492
493* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
494
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495* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
496 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
497 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
498 generated by GNU sha256sums.
499
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500* sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
501 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
502 logic: allow combining sd-boot via objcopy with kernels to enumerate, .conf
503 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
504 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
505 UEFI HTTP boot.
506
507* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
508 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
509 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
510 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
511 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
512 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
513 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
514 hence cheap for enumeration.
515
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516* initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
517 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
518 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
519
520* in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
521 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
522 pre-built kernels.
523
524* sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
525
526* maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
527 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
528 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
529 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
530 comprehensively.
531
532* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
533 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
534 words: show partition labels).
535
536* systemd-nspawn: make boot assessment do something sensible in a
537 container. i.e send an sd_notify() from payload to container manager once
538 boot-up is completed successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with
539 boot counting, implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
540
541* maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
542 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
543 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
b17a681b 544 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
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545 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
546 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
547 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
548
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549* improve scope units to support creation by pidfd instead of by PID
550
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553* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
554
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555* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
556 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
557 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
558 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
559 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
560 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
561 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
562 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
563 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
564 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
565
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567 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
568 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
569 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
570 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
571 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
572 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
573 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
574 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
575 an NTP sync is acquired.
576
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577* kernel-install:
578 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
579 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
580 call it at the end only
581
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582* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
583 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
584
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585* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
586 jobs, units
587
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588* bootspec: remove tries counter from boot entry ids
589
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590* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
591 sync, i.e. parse out tries in both
592
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593* automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
594
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595* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
596 json package metadata, and use that when logging
597
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598* systemd-dissect: show GPT disk UUID in output
599
600* Enable RestricFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
601 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
602
603* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
604 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
605
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606* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
607 internal clock.
608
1ccfb792 609* nspawn: optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP
f08e143c 610 traffic on port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
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612* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
613 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
614
615* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
616 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
617 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
618 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
619
620* sysext: ensure one can build a sysext that can safely apply to *any* system
621 (because it contains only static go binaries in /opt/ or so)
622
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623* userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
624 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
625 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
626
627* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
628 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
629 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
630 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
631 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
632 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
633 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
634 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
635 thread:
636 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
637 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
638 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
639 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
640 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
641 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
642
643* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
644 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
645 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
646
647* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
648 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
649 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
650 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
651 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
652 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
653 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
654 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
655 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
656 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
657 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
658 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
659 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
660 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
661 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
662
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664 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
665 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
666 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
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667 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
668 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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670* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
671 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us drop drop libcap
672 dep in the base OS image)
673
674* sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
c0a74f62 675 sysext pickup logic. (must insist on verity + signature on those though)
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677* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
678 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
679 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
680 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
681 on-disk storage.
682
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683* userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
684 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
685 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
686 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
687 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
688
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689* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
690 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
691 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
692 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
693 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
694 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
695 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
696
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697* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
698 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
699 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
700 externally and provide to us on demand only.
701
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702* add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
703 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
704 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
705 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
706 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
707 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
708 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
709 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
710
711* nspawn: maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so
712 that such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as
713 one.
714
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715* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
716 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option tpm2-measure=8 or so to measure it
717 into PCR 8)
718
719* add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
720 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
721 authentication.
722
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723* in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
724 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
725 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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727* rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
728
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731* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
732 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
733 that images cannot be misused.
734
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178d3ff2 736 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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737 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
738 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
739 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
740
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742 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
743 - support casync as download mechanism
744 - direct TPM2 PCR change handling, possible renrolling LUKS2 media if needed.
745 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
746 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
747 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
748 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
749 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
750 override the host's update files.)
751 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
752 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
753 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
754 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
755
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756* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
757
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758* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
759 make dirs appear under right UID.
760
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761* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
762 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
763
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764* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
765 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
766 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
767 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
768 for doing that.
769
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771 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
772 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
773 already have it.
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775* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
776 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
777
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778* add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
779 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
780 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
781 socket: connect() to it.
782
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783* Similar, ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
784
785* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
786 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
787 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
788 /proc/self/fd/3
789
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790* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
791 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
792 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
793
794* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
795 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
796
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797* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
798 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
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800* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
801 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
802 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
803 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
804 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
805
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806* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
807
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809 - acquire from EFI variable?
810 - acquire via via ask-password?
811 - acquire creds via keyring?
812 - pass creds via keyring?
813 - pass creds via memfd?
814 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
815 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
816 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
817 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
818 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
819 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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820 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
821 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
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823* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
824 firmware indicates there is one.
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826* Add concept for upgrading TPM2 enrollments, maybe a new switch
827 --pcrs=4:<hash> or so, i.e. select a PCR to include in the hash, and then
828 override its hash
829
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830* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
831 and such
832
833* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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835* cryptsetup: if only recovery keys are registered and no regular passphrases,
836 ask user for "recovery key", not "passphrase"
837
838* cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
839
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841 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
842
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843* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
844 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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846* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
847
848* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
849 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
850
851* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
852 systemd-makefs.service instead.
853
854* cryptsetup:
855 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
856 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
857
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858* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
859 it happens to be set up alright already.
860
861* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
862
863* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
864 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
865 default.
866
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867* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
868 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
869 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
870 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
871 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
872
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875* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
876 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
877
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878* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
879 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
880 temporary dir.
881
882* special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
883 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
884
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885* add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
886 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
887
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888* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
889
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890* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
891
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892* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
893
894* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
895
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896* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
897 when it exits
898
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899* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
900 o turn into dlopen() deps:
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901 - p11-kit-trust (always)
902 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
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904 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
905 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
906 since they are so basic and our defaults)
907 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
908 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
909
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910* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
911 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
912 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
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914* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
915 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
916
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919 (Already done: bootctl, systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
612d3a68 920 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
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922* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
923
924* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
925 specific service
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927* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
928 exists and responds.
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930* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
931 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
932 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
933
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86b52a39 935 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
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7e8facb3 937* unify on openssl:
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938 - kill gnutls support in resolved
939 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
940 gnutls
941 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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943* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
944 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
945
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946* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
947 realname substr searches in varlink API
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949* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
950
2a4be3c5 951* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 952
f1eb0ccd 953* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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955* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
956 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
957 initrd had set.
958
173c7873 959* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 960 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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961 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
962 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
963 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
964 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
965
966* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
967 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
968 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
969
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970* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
971 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
972 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
973 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
974 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
975 source.
976
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977* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
978 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
979 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
980
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981* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
982
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983* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
984 the hibernation
985
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986* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
987 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
988 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
989 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
990 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
991 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
992 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
993 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
994 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
995 hibernation mode. (see
996 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
997 section 10.2.2.8 and
998 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
999 at the end).
1000
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1001* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1002 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1003
c6526b8d 1004* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
312dc153 1005
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1006* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1007 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1008 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1009 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1010 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1011 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1012 exec().
1013
1014* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1015
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1016* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1017 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1018
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1019* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1020 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1021
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1022* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1023 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1024 root.
1025
1026* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1027 is issued.
1028
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1029* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1030
1031* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1032
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1033* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1034 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1035 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1036
d238709c 1037* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1038 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1039 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1040
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1041* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1042
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1043* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1044 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1045
06898123 1046* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1047 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1048 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1049 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
06898123 1050
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1051* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1052
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1053* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1054 log.c and sd-journal-send
1055
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1056* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1057
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1058* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1059
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1060* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1061 non-zero "tries done" count
1062
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1063* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1064 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1065 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1066 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1067 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1068 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1069 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1070 CODE_FILE.
1071
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1072* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1073 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1074 some explanatory text online.
1075
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1076* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1077
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1078* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1079 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1080
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1081* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
1082 Specifically:
1083
1084 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
1085 properly)
e83419d0 1086 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 1087 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
c633b0a6 1088
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1089* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1090 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1091
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1092* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1093 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1094 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1095 files and suchlike we operate on.
070d0ac9 1096
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1097* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1098
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1099* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1100
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1101* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1102 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1103
5da19043 1104* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1105 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1107* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1108 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1109 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1110 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1111 unlinked from any dir.
1112
bd1b3f75 1113* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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1115* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1116
1117* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1118
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1119* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
1120 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
1121 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
1122 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
1123 should reflink the image file itself.
1124
1125 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
1126 specific paths only like this.
1127
53c70a27 1128* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1129 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1130 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1131 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1132 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1133
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1134* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1135
1136* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1137
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1138* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1139 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1140
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1141* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1142 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1143 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1144 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1145 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1146 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1147 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1148 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1149
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1150* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1151 for root, but only then.
586a8e93 1152
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1153* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
1154
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1155* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1156 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1157
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1158* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1159 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1160
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1161* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1162 only when used. Add unit tests.
1163
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1164* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1165 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1166
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1167* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1168 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1169 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1170 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1171 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1172
899feb72 1173* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1174
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1175* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
1176 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
1177 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
1178
5f7ecd61 1179* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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1181* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1182 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1183
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1184* blog about fd store and restartable services
1185
1186* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1187
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1188* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1189 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1190
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1191* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1192 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1193 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1194 ID is available.
1195
1196* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1197 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1198 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1199
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1200* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1201 parameters
1202
63a185dc 1203* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1204 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1205 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1206 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1207 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1208 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1209 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
6fc373ee 1210
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1211* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1212 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1213
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1214* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1215 about it in the resource log message
1216
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1217* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1218 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1219 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1220
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1221* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1222 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1223
1224 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1225
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1226* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1227 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1228 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1229
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1230* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1231 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1232
1233* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1234 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1235 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1236 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1237 natural habitat.
1238
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1239* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
1240
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1241* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1242 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1243 relative to the configured default value.
1244
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1245* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1246
04397464 1247* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
d82047be 1248
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1249* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1250
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1251* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1252
04397464 1253* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1254
04397464 1255* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1256
04397464 1257* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1258
8ce9b83a 1259* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1260
1261* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1262 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1263 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1264
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1265* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1266 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1267
e40a326c 1268* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1269
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1270* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1271 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1272 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1273 mapping to work.
1274
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1275* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1276
1277* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1278
1279* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1280
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1281* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1282 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1283
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1284* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1285 reload the unit file anyway
1286
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1287* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1288
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1289* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1290
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1291* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1292 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1293
f9bf1b8f 1294* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1295 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1296 specifications.
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1298* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1299
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1300* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1301
a2088fd0 1302* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1303 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1304 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1305 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
a2088fd0 1306
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1307* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1308
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1309* initrd-parse-etc.service: can we skip daemon-reload if /sysroot/etc/fstab is missing?
1310 Note that we start initrd-fs.target and initrd-cleanup.target there, so a straightforward
1311 ConditionPathExists= is not enough.
1312
931bc195 1313* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1314
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1315* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1316 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1317 state.
41d6f3bf 1318 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
60d17b74 1319
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1320* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1321 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1322 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1323 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1324 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1325
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1326* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1327
d2f81fb0 1328* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1329 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1330
0a86c1a9 1331* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1332 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1333
e031c227 1334* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1335 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1336
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1337* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1338
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1339* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1340 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1341
25e773ee 1342* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1343
720652b3 1344* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1345
720652b3 1346* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1347
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1348* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1349
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1350* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1351 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1352
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1353* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1354
9d6db739 1355* resolved:
9d6db739 1356 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1357 - service registration
1358 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1359 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1360 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1361 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1362 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1363 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1364 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1365 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1366
e25b5a8d 1367* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1368
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1369* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1370
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1371* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1372
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1373* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1374
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1375* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1376
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1377* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1378 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1379
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1380* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1381
6a3f892a 1382* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1383 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1384 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1385
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1386* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1387 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1388 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1389
f9bf1b8f 1390* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1391
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1392* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1393 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1394 for ReusePort=
1395
f38afcd0 1396* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1397 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1398 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1399 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1400 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1401 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1402 the hierarchies of child processes
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1403- add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1404 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1405
f38afcd0 1406* transient units:
f38afcd0 1407 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1408
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1409* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1410
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1411* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1412
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1413* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1414
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1415* rfkill,backlight: we probably should run the load tools inside of the udev rules so that the state is properly initialized by the time other software sees it
1416
7f79cd71 1417* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1418
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1419* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1420 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1421 path anyway.
1422
04397464 1423* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1424
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1425* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1426
1427* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1428
07eabc2b 1429* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1430
07eabc2b 1431* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1432
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1433* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1434
1435* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1436 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1437 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1438
1439* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1440 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1441
1442* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1443
1444* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1445
1446* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1447
1448* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1449 needs to be auto-respawned?
1450
1451* pid1:
1452 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1453 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1454 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1455 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1456 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
07eabc2b 1457 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
41d6f3bf 1458 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1459 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1460 - move PAM code into its own binary
1461 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1462 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1463 - Support --test based on current system state
1464 - If we show an error about a unit (such as not showing up) and it has no Description string, then show a description string generated form the reverse of unit_name_mangle().
1465 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1466 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1467 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1468 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1469 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1470 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1471 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1472 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1473 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1474 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1475 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1476 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1477
1478* unit files:
1479 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1480 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1481 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1482 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1483 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1484 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1485 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1486 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1487 - introduce Type=pid-file
1488 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1489 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1490 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1491
1492* timer units:
63a185dc 1493 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1494 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1495
1496* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1497
1498* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1499
1500* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1501
1502* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1503
07eabc2b 1504* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1505
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1506* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1507
1508* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1509
fff87a35 1510* test/:
20d52ab6 1511 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1512
b5c03638 1513* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1514 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1515 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1516 destination.
1517
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1518* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1519 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1520
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1521* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1522
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1523* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1524 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1525 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1526
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1527* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1528 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1529
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1530* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1531 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1532 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1533 that automatically.
1534
e5ec62c5 1535* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1536
ccddd104 1537* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1538
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1539* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1540
356ce991 1541* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1542
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1543* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1544
1545* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1546
1547* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1548
1549* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1550
1551* sd-bus:
1552 - EBADSLT handling
1553 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1554 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1555 - see if we can introduce a new sd_bus_get_owner_machine_id() call to retrieve the machine ID of the machine of the bus itself
1556 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1557 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1558 - longer term: priority inheritance
1559 - dbus spec updates:
1560 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1561 - path escaping
1562 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1563
1564* sd-event
1565 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1566 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1567 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1568 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1569 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1570 here:
1571 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1572
1573* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1574 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1575
1576* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1577
1578* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1579
1580* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1581
1582* firstboot: allow provisioning of /etc/hosts entries, so that we can via the
1583 credentials logic insert host name to resolve into containers/hosts. Usecase:
1584 fork a container, and make it ping some specific address which is defined by
1585 the host on invocation
1586
1587* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1588 reading/writing files
1589
1590* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
1591
1592* sd-boot: define a drop-in dir in the ESP that may contain X.509
1593 certificates. If the firmware is detected to be in setup mode, automatically
1594 enroll them as PK/KEK/db, turn off setup mode and proceed. Optionally,
1595 instead of auto-enrolling them add them to the sd-boot menu, giving the user
1596 the option to manually enroll them, after selecting the menu entry. This way,
1597 installer images can just drop the certfiicates in the ESP, and on first boot
1598 can easily enroll the keys without ever booting up.
1599
1600* efi stub: optionally, load initrd from disk as a separate file, HMAC check it
1601 with key from TPM, bound to PCR, refusing if failing. This would then allow
1602 traditional distros that generate initrds locally to secure them with TPM:
1603 after generating the initrd, do the HMAC calculation, put result in initrd
1604 filename, done. This would then bind the validity of the initrd to the local
1605 host, and used kernel, and means people cannot change initrd or kernel
1606 without booting the kernel + initrd.
1607
b44be3ec 1608* EFI:
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1609 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1610 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1611 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1612* bootctl
631427d6 1613 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1614
07eabc2b 1615* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1616
07eabc2b 1617* bootctl:
483091b0 1618 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1619 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1620 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
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1621 - bootspec: properly support boot attempt counters when parsing entry file names
1622
1623* kernel-install:
1624 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
e6c6e7af 1625
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1626* logind:
1627 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1628 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1629 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1630 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1631 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1632 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1633 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1634 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1635 needs setuid().
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1636 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1637 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1638 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1639 complete.
1640 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1641 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1642 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1643 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1644 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1645 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1646 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1647 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1648 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1649 relogins
77b19caf 1650 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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1651 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1652 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1653 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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1654
1655* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1656
1657* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1658 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1659 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1660
1661* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1662 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1663
b44be3ec 1664* journal:
57f2a947 1665 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1666 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1667 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1668 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1669 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1670 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1671 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1672 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1673 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1674 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1675 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1676 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1677 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
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1678 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1679 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1680 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1681 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1682 - journal-send.c, log.c: when the log socket is clogged, and we drop, count this and write a message about this when it gets unclogged again.
1683 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1684 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1685 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1686 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1687 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1688 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1689 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1690 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1691 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1692 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1693 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1694 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1695 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1696 to syslog when it works again.
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1697 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1698 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1699 journals in.
1700 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1701 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1702 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1703 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1704 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1705 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1706 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1707 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1708 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1709 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1710 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1711 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1712 operation.
1713 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1714 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1715 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1716 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1717 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1718 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1719 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1720 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1721 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1722 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
b44be3ec 1723
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1724* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
1725 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
1726
1727* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
1728 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
1729 validated via TPM.
1730
1731* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
1732 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
1733
1734* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
1735 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
1736 user's journal stream down but not the others.
1737
1738* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
1739 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
1740 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
1741 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
1742 cgroup.
1743
1744* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
1745 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
1746 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
1747 logging.
1748
1749* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
1750
1751* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
1752 from the SIGBUS handler
1753
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1754* add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1755 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1756 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1757 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1758
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1759* homed:
1760 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
1761 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
1762 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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1763 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
1764 - create on activate?
1765 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
1766 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
1767 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
1768 systemd --user is shut down.
1769 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
1770 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
1771 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
1772 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
1773 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
1774 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
1775 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
1776 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
1777 - query password from kernel keyring first
1778 - update even if record is "absent"
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1779 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
1780 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
1781 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
1782 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
1783 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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1784 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
1785 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
1786 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 1787 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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1788 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
1789 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
1790 signature
1791 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
1792 and insert a local signature instead.
1793 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
1794 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
1795 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
1796 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
1797 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
1798 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
1799 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
1800 easily?
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1801 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
1802 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
1803 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
1804 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
1805 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
1806 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
1807 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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1808 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
1809 can easily set overall quota for all users
1810 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
1811 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 1812 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 1813 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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1814 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
1815 large.
07eabc2b 1816
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1817* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
1818 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
1819 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
1820
2df2bb1f 1821* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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1822
1823* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
1824 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
1825 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
1826 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
1827
1828* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
1829
1830* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
1831 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
1832 something goes wrong on the way.
1833
1834* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
1835
1836* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
1837 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
1838 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
1839 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
1840
1841* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
1842 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
1843 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
1844 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
1845 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
1846 automatically.
1847
1848* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
1849 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
1850
1851* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
1852 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
1853 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
1854 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
1855 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
1856 fails to apply use the latter.
1857
1858* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
1859 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
1860
1861* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
1862 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
1863
1864* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
1865 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
1866
1867* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
1868 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
1869
b44be3ec 1870* document:
8b8f2591 1871 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1872 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1873 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1874 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1875 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1876 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1877 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1878 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1879 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1880 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 1881 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1882 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1884* systemctl:
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1886 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1887 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1888 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1889 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1890 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1891 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1892 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1893 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1894 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 1895
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1897 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
1898 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 1899
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1900* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
1901 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
1902 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
1903 output for them.
d2e83c23 1904
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1906 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
1907 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 1908
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1909* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
1910 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
1911 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 1912
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1913* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
1914 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 1915
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1916* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
1917 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
1918 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
1919 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 1920
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1921* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
1922 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
1923 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
1924 returning from the "systemctl stop".
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1926* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
1927
1928* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
1929
1930* unit install:
1931 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1932 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
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b44be3ec 1934* nspawn:
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1935 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1936 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1937 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1938 from the kernel's logs.
1939 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1940 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1941 interface be missing
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1942 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1943 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1944 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1945 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1946 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1947 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1948 PID 1...
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1949 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1950 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1951
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1952* nspawn: add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension=
1953 switch that takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already
1954 during startup.
1955
1956* when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
1957 so, freeze the payload too.
1958
1959* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
1960 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
1961 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
1962 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
1963 anything like that.
1964
1965* nspawn: support time namespaces
1966
1967* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
1968 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
1969
1970* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
1971 fallback in "machinectl shell"
1972
1973* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
1974 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
1975 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
1976
1977* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
1978
1979* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
1980
e25b5a8d 1981* machined:
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1982 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1983 removed or added to an existing machine
1984 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1985 difference host, via ssh
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1986 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1987 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1988 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1989 question
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1990 - "machinectl history"
1991 - "machinectl diff"
1992 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1993 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1994
abd55b16 1995* udev:
abd55b16 1996 - move to LGPL
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1998 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1999 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 2000
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2001* coredump:
2002 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2003 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
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2005* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2006
f38afcd0 2007* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2008 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 2009 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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2010 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2011 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2012 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2013 - add --test mode
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2014 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2015 project quota
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2017* udev-link-config:
2018 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2019 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2020 on Path= matching
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88e4d1d7 2022* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2023 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2024 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2025
0a4b9a07 2026* networkd:
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2027 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2028 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2029 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2030 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2031 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2032 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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2033 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2034 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2035 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2036 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2037 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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2038 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2039 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2040 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2041 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2042 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2043 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2044 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
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2046* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2047
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2048* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2049
ac976532 2050* dhcp:
424a8732 2051 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
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2053* dhcp6:
2054 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2055 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2056 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2057 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2058 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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2059 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2060 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2061 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2062 or interface down
2063 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2064 this behavior
4a77c53d 2065 - RouteTable= ?