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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 11External:
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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25* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29* register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31* zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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36* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40* write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59Regularly:
60
61* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65* pahole
66
67* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
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73Janitorial Clean-ups:
74
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75* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
76
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77* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
78 semantics, like we do for device.c now
79
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80* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase_symlinks() and related
81 calls instead.
82
83* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
84
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85Deprecations and removals:
86
87* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
88 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
89
90* 2019-10 – Remove POINTINGSTICK_CONST_ACCEL references from the hwdb, see #9573
c6407108 91
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92* remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
93 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
94 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
95 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
96
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97* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
98 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 99 is only supported for such old kernels.
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9eb41aab 101* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 102 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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103 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
104 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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105 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
106
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107* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
108 baseline is 5.8.
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110* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
111 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
112
3345802c 113* rework our PID tracking in services and so on, to be strictly based on pidfd,
9eb41aab 114 once kernel baseline is 5.13.
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116* ~2023: remove support for TPM_PCR_INDEX_KERNEL_PARAMETERS_COMPAT
117
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118Features:
119
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120* sd-stub/sd-boot: write RNG seed to LINUX_EFI_RANDOM_SEED_TABLE_GUID config
121 table as well. (and possibly drop our efi var). Current kernels will pick up
122 the seed from there already, if EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL is not implemented by
123 firmware.
124
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125* sd-boot: include domain specific hash string in hash function for random seed
126 plus sizes of everything. also include DMI/SMBIOS blob
127
128* accept a random seed via DMI/SMBIOS vendor string that is credited to the
129 kernel RNG, as cheap alternative to virtio-rng
130
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131* sd-stub: invoke random seed logic the same way as in sd-boot, except if
132 random seed EFI variable is already set. That way, the variable set will be
133 set in all cases: if you just use sd-stub, or just sd-boot, or both.
134
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135* sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
136 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
137 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
138 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
139 affect PCR values.
140
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141* systemd-measure tool:
142 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
143 - sign pre-calculated hashes in a way compatible with TPM2 PCR hash signature
144 policies, in a way they can be included in unified PE kernel images, and
145 made available to userspace. There, this should be consumed by
146 systemd-cryptsetup to implement PCR signature based TPM volume unlock
147 policies.
148
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149* in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
150 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
151
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152* sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
153 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
154
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155* sd-device: add an API for opening a child device, given a device object
156
157* sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
158 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
159
160* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
161 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
162
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163* add small wrapper around qemu that implements sd_notify/AF_VSOCK + machined and
164 maybe some other stuff and boots it
165
e1b45a75 166* maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
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167 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
168 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
169 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
170 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
171 use it.
172
173* portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
174 file system paths to enable on start.
175
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176* sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
177 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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179* PID 1 should look for an SMBIOS variable that encodes an AF_VSOCK address it
180 should send sd_notify() ready notifications to. That way a VMM can boot up a
181 system, and generically know when it finished booting.
182
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183* add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
184 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
185 what it was signed.
186
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187* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
188 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
189 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
190 be safely written to disk, then.
191
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192* systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
193 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
194 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
195 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
196 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
197 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
198 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
199 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
200 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
201 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
202 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
203 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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205* building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
206 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
207
8c776523 208* bootctl: add "gc" verb that loads all type #1 .conf files, and then removes
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209 all files from the set of files from the ESP/XBOOTLDR matching the entry
210 token that are not referenced by any. Then, change kernel-install to use only
211 this to remove auxiliary files, and never remove them explicitly. Benefit:
212 resources such as initrds/kernels/dtb can be shared between entries.
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213
214* networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
215 via the credentials logic.
216
e1b45a75 217* fstab-generator: allow defining additional fstab-like mounts via
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218 credentials (similar: crypttab-generator, verity-generator,
219 integrity-generator)
220
221* getty-generator: allow defining additional getty instances via a credential
222
223* run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
224
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225* resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
226 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
227 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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228 Similar, allow picking up DNS server IP addresses from credential.
229
230* repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
231
232* tmpfiles: add snippet that provisions /etc/hosts, /etc/motd,
233 /root/.ssh/authorized_keys from credential
234
235* timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
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237* define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
238 runtime state. Then, expose it:
239
240 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
241 about the unit.
242 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
243 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
244 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
245 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
246 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
247 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
248
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249* show SUPPORT_END= data in "hostnamectl" output (and thus also expose a prop
250 for this on dbus)
251
252* Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
253 what to do if support ended
254
255* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
256 login time, á la motd
257
e1b45a75 258* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 259 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
e1b45a75 260 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 261 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 262 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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264* make tmpfiles read lines from creds, so that we can provision SSH host keys
265 via creds. Similar: sysusers, sysctl, homed
266
267* mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
268 initrd transition. Specifically:
269 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
270 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
271 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
272
273* implement varlink introspection
274
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275* we should probably drop all use of prefix_roota() and friends, and use
276 chase_symlinks() instead
277
d486b26f 278* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 279 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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280 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
281 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
282 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
283 depending on desired level of persistency.
284
285* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
286 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
287 in oneshit mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
288 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
289 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
290 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
291 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
292 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
293
294* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
295 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
296 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
297 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
298
299* make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
300 usr=
301
302* add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
303
304* ask dracut to generate usr= on the kernel cmdline so that we don't need to
305 read /etc/fstab from the root fs from the initrd and do daemon-reload
306
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307* add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
308
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309* homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
310 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
311 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
312 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
313 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
314 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
315 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
316 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 317 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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318 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
319 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
320 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
321 not unprivileged code.
322
323* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
324 that hooks up userbdctl ssh-key stuff.
325
326* allow embedding a signature blob for PCR hashes into separate section in
327 unified kernel binaries. This section should be picked up by sd-stub, and
328 passed in a file to the booted kernel (via initrd cpio, as usual). Usecase:
329 this way we can implement disk encryption policies that bind to specific
330 kernel PCR state, without breaking things on every kernel update. As long as
331 the kernel includes the PCR signature blob we should be good, as disk
332 encryption can then pass the signature to the TPM to unlock their secrets.
333 Why do this via a separate PE section? That's because the PCR state depends
334 on the measured kernel/initrd of course, thus we cannot put the signature
335 into the kernel/initrd itself, because that would require a time machine.
336 Hence we have to find a separate place. A simple solution is a PE section
337 of its own, because then it is next to the kernel and initrd which after all
338 are stored in PE sections of their own too. Building a unified kernel would
339 thus mean, calculating PCR values for the raw kernel image, and raw initrd
340 image, then signing those PCR values with a vendor key, and then combining
341 sd-stub, raw kernel image, raw initrd, and PCR signature into a unified
342 kernel image.
343
344* a new tool "systemd-trust" or so, that can calculate PCR hashes offline, and
345 optionally sign them. for that we should extend our syntax for specifying pcr
346 policies (e.g. the string like "4+7+9") so that it can also include explicit
347 hash values, i.e.
348 4=sha256:0ef149998289474e4bb31813edda6ad7f3c991b2d8dec6e8fe4db7a1f039f2d1+7=sha256:87428fc522803d31065e7bce3cf03fe475096631e5e07bbd7a0fde60c4cf25c7+9=sha256:0263829989b6fd954f72baaf2fc64bc2e2f01d692d4de72986ea808f6e99813f
349 and file names to calculate hashes from, i.e.
350 4=file:/boot/vmlinuz+7=file:/boot/initrd/+9=file:/etc/fstab"
351 The systemd-trust tool should then be able to resolve any "underspecifed"
352 form into the form with explicit hash values.
353
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354* maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
355 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
356 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
357 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
358
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359* tmpfiles: for f/F/w lines, if the argument columns is left unspecified, look
360 for a service credential named after the file path to write to, and load
361 contents to write from there. Usecase: provision arbitrary files from
362 credentials. Example use: with a line like "f /root/.ssh/authorized-keys
363 0644 root root" in a tmpfiles.d/ snippet add
364 LoadCredential=root.ssh.authorized-keys via drop-in to
365 systemd-tmpfiles.service, and then provision an SSH access key through
366 nspawn's --load-credential=, through qemu's fw_cfg, or via systemd-stub's
367 credntial pick-up. The latter is particularly interesting to implement SSH
368 access to an initrd.
369
370* systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential sysemd.homed.register
371 or so with JSON user records to automatically register if not registered yet.
372 Usecase: deploy a system, and add an account one can directly log into.
373
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374* add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
375 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
376 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
377 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
378 it. when developer mode is entered generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
379 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
380 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
381 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is only way to enter developer mode, by
382 binding it to locality/PCRs so that that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
383
384* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
385 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
386 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
387 order.
388
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389* TPM2: add auth policy for signed PCR values to make updates easy. i.e. do
390 what tpm2_policyauthorize tool does. To be truly useful scheme needs to be a
391 bit more elaborate though: policy probably must take some nvram based
392 generation counter into account that can only monotonically increase and can
393 be used to invalidate old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to
394 old signed PCR sets whenever they want. Usecase: encrypt the rootfs with LUKS
395 with a key that can only be unlocked via a pristine pre-built Fedora
396 kernel+initrd.
397
398* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
399 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
400 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
401
402* add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
403 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
404 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
405 acquire.
406
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407* sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
408 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
409 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
410 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 411 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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412 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
413 IN_IGNORED again)
414
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415* systemd-fstab-generator: support addition mount specifications via kernel
416 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
417 virtio-fs.
418
419* for vendor-built signed initrds:
62471289 420 - make sysext run in the initrd
5b06ad51 421 - sysext should pick up sysext images from /.extra/ in the initrd, and insist
62471289 422 on verification if in secureboot mode
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423 - kernel-install should be able to install pre-built unified kernel images in
424 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
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425 - kernel-install should be able install encrypted creds automatically for
426 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
427 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
428 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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429 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
430 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
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431 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
432 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
62471289 433 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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434 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
435 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
436 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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438* Add a new service type very similar to Type=notify, that goes one step
439 further and extends the protocol to cover reloads. Specifically, SIGHUP will
440 become the official way to reload, and daemon has to respond with sd_notify()
441 to report when it starts reloading, and when it is complete reloading. Care
442 must be taken to remove races from this model. I.e. PID 1 needs to take
443 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, then send SIGHUP, then wait for at least one RELOADING=1
444 message that comes with a newer timestamp, then wait for a READY=1 message.
445 while we are at it, also maybe extend the logic to require handling of some
446 specific SIGRT signal for setting debug log level, that carries the level via
447 the sigqueue() data parameter. With that we extended with minimal logic the
448 service runtime logic quite substantially.
449
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450* firstboot: maybe just default to C.UTF-8 locale if nothing is set, so that we
451 don't query this unnecessarily in entirely uninitialized
452 containers. (i.e. containers with empty /etc).
453
598e4315 454* beef up sd_notify() to support AV_VSOCK in $NOTIFY_SOCKET, so that VM
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455 managers can get ready notifications from VMs, just like container managers
456 from their payload. Also pick up address from qemu/fw_cfg if set there.
457 (which has benefits, given SecureBoot and kernel cmdline are not necessarily
458 friends.)
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460* mirroring this: maybe support binding to AV_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
461 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
462 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 463 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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464 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
465 directly to host service manager.
466
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467* maybe write a tool that binds an AF_VFSOCK socket, then invokes qemu,
468 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using fw_cfg to
469 configure socket address.
470
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471* sd-boot: rework random seed handling following recent kernel changes: always
472 pass seed to kernel, but credit only if secure boot is used
473
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474* sd-boot: also include the hyperv "vm generation id" in the random seed hash,
475 to cover nicely for machine clones. It's found in the ACPI tables, which
476 should be easily accessible from UEFI.
477
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478* sd-boot: add menu item for shutdown? or hotkey?
479
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480* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
481 no api to query the device id
482
483* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
484 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
485 also be queried.
486
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487* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
488 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
489 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
490 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
491
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492* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
493 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
494 latter).
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496* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
497
498* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
499
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500* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
501 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
502 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
503 generated by GNU sha256sums.
504
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505* sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
506 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
507 logic: allow combining sd-boot via objcopy with kernels to enumerate, .conf
508 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
509 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
510 UEFI HTTP boot.
511
512* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
513 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
514 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
515 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
516 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
517 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
518 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
519 hence cheap for enumeration.
520
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521* initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
522 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
523 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
524
525* in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
526 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
527 pre-built kernels.
528
529* sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
530
531* maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
532 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
533 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
534 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
535 comprehensively.
536
537* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
538 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
539 words: show partition labels).
540
541* systemd-nspawn: make boot assessment do something sensible in a
542 container. i.e send an sd_notify() from payload to container manager once
543 boot-up is completed successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with
544 boot counting, implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
545
546* maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
547 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
548 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
b17a681b 549 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
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550 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
551 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
552 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
553
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554* improve scope units to support creation by pidfd instead of by PID
555
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558* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
559
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560* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
561 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
562 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
563 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
564 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
565 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
566 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
567 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
568 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
569 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
570
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571* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
572 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
573 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
574 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
575 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
576 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
577 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
578 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
579 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
580 an NTP sync is acquired.
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583 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
584 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
585 call it at the end only
586
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587* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
588 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
589
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590* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
591 jobs, units
592
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593* bootspec: remove tries counter from boot entry ids
594
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595* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
596 sync, i.e. parse out tries in both
597
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598* automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
599
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600* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
601 json package metadata, and use that when logging
602
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603* systemd-dissect: show GPT disk UUID in output
604
605* Enable RestricFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
606 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
607
608* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
609 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
610
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611* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
612 internal clock.
613
1ccfb792 614* nspawn: optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP
f08e143c 615 traffic on port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
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617* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
618 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
619
620* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
621 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
622 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
623 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
624
625* sysext: ensure one can build a sysext that can safely apply to *any* system
626 (because it contains only static go binaries in /opt/ or so)
627
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628* userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
629 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
630 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
631
632* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
633 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
634 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
635 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
636 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
637 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
638 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
639 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
640 thread:
641 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
642 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
643 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
644 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
645 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
646 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
647
648* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
649 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
650 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
651
652* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
653 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
654 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
655 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
656 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
657 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
658 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
659 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
660 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
661 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
662 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
663 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
664 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
665 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
666 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
667
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668* add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
669 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
670 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
671 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
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672 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
673 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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675* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
676 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us drop drop libcap
677 dep in the base OS image)
678
679* sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
c0a74f62 680 sysext pickup logic. (must insist on verity + signature on those though)
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682* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
683 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
684 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
685 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
686 on-disk storage.
687
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688* userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
689 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
690 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
691 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
692 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
693
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694* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
695 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
696 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
697 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
698 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
699 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
700 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
701
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702* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
703 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
704 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
705 externally and provide to us on demand only.
706
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707* add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
708 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
709 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
710 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
711 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
712 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
713 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
714 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
715
716* nspawn: maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so
717 that such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as
718 one.
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720* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
721 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option tpm2-measure=8 or so to measure it
722 into PCR 8)
723
724* add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
725 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
726 authentication.
727
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728* in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
729 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
730 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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732* rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
733
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736* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
737 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
738 that images cannot be misused.
739
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178d3ff2 741 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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742 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
743 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
744 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
745
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747 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
748 - support casync as download mechanism
749 - direct TPM2 PCR change handling, possible renrolling LUKS2 media if needed.
750 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
751 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
752 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
753 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
754 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
755 override the host's update files.)
756 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
757 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
758 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
759 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
760
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761* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
762
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763* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
764 make dirs appear under right UID.
765
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766* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
767 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
768
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769* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
770 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
771 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
772 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
773 for doing that.
774
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776 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
777 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
778 already have it.
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780* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
781 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
782
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783* add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
784 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
785 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
786 socket: connect() to it.
787
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788* Similar, ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
789
790* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
791 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
792 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
793 /proc/self/fd/3
794
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795* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
796 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
797 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
798
799* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
800 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
801
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802* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
803 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
804
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805* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
806 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
807 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
808 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
809 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
810
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811* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
812
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814 - acquire from EFI variable?
815 - acquire via via ask-password?
816 - acquire creds via keyring?
817 - pass creds via keyring?
818 - pass creds via memfd?
819 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
820 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
821 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
822 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
823 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
824 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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825 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
826 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
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828* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
829 firmware indicates there is one.
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831* Add concept for upgrading TPM2 enrollments, maybe a new switch
832 --pcrs=4:<hash> or so, i.e. select a PCR to include in the hash, and then
833 override its hash
834
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835* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
836 and such
837
838* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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840* cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
841
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843 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
844
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845* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
846 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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848* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
849
850* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
851 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
852
853* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
854 systemd-makefs.service instead.
855
856* cryptsetup:
857 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
858 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
859
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860* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
861 it happens to be set up alright already.
862
863* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
864
865* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
866 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
867 default.
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869* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
870 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
871 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
872 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
873 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
874
08d33656 875* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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877* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
878 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
879
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880* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
881 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
882 temporary dir.
883
884* special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
885 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
886
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887* add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
888 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
889
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890* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
891
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892* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
893
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894* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
895
896* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
897
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898* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
899 when it exits
900
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901* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
902 o turn into dlopen() deps:
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903 - p11-kit-trust (always)
904 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
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906 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
907 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
908 since they are so basic and our defaults)
909 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
910 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
911
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912* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
913 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
914 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
915
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916* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
917 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
918
a6e1018d 919* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
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920 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: systemctl, coredumpctl.
921 (Already done: bootctl, systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
612d3a68 922 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
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924* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
925
926* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
927 specific service
928
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929* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
930 exists and responds.
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933 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
934 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
935
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86b52a39 937 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
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7e8facb3 939* unify on openssl:
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940 - kill gnutls support in resolved
941 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
942 gnutls
943 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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945* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
946 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
947
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948* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
949 realname substr searches in varlink API
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951* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
952
2a4be3c5 953* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 954
f1eb0ccd 955* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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957* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
958 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
959 initrd had set.
960
173c7873 961* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 962 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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963 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
964 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
965 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
966 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
967
968* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
969 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
970 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
971
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972* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
973 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
974 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
975 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
976 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
977 source.
978
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979* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
980 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
981 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
982
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983* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
984
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985* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
986 the hibernation
987
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988* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
989 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
990 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
991 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
992 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
993 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
994 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
995 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
996 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
997 hibernation mode. (see
998 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
999 section 10.2.2.8 and
1000 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1001 at the end).
1002
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1003* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1004 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1005
c6526b8d 1006* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
312dc153 1007
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1008* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1009 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1010 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1011 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1012 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1013 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1014 exec().
1015
1016* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1017
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1018* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1019 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1020
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1021* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1022 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1023
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1024* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1025 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1026 root.
1027
1028* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1029 is issued.
1030
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1031* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1032
1033* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1034
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1035* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1036 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1037 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1038
d238709c 1039* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1040 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1041 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1042
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1043* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1044
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1045* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1046 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1047
06898123 1048* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1049 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1050 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1051 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
06898123 1052
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1053* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1054
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1055* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1056 log.c and sd-journal-send
1057
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1058* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1059
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1060* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1061
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1062* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1063 non-zero "tries done" count
1064
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1065* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1066 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1067 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1068 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1069 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1070 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1071 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1072 CODE_FILE.
1073
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1074* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1075 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1076 some explanatory text online.
1077
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1078* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1079
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1080* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1081 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1082
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1083* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
1084 Specifically:
1085
1086 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
1087 properly)
e83419d0 1088 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 1089 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
c633b0a6 1090
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1091* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1092 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1093
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1094* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1095 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1096 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1097 files and suchlike we operate on.
070d0ac9 1098
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1099* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1100
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1101* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1102
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1103* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1104 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1105
5da19043 1106* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1107 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1109* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1110 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1111 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1112 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1113 unlinked from any dir.
1114
bd1b3f75 1115* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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1117* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1118
1119* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1120
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1121* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
1122 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
1123 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
1124 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
1125 should reflink the image file itself.
1126
1127 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
1128 specific paths only like this.
1129
53c70a27 1130* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1131 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1132 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1133 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1134 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1135
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1136* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1137
1138* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1139
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1140* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1141 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1142
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1143* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1144 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1145 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1146 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1147 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1148 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1149 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1150 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1151
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1152* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1153 for root, but only then.
586a8e93 1154
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1155* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
1156
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1157* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1158 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1159
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1160* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1161 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1162
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1163* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1164 only when used. Add unit tests.
1165
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1166* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1167 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1168
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1169* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1170 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1171 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1172 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1173 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1174
899feb72 1175* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1176
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1177* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
1178 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
1179 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
1180
5f7ecd61 1181* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 1182
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1183* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1184 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1185
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1186* blog about fd store and restartable services
1187
1188* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1189
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1190* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1191 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1192
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1193* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1194 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1195 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1196 ID is available.
1197
1198* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1199 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1200 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1201
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1202* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1203 parameters
1204
63a185dc 1205* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1206 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1207 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1208 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1209 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1210 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1211 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
6fc373ee 1212
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1213* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1214 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1215
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1216* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1217 about it in the resource log message
1218
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1219* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1220 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1221 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1222
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1223* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1224 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1225
1226 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1227
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1228* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1229 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1230 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1231
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1232* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1233 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1234
1235* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1236 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1237 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1238 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1239 natural habitat.
1240
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1241* 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
1242
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1243* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1244 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1245 relative to the configured default value.
1246
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1247* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1248
04397464 1249* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1251* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1252
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1253* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1254
04397464 1255* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1256
04397464 1257* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1258
04397464 1259* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1260
8ce9b83a 1261* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1262
1263* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1264 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1265 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1266
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1267* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1268 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1269
e40a326c 1270* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1271
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1272* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1273 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1274 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1275 mapping to work.
1276
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1277* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1278
1279* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1280
1281* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1282
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1283* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1284 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1285
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1286* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1287 reload the unit file anyway
1288
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1289* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1290
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1291* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1292
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1293* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1294 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1295
f9bf1b8f 1296* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1297 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1298 specifications.
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1300* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1301
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1302* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1303
a2088fd0 1304* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1305 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1306 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1307 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
a2088fd0 1308
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1309* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1310
931bc195 1311* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1312
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1313* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1314 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1315 state.
41d6f3bf 1316 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
60d17b74 1317
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1318* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1319 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1320 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1321 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1322 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1323
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1324* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1325
d2f81fb0 1326* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1327 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1328
0a86c1a9 1329* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1330 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1331
e031c227 1332* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1333 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1334
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1335* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1336
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1337* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1338 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1339
25e773ee 1340* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1341
720652b3 1342* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1343
720652b3 1344* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1345
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1346* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1347
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1348* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1349 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1350
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1351* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1352
9d6db739 1353* resolved:
9d6db739 1354 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1355 - service registration
1356 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1357 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1358 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1359 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1360 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1361 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1362 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1363 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1364
e25b5a8d 1365* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1366
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1367* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1368
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1369* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1370
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1371* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1372
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1373* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1374
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1375* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1376 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1377
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1378* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1379
6a3f892a 1380* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1381 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1382 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1383
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1384* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1385 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1386 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1387
f9bf1b8f 1388* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1389
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1390* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1391 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1392 for ReusePort=
1393
f38afcd0 1394* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1395 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1396 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1397 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1398 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1399 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1400 the hierarchies of child processes
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1401- add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1402 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1403
f38afcd0 1404* transient units:
f38afcd0 1405 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1406
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1407* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1408
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1409* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1410
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1411* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1412
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1413* 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
1414
7f79cd71 1415* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1416
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1417* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1418 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1419 path anyway.
1420
04397464 1421* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1422
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1423* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1424
1425* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1426
07eabc2b 1427* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1428
07eabc2b 1429* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1430
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1431* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1432
1433* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1434 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1435 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1436
1437* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1438 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1439
1440* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1441
1442* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1443
1444* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1445
1446* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1447 needs to be auto-respawned?
1448
1449* pid1:
1450 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1451 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1452 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1453 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1454 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
07eabc2b 1455 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
41d6f3bf 1456 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1457 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1458 - move PAM code into its own binary
1459 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1460 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1461 - Support --test based on current system state
1462 - 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().
1463 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1464 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1465 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1466 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1467 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1468 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1469 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1470 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1471 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1472 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1473 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1474 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1475
1476* unit files:
1477 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1478 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1479 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1480 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1481 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1482 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1483 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1484 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1485 - introduce Type=pid-file
1486 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1487 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1488 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1489
1490* timer units:
63a185dc 1491 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1492 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1493
1494* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1495
1496* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1497
1498* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1499
1500* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1501
07eabc2b 1502* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1503
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1504* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1505
1506* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1507
fff87a35 1508* test/:
20d52ab6 1509 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1510
b5c03638 1511* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1512 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1513 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1514 destination.
1515
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1516* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1517 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1518
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1519* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1520
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1521* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1522 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1523 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1524
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1525* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1526 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1527
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1528* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1529 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1530 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1531 that automatically.
1532
e5ec62c5 1533* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1534
ccddd104 1535* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1536
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1537* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1538
356ce991 1539* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1540
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1541* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1542
1543* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1544
1545* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1546
1547* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1548
1549* sd-bus:
1550 - EBADSLT handling
1551 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1552 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1553 - 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
1554 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1555 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1556 - longer term: priority inheritance
1557 - dbus spec updates:
1558 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1559 - path escaping
1560 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1561
1562* sd-event
1563 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1564 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1565 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1566 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1567 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1568 here:
1569 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1570
1571* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1572 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1573
1574* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1575
1576* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1577
1578* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1579
1580* firstboot: allow provisioning of /etc/hosts entries, so that we can via the
1581 credentials logic insert host name to resolve into containers/hosts. Usecase:
1582 fork a container, and make it ping some specific address which is defined by
1583 the host on invocation
1584
1585* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1586 reading/writing files
1587
1588* 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
1589
1590* sd-boot: define a drop-in dir in the ESP that may contain X.509
1591 certificates. If the firmware is detected to be in setup mode, automatically
1592 enroll them as PK/KEK/db, turn off setup mode and proceed. Optionally,
1593 instead of auto-enrolling them add them to the sd-boot menu, giving the user
1594 the option to manually enroll them, after selecting the menu entry. This way,
1595 installer images can just drop the certfiicates in the ESP, and on first boot
1596 can easily enroll the keys without ever booting up.
1597
1598* efi stub: optionally, load initrd from disk as a separate file, HMAC check it
1599 with key from TPM, bound to PCR, refusing if failing. This would then allow
1600 traditional distros that generate initrds locally to secure them with TPM:
1601 after generating the initrd, do the HMAC calculation, put result in initrd
1602 filename, done. This would then bind the validity of the initrd to the local
1603 host, and used kernel, and means people cannot change initrd or kernel
1604 without booting the kernel + initrd.
1605
b44be3ec 1606* EFI:
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1607 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1608 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1609 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1610* bootctl
631427d6 1611 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1612
07eabc2b 1613* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1614
07eabc2b 1615* bootctl:
483091b0 1616 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1617 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1618 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
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1619 - bootspec: properly support boot attempt counters when parsing entry file names
1620
1621* kernel-install:
1622 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
e6c6e7af 1623
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1624* logind:
1625 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1626 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1627 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1628 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1629 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1630 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1631 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1632 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1633 needs setuid().
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1634 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1635 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1636 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1637 complete.
1638 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1639 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1640 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1641 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1642 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1643 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1644 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1645 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1646 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1647 relogins
77b19caf 1648 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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1649 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1650 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1651 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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1652
1653* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1654
1655* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1656 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1657 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1658
1659* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1660 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1661
b44be3ec 1662* journal:
57f2a947 1663 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1664 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1665 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1666 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1667 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1668 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1669 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1670 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1671 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1672 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1673 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1674 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1675 - 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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1676 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1677 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1678 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1679 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1680 - 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.
1681 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1682 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1683 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1684 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1685 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1686 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1687 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1688 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1689 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1690 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1691 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1692 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1693 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1694 to syslog when it works again.
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1695 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1696 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1697 journals in.
1698 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1699 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1700 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1701 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1702 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1703 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1704 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1705 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1706 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1707 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1708 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1709 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1710 operation.
1711 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1712 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1713 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1714 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1715 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1716 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1717 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1718 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1719 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1720 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
b44be3ec 1721
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1722* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
1723 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
1724
1725* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
1726 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
1727 validated via TPM.
1728
1729* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
1730 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
1731
1732* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
1733 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
1734 user's journal stream down but not the others.
1735
1736* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
1737 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
1738 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
1739 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
1740 cgroup.
1741
1742* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
1743 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
1744 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
1745 logging.
1746
1747* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
1748
1749* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
1750 from the SIGBUS handler
1751
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1752* add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1753 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1754 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1755 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1756
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1757* homed:
1758 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
1759 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
1760 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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1761 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
1762 - create on activate?
1763 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
1764 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
1765 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
1766 systemd --user is shut down.
1767 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
1768 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
1769 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
1770 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
1771 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
1772 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
1773 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
1774 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
1775 - query password from kernel keyring first
1776 - update even if record is "absent"
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1777 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
1778 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
1779 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
1780 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
1781 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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1782 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
1783 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
1784 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 1785 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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1786 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
1787 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
1788 signature
1789 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
1790 and insert a local signature instead.
1791 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
1792 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
1793 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
1794 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
1795 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
1796 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
1797 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
1798 easily?
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1799 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
1800 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
1801 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
1802 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
1803 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
1804 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
1805 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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1806 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
1807 can easily set overall quota for all users
1808 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
1809 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 1810 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 1811 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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1812 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
1813 large.
07eabc2b 1814
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1815* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
1816 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
1817 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
1818
2df2bb1f 1819* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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1820
1821* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
1822 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
1823 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
1824 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
1825
1826* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
1827
1828* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
1829 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
1830 something goes wrong on the way.
1831
1832* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
1833
1834* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
1835 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
1836 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
1837 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
1838
1839* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
1840 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
1841 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
1842 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
1843 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
1844 automatically.
1845
1846* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
1847 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
1848
1849* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
1850 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
1851 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
1852 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
1853 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
1854 fails to apply use the latter.
1855
1856* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
1857 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
1858
1859* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
1860 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
1861
1862* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
1863 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
1864
1865* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
1866 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
1867
b44be3ec 1868* document:
8b8f2591 1869 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1870 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1871 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1872 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1873 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1874 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1875 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1876 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1877 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1878 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 1879 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1880 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1882* systemctl:
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1884 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1885 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1886 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1887 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1888 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1889 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1890 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1891 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1892 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 1893
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1895 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
1896 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 1897
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1898* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
1899 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
1900 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
1901 output for them.
d2e83c23 1902
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1903* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
1904 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
1905 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 1906
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1908 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
1909 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 1910
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1911* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
1912 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 1913
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1914* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
1915 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
1916 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
1917 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 1918
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1919* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
1920 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
1921 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
1922 returning from the "systemctl stop".
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1924* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
1925
1926* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
1927
1928* unit install:
1929 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1930 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
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b44be3ec 1932* nspawn:
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1933 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1934 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1935 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1936 from the kernel's logs.
1937 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1938 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1939 interface be missing
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1940 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1941 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1942 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1943 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1944 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1945 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1946 PID 1...
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1947 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1948 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1949
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1950* nspawn: add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension=
1951 switch that takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already
1952 during startup.
1953
1954* when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
1955 so, freeze the payload too.
1956
1957* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
1958 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
1959 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
1960 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
1961 anything like that.
1962
1963* nspawn: support time namespaces
1964
1965* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
1966 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
1967
1968* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
1969 fallback in "machinectl shell"
1970
1971* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
1972 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
1973 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
1974
1975* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
1976
1977* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
1978
e25b5a8d 1979* machined:
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1980 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1981 removed or added to an existing machine
1982 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1983 difference host, via ssh
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1984 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1985 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1986 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1987 question
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1988 - "machinectl history"
1989 - "machinectl diff"
1990 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1991 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1992
abd55b16 1993* udev:
abd55b16 1994 - move to LGPL
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1996 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1997 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1998
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1999* coredump:
2000 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2001 - 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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2003* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2004
f38afcd0 2005* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2006 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 2007 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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2008 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2009 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2010 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2011 - add --test mode
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2012 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2013 project quota
1258097c 2014
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2015* udev-link-config:
2016 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2017 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2018 on Path= matching
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88e4d1d7 2020* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2021 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2022 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2023
0a4b9a07 2024* networkd:
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2025 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2026 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2027 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2028 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2029 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2030 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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2031 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2032 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2033 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2034 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2035 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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2036 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2037 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2038 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2039 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2040 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2041 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2042 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
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2044* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2045
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2046* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2047
ac976532 2048* dhcp:
424a8732 2049 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
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2051* dhcp6:
2052 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2053 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2054 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2055 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2056 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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2057 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2058 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2059 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2060 or interface down
2061 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2062 this behavior
4a77c53d 2063 - RouteTable= ?