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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* userdbctl: "Password OK: yes" is shown even when there are no passwords
8 or the password is locked.
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10* Get rid of nftw(). We should refuse to use such useless APIs on principle.
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12* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
13 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
14 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 16External:
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f38afcd0 18* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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20* dbus:
21 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
22 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
23
24* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
25
26* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
27
28* 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=
29
30* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
31
32* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
33
34* register catalog database signature as file magic
35
36* zsh shell completion:
37 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
38 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
39
40* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
41* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
42 after being started.
43
44* write blog stories about:
45 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
46 - enabling dbus services
47 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
48 - remote access
49 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
50 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
51 - auto-restart
52 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
53 - the journal HTTP iface
54 - non-cgroup resource management
55 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
56 - refreshed, longer missions statement
57 - calendar time events
58 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
59 - how to create your own target
60 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
61 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
62
63Regularly:
64
65* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
66
67* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
68
69* pahole
70
71* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
72
73* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
74
75* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
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77Janitorial Clean-ups:
78
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79* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
80
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81* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
82 semantics, like we do for device.c now
83
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84Features:
85
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86* New udev block device symlink names:
87 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>/<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
88 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
89 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
90 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
91
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92* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
93
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94* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
95 make dirs appear under right UID.
96
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97* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
98 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
99
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100* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
101 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
102 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
103 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
104 for doing that.
105
106* pass systemd-detect-virt result to generators as env var. Modifying behaviour
107 based on whether we are virtualized or not is a pretty common thing, hence
108 maybe just pass that info along for free in an env var. We cache the result
109 anyway, so it's basically free.
110
24063ba1 111* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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112 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
113 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
114 already have it.
24063ba1 115
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116* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
117 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
118
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119* add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
120 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
121 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
122 socket: connect() to it.
123
124* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
125 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
126 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
127
128* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
129 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
130
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131* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
132 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
133
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134* sysext: optionally, if the merged trees allow it use bind mounts instead of
135 overlayfs
136
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137* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
138 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
139 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
140 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
141 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
142
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143* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
144
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145* ability to insert trusted configuration and secrets into the boot parameters
146 of a kernel booting in a VM or on baremetal some way, via TPM
147 protection. idea:
148 1. pass via /proc/bootconfig
149 2. for secrets: put secrets in node of /proc/bootconfig, decrypt them via
150 TPM early on in PID 1, put them in $CREDENTIAL_PATH logic
151 3. for config: put signed data in node /proc/booconfig, validate via TPM
152 early on in PID 1, put data into /run/bootconfig/ as individual files
153 4. boot loader/stub should pick these up automatically from the boot loader
154 file systems
155
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156* tpm2: support a PIN policy, i.e. allowing windows-style short authentication
157 passwords by using the TPM2 to enforce ratelimiting and such, use for
158 cryptsetup and homed
159
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160* Add concept for upgrading TPM2 enrollments, maybe a new switch
161 --pcrs=4:<hash> or so, i.e. select a PCR to include in the hash, and then
162 override its hash
163
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164* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
165 and such
166
167* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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169* cryptenroll: politely refuse enrolling new keys to homed volumes, since we
170 we cannot update identity info
171
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172* cryptsetup: if only recovery keys are registered and no regular passphrases,
173 ask user for "recovery key", not "passphrase"
174
175* cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
176
7d7c75f1 177* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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178 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
179
180* cryptsetup: when FIDO2/PKCS#11/TPM2 token/chip didn't show up after some
181 time, abort the attempt, fallback to asking for pw
182
183* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
184 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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186* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
187
188* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
189 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
190
191* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
192 systemd-makefs.service instead.
193
194* cryptsetup:
195 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
196 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
197
198* credentials system:
199 - maybe add AcquireCredential= for querying a cred via ask-password
200 - maybe try to acquire creds via keyring?
201 - maybe try to pass creds via keyring?
202 - maybe optionally pass creds via memfd
203 - maybe add support for decrypting creds via TPM
204 - maybe add support for decrypting/importing creds via pkcs11
205 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
206 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
207 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
208 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
209 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
210
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211* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
212 it happens to be set up alright already.
213
214* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
215
216* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
217 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
218 default.
219
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220* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
221 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
222 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
223 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
224 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
225
377a9545 226* teach LoadCredential= the ability to load all files from a specified dir as
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227 individual creds
228
08d33656 229* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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231* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
232 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
233
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234* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
235 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
236 temporary dir.
237
238* special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
239 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
240
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241* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
242
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243* add /etc/integritytab, to support dm-integrity setups. In particular those
244 with HMAC as hash function, so that we can have a protected /home without
245 encryption (leaving encryption to the individual dirs/homed).
246
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247* complement root=, rootflags=, rootfstype= with rootsubdir= which allows
248 mounting a subdir of the root fs as actual root. This can be used as
249 fstype-agnostic version of btrfs' rootflags=subvol=foobar.
250
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251* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
252
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253* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
254 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
255
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256* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
257
258* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
259
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260* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
261 when it exits
262
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263* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
264 o turn into dlopen() deps:
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265 - elfutils (always)
266 - p11-kit-trust (always)
267 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 268 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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269 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
270 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
271 since they are so basic and our defaults)
272 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
273 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
274
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275* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
276 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
277 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
278
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279* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
280 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
281
a6e1018d 282* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
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283 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, systemctl,
284 coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
285 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
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287* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
288
289* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
290 specific service
291
292* seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
293
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294* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
295 exists and responds.
296
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297* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
298 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
299 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
300
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301* by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
302 allow so that systemd survives
303
91fc013f 304* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 305 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
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307* unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
308 confusion is gone)
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309 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
310 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
311 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
312 - port importd over from libgcrypt
313 - when that's done: kill khash.c
314 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
315
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316* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
317 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
318
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319* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
320 realname substr searches in varlink API
006c44c1 321
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322* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
323
2a4be3c5 324* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 325
f1eb0ccd 326* pid1: activation by journal search expression
006c44c1 327
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328* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
329 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
330 initrd had set.
331
173c7873 332* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 333 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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334 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
335 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
336 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
337 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
338
339* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
340 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
341 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
342
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343* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
344 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
345 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
346 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
347 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
348 source.
349
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350* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
351 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
352 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
353
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354* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
355
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356* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
357 the hibernation
358
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359* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
360 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
361 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
362 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
363 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
364 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
365 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
366 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
367 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
368 hibernation mode. (see
369 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
370 section 10.2.2.8 and
371 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
372 at the end).
373
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374* We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
375 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
376 constant vendor data.
377
c6526b8d 378* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
312dc153 379
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380* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
381 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
382 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
383 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
384 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
385 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
386 exec().
387
388* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
389
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390* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
391 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
392
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393* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
394 gnome-bluetooth and friends
395
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396* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
397 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
398 root.
399
400* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
401 is issued.
402
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403* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
404
405* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
406
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407* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
408 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
409 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 410
d238709c 411* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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412 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
413 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
414
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415* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
416
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417* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
418 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
419
06898123 420* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 421 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 422 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
06898123 423
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424* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
425
426* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
427 patching around
428
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429* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
430 log.c and sd-journal-send
431
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432* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
433
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434* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
435
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436* sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
437 can add in file system drivers and such
438
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439* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
440 non-zero "tries done" count
441
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442* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
443 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
444 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
445 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
446 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
447 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
448 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
449 CODE_FILE.
450
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451* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
452 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
453 some explanatory text online.
454
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455* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
456
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457* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
458 original defaults before calling parse_config()
459
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460* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
461 Specifically:
462
463 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
464 properly)
e83419d0 465 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 466 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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468* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
469 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
470
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471* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
472 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
473 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
474 files and suchlike we operate on.
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476* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
477
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478* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
479
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480* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
481 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
482
5da19043 483* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
5238e957 484 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
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485 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
486 numbers.
487
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488* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
489 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
490 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
491 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
492 unlinked from any dir.
493
bd1b3f75 494* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
5da19043 495
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496* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
497
498* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
499
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500* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
501 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
502 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
503 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
504 should reflink the image file itself.
505
506 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
507 specific paths only like this.
508
53c70a27 509* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 510 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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512 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 513 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
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516
517* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
518
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519* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
520 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
521
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522* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
523 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
524 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
525 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
526 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
527 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
528 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
529 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
530
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531* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
532 for root, but only then.
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534* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
535
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536* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
537 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
538
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539* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
540 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
541
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542* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
543 only when used. Add unit tests.
544
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545* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
546 host-side interface pointing to the container.
547
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548* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
549 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
550 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
551 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
552 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
553
cb77e122 554* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 555
899feb72 556* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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558* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
559 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
560 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
561
5f7ecd61 562* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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564* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
565 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
566
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567* blog about fd store and restartable services
568
569* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
570
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571* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
572 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
573
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574* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
575 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
576 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
577 ID is available.
578
579* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
580 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
581 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
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584 parameters
585
6fc373ee 586* maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 587 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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589 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
590 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
591 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
592 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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594* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
595 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
596
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597* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
598 about it in the resource log message
599
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600* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
601 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
602 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
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605 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
606
607 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
608
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609* hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
610 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
611 "convertible" form factor
612
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613* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
614 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
615 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
616
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617* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
618 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
619
620* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
621 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
622 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
623 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
624 natural habitat.
625
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626* 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
627
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628* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
629 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
630 relative to the configured default value.
631
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632* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
633
04397464 634* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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636* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
637
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638* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
639
04397464 640* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
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04397464 642* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 643
04397464 644* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
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8ce9b83a 646* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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648* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
649 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
650 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
651
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653 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
654
e40a326c 655* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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657* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
658 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
659 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
660 mapping to work.
661
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662* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
663
664* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
665
666* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
667
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668* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
669 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
670
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671* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
672 reload the unit file anyway
673
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674* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
675
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676* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
677
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678* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
679 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
680
f9bf1b8f 681* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 682 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 683 specifications.
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685* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
686
5ebbb45b 687* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
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689* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
690
a2088fd0 691* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 692 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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693 prefixed with /sys generally special.
694 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
695
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696* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
697
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698* initrd-parse-etc.service: can we skip daemon-reload if /sysroot/etc/fstab is missing?
699 Note that we start initrd-fs.target and initrd-cleanup.target there, so a straightforward
700 ConditionPathExists= is not enough.
701
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702* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
703
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704* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
705 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
706 state.
707 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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709* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
710 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
711 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
712 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
713 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
714
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716
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717* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
718 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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720* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
721 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
722
e031c227 723* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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725
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726* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
727
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728* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
729 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
730
25e773ee 731* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 732
720652b3 733* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 734
720652b3 735* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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737* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
738
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739* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
740 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
741
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743
9d6db739 744* resolved:
9d6db739 745 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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747 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 748 - avahi compat
9d6db739 749 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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750 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
751 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
752 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 753 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 754 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 755
e25b5a8d 756* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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758* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
759
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760* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
761
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762* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
763
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764* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
765
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766* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
767 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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770
6a3f892a 771* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 772 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 773 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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775* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
776 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
777 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 778
f9bf1b8f 779* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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782 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
783 for ReusePort=
784
f38afcd0 785* cgroups:
f38afcd0 786 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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787 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
788 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
789 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
790 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
791 the hierarchies of child processes
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f38afcd0 793* transient units:
f38afcd0 794 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
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796* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
797
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798* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
799
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800* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
801
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802* 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
803
7f79cd71 804* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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806* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
807 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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808 path anyway.
809
04397464 810* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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812* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
813
814* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
815
07eabc2b 816* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 817
07eabc2b 818* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
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820* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
821
822* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
823 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
824 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
825
826* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
827 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
828
829* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
830
831* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
832
833* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
834
835* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
836 needs to be auto-respawned?
837
838* pid1:
839 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
840 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
841 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
842 that are not supported...
843 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
844 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
845 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
846 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
847 - move PAM code into its own binary
848 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
849 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
850 - Support --test based on current system state
851 - 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().
852 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
853 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
854 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
855 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
856 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
857 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
858 but much rather a disconnect on success.
859 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
860 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
861 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
862 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
863 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
864
865* unit files:
866 - allow port=0 in .socket units
867 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
868 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
869 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
870 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
871 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
872 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
873 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
874 - introduce Type=pid-file
875 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
876 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
877 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
878
879* timer units:
880 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
881 o DST changes
882 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
883
884* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
885
886* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
887
888* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
889
890* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
891
892* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
893
894* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
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896* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
897
898* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
899
fff87a35 900* test/:
20d52ab6 901 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 902
b5c03638 903* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 904 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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906 destination.
907
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908* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
909 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
910
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911* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
912
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914 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
915 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
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918 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
919 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
920 is installed.
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923 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
924 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
925 that automatically.
926
e5ec62c5 927* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 928
ccddd104 929* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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932
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936 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
937
938* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
939
940* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
941
942* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
943
944* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
945
946* sd-bus:
947 - EBADSLT handling
948 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
949 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
950 - 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
951 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
952 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
953 - longer term: priority inheritance
954 - dbus spec updates:
955 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
956 - GVariant
957 - path escaping
958 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
959
960* sd-event
961 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
962 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
963 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
964 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
965 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
966 here:
967 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
968
969* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
970 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
971
972* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
973
974* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
975
976* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
977
978* firstboot: allow provisioning of /etc/hosts entries, so that we can via the
979 credentials logic insert host name to resolve into containers/hosts. Usecase:
980 fork a container, and make it ping some specific address which is defined by
981 the host on invocation
982
983* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
984 reading/writing files
985
986* 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
987
988* sd-boot: define a drop-in dir in the ESP that may contain X.509
989 certificates. If the firmware is detected to be in setup mode, automatically
990 enroll them as PK/KEK/db, turn off setup mode and proceed. Optionally,
991 instead of auto-enrolling them add them to the sd-boot menu, giving the user
992 the option to manually enroll them, after selecting the menu entry. This way,
993 installer images can just drop the certfiicates in the ESP, and on first boot
994 can easily enroll the keys without ever booting up.
995
996* efi stub: optionally, load initrd from disk as a separate file, HMAC check it
997 with key from TPM, bound to PCR, refusing if failing. This would then allow
998 traditional distros that generate initrds locally to secure them with TPM:
999 after generating the initrd, do the HMAC calculation, put result in initrd
1000 filename, done. This would then bind the validity of the initrd to the local
1001 host, and used kernel, and means people cannot change initrd or kernel
1002 without booting the kernel + initrd.
1003
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1005 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1006 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1007 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1008* bootctl
631427d6 1009 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1010
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e9fd44b7 1012
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1013* sd-boot: add service that automatically runs "bootctl update" on every boot,
1014 in a graceful way, so that updated /usr trees automatically propagate into
1015 updated boot loaders on reboot.
8ed20651 1016
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1017* bootctl:
1018 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1019 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
1020 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
e6c6e7af 1021
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1023 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1024 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1025 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1026 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1027 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1028 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1029 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1030 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1031 needs setuid().
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1032 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1033 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1034 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1035 complete.
1036 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1037 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1038 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1039 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1040 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1041 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1042 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1043 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1044 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1045 relogins
77b19caf 1046 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 1047
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1049
1050* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1051
1052* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1053 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1054 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1055
1056* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1057 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1058
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57f2a947 1060 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1062 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1063 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1064 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1065 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1066 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1067 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1068 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1069 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1070 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1071 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1072 - 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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1073 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1074 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1075 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1076 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1077 - 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.
1078 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1079 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1080 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1081 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1082 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1083 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1084 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1085 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1086 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1087 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1088 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1089 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1090 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1091 to syslog when it works again.
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1092 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1093 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1094 journals in.
1095 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1096 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1097 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1098 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1099 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1100 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1101 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1102 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1103 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1104 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1105 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1106 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1107 operation.
1108 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1109 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1110 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1111 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1112 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1113 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1114 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1115 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1116 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1117 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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1120 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
1121
1122* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
1123 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
1124 validated via TPM.
1125
1126* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
1127 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
1128
1129* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
1130 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
1131 user's journal stream down but not the others.
1132
1133* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
1134 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
1135 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
1136 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
1137 cgroup.
1138
1139* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
1140 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
1141 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
1142 logging.
1143
1144* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
1145
1146* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
1147 from the SIGBUS handler
1148
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1150 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1151 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1152 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1153
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1154* homed:
1155 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
1156 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
1157 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
1158 - resize on login?
1159 - shrink fs on logout?
1160 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
1161 - create on activate?
1162 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
1163 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
1164 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
1165 systemd --user is shut down.
1166 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
1167 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
1168 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
1169 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
1170 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
1171 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
1172 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
1173 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
1174 - query password from kernel keyring first
1175 - update even if record is "absent"
1176 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
1177 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
1178 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
1179 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
1180 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
1181 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
1182 - introduce API for "making room", that grows/shrinks home directory
1183 according to elastic parameters, discards blocks, and removes additional snapshots. Call it
1184 either from UI when disk space gets low
1185
1186* homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
1187 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
1188 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
1189
1190* homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
1191 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
1192 signature
1193
1194* homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
1195 and insert a local signature instead.
1196
1197* homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
1198 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
1199 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
1200 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
1201 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
1202
1203* homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
1204
1205* homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
1206 easily?
1207
1208* homed: if kernel 5.12 uid mapping mounts exist, use that instead of recursive
1209 chowns.
1210
1211* add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
1212 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
1213 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
1214 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
1215 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
1216
1217* homed: store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
1218 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
1219
1220* homed: try to unmount in regular intervals when home dir was busy when we
1221 tried because idle.
1222
1223* homed: keep an fd to the homedir open at all times, to keep the fs pinned
1224 (autofs and such) while user is logged in.
1225
1226* when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
1227
1228* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
1229 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
1230 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
1231
1232* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_PATH
1233
1234* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
1235 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
1236 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
1237 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
1238
1239* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
1240
1241* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
1242 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
1243 something goes wrong on the way.
1244
1245* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
1246
1247* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
1248 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
1249 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
1250 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
1251
1252* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
1253 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
1254 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
1255 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
1256 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
1257 automatically.
1258
1259* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
1260 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
1261
1262* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
1263 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
1264 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
1265 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
1266 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
1267 fails to apply use the latter.
1268
1269* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
1270 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
1271
1272* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
1273 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
1274
1275* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
1276 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
1277
1278* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
1279 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
1280
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8b8f2591 1282 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1283 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1284 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1285 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1286 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1287 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1288 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1289 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1291 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 1292 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1293 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1295* systemctl:
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1297 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1298 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1299 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1300 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1301 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1302 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1303 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1304 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1305 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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1307* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
1308 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
1309 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 1310
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1311* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
1312 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
1313 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
1314 output for them.
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1316* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
1317 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
1318 the slices, and the units attached to them.
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1320* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
1321 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
1322 wait to retrieve their exit data.
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1324* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
1325 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
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1327* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
1328 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
1329 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
1330 do, for example)
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1332* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
1333 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
1334 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
1335 returning from the "systemctl stop".
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1337* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
1338
1339* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
1340
1341* unit install:
1342 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1343 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
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1346 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1347 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1348 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1349 from the kernel's logs.
1350 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1351 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1352 interface be missing
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1353 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1354 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1355 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1356 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1357 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1358 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1359 PID 1...
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1360 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1361 running, remove them when shut down.
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1363* nspawn: make --bind= work sanely with --private-users when uid mapping mounts
1364 are used.
1365
1366* nspawn: add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension=
1367 switch that takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already
1368 during startup.
1369
1370* when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
1371 so, freeze the payload too.
1372
1373* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
1374 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
1375 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
1376 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
1377 anything like that.
1378
1379* nspawn: support time namespaces
1380
1381* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
1382 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
1383
1384* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
1385 fallback in "machinectl shell"
1386
1387* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
1388 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
1389 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
1390
1391* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
1392
1393* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
1394
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1396 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1397 removed or added to an existing machine
1398 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1399 difference host, via ssh
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1400 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1401 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1402 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1403 question
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1404 - "machinectl history"
1405 - "machinectl diff"
1406 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1407 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1408
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abd55b16 1410 - move to LGPL
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1412 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1413 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
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1416 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1417 - 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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1418
1419* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1420
f38afcd0 1421* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1422 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1423 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
1424 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1425 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1426 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 1427 - add --test mode
ba405b22
ZJS
1428 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
1429 project quota
1258097c 1430
af6f0d42
TG
1431* udev-link-config:
1432 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1433 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1434 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1435
88e4d1d7 1436* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1437 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1438 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1439
0a4b9a07 1440* networkd:
c74ecd71
TG
1441 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1442 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 1443 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 1444 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1445 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 1446 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
1447 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1448 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1449 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 1450 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 1451 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
1452 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1453 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1454 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1455 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1456 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1457 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 1458 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1459
07eabc2b
LB
1460* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
1461
d5e172d2
ZJS
1462* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1463
ac976532 1464* dhcp:
424a8732 1465 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1466
37d8b536
PF
1467* dhcp6:
1468 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1469 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1470 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1471 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1472 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
1473 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1474 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1475 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1476 or interface down
1477 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1478 this behavior
4a77c53d 1479 - RouteTable= ?