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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.
6
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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:
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86* use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
87
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88* New udev block device symlink names:
89 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>/<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
90 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
91 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
92 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
93
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94* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
95
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96* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
97 make dirs appear under right UID.
98
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99* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
100 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
101
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102* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
103 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
104 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
105 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
106 for doing that.
107
108* pass systemd-detect-virt result to generators as env var. Modifying behaviour
109 based on whether we are virtualized or not is a pretty common thing, hence
110 maybe just pass that info along for free in an env var. We cache the result
111 anyway, so it's basically free.
112
24063ba1 113* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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114 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
115 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
116 already have it.
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118* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
119 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
120
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121* add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
122 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
123 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
124 socket: connect() to it.
125
126* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
127 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
128 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
129
130* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
131 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
132
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133* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
134 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
135
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136* sysext: optionally, if the merged trees allow it use bind mounts instead of
137 overlayfs
138
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139* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
140 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
141 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
142 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
143 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
144
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145* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
146
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147* allow passing creds into kernel when booting: in EFI stub, collect creds
148 files from ESP directory, generate CPIO archive on the fly from them, so that
149 they are dropped into /run/initramfs/creds/ and pass to kernel as additional
150 initrd. Then, use LoadCredentialEncrypted=foo:/run/initramfs/creds/foo to
151 load them.
152
153* make LoadCredential= automatically find credentials in /etc/creds,
154 /run/creds, … and so on, if path component is unqualified
155
156* teach LoadCredential=/LoadCredentialEncrypted= to load credentials from
157 kernel cmdline, maybe: LoadCredentialEncrypted=foobar:proc-cmdline:foobar
158
159* credentials system:
160 - acquire from kernel command line
161 - acquire from EFI variable?
162 - acquire via via ask-password?
163 - acquire creds via keyring?
164 - pass creds via keyring?
165 - pass creds via memfd?
166 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
167 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
168 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
169 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
170 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
171 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
172
173* teach LoadCredential= the ability to load all files from a specified dir as
174 individual creds
175
176* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
177 firmware indicates there is one.
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179* tpm2: support a PIN policy, i.e. allowing windows-style short authentication
180 passwords by using the TPM2 to enforce ratelimiting and such, use for
181 cryptsetup and homed
182
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183* Add concept for upgrading TPM2 enrollments, maybe a new switch
184 --pcrs=4:<hash> or so, i.e. select a PCR to include in the hash, and then
185 override its hash
186
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187* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
188 and such
189
190* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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192* cryptenroll: politely refuse enrolling new keys to homed volumes, since we
193 we cannot update identity info
194
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195* cryptsetup: if only recovery keys are registered and no regular passphrases,
196 ask user for "recovery key", not "passphrase"
197
198* cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
199
7d7c75f1 200* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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201 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
202
203* cryptsetup: when FIDO2/PKCS#11/TPM2 token/chip didn't show up after some
204 time, abort the attempt, fallback to asking for pw
205
206* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
207 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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209* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
210
211* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
212 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
213
214* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
215 systemd-makefs.service instead.
216
217* cryptsetup:
218 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
219 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
220
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221* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
222 it happens to be set up alright already.
223
224* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
225
226* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
227 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
228 default.
229
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230* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
231 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
232 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
233 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
234 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
235
08d33656 236* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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238* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
239 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
240
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241* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
242 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
243 temporary dir.
244
245* special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
246 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
247
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248* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
249
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250* add /etc/integritytab, to support dm-integrity setups. In particular those
251 with HMAC as hash function, so that we can have a protected /home without
252 encryption (leaving encryption to the individual dirs/homed).
253
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254* complement root=, rootflags=, rootfstype= with rootsubdir= which allows
255 mounting a subdir of the root fs as actual root. This can be used as
256 fstype-agnostic version of btrfs' rootflags=subvol=foobar.
257
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258* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
259
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260* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
261 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
262
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263* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
264
265* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
266
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267* pid1: support new cgroup.kill to terminate all processes in a cgroup
268
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269* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
270 when it exits
271
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272* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
273 o turn into dlopen() deps:
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274 - elfutils (always)
275 - p11-kit-trust (always)
276 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 277 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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278 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
279 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
280 since they are so basic and our defaults)
281 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
282 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
283
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284* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
285 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
286 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
287
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288* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
289 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
290
a6e1018d 291* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
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292 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, systemctl,
293 coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
294 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
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296* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
297
298* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
299 specific service
300
301* seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
302
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303* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
304 exists and responds.
305
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306* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
307 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
308 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
309
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310* by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
311 allow so that systemd survives
312
91fc013f 313* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 314 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
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316* unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
317 confusion is gone)
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318 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
319 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
320 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
321 - port importd over from libgcrypt
322 - when that's done: kill khash.c
323 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
324
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325* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
326 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
327
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328* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
329 realname substr searches in varlink API
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331* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
332
2a4be3c5 333* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 334
f1eb0ccd 335* pid1: activation by journal search expression
006c44c1 336
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337* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
338 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
339 initrd had set.
340
173c7873 341* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 342 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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343 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
344 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
345 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
346 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
347
348* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
349 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
350 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
351
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352* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
353 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
354 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
355 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
356 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
357 source.
358
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359* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
360 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
361 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
362
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363* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
364
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365* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
366 the hibernation
367
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368* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
369 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
370 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
371 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
372 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
373 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
374 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
375 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
376 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
377 hibernation mode. (see
378 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
379 section 10.2.2.8 and
380 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
381 at the end).
382
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383* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
384 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 385
c6526b8d 386* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
312dc153 387
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388* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
389 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
390 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
391 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
392 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
393 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
394 exec().
395
396* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
397
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398* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
399 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
400
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401* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
402 gnome-bluetooth and friends
403
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404* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
405 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
406 root.
407
408* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
409 is issued.
410
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411* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
412
413* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
414
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415* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
416 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
417 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 418
d238709c 419* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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420 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
421 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
422
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423* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
424
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425* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
426 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
427
06898123 428* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 429 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 430 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 431 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
06898123 432
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433* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
434
435* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
436 patching around
437
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438* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
439 log.c and sd-journal-send
440
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441* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
442
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443* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
444
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445* sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
446 can add in file system drivers and such
447
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448* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
449 non-zero "tries done" count
450
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451* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
452 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
453 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
454 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
455 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
456 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
457 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
458 CODE_FILE.
459
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460* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
461 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
462 some explanatory text online.
463
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464* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
465
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466* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
467 original defaults before calling parse_config()
468
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469* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
470 Specifically:
471
472 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
473 properly)
e83419d0 474 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 475 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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477* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
478 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
479
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480* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
481 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
482 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
483 files and suchlike we operate on.
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485* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
486
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487* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
488
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489* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
490 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
491
5da19043 492* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
5238e957 493 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
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494 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
495 numbers.
496
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497* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
498 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
499 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
500 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
501 unlinked from any dir.
502
bd1b3f75 503* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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505* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
506
507* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
508
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510 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
511 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
512 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
513 should reflink the image file itself.
514
515 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
516 specific paths only like this.
517
53c70a27 518* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 519 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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521 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 522 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
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524* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
525
526* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
527
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528* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
529 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
530
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531* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
532 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
533 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
534 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
535 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
536 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
537 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
538 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
539
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540* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
541 for root, but only then.
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543* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
544
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545* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
546 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
547
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548* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
549 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
550
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551* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
552 only when used. Add unit tests.
553
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554* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
555 host-side interface pointing to the container.
556
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557* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
558 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
559 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
560 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
561 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
562
cb77e122 563* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 564
899feb72 565* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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567* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
568 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
569 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
570
5f7ecd61 571* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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573* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
574 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
575
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576* blog about fd store and restartable services
577
578* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
579
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580* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
581 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
582
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583* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
584 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
585 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
586 ID is available.
587
588* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
589 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
590 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
591
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593 parameters
594
6fc373ee 595* maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 596 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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597 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
598 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
599 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
600 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
601 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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603* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
604 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
605
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606* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
607 about it in the resource log message
608
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609* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
610 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
611 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
612
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613* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
614 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
615
616 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
617
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619 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
620 "convertible" form factor
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622* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
623 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
624 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
625
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626* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
627 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
628
629* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
630 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
631 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
632 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
633 natural habitat.
634
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635* 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
636
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637* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
638 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
639 relative to the configured default value.
640
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641* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
642
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645* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
646
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647* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
648
04397464 649* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 650
04397464 651* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 652
04397464 653* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
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8ce9b83a 655* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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657* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
658 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
659 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
660
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662 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
663
e40a326c 664* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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666* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
667 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
668 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
669 mapping to work.
670
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671* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
672
673* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
674
675* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
676
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677* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
678 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
679
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680* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
681 reload the unit file anyway
682
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683* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
684
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685* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
686
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687* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
688 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
689
f9bf1b8f 690* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 691 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 692 specifications.
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695
5ebbb45b 696* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
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698* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
699
a2088fd0 700* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 701 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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702 prefixed with /sys generally special.
703 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
704
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705* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
706
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707* initrd-parse-etc.service: can we skip daemon-reload if /sysroot/etc/fstab is missing?
708 Note that we start initrd-fs.target and initrd-cleanup.target there, so a straightforward
709 ConditionPathExists= is not enough.
710
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711* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
712
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713* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
714 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
715 state.
716 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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718* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
719 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
720 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
721 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
722 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
723
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725
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726* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
727 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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729* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
730 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
731
e031c227 732* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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735* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
736
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737* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
738 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
739
25e773ee 740* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 741
720652b3 742* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 743
720652b3 744* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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746* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
747
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748* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
749 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
750
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752
9d6db739 753* resolved:
9d6db739 754 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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756 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 757 - avahi compat
9d6db739 758 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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759 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
760 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
761 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 762 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 763 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 764
e25b5a8d 765* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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767* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
768
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769* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
770
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771* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
772
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773* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
774
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775* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
776 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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779
6a3f892a 780* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 781 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 782 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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784* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
785 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
786 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 787
f9bf1b8f 788* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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790* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
791 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
792 for ReusePort=
793
f38afcd0 794* cgroups:
f38afcd0 795 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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796 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
797 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
798 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
799 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
800 the hierarchies of child processes
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f38afcd0 802* transient units:
f38afcd0 803 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
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805* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
806
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807* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
808
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809* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
810
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811* 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
812
7f79cd71 813* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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815* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
816 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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817 path anyway.
818
04397464 819* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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821* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
822
823* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
824
07eabc2b 825* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 826
07eabc2b 827* 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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829* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
830
831* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
832 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
833 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
834
835* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
836 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
837
838* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
839
840* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
841
842* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
843
844* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
845 needs to be auto-respawned?
846
847* pid1:
848 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
849 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
850 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
851 that are not supported...
852 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
853 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
854 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
855 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
856 - move PAM code into its own binary
857 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
858 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
859 - Support --test based on current system state
860 - 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().
861 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
862 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
863 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
864 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
865 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
866 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
867 but much rather a disconnect on success.
868 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
869 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
870 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
871 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
872 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
873
874* unit files:
875 - allow port=0 in .socket units
876 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
877 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
878 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
879 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
880 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
881 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
882 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
883 - introduce Type=pid-file
884 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
885 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
886 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
887
888* timer units:
889 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
890 o DST changes
891 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
892
893* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
894
895* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
896
897* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
898
899* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
900
901* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
902
903* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
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906
907* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
908
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20d52ab6 910 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 911
b5c03638 912* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 913 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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914 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
915 destination.
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917* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
918 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
919
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920* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
921
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923 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
924 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
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927 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
928 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
929 is installed.
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932 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
933 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
934 that automatically.
935
e5ec62c5 936* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 937
ccddd104 938* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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940* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
941
356ce991 942* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
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944* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
945 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
946
947* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
948
949* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
950
951* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
952
953* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
954
955* sd-bus:
956 - EBADSLT handling
957 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
958 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
959 - 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
960 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
961 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
962 - longer term: priority inheritance
963 - dbus spec updates:
964 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
965 - GVariant
966 - path escaping
967 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
968
969* sd-event
970 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
971 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
972 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
973 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
974 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
975 here:
976 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
977
978* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
979 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
980
981* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
982
983* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
984
985* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
986
987* firstboot: allow provisioning of /etc/hosts entries, so that we can via the
988 credentials logic insert host name to resolve into containers/hosts. Usecase:
989 fork a container, and make it ping some specific address which is defined by
990 the host on invocation
991
992* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
993 reading/writing files
994
995* 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
996
997* sd-boot: define a drop-in dir in the ESP that may contain X.509
998 certificates. If the firmware is detected to be in setup mode, automatically
999 enroll them as PK/KEK/db, turn off setup mode and proceed. Optionally,
1000 instead of auto-enrolling them add them to the sd-boot menu, giving the user
1001 the option to manually enroll them, after selecting the menu entry. This way,
1002 installer images can just drop the certfiicates in the ESP, and on first boot
1003 can easily enroll the keys without ever booting up.
1004
1005* efi stub: optionally, load initrd from disk as a separate file, HMAC check it
1006 with key from TPM, bound to PCR, refusing if failing. This would then allow
1007 traditional distros that generate initrds locally to secure them with TPM:
1008 after generating the initrd, do the HMAC calculation, put result in initrd
1009 filename, done. This would then bind the validity of the initrd to the local
1010 host, and used kernel, and means people cannot change initrd or kernel
1011 without booting the kernel + initrd.
1012
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1014 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1015 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1016 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1017* bootctl
631427d6 1018 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1019
07eabc2b 1020* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1021
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1022* bootctl:
1023 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1024 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
1025 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
e6c6e7af 1026
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1028 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1029 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1030 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1031 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1032 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1033 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1034 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1035 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1036 needs setuid().
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1037 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1038 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1039 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1040 complete.
1041 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1042 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1043 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1044 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1045 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1046 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1047 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1048 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1049 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1050 relogins
77b19caf 1051 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 1052
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1053* move logind udev rules to top-level rule.d/ directory
1054
1055* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1056
1057* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1058 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1059 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1060
1061* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1062 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1063
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57f2a947 1065 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1066 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1067 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1068 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1069 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1070 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1071 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1072 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1073 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1074 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1075 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1076 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1077 - 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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1078 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1079 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1080 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1081 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1082 - 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.
1083 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1084 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1085 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1086 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1087 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1088 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1089 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1090 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1091 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1092 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1093 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1094 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1095 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1096 to syslog when it works again.
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1097 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1098 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1099 journals in.
1100 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1101 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1102 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1103 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1104 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1105 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1106 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1107 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1108 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1109 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1110 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1111 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1112 operation.
1113 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1114 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1115 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1116 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1117 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1118 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1119 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1120 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1121 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1122 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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1125 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
1126
1127* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
1128 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
1129 validated via TPM.
1130
1131* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
1132 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
1133
1134* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
1135 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
1136 user's journal stream down but not the others.
1137
1138* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
1139 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
1140 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
1141 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
1142 cgroup.
1143
1144* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
1145 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
1146 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
1147 logging.
1148
1149* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
1150
1151* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
1152 from the SIGBUS handler
1153
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1155 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1156 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1157 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1158
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1159* homed:
1160 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
1161 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
1162 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
1163 - resize on login?
1164 - shrink fs on logout?
1165 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
1166 - create on activate?
1167 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
1168 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
1169 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
1170 systemd --user is shut down.
1171 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
1172 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
1173 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
1174 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
1175 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
1176 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
1177 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
1178 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
1179 - query password from kernel keyring first
1180 - update even if record is "absent"
1181 - 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
1182 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
1183 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
1184 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
1185 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
1186 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
1187 - introduce API for "making room", that grows/shrinks home directory
1188 according to elastic parameters, discards blocks, and removes additional snapshots. Call it
1189 either from UI when disk space gets low
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1190 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
1191 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
1192 doesn't mean user B sees it
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1193
1194* homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
1195 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
1196 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
1197
1198* homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
1199 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
1200 signature
1201
1202* homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
1203 and insert a local signature instead.
1204
1205* homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
1206 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
1207 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
1208 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
1209 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
1210
1211* homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
1212
1213* homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
1214 easily?
1215
1216* homed: if kernel 5.12 uid mapping mounts exist, use that instead of recursive
1217 chowns.
1218
1219* add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
1220 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
1221 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
1222 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
1223 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
1224
1225* homed: store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
1226 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
1227
1228* homed: try to unmount in regular intervals when home dir was busy when we
1229 tried because idle.
1230
1231* homed: keep an fd to the homedir open at all times, to keep the fs pinned
1232 (autofs and such) while user is logged in.
1233
1234* when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
1235
1236* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
1237 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
1238 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
1239
1240* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_PATH
1241
1242* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
1243 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
1244 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
1245 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
1246
1247* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
1248
1249* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
1250 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
1251 something goes wrong on the way.
1252
1253* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
1254
1255* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
1256 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
1257 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
1258 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
1259
1260* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
1261 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
1262 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
1263 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
1264 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
1265 automatically.
1266
1267* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
1268 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
1269
1270* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
1271 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
1272 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
1273 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
1274 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
1275 fails to apply use the latter.
1276
1277* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
1278 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
1279
1280* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
1281 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
1282
1283* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
1284 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
1285
1286* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
1287 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
1288
b44be3ec 1289* document:
8b8f2591 1290 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1291 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1292 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1293 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1294 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1295 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1296 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1297 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1298 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1299 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 1300 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1301 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1303* systemctl:
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1305 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1306 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1307 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1308 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1309 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1310 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1311 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1312 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1313 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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1315* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
1316 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
1317 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 1318
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1319* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
1320 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
1321 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
1322 output for them.
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1324* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
1325 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
1326 the slices, and the units attached to them.
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1328* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
1329 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
1330 wait to retrieve their exit data.
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1332* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
1333 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
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1335* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
1336 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
1337 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
1338 do, for example)
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1340* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
1341 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
1342 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
1343 returning from the "systemctl stop".
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1345* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
1346
1347* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
1348
1349* unit install:
1350 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1351 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
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1354 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1355 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1356 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1357 from the kernel's logs.
1358 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1359 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1360 interface be missing
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1361 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1362 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1363 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1364 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1365 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1366 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1367 PID 1...
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1368 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1369 running, remove them when shut down.
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1371* nspawn: make --bind= work sanely with --private-users when uid mapping mounts
1372 are used.
1373
1374* nspawn: add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension=
1375 switch that takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already
1376 during startup.
1377
1378* when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
1379 so, freeze the payload too.
1380
1381* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
1382 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
1383 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
1384 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
1385 anything like that.
1386
1387* nspawn: support time namespaces
1388
1389* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
1390 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
1391
1392* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
1393 fallback in "machinectl shell"
1394
1395* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
1396 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
1397 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
1398
1399* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
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1401* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
1402
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1404 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1405 removed or added to an existing machine
1406 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1407 difference host, via ssh
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1408 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1409 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1410 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1411 question
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1412 - "machinectl history"
1413 - "machinectl diff"
1414 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1415 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1416
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abd55b16 1418 - move to LGPL
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1419 - kill scsi_id
1420 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1421 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1422
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DH
1423* coredump:
1424 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1425 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
87a8baa3
LP
1426
1427* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1428
f38afcd0 1429* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1430 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1431 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
1432 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1433 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1434 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 1435 - add --test mode
ba405b22
ZJS
1436 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
1437 project quota
1258097c 1438
af6f0d42
TG
1439* udev-link-config:
1440 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1441 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1442 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1443
88e4d1d7 1444* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1445 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1446 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1447
0a4b9a07 1448* networkd:
c74ecd71
TG
1449 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1450 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 1451 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 1452 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1453 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 1454 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
1455 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1456 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1457 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 1458 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 1459 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
1460 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1461 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1462 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1463 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1464 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1465 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 1466 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1467
07eabc2b
LB
1468* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
1469
d5e172d2
ZJS
1470* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1471
ac976532 1472* dhcp:
424a8732 1473 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1474
37d8b536
PF
1475* dhcp6:
1476 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1477 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1478 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1479 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1480 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
1481 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1482 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1483 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1484 or interface down
1485 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1486 this behavior
4a77c53d 1487 - RouteTable= ?