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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 11External:
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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25* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29* register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31* zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
34
35* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
36* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
37 after being started.
38
39* write blog stories about:
40 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
41 - enabling dbus services
42 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
43 - remote access
44 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
45 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
46 - auto-restart
47 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
48 - the journal HTTP iface
49 - non-cgroup resource management
50 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
51 - refreshed, longer missions statement
52 - calendar time events
53 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
54 - how to create your own target
55 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
56 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
57
58Regularly:
59
60* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
61
62* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
63
64* pahole
65
66* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
67
68* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
69
70* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
71
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72Janitorial Clean-ups:
73
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74* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
75
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76* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
77 semantics, like we do for device.c now
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79Features:
80
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81* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
82 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
83 is only supported for such old kernels
84
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85* sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
86 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
87 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
88 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
89 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurances, in
90 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
91 IN_IGNORED again)
92
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93* sd-stub: set efi var indicating stub features, i.e. whether they pick up
94 creds, sysexts and so on. similar to existing variable of sd-boot
95
96* sd-stub: set efi vars declaring TPM PCRs we measured creds/cmdline + sysext
97 into (even if we hardcode them)
98
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99* systemd-fstab-generator: support addition mount specifications via kernel
100 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
101 virtio-fs.
102
103* for vendor-built signed initrds:
62471289 104 - make sysext run in the initrd
5b06ad51 105 - sysext should pick up sysext images from /.extra/ in the initrd, and insist
62471289 106 on verification if in secureboot mode
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107 - kernel-install should be able to install pre-built unified kernel images in
108 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
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109 - kernel-install should be able install encrypted creds automatically for
110 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
111 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
112 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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113 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
114 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
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115 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
116 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
62471289 117 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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118 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
119 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
120 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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121 - sd-stub should measure the kernel/initrd/… into a separate PCR, so that we
122 have one PCR we can bind the encrypted creds to that is not effected by
123 anything else but what we drop in via kernel-install, i.e. by earlier EFI
124 code running (i.e. like PCR 4)
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126* Add a new service type very similar to Type=notify, that goes one step
127 further and extends the protocol to cover reloads. Specifically, SIGHUP will
128 become the official way to reload, and daemon has to respond with sd_notify()
129 to report when it starts reloading, and when it is complete reloading. Care
130 must be taken to remove races from this model. I.e. PID 1 needs to take
131 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, then send SIGHUP, then wait for at least one RELOADING=1
132 message that comes with a newer timestamp, then wait for a READY=1 message.
133 while we are at it, also maybe extend the logic to require handling of some
134 specific SIGRT signal for setting debug log level, that carries the level via
135 the sigqueue() data parameter. With that we extended with minimal logic the
136 service runtime logic quite substantially.
137
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138* get_color_mode() should probably check the $COLORTERM environment variable
139 which most terminal environments appear to set.
140
141* firstboot: maybe just default to C.UTF-8 locale if nothing is set, so that we
142 don't query this unnecessarily in entirely uninitialized
143 containers. (i.e. containers with empty /etc).
144
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145* systemd creds hookup with qemu fw_cfg. (Quite possibly might not need any
146 code at all, given the fw_cfg stuff are just files, but we should then
147 document how to use it). Goal: provide symmetric ways to pass creds to nspawn
148 containers and qemu VMs. (maybe also pick up env vars from fw_cfg?)
149
150* beef up sd_notify() to support AV_VSOCK in $NOTIFY_SOCKET, so that VM
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151 managers can get ready notifications from VMs, just like container managers
152 from their payload. Also pick up address from qemu/fw_cfg if set there.
153 (which has benefits, given SecureBoot and kernel cmdline are not necessarily
154 friends.)
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156* mirroring this: maybe support binding to AV_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
157 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
158 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 159 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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160 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
161 directly to host service manager.
162
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163* maybe write a tool that binds an AF_VFSOCK socket, then invokes qemu,
164 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using fw_cfg to
165 configure socket address.
166
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167* sd-boot: rework random seed handling following recent kernel changes: always
168 pass seed to kernel, but credit only if secure boot is used
169
170* sd-boot: hash data from GetNextHighMonotonicCount() into updated random seed,
171 so that we might even open up up the random seed logic to non-SecureBoot
172 systems?
173
174* sd-boot: add menu item for shutdown? or hotkey?
175
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176* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
177 no api to query the device id
178
179* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
180 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
181 also be queried.
182
666efe94 183* bootctl: show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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185* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
186 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
187 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
188 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
189
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190* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
191 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
192 latter).
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194* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
195
196* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
197
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198* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
199 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
200 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
201 generated by GNU sha256sums.
202
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203* sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
204 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
205 logic: allow combining sd-boot via objcopy with kernels to enumerate, .conf
206 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
207 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
208 UEFI HTTP boot.
209
210* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
211 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
212 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
213 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
214 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
215 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
216 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
217 hence cheap for enumeration.
218
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219* initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
220 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
221 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
222
223* in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
224 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
225 pre-built kernels.
226
227* sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
228
229* maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
230 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
231 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
232 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
233 comprehensively.
234
235* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
236 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
237 words: show partition labels).
238
239* systemd-nspawn: make boot assessment do something sensible in a
240 container. i.e send an sd_notify() from payload to container manager once
241 boot-up is completed successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with
242 boot counting, implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
243
244* maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
245 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
246 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
b17a681b 247 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
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248 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
249 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
250 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
251
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252* improve scope units to support creation by pidfd instead of by PID
253
e4f92a62 254* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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256* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
257
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258* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
259 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
260 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
261 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
262 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
263 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
264 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
265 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
266 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
267 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
268
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269* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
270 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
271 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
272 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
273 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
274 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
275 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
276 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
277 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
278 an NTP sync is acquired.
279
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280* kernel-install:
281 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
282 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
283 call it at the end only
284
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285* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
286 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
287
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288* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
289 jobs, units
290
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291* bootspec: remove tries counter from boot entry ids
292
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293* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
294 sync, i.e. parse out tries in both
295
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296* automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
297
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298* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
299 json package metadata, and use that when logging
300
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301* systemd-dissect: show GPT disk UUID in output
302
303* Enable RestricFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
304 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
305
306* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
307 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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309* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
310 internal clock.
311
1ccfb792 312* nspawn: optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP
f08e143c 313 traffic on port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
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315* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
316 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
317
318* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
319 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
320 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
321 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
322
323* sysext: ensure one can build a sysext that can safely apply to *any* system
324 (because it contains only static go binaries in /opt/ or so)
325
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326* userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
327 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
328 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
329
330* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
331 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
332 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
333 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
334 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
335 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
336 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
337 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
338 thread:
339 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
340 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
341 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
342 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
343 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
344 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
345
346* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
347 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
348 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
349
350* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
351 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
352 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
353 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
354 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
355 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
356 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
357 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
358 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
359 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
360 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
361 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
362 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
363 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
364 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
365
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366* add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
367 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
368 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
369 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
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370 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
371 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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373* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
374 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us drop drop libcap
375 dep in the base OS image)
376
377* sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
378 sysext pickup logic.
379
380* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
381 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
382 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
383 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
384 on-disk storage.
385
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386* userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
387 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
388 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
389 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
390 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
391
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392* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
393 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
394 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
395 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
396 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
397 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
398 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
399
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400* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
401 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
402 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
403 externally and provide to us on demand only.
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405* add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
406 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
407 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
408 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
409 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
410 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
411 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
412 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
413
414* nspawn: maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so
415 that such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as
416 one.
417
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418* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
419 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option tpm2-measure=8 or so to measure it
420 into PCR 8)
421
422* add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
423 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
424 authentication.
425
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426* in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCRs are being used, store that
427 in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify that
428 the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
429
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430* rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
431
63a185dc 432* PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
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434* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
435 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
436 that images cannot be misused.
437
aca8ecc3 438* New udev block device symlink names:
178d3ff2 439 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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440 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
441 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
442 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
443
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444* sysupdate:
445 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
446 - support casync as download mechanism
447 - direct TPM2 PCR change handling, possible renrolling LUKS2 media if needed.
448 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
449 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
450 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
451 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
452 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
453 override the host's update files.)
454 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
455 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
456 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
457 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
458
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459* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
460
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461* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
462 make dirs appear under right UID.
463
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464* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
465 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
466
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467* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
468 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
469 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
470 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
471 for doing that.
472
24063ba1 473* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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474 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
475 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
476 already have it.
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478* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
479 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
480
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481* add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
482 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
483 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
484 socket: connect() to it.
485
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487
488* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
489 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
490 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
491 /proc/self/fd/3
492
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493* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
494 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
495 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
496
497* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
498 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
499
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500* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
501 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
502
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503* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
504 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
505 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
506 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
507 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
508
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509* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
510
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511* make LoadCredential= automatically find credentials in /etc/creds,
512 /run/creds, … and so on, if path component is unqualified
513
514* teach LoadCredential=/LoadCredentialEncrypted= to load credentials from
515 kernel cmdline, maybe: LoadCredentialEncrypted=foobar:proc-cmdline:foobar
516
517* credentials system:
518 - acquire from kernel command line
519 - acquire from EFI variable?
520 - acquire via via ask-password?
521 - acquire creds via keyring?
522 - pass creds via keyring?
523 - pass creds via memfd?
524 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
525 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
526 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
527 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
528 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
529 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
530
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531* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
532 firmware indicates there is one.
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534* Add concept for upgrading TPM2 enrollments, maybe a new switch
535 --pcrs=4:<hash> or so, i.e. select a PCR to include in the hash, and then
536 override its hash
537
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538* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
539 and such
540
541* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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543* cryptsetup: if only recovery keys are registered and no regular passphrases,
544 ask user for "recovery key", not "passphrase"
545
546* cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
547
7d7c75f1 548* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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549 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
550
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551* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
552 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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554* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
555
556* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
557 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
558
559* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
560 systemd-makefs.service instead.
561
562* cryptsetup:
563 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
564 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
565
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566* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
567 it happens to be set up alright already.
568
569* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
570
571* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
572 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
573 default.
574
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575* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
576 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
577 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
578 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
579 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
580
08d33656 581* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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583* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
584 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
585
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586* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
587 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
588 temporary dir.
589
590* special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
591 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
592
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593* add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
594 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
595
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596* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
597
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598* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
599
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600* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
601 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
602
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603* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
604
605* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
606
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607* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
608 when it exits
609
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610* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
611 o turn into dlopen() deps:
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612 - p11-kit-trust (always)
613 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 614 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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616 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
617 since they are so basic and our defaults)
618 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
619 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
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622 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
623 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
624
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625* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
626 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
627
a6e1018d 628* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
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630 coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
631 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
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633* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
634
635* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
636 specific service
637
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638* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
639 exists and responds.
640
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641* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
642 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
643 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
644
91fc013f 645* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 646 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 647
7e8facb3 648* unify on openssl:
492f91d8 649 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
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650 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
651
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652* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
653 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
654
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655* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
656 realname substr searches in varlink API
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658* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
659
2a4be3c5 660* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 661
f1eb0ccd 662* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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665 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
666 initrd had set.
667
173c7873 668* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 669 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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670 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
671 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
672 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
673 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
674
675* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
676 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
677 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
678
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679* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
680 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
681 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
682 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
683 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
684 source.
685
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686* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
687 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
688 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
689
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690* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
691
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692* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
693 the hibernation
694
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695* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
696 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
697 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
698 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
699 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
700 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
701 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
702 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
703 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
704 hibernation mode. (see
705 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
706 section 10.2.2.8 and
707 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
708 at the end).
709
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711 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
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c6526b8d 713* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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715* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
716 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
717 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
718 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
719 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
720 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
721 exec().
722
723* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
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725* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
726 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
727
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728* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
729 gnome-bluetooth and friends
730
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731* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
732 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
733 root.
734
735* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
736 is issued.
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738* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
739
740* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
741
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742* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
743 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
744 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 745
d238709c 746* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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747 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
748 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
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750* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
751
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752* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
753 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
754
06898123 755* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 756 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 757 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 758 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
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760* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
761
762* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
763 patching around
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765* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
766 log.c and sd-journal-send
767
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768* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
769
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770* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
771
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772* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
773 non-zero "tries done" count
774
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775* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
776 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
777 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
778 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
779 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
780 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
781 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
782 CODE_FILE.
783
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784* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
785 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
786 some explanatory text online.
787
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788* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
789
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790* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
791 original defaults before calling parse_config()
792
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793* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
794 Specifically:
795
796 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
797 properly)
e83419d0 798 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 799 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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801* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
802 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
803
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804* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
805 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
806 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
807 files and suchlike we operate on.
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809* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
810
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811* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
812
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813* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
814 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
815
5da19043 816* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 817 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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819* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
820 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
821 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
822 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
823 unlinked from any dir.
824
bd1b3f75 825* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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828
829* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
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832 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
833 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
834 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
835 should reflink the image file itself.
836
837 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
838 specific paths only like this.
839
53c70a27 840* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 841 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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842 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
843 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 844 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
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846* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
847
848* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
849
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850* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
851 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
852
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853* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
854 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
855 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
856 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
857 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
858 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
859 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
860 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
861
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862* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
863 for root, but only then.
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865* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
866
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867* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
868 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
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870* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
871 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
872
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873* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
874 only when used. Add unit tests.
875
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876* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
877 host-side interface pointing to the container.
878
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879* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
880 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
881 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
882 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
883 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
884
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887* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
888 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
889 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
890
5f7ecd61 891* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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893* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
894 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
895
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896* blog about fd store and restartable services
897
898* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
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900* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
901 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
902
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903* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
904 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
905 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
906 ID is available.
907
908* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
909 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
910 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
911
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912* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
913 parameters
914
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d51c4fca 916 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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918 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
919 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
920 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
921 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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923* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
924 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
925
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926* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
927 about it in the resource log message
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929* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
930 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
931 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
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934 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
935
936 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
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939 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
940 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
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942* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
943 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
944
945* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
946 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
947 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
948 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
949 natural habitat.
950
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951* 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
952
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953* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
954 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
955 relative to the configured default value.
956
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957* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
958
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963* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
964
04397464 965* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 966
04397464 967* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 968
04397464 969* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 970
8ce9b83a 971* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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972
973* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
974 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
975 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
976
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977* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
978 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
979
e40a326c 980* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 981
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982* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
983 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
984 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
985 mapping to work.
986
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987* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
988
989* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
990
991* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
992
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993* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
994 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
995
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996* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
997 reload the unit file anyway
998
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999* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1000
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1001* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1002
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1003* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1004 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1005
f9bf1b8f 1006* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1007 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1008 specifications.
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1010* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1011
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1012* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1013
a2088fd0 1014* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1015 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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1016 prefixed with /sys generally special.
1017 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
1018
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1019* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1020
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1021* initrd-parse-etc.service: can we skip daemon-reload if /sysroot/etc/fstab is missing?
1022 Note that we start initrd-fs.target and initrd-cleanup.target there, so a straightforward
1023 ConditionPathExists= is not enough.
1024
931bc195 1025* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1026
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1027* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1028 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1029 state.
1030 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
1031
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1032* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1033 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1034 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1035 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1036 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1037
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1038* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1039
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1040* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
1041 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1042
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1043* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
1044 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
1045
e031c227 1046* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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1047 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
1048
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1049* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1050
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1051* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1052 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1053
25e773ee 1054* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1055
720652b3 1056* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1057
720652b3 1058* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1059
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1060* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1061
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1062* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1063 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1064
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1065* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1066
9d6db739 1067* resolved:
9d6db739 1068 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1069 - service registration
1070 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1071 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1072 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1073 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1074 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1075 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1076 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1077 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1078
e25b5a8d 1079* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1080
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1081* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1082
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1083* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1084
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1085* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1086
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1087* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1088
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1089* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1090 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1091
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1092* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1093
6a3f892a 1094* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1095 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1096 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1097
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1098* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1099 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1100 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1101
f9bf1b8f 1102* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1103
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1104* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1105 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1106 for ReusePort=
1107
f38afcd0 1108* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1109 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1110 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1111 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1112 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1113 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1114 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 1115
f38afcd0 1116* transient units:
f38afcd0 1117 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1118
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1119* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1120
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1121* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1122
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1123* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1124
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1125* 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
1126
7f79cd71 1127* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1128
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1129* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1130 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1131 path anyway.
1132
04397464 1133* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1134
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1135* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1136
1137* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1138
07eabc2b 1139* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1140
07eabc2b 1141* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1142
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1143* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1144
1145* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1146 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1147 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1148
1149* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1150 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1151
1152* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1153
1154* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1155
1156* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1157
1158* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1159 needs to be auto-respawned?
1160
1161* pid1:
1162 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1163 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1164 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1165 that are not supported...
1166 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1167 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1168 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1169 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1170 - move PAM code into its own binary
1171 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1172 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1173 - Support --test based on current system state
1174 - 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().
1175 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1176 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1177 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1178 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1179 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1180 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1181 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1182 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1183 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1184 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1185 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1186 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1187
1188* unit files:
1189 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1190 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1191 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1192 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1193 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1194 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1195 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1196 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1197 - introduce Type=pid-file
1198 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1199 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1200 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1201
1202* timer units:
63a185dc 1203 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1204 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1205
1206* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1207
1208* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1209
1210* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1211
1212* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1213
07eabc2b 1214* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1215
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1216* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1217
1218* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1219
fff87a35 1220* test/:
20d52ab6 1221 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1222
b5c03638 1223* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1224 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1225 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1226 destination.
1227
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1228* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1229 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1230
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1231* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1232
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1233* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1234 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1235 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1236
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1237* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1238 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1239
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1240* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1241 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1242 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1243 that automatically.
1244
e5ec62c5 1245* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1246
ccddd104 1247* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1248
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1249* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1250
356ce991 1251* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1252
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1253* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1254
1255* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1256
1257* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1258
1259* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1260
1261* sd-bus:
1262 - EBADSLT handling
1263 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1264 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1265 - 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
1266 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1267 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1268 - longer term: priority inheritance
1269 - dbus spec updates:
1270 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
1271 - GVariant
1272 - path escaping
1273 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1274
1275* sd-event
1276 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1277 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1278 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1279 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1280 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1281 here:
1282 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1283
1284* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1285 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1286
1287* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1288
1289* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1290
1291* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1292
1293* firstboot: allow provisioning of /etc/hosts entries, so that we can via the
1294 credentials logic insert host name to resolve into containers/hosts. Usecase:
1295 fork a container, and make it ping some specific address which is defined by
1296 the host on invocation
1297
1298* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1299 reading/writing files
1300
1301* 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
1302
1303* sd-boot: define a drop-in dir in the ESP that may contain X.509
1304 certificates. If the firmware is detected to be in setup mode, automatically
1305 enroll them as PK/KEK/db, turn off setup mode and proceed. Optionally,
1306 instead of auto-enrolling them add them to the sd-boot menu, giving the user
1307 the option to manually enroll them, after selecting the menu entry. This way,
1308 installer images can just drop the certfiicates in the ESP, and on first boot
1309 can easily enroll the keys without ever booting up.
1310
1311* efi stub: optionally, load initrd from disk as a separate file, HMAC check it
1312 with key from TPM, bound to PCR, refusing if failing. This would then allow
1313 traditional distros that generate initrds locally to secure them with TPM:
1314 after generating the initrd, do the HMAC calculation, put result in initrd
1315 filename, done. This would then bind the validity of the initrd to the local
1316 host, and used kernel, and means people cannot change initrd or kernel
1317 without booting the kernel + initrd.
1318
b44be3ec 1319* EFI:
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1320 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1321 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1322 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1323* bootctl
631427d6 1324 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1325
07eabc2b 1326* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1327
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1328* bootctl:
1329 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1330 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
1331 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
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1332 - bootspec: properly support boot attempt counters when parsing entry file names
1333
1334* kernel-install:
1335 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
e6c6e7af 1336
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1337* logind:
1338 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1339 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1340 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1341 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1342 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1343 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1344 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1345 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1346 needs setuid().
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1347 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1348 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1349 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1350 complete.
1351 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1352 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1353 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1354 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1355 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1356 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1357 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1358 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1359 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1360 relogins
77b19caf 1361 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 1362
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1363* move logind udev rules to top-level rule.d/ directory
1364
1365* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1366
1367* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1368 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1369 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1370
1371* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1372 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1373
b44be3ec 1374* journal:
57f2a947 1375 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1376 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1377 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1378 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1379 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1380 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1381 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1382 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1383 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1384 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1385 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1386 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1387 - 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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1388 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1389 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1390 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1391 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1392 - 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.
1393 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1394 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1395 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1396 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1397 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1398 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1399 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1400 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1401 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1402 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1403 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1404 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1405 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1406 to syslog when it works again.
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1407 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1408 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1409 journals in.
1410 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1411 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1412 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1413 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1414 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1415 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1416 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1417 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1418 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1419 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1420 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1421 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1422 operation.
1423 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1424 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1425 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1426 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1427 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1428 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1429 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1430 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1431 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1432 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
b44be3ec 1433
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1434* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
1435 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
1436
1437* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
1438 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
1439 validated via TPM.
1440
1441* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
1442 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
1443
1444* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
1445 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
1446 user's journal stream down but not the others.
1447
1448* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
1449 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
1450 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
1451 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
1452 cgroup.
1453
1454* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
1455 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
1456 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
1457 logging.
1458
1459* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
1460
1461* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
1462 from the SIGBUS handler
1463
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1464* add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1465 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1466 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1467 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1468
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1469* homed:
1470 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
1471 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
1472 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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1473 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
1474 - create on activate?
1475 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
1476 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
1477 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
1478 systemd --user is shut down.
1479 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
1480 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
1481 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
1482 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
1483 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
1484 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
1485 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
1486 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
1487 - query password from kernel keyring first
1488 - update even if record is "absent"
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1489 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
1490 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
1491 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
1492 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
1493 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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1494 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
1495 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
1496 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 1497 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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1498 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
1499 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
1500 signature
1501 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
1502 and insert a local signature instead.
1503 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
1504 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
1505 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
1506 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
1507 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
1508 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
1509 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
1510 easily?
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1511 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
1512 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
1513 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
1514 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
1515 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
1516 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
1517 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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1518 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
1519 can easily set overall quota for all users
1520 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
1521 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 1522 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 1523 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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1524 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
1525 large.
07eabc2b 1526
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1527* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
1528 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
1529 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
1530
2df2bb1f 1531* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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1532
1533* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
1534 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
1535 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
1536 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
1537
1538* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
1539
1540* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
1541 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
1542 something goes wrong on the way.
1543
1544* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
1545
1546* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
1547 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
1548 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
1549 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
1550
1551* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
1552 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
1553 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
1554 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
1555 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
1556 automatically.
1557
1558* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
1559 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
1560
1561* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
1562 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
1563 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
1564 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
1565 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
1566 fails to apply use the latter.
1567
1568* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
1569 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
1570
1571* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
1572 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
1573
1574* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
1575 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
1576
1577* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
1578 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
1579
b44be3ec 1580* document:
8b8f2591 1581 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1582 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1583 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1584 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1585 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1586 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1587 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1588 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1589 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1590 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 1591 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1592 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1593
1594* systemctl:
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1595 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1596 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1597 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1598 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1599 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1600 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1601 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1602 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1603 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1604 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 1605
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1606* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
1607 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
1608 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 1609
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1610* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
1611 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
1612 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
1613 output for them.
d2e83c23 1614
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1615* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
1616 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
1617 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 1618
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1619* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
1620 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
1621 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 1622
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1623* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
1624 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 1625
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1626* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
1627 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
1628 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
1629 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 1630
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1631* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
1632 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
1633 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
1634 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 1635
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1636* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
1637
1638* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
1639
1640* unit install:
1641 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1642 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 1643
b44be3ec 1644* nspawn:
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1645 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1646 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1647 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1648 from the kernel's logs.
1649 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1650 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1651 interface be missing
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1652 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1653 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1654 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1655 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1656 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1657 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1658 PID 1...
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1659 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1660 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1661
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1662* nspawn: add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension=
1663 switch that takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already
1664 during startup.
1665
1666* when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
1667 so, freeze the payload too.
1668
1669* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
1670 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
1671 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
1672 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
1673 anything like that.
1674
1675* nspawn: support time namespaces
1676
1677* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
1678 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
1679
1680* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
1681 fallback in "machinectl shell"
1682
1683* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
1684 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
1685 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
1686
1687* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
1688
1689* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
1690
e25b5a8d 1691* machined:
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1692 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1693 removed or added to an existing machine
1694 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1695 difference host, via ssh
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1696 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1697 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1698 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1699 question
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1700 - "machinectl history"
1701 - "machinectl diff"
1702 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1703 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1704
abd55b16 1705* udev:
abd55b16 1706 - move to LGPL
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1707 - kill scsi_id
1708 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1709 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1710
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1711* coredump:
1712 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1713 - 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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1714
1715* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1716
f38afcd0 1717* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1718 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1719 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1720 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1721 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1722 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 1723 - add --test mode
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1724 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
1725 project quota
1258097c 1726
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1727* udev-link-config:
1728 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1729 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1730 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1731
88e4d1d7 1732* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1733 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1734 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1735
0a4b9a07 1736* networkd:
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1737 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1738 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 1739 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 1740 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1741 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 1742 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1743 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1744 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1745 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 1746 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 1747 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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1748 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1749 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1750 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1751 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1752 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1753 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 1754 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1755
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1756* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
1757
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1758* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1759
ac976532 1760* dhcp:
424a8732 1761 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1762
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1763* dhcp6:
1764 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1765 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1766 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1767 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1768 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1769 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1770 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1771 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1772 or interface down
1773 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1774 this behavior
4a77c53d 1775 - RouteTable= ?