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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
34
35* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
36* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
37 after being started.
38
39* write blog stories about:
40 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
41 - enabling dbus services
42 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
43 - remote access
44 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
45 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
46 - auto-restart
47 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
48 - the journal HTTP iface
49 - non-cgroup resource management
50 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
51 - refreshed, longer missions statement
52 - calendar time events
53 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
54 - how to create your own target
55 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
56 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
57
58Regularly:
59
60* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
61
62* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
63
64* pahole
65
66* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
67
68* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
69
70* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
71
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72Janitorial Clean-ups:
73
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74* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
75
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76* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
77 semantics, like we do for device.c now
78
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79Features:
80
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81* systemd creds hookup with qemu fw_cfg. (Quite possibly might not need any
82 code at all, given the fw_cfg stuff are just files, but we should then
83 document how to use it). Goal: provide symmetric ways to pass creds to nspawn
84 containers and qemu VMs. (maybe also pick up env vars from fw_cfg?)
85
86* beef up sd_notify() to support AV_VSOCK in $NOTIFY_SOCKET, so that VM
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87 managers can get ready notifications from VMs, just like container managers
88 from their payload. Also pick up address from qemu/fw_cfg if set there.
89 (which has benefits, given SecureBoot and kernel cmdline are not necessarily
90 friends.)
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92* mirroring this: maybe support binding to AV_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
93 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
94 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
95 two sides of the channe. The latter env var could then be used in an
96 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
97 directly to host service manager.
98
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99* maybe write a tool that binds an AF_VFSOCK socket, then invokes qemu,
100 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using fw_cfg to
101 configure socket address.
102
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103* sd-boot: rework random seed handling following recent kernel changes: always
104 pass seed to kernel, but credit only if secure boot is used
105
106* sd-boot: hash data from GetNextHighMonotonicCount() into updated random seed,
107 so that we might even open up up the random seed logic to non-SecureBoot
108 systems?
109
110* sd-boot: add menu item for shutdown? or hotkey?
111
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112* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
113 no api to query the device id
114
115* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
116 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
117 also be queried.
118
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119* udevadm: a new "tree" verb that shows tree of devices as syspath hierarchy,
120 along with their properties. uninitialized devices should be greyed out.
121
122* bootctl: show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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124* dissect: rework how we access partitions: instead of letting the kernel probe
125 partition tables asynchronously, just pass the stuff we parsed in userspace
126 to the kernel via BLKPG_ADD_PARTITION. Benefit: we don't have to wait for
127 kernel/netlink/udev, but can run this synchronously without chance of losing
128 events or similar.
129
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130* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
131 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
132 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
133 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
134
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135* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
136 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
137 latter).
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139* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
140
141* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
142
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143* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
144 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
145 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
146 generated by GNU sha256sums.
147
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148* initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
149 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
150 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
151
152* in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
153 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
154 pre-built kernels.
155
156* sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
157
158* maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
159 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
160 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
161 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
162 comprehensively.
163
164* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
165 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
166 words: show partition labels).
167
168* systemd-nspawn: make boot assessment do something sensible in a
169 container. i.e send an sd_notify() from payload to container manager once
170 boot-up is completed successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with
171 boot counting, implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
172
173* maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
174 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
175 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
b17a681b 176 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
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177 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
178 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
179 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
180
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181* improve scope units to support creation by pidfd instead of by PID
182
e4f92a62 183* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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184
185* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
186
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187* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
188 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
189 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
190 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
191 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
192 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
193 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
194 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
195 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
196 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
197
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198* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
199 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
200 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
201 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
202 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
203 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
204 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
205 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
206 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
207 an NTP sync is acquired.
208
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209* kernel-install:
210 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
211 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
212 call it at the end only
213
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214* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
215 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
216
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217* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
218 jobs, units
219
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220* bootspec: remove tries counter from boot entry ids
221
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222* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
223 sync, i.e. parse out tries in both
224
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225* automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
226
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227* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
228 json package metadata, and use that when logging
229
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230* systemd-dissect: show GPT disk UUID in output
231
232* Enable RestricFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
233 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
234
235* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
236 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
237
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238* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
239 internal clock.
240
1ccfb792 241* nspawn: optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP
f08e143c 242 traffic on port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
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244* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
245 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
246
247* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
248 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
249 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
250 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
251
252* sysext: ensure one can build a sysext that can safely apply to *any* system
253 (because it contains only static go binaries in /opt/ or so)
254
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255* userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
256 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
257 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
258
259* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
260 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
261 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
262 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
263 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
264 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
265 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
266 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
267 thread:
268 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
269 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
270 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
271 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
272 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
273 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
274
275* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
276 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
277 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
278
279* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
280 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
281 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
282 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
283 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
284 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
285 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
286 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
287 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
288 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
289 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
290 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
291 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
292 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
293 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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295* add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
296 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
297 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
298 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
299 for debugging purposes.
300
301* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
302 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us drop drop libcap
303 dep in the base OS image)
304
305* sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
306 sysext pickup logic.
307
308* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
309 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
310 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
311 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
312 on-disk storage.
313
314* sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP and synthesize initrd from
315 it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as microcode does that on its
316 own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
317
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318* userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
319 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
320 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
321 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
322 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
323
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324* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
325 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
326 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
327 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
328 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
329 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
330 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
331
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332* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
333 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
334 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
335 externally and provide to us on demand only.
336
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337* add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
338 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
339 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
340 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
341 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
342 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
343 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
344 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
345
346* nspawn: maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so
347 that such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as
348 one.
349
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350* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
351 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option tpm2-measure=8 or so to measure it
352 into PCR 8)
353
354* add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
355 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
356 authentication.
357
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358* in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCRs are being used, store that
359 in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify that
360 the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
361
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362* rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
363
63a185dc 364* PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
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366* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
367 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
368 that images cannot be misused.
369
aca8ecc3 370* New udev block device symlink names:
178d3ff2 371 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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372 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
373 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
374 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
375
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376* sysupdate:
377 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
378 - support casync as download mechanism
379 - direct TPM2 PCR change handling, possible renrolling LUKS2 media if needed.
380 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
381 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
382 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
383 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
384 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
385 override the host's update files.)
386 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
387 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
388 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
389 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
390
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391* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
392
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393* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
394 make dirs appear under right UID.
395
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396* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
397 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
398
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399* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
400 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
401 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
402 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
403 for doing that.
404
405* pass systemd-detect-virt result to generators as env var. Modifying behaviour
406 based on whether we are virtualized or not is a pretty common thing, hence
407 maybe just pass that info along for free in an env var. We cache the result
408 anyway, so it's basically free.
409
24063ba1 410* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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411 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
412 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
413 already have it.
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415* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
416 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
417
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418* add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
419 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
420 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
421 socket: connect() to it.
422
423* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
424 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
425 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
426
427* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
428 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
429
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430* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
431 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
432
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433* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
434 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
435 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
436 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
437 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
438
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439* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
440
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441* make LoadCredential= automatically find credentials in /etc/creds,
442 /run/creds, … and so on, if path component is unqualified
443
444* teach LoadCredential=/LoadCredentialEncrypted= to load credentials from
445 kernel cmdline, maybe: LoadCredentialEncrypted=foobar:proc-cmdline:foobar
446
447* credentials system:
448 - acquire from kernel command line
449 - acquire from EFI variable?
450 - acquire via via ask-password?
451 - acquire creds via keyring?
452 - pass creds via keyring?
453 - pass creds via memfd?
454 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
455 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
456 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
457 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
458 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
459 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
460
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461* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
462 firmware indicates there is one.
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464* Add concept for upgrading TPM2 enrollments, maybe a new switch
465 --pcrs=4:<hash> or so, i.e. select a PCR to include in the hash, and then
466 override its hash
467
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468* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
469 and such
470
471* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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473* cryptsetup: if only recovery keys are registered and no regular passphrases,
474 ask user for "recovery key", not "passphrase"
475
476* cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
477
7d7c75f1 478* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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479 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
480
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481* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
482 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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484* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
485
486* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
487 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
488
489* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
490 systemd-makefs.service instead.
491
492* cryptsetup:
493 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
494 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
495
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496* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
497 it happens to be set up alright already.
498
499* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
500
501* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
502 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
503 default.
504
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505* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
506 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
507 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
508 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
509 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
510
08d33656 511* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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513* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
514 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
515
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516* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
517 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
518 temporary dir.
519
520* special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
521 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
522
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523* add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
524 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
525
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526* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
527
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528* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
529
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530* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
531 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
532
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533* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
534
535* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
536
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537* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
538 when it exits
539
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540* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
541 o turn into dlopen() deps:
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542 - p11-kit-trust (always)
543 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 544 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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545 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
546 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
547 since they are so basic and our defaults)
548 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
549 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
550
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551* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
552 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
553 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
554
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555* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
556 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
557
a6e1018d 558* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
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559 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, systemctl,
560 coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
561 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
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563* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
564
565* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
566 specific service
567
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568* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
569 exists and responds.
570
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571* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
572 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
573 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
574
91fc013f 575* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 576 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 577
7e8facb3 578* unify on openssl:
492f91d8 579 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
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580 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
581
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582* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
583 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
584
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585* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
586 realname substr searches in varlink API
006c44c1 587
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588* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
589
2a4be3c5 590* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 591
f1eb0ccd 592* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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594* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
595 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
596 initrd had set.
597
173c7873 598* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 599 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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600 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
601 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
602 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
603 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
604
605* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
606 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
607 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
608
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609* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
610 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
611 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
612 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
613 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
614 source.
615
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616* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
617 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
618 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
619
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620* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
621
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622* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
623 the hibernation
624
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625* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
626 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
627 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
628 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
629 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
630 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
631 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
632 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
633 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
634 hibernation mode. (see
635 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
636 section 10.2.2.8 and
637 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
638 at the end).
639
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640* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
641 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
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c6526b8d 643* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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645* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
646 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
647 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
648 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
649 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
650 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
651 exec().
652
653* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
654
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655* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
656 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
657
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658* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
659 gnome-bluetooth and friends
660
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661* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
662 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
663 root.
664
665* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
666 is issued.
667
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668* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
669
670* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
671
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672* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
673 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
674 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 675
d238709c 676* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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677 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
678 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
679
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680* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
681
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682* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
683 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
684
06898123 685* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 686 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 687 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 688 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
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690* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
691
692* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
693 patching around
694
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695* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
696 log.c and sd-journal-send
697
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698* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
699
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700* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
701
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702* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
703 non-zero "tries done" count
704
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705* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
706 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
707 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
708 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
709 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
710 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
711 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
712 CODE_FILE.
713
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714* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
715 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
716 some explanatory text online.
717
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718* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
719
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720* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
721 original defaults before calling parse_config()
722
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723* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
724 Specifically:
725
726 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
727 properly)
e83419d0 728 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 729 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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731* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
732 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
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734* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
735 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
736 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
737 files and suchlike we operate on.
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739* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
740
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741* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
742
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743* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
744 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
745
5da19043 746* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 747 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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749* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
750 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
751 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
752 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
753 unlinked from any dir.
754
bd1b3f75 755* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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757* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
758
759* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
760
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761* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
762 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
763 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
764 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
765 should reflink the image file itself.
766
767 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
768 specific paths only like this.
769
53c70a27 770* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 771 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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772 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
773 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 774 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
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776* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
777
778* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
779
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780* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
781 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
782
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783* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
784 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
785 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
786 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
787 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
788 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
789 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
790 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
791
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792* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
793 for root, but only then.
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795* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
796
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797* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
798 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
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800* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
801 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
802
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803* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
804 only when used. Add unit tests.
805
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806* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
807 host-side interface pointing to the container.
808
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809* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
810 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
811 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
812 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
813 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
814
899feb72 815* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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817* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
818 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
819 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
820
5f7ecd61 821* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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823* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
824 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
825
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826* blog about fd store and restartable services
827
828* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
829
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830* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
831 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
832
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833* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
834 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
835 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
836 ID is available.
837
838* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
839 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
840 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
841
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842* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
843 parameters
844
63a185dc 845* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 846 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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847 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
848 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
849 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
850 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
851 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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853* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
854 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
855
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856* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
857 about it in the resource log message
858
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859* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
860 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
861 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
862
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863* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
864 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
865
866 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
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868* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
869 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
870 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
871
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872* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
873 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
874
875* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
876 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
877 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
878 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
879 natural habitat.
880
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881* 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
882
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883* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
884 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
885 relative to the configured default value.
886
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887* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
888
04397464 889* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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891* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
892
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893* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
894
04397464 895* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 896
04397464 897* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 898
04397464 899* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
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8ce9b83a 901* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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903* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
904 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
905 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
906
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907* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
908 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
909
e40a326c 910* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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912* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
913 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
914 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
915 mapping to work.
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917* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
918
919* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
920
921* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
922
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923* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
924 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
925
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926* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
927 reload the unit file anyway
928
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929* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
930
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931* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
932
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933* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
934 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
935
f9bf1b8f 936* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 937 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 938 specifications.
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940* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
941
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942* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
943
a2088fd0 944* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 945 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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946 prefixed with /sys generally special.
947 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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949* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
950
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951* initrd-parse-etc.service: can we skip daemon-reload if /sysroot/etc/fstab is missing?
952 Note that we start initrd-fs.target and initrd-cleanup.target there, so a straightforward
953 ConditionPathExists= is not enough.
954
931bc195 955* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
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957* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
958 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
959 state.
960 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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962* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
963 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
964 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
965 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
966 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
967
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968* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
969
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970* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
971 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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973* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
974 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
975
e031c227 976* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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977 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
978
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979* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
980
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981* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
982 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
983
25e773ee 984* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 985
720652b3 986* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 987
720652b3 988* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 989
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990* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
991
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992* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
993 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
994
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995* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
996
9d6db739 997* resolved:
9d6db739 998 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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999 - service registration
1000 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1001 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1002 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1003 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1004 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1005 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1006 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1007 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1008
e25b5a8d 1009* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1010
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1011* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1012
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1013* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1014
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1015* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1016
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1017* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1018
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1019* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1020 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1021
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1022* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1023
6a3f892a 1024* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1025 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1026 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1027
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1028* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1029 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1030 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1031
f9bf1b8f 1032* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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1034* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1035 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1036 for ReusePort=
1037
f38afcd0 1038* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1039 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1040 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1041 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1042 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1043 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1044 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 1045
f38afcd0 1046* transient units:
f38afcd0 1047 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1048
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1049* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1050
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1051* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1052
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1053* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1054
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1055* 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
1056
7f79cd71 1057* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1058
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1059* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1060 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1061 path anyway.
1062
04397464 1063* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1064
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1065* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1066
1067* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1068
07eabc2b 1069* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1070
07eabc2b 1071* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1072
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1073* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1074
1075* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1076 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1077 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1078
1079* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1080 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1081
1082* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1083
1084* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1085
1086* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1087
1088* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1089 needs to be auto-respawned?
1090
1091* pid1:
1092 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1093 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1094 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1095 that are not supported...
1096 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1097 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1098 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1099 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1100 - move PAM code into its own binary
1101 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1102 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1103 - Support --test based on current system state
1104 - 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().
1105 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1106 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1107 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1108 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1109 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1110 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1111 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1112 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1113 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1114 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1115 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1116 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1117
1118* unit files:
1119 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1120 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1121 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1122 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1123 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1124 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1125 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1126 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1127 - introduce Type=pid-file
1128 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1129 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1130 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1131
1132* timer units:
63a185dc 1133 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1134 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1135
1136* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1137
1138* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1139
1140* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1141
1142* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1143
07eabc2b 1144* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1145
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1146* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1147
1148* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1149
fff87a35 1150* test/:
20d52ab6 1151 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1152
b5c03638 1153* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1154 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1155 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1156 destination.
1157
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1158* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1159 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1160
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1161* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1162
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1163* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1164 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1165 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1166
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1167* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1168 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1169
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1170* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1171 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1172 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1173 that automatically.
1174
e5ec62c5 1175* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1176
ccddd104 1177* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1178
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1179* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1180
356ce991 1181* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1182
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1183* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1184
1185* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1186
1187* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1188
1189* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1190
1191* sd-bus:
1192 - EBADSLT handling
1193 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1194 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1195 - 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
1196 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1197 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1198 - longer term: priority inheritance
1199 - dbus spec updates:
1200 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
1201 - GVariant
1202 - path escaping
1203 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1204
1205* sd-event
1206 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1207 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1208 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1209 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1210 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1211 here:
1212 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1213
1214* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1215 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1216
1217* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1218
1219* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1220
1221* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1222
1223* firstboot: allow provisioning of /etc/hosts entries, so that we can via the
1224 credentials logic insert host name to resolve into containers/hosts. Usecase:
1225 fork a container, and make it ping some specific address which is defined by
1226 the host on invocation
1227
1228* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1229 reading/writing files
1230
1231* 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
1232
1233* sd-boot: define a drop-in dir in the ESP that may contain X.509
1234 certificates. If the firmware is detected to be in setup mode, automatically
1235 enroll them as PK/KEK/db, turn off setup mode and proceed. Optionally,
1236 instead of auto-enrolling them add them to the sd-boot menu, giving the user
1237 the option to manually enroll them, after selecting the menu entry. This way,
1238 installer images can just drop the certfiicates in the ESP, and on first boot
1239 can easily enroll the keys without ever booting up.
1240
1241* efi stub: optionally, load initrd from disk as a separate file, HMAC check it
1242 with key from TPM, bound to PCR, refusing if failing. This would then allow
1243 traditional distros that generate initrds locally to secure them with TPM:
1244 after generating the initrd, do the HMAC calculation, put result in initrd
1245 filename, done. This would then bind the validity of the initrd to the local
1246 host, and used kernel, and means people cannot change initrd or kernel
1247 without booting the kernel + initrd.
1248
b44be3ec 1249* EFI:
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1250 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1251 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1252 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1253* bootctl
631427d6 1254 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1255
07eabc2b 1256* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1257
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1258* bootctl:
1259 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1260 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
1261 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
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1262 - bootspec: properly support boot attempt counters when parsing entry file names
1263
1264* kernel-install:
1265 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
e6c6e7af 1266
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1267* logind:
1268 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1269 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1270 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1271 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1272 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1273 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1274 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1275 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1276 needs setuid().
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1277 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1278 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1279 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1280 complete.
1281 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1282 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1283 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1284 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1285 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1286 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1287 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1288 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1289 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1290 relogins
77b19caf 1291 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 1292
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1293* move logind udev rules to top-level rule.d/ directory
1294
1295* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1296
1297* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1298 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1299 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1300
1301* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1302 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1303
b44be3ec 1304* journal:
57f2a947 1305 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1306 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1307 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1308 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1309 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1310 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1311 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1312 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1313 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1314 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1315 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1316 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1317 - 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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1318 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1319 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1320 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1321 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1322 - 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.
1323 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1324 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1325 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1326 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1327 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1328 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1329 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1330 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1331 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1332 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1333 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1334 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1335 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1336 to syslog when it works again.
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1337 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1338 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1339 journals in.
1340 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1341 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1342 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1343 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1344 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1345 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1346 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1347 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1348 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1349 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1350 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1351 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1352 operation.
1353 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1354 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1355 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1356 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1357 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1358 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1359 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1360 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1361 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1362 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
b44be3ec 1363
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1364* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
1365 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
1366
1367* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
1368 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
1369 validated via TPM.
1370
1371* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
1372 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
1373
1374* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
1375 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
1376 user's journal stream down but not the others.
1377
1378* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
1379 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
1380 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
1381 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
1382 cgroup.
1383
1384* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
1385 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
1386 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
1387 logging.
1388
1389* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
1390
1391* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
1392 from the SIGBUS handler
1393
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1395 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1396 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1397 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1398
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1399* homed:
1400 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
1401 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
1402 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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1403 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
1404 - create on activate?
1405 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
1406 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
1407 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
1408 systemd --user is shut down.
1409 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
1410 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
1411 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
1412 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
1413 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
1414 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
1415 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
1416 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
1417 - query password from kernel keyring first
1418 - update even if record is "absent"
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1419 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
1420 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
1421 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
1422 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
1423 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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1424 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
1425 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
1426 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 1427 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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1428 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
1429 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
1430 signature
1431 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
1432 and insert a local signature instead.
1433 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
1434 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
1435 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
1436 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
1437 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
1438 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
1439 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
1440 easily?
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1441 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
1442 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
1443 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
1444 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
1445 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
1446 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
1447 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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1448 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
1449 can easily set overall quota for all users
1450 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
1451 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 1452 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 1453 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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1454 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
1455 large.
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1457* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
1458 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
1459 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
1460
1461* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_PATH
1462
1463* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
1464 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
1465 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
1466 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
1467
1468* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
1469
1470* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
1471 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
1472 something goes wrong on the way.
1473
1474* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
1475
1476* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
1477 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
1478 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
1479 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
1480
1481* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
1482 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
1483 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
1484 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
1485 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
1486 automatically.
1487
1488* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
1489 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
1490
1491* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
1492 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
1493 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
1494 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
1495 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
1496 fails to apply use the latter.
1497
1498* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
1499 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
1500
1501* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
1502 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
1503
1504* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
1505 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
1506
1507* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
1508 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
1509
b44be3ec 1510* document:
8b8f2591 1511 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1512 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1513 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1514 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1515 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1516 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1517 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1518 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1519 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1520 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 1521 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1522 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1523
1524* systemctl:
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1525 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1526 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1527 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1528 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1529 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1530 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1531 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1532 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1533 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1534 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 1535
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1536* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
1537 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
1538 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 1539
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1540* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
1541 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
1542 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
1543 output for them.
d2e83c23 1544
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1545* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
1546 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
1547 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 1548
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1549* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
1550 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
1551 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 1552
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1553* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
1554 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 1555
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1556* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
1557 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
1558 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
1559 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 1560
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1561* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
1562 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
1563 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
1564 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 1565
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1566* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
1567
1568* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
1569
1570* unit install:
1571 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1572 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 1573
b44be3ec 1574* nspawn:
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1575 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1576 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1577 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1578 from the kernel's logs.
1579 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1580 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1581 interface be missing
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1582 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1583 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1584 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1585 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1586 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1587 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1588 PID 1...
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1589 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1590 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1591
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1592* nspawn: add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension=
1593 switch that takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already
1594 during startup.
1595
1596* when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
1597 so, freeze the payload too.
1598
1599* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
1600 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
1601 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
1602 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
1603 anything like that.
1604
1605* nspawn: support time namespaces
1606
1607* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
1608 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
1609
1610* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
1611 fallback in "machinectl shell"
1612
1613* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
1614 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
1615 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
1616
1617* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
1618
1619* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
1620
e25b5a8d 1621* machined:
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1622 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1623 removed or added to an existing machine
1624 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1625 difference host, via ssh
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1626 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1627 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1628 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1629 question
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1630 - "machinectl history"
1631 - "machinectl diff"
1632 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1633 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1634
abd55b16 1635* udev:
abd55b16 1636 - move to LGPL
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1637 - kill scsi_id
1638 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1639 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1640
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1641* coredump:
1642 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1643 - 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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1644
1645* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1646
f38afcd0 1647* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1648 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1649 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1650 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1651 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1652 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 1653 - add --test mode
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1654 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
1655 project quota
1258097c 1656
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1657* udev-link-config:
1658 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1659 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1660 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1661
88e4d1d7 1662* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1663 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1664 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1665
0a4b9a07 1666* networkd:
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1667 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1668 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 1669 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 1670 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1671 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 1672 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1673 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1674 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1675 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 1676 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 1677 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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1678 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1679 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1680 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1681 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1682 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1683 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 1684 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1685
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1686* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
1687
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1688* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1689
ac976532 1690* dhcp:
424a8732 1691 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1692
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1693* dhcp6:
1694 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1695 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1696 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1697 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1698 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1699 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1700 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1701 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1702 or interface down
1703 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1704 this behavior
4a77c53d 1705 - RouteTable= ?