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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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f38afcd0 7External:
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f38afcd0 9* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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11* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
12
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13Janitorial Clean-ups:
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15* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
16
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17* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
18 semantics, like we do for device.c now
19
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20Features:
21
97cd52c1 22* cryptsetup/homed: also support FIDO2 HMAC password logic for unlocking
70e9d9a5 23 devices. (see: https://github.com/mjec/fido2-hmac-secret)
97cd52c1 24
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25* systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
26 creates
27
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28* homed/userdb: distuingish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
29 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
30 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
31 hence we can make them quicker to work.
32
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33* bootctl:
34 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
35 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
36 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
37
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38* by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
39 allow so that systemd survives
40
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41* honour specifiers in unit files that resolve to some very basic
42 /etc/os-release data, such as ID, VERSION_ID, BUILD_ID, VARIANT_ID.
43
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44* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
45 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
46
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47* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
48 with matches, then actviate app thorugh that passing socket oveer
49
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50* unify on openssl:
51 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
52 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
53 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
54 - port importd over from libgcrypt
55 - when that's done: kill khash.c
56 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
57
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58* kill zenata, all hail weblate?
59
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60* when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
61
62* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
63 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
64
65* hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
66 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
67 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
68 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
69 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
70
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71* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
72 that only covere the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
73 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
74 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
75
76* systemd-repart: optionally, allow specifiying a path to initialize new
77 partitions from, i.e. an fs image file or a source device node. This would
78 then turn systemd-repart into a simple installer: with a few .repart files
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79 you could replicate the host system on another device. a full installer would
80 then be: "systemd-repart /dev/sda && bootctl install /dev/sda &&
81 systemd-firstboot --image= …"
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83* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
84 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
85 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
86 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
87 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
88 automatically.
89
90* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
91 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
92
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93* systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
94 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
95
96* systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
97
98* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
99 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
100
101* systemd-repart: add specifier expansion, add especifier that refers to root
102 device node of current system, /usr device node, and matching verity, so that
103 an installer can be made a "copy" installer of the booted OS
104
2a4be3c5 105* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
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106 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
107
108* systemd-repart: when no configuration is found, exit early do not check
109 partition table, so that it is safe to run in the initrd on any system
110
111* systemd-repart: allow config of partition uuid
112
113* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API
114
2a4be3c5 115* userdb: allow existence checks
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117* pid: activation by journal search expression
118
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119* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
120 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
121 initrd had set.
122
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123* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
124 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
125 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
126 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
127 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
128 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
129
130* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
131 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
132 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
133
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134* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
135 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
136 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
137 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
138 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
139 source.
140
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141* figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
142 with immutable /usr
143
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144* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
145 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
146 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
147
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148* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
149
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150* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
151 the hibernation
152
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153* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
154 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
155 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
156 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
157 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
158 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
159 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
160 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
161 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
162 hibernation mode. (see
163 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
164 section 10.2.2.8 and
165 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
166 at the end).
167
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168* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
169 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
170 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
171 output for them.
172
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173* systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
174 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
175
176* systemd-firstboot: add --force mode that replaces existing configuration.
177
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178* We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
179 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
180 constant vendor data.
181
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182* maybe add kernel cmdline params: 1) to force first-boot mode + 2) to force
183 random seed crediting
184
185* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
186 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
187
188* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
189 fallback in "machinectl shell"
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191* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
192 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
193 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
194
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195* homed:
196 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
197 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
198 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
199 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
200 - resize on login?
201 - fstrim on logout?
202 - shrink fs on logout?
203 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
204 - create on activate?
205 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
206 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
207 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
208 systemd --user is shut down.
209 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
210 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk images (think: time machine)
211 - distuingish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
212 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
213 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
214 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
215 - description field for groups
216 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
217 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
218 - query password from kernel keyring first
219 - update even if record is "absent"
220 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
221 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
222 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
223 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
224 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
225 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
226
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227* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
228 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
229 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
230 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
231 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
232 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
233 exec().
234
235* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
236
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237* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
238 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
239
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240* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
241
242* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
243 gnome-bluetooth and friends
244
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245* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
246 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
247 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
248 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
249 cgroup.
250
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251* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
252 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
253 root.
254
255* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
256 is issued.
257
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258* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
259
260* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
261
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262* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
263 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
264 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 265
d238709c 266* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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267 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
268 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
269
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270* add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
271 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
272 ConfigurationDirectory=.
273
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274* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
275
d3584ec4 276* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
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278* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
279 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
280
06898123 281* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 282 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 283 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
06898123 284
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285* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
286
287* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
288 patching around
289
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290* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
291 log.c and sd-journal-send
292
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293* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
294
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295* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
296
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297* sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
298 can add in file system drivers and such
299
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300* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
301 non-zero "tries done" count
302
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303* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
304 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
305 it should skip the variant type string though.
306
307* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
308 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
309 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
310 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
311 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
312 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
313 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
314 CODE_FILE.
315
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316* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
317 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
318 some explanatory text online.
319
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320* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
321
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322* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
323 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
324 the slices, and the units attached to them.
325
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326* the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
327 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
328 enqeue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
329 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
330 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
331 way)
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333* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
334 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
335 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
336
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337* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
338 original defaults before calling parse_config()
339
72d711ef 340* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
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342* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
343 Specifically:
344
345 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
346 properly)
e83419d0 347 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 348 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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350* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
351 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
352
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353* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
354 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
355 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
356 files and suchlike we operate on.
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358* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
359
360* add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
361
362* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
363 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
364
5da19043 365* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
5238e957 366 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
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367 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
368 numbers.
369
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370* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
371 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
372 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
373 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
374 unlinked from any dir.
375
bd1b3f75 376* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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378* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
379
380* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
381
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382* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
383 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
384 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
385 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
386 should reflink the image file itself.
387
388 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
389 specific paths only like this.
390
53c70a27 391* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 392 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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393 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
394 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
395 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
396
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397* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
398
399* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
400
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401* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
402 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
403
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404* teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
405 project quota
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407* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
408 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
409 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
410 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
411 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
412 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
413 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
414 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
415
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416* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
417 for root, but only then.
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419* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
420
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421* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
422 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
423
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424* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
425 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
426
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427* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
428 host-side interface pointing to the container.
429
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430* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
431 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
432 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
433 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
434 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
435
cb77e122 436* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 437
899feb72 438* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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440* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
441 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
442 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
443
5f7ecd61 444* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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446* maybe use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (i.e. the env var the reproducible builds folks
447 introduced) as the RTC epoch, instead of the mtime of NEWS.
448
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449* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
450 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
451
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452* blog about fd store and restartable services
453
454* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
455
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456* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
457 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
458
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459* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
460 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
461 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
462 ID is available.
463
464* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
465 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
466 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
467
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468* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
469 parameters
470
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471* maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
472 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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473 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
474 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
475 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
476 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
477 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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479* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
480 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
481
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482* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
483 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
484 wait to retrieve their exit data.
485
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486* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
487 about it in the resource log message
488
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489* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
490 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
491
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492* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
493 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
494 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
495
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496* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
497 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
498
499 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
500
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501* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
502 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
503 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
504 logging.
505
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506* hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
507 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
508 "convertible" form factor
509
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510* Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
511 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
512 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
513 as MAINPID.
514
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515* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
516 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
517 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
518
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519* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
520 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
521
522* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
523 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
524 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
525 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
526 natural habitat.
527
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528* gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
529 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
530 /usr is mounted into.
531
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532* 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
533
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534* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
535
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536* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
537 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
538 relative to the configured default value.
539
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540* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
541
542* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
543
04397464 544* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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546* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
547
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548* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
549
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550* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
551
04397464 552* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 553
04397464 554* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 555
04397464 556* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 557
8ce9b83a 558* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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560* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
561 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
562 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
563
e40a326c 564* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 565
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566* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
567
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568* mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
569 partitions
570
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571* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
572 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
573 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
574 mapping to work.
575
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576* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
577
578* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
579
580* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
581
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582* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
583 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
584
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585* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
586 reload the unit file anyway
587
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588* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
589 from the SIGBUS handler
590
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591* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
592
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593* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
594 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
595
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596* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
597
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598* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
599 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
600
f9bf1b8f 601* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 602 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 603 specifications.
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605* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
606
5ebbb45b 607* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
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609* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
610
a2088fd0 611* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 612 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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613 prefixed with /sys generally special.
614 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
615
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616* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
617
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618* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
619
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620* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
621 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
622 state.
623 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
624
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625* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
626 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
627 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
628 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
629 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
630
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631* networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
632 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
633
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634* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
635
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636* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
637 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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639* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
640 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
641 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
642 do, for example)
643
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644* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
645 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
646
e031c227 647* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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648 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
649
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650* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
651
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652* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
653 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
654 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
655 returning from the "systemctl stop".
656
b568ef14 657* 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
c2d5b3c9 658
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659* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
660
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661* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
662 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
663
25e773ee 664* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 665
279f0366 666* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 667
5238e957 668* systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
b42de08a 669 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
202aea45 670
720652b3 671* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 672
720652b3 673* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 674
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675* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
676
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677* systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
678 units are shown.
679
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680* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
681 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
682
9d6db739 683* resolved:
9d6db739 684 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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685 - service registration
686 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 687 - avahi compat
9d6db739 688 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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689 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
690 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
691 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 692 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 693 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 694
e25b5a8d 695* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 696
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697* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
698
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699* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
700
a01647e5 701* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 702 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
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704* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
705
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706* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
707
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708* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
709
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710* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
711 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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713* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
714
6a3f892a 715* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 716 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 717 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 718
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719* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
720 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
721 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 722
f9bf1b8f 723* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 724
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725* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
726 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
727 for ReusePort=
728
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729* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
730 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
731 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
732 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
733 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
734 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
735
f38afcd0 736* cgroups:
f38afcd0 737 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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738 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
739 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
740 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
741 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
742 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 743
f38afcd0 744* transient units:
f38afcd0 745 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
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747* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
748
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749* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
750
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751* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
752
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753* 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
754
7f79cd71 755* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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757* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
758 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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759 path anyway.
760
04397464 761* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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763* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
764
765* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
766
6bb648a1 767* sd-bus:
0d43ffef 768 - EBADSLT handling
fa607802 769 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
7212c608 770 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
57f2a947 771 - 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
f38afcd0 772 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 773 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
ab9716c2 774 - longer term: priority inheritance
df98a87b 775 - dbus spec updates:
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776 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
777 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 778 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 779 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
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780
781* sd-event
12179984 782 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 783 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
e25b5a8d 784 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
eb01ba5d 785
69af4503 786* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
e8a7a315 787
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788* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
789 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
790
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791* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
792
793* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
794
fff87a35 795* test/:
20d52ab6 796 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 797
b5c03638 798* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 799 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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800 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
801 destination.
802
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803* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
804 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
805
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806* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
807
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808* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
809 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
810 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
811 is installed.
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813* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
814 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
815 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
816 that automatically.
817
e5ec62c5 818* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 819
ccddd104 820* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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822* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
823
356ce991 824* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 825
b44be3ec 826* EFI:
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827 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
828 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 829 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 830* bootctl
631427d6 831 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 832
c0fe5db5 833* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 834
b44be3ec 835* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 836
b44be3ec 837* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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840 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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841 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
842 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
843 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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844 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
845 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
846 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
847 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
848 needs setuid().
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849 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
850 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
851 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
852 complete.
853 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
854 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
855 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
279f0366 856 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
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857 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
858 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
859 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
860 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
861 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
862 relogins
e673ad04 863
b44be3ec 864* journal:
57f2a947 865 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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866 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
867 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
868 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 869 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 870 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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871 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
872 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
873 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 874 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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875 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
876 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 877 - 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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878 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
879 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
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880 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
881 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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882 - 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.
883 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
884 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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885 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
886 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
887 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
888 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 889 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 890 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 891 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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892 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
893 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
894 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
895 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
896 to syslog when it works again.
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897 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
898 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
899 journals in.
900 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
901 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
902 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
903 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
904 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 905 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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906 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
907 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
908 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
909 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
910 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
911 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
912 operation.
913 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
914 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
915 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
916 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 917 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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918 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
919 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
920 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
921 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
b44be3ec 922
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924 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
925 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
926 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
927
b44be3ec 928* document:
8b8f2591 929 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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931 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 932 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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933 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
934 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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935 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
936 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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937 - man: add more examples to man pages
938 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 939 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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941* systemctl:
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942 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
943 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
944 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
945 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
946 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
947 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
948 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 949 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 950 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 951 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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953* unit install:
954 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
955 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
8b04b925 956
b44be3ec 957* timer units:
b44be3ec 958 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
b44be3ec 959 o DST changes
90e071d1 960 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 961
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962* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
963
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964* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
965
b44be3ec 966* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 967
f59d1da8 968* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
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971
d28315e4 972* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
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b44be3ec 974* nspawn:
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975 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
976 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
977 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
978 from the kernel's logs.
979 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
980 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
981 interface be missing
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982 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
983 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
984 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
985 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
986 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
987 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
988 PID 1...
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989 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
990 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 991
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993 - refuse mounting over a mount point
994 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
995
e25b5a8d 996* machined:
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997 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
998 removed or added to an existing machine
999 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1000 difference host, via ssh
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1001 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1002 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1003 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1004 question
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1005 - "machinectl history"
1006 - "machinectl diff"
1007 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1008 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1009
b44be3ec 1010* cryptsetup:
b44be3ec 1011 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
5f1dac6b 1012 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 1013
424a19f8 1014* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 1015 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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1018
68f16003 1019* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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1021* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1022
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1024
abd55b16 1025* udev:
abd55b16 1026 - move to LGPL
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1028 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1029 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1030
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1032
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1033* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1034
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1035* coredump:
1036 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1037 - 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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1039* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1040
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1042 needs to be auto-respawned?
1043
f38afcd0 1044* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1045 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1046 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1047 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1048 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1049 calls follow symlinks.
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1052
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1054 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1055 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1056
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1058 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1059
71092d70 1060* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 1061
68c7d001 1062* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 1063 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
68c7d001 1064 - enabling dbus services
7a2a0b90 1065 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 1066 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 1067 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 1068 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 1069 - auto-restart
e707c494 1070 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 1071 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 1072 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 1073 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 1074 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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1075 - calendar time events
1076 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1077 - how to create your own target
1078 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1079 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
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1081* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1082
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1084
e25b5a8d 1085* pid1:
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1086 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1087 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1088 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1089 that are not supported...
1090 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1091 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1092 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1093 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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1094 - move PAM code into its own binary
1095 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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1096 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1097 - Support --test based on current system state
1098 - 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().
1099 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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1100 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1101 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1102 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1103 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1104 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1105 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1106 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1107 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1108
1109* unit files:
1110 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1111 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1112 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1113 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1114 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1115 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1116 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1117 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
e25b5a8d 1118 - introduce Type=pid-file
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1119 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1120 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
e25b5a8d 1121 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
e5171296 1122 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
e25b5a8d 1123
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1125 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1126 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1127 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1128
88e4d1d7 1129* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1130 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1131 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1132
0a4b9a07 1133* networkd:
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1134 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1135 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 1136 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 1137 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
5c1d3fc9 1138 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
798e174a 1139 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1140 - work with non-Ethernet devices
c9fa3670 1141 - add support for more bond options
e25b5a8d 1142 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1143 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1144 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1145 - expose in the API the following bits:
1146 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
1147 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
1148 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1149 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1150 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1151 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1152 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1153 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1154 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1155 - allow DUID/IAID to be customized, see issue #394.
e25b5a8d 1156 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1157
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1159 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
8f5675cc 1160
ac976532 1161* dhcp:
424a8732 1162 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1163
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1165 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1166 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1167 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1168 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1169 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1170 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1171 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1172 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1173 or interface down
1174 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1175 this behavior
4a77c53d 1176 - RouteTable= ?
37d8b536 1177
2f8cd170 1178External:
74fe1fe3 1179
cc9784c6 1180* dbus:
3377af3e 1181 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 1182 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 1183
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1185
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1187
9096ad36 1188* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
06ae4bfe 1189
71092d70 1190* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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1193
d2bbca68 1194* 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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1196* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
1197
1198* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 1199
4641a16b 1200* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
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1203
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1205 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 1206 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1cf3c30c 1207
90137b62 1208* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
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1210 after being started.
2c12a402 1211
129126f3 1212Regularly:
874aa2cc 1213
129126f3 1214* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 1215
129126f3 1216* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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d28315e4 1220* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 1221
4db17f29 1222* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
88fae6e0 1223
d05c556b 1224* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
62353f69 1225String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment