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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 11External:
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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25* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29* register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31* zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
34
35* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
36* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
37 after being started.
38
39* write blog stories about:
40 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
41 - enabling dbus services
42 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
43 - remote access
44 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
45 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
46 - auto-restart
47 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
48 - the journal HTTP iface
49 - non-cgroup resource management
50 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
51 - refreshed, longer missions statement
52 - calendar time events
53 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
54 - how to create your own target
55 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
56 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
57
58Regularly:
59
60* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
61
62* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
63
64* pahole
65
66* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
67
68* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
69
70* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
71
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72Janitorial Clean-ups:
73
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74* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
75
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76* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
77 semantics, like we do for device.c now
78
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79Features:
80
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81* Add ConditionCredentialExists= or so, that allows conditionalizing services
82 depending on whether a specific system credential is set. Usecase: a service
83 similar to the ssh keygen service that installs any SSH host key supplied via
84 system credentials into /etc/ssh.
85
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86* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
87 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
88 is only supported for such old kernels
89
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90* sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
91 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
92 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
93 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
94 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurances, in
95 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
96 IN_IGNORED again)
97
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98* sd-stub: set efi var indicating stub features, i.e. whether they pick up
99 creds, sysexts and so on. similar to existing variable of sd-boot
100
101* sd-stub: set efi vars declaring TPM PCRs we measured creds/cmdline + sysext
102 into (even if we hardcode them)
103
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104* systemd-fstab-generator: support addition mount specifications via kernel
105 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
106 virtio-fs.
107
108* for vendor-built signed initrds:
62471289 109 - make sysext run in the initrd
5b06ad51 110 - sysext should pick up sysext images from /.extra/ in the initrd, and insist
62471289 111 on verification if in secureboot mode
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112 - kernel-install should be able to install pre-built unified kernel images in
113 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
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114 - kernel-install should be able install encrypted creds automatically for
115 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
116 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
117 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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118 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
119 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
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120 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
121 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
62471289 122 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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123 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
124 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
125 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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126 - sd-stub should measure the kernel/initrd/… into a separate PCR, so that we
127 have one PCR we can bind the encrypted creds to that is not effected by
128 anything else but what we drop in via kernel-install, i.e. by earlier EFI
129 code running (i.e. like PCR 4)
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131* Add a new service type very similar to Type=notify, that goes one step
132 further and extends the protocol to cover reloads. Specifically, SIGHUP will
133 become the official way to reload, and daemon has to respond with sd_notify()
134 to report when it starts reloading, and when it is complete reloading. Care
135 must be taken to remove races from this model. I.e. PID 1 needs to take
136 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, then send SIGHUP, then wait for at least one RELOADING=1
137 message that comes with a newer timestamp, then wait for a READY=1 message.
138 while we are at it, also maybe extend the logic to require handling of some
139 specific SIGRT signal for setting debug log level, that carries the level via
140 the sigqueue() data parameter. With that we extended with minimal logic the
141 service runtime logic quite substantially.
142
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143* get_color_mode() should probably check the $COLORTERM environment variable
144 which most terminal environments appear to set.
145
146* firstboot: maybe just default to C.UTF-8 locale if nothing is set, so that we
147 don't query this unnecessarily in entirely uninitialized
148 containers. (i.e. containers with empty /etc).
149
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150* systemd creds hookup with qemu fw_cfg. (Quite possibly might not need any
151 code at all, given the fw_cfg stuff are just files, but we should then
152 document how to use it). Goal: provide symmetric ways to pass creds to nspawn
153 containers and qemu VMs. (maybe also pick up env vars from fw_cfg?)
154
155* beef up sd_notify() to support AV_VSOCK in $NOTIFY_SOCKET, so that VM
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156 managers can get ready notifications from VMs, just like container managers
157 from their payload. Also pick up address from qemu/fw_cfg if set there.
158 (which has benefits, given SecureBoot and kernel cmdline are not necessarily
159 friends.)
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161* mirroring this: maybe support binding to AV_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
162 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
163 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 164 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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165 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
166 directly to host service manager.
167
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168* maybe write a tool that binds an AF_VFSOCK socket, then invokes qemu,
169 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using fw_cfg to
170 configure socket address.
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172* sd-boot: rework random seed handling following recent kernel changes: always
173 pass seed to kernel, but credit only if secure boot is used
174
175* sd-boot: hash data from GetNextHighMonotonicCount() into updated random seed,
176 so that we might even open up up the random seed logic to non-SecureBoot
177 systems?
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179* sd-boot: also include the hyperv "vm generation id" in the random seed hash,
180 to cover nicely for machine clones. It's found in the ACPI tables, which
181 should be easily accessible from UEFI.
182
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183* sd-boot: add menu item for shutdown? or hotkey?
184
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185* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
186 no api to query the device id
187
188* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
189 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
190 also be queried.
191
666efe94 192* bootctl: show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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194* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
195 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
196 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
197 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
198
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199* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
200 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
201 latter).
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203* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
204
205* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
206
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207* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
208 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
209 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
210 generated by GNU sha256sums.
211
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212* sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
213 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
214 logic: allow combining sd-boot via objcopy with kernels to enumerate, .conf
215 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
216 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
217 UEFI HTTP boot.
218
219* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
220 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
221 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
222 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
223 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
224 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
225 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
226 hence cheap for enumeration.
227
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228* initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
229 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
230 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
231
232* in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
233 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
234 pre-built kernels.
235
236* sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
237
238* maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
239 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
240 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
241 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
242 comprehensively.
243
244* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
245 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
246 words: show partition labels).
247
248* systemd-nspawn: make boot assessment do something sensible in a
249 container. i.e send an sd_notify() from payload to container manager once
250 boot-up is completed successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with
251 boot counting, implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
252
253* maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
254 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
255 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
b17a681b 256 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
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257 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
258 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
259 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
260
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261* improve scope units to support creation by pidfd instead of by PID
262
e4f92a62 263* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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265* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
266
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267* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
268 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
269 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
270 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
271 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
272 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
273 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
274 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
275 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
276 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
277
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278* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
279 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
280 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
281 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
282 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
283 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
284 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
285 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
286 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
287 an NTP sync is acquired.
288
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289* kernel-install:
290 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
291 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
292 call it at the end only
293
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294* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
295 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
296
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297* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
298 jobs, units
299
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300* bootspec: remove tries counter from boot entry ids
301
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302* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
303 sync, i.e. parse out tries in both
304
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305* automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
306
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307* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
308 json package metadata, and use that when logging
309
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310* systemd-dissect: show GPT disk UUID in output
311
312* Enable RestricFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
313 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
314
315* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
316 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
317
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318* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
319 internal clock.
320
1ccfb792 321* nspawn: optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP
f08e143c 322 traffic on port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
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324* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
325 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
326
327* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
328 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
329 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
330 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
331
332* sysext: ensure one can build a sysext that can safely apply to *any* system
333 (because it contains only static go binaries in /opt/ or so)
334
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335* userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
336 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
337 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
338
339* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
340 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
341 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
342 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
343 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
344 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
345 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
346 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
347 thread:
348 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
349 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
350 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
351 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
352 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
353 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
354
355* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
356 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
357 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
358
359* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
360 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
361 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
362 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
363 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
364 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
365 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
366 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
367 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
368 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
369 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
370 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
371 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
372 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
373 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
374
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375* add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
376 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
377 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
378 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
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379 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
380 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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382* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
383 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us drop drop libcap
384 dep in the base OS image)
385
386* sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
387 sysext pickup logic.
388
389* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
390 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
391 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
392 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
393 on-disk storage.
394
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395* userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
396 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
397 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
398 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
399 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
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401* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
402 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
403 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
404 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
405 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
406 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
407 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
408
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409* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
410 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
411 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
412 externally and provide to us on demand only.
413
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414* add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
415 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
416 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
417 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
418 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
419 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
420 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
421 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
422
423* nspawn: maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so
424 that such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as
425 one.
426
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427* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
428 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option tpm2-measure=8 or so to measure it
429 into PCR 8)
430
431* add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
432 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
433 authentication.
434
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435* in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCRs are being used, store that
436 in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify that
437 the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
438
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439* rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
440
63a185dc 441* PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
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443* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
444 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
445 that images cannot be misused.
446
aca8ecc3 447* New udev block device symlink names:
178d3ff2 448 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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449 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
450 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
451 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
452
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453* sysupdate:
454 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
455 - support casync as download mechanism
456 - direct TPM2 PCR change handling, possible renrolling LUKS2 media if needed.
457 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
458 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
459 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
460 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
461 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
462 override the host's update files.)
463 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
464 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
465 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
466 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
467
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468* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
469
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470* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
471 make dirs appear under right UID.
472
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473* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
474 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
475
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476* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
477 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
478 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
479 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
480 for doing that.
481
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483 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
484 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
485 already have it.
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487* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
488 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
489
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490* add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
491 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
492 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
493 socket: connect() to it.
494
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496
497* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
498 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
499 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
500 /proc/self/fd/3
501
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502* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
503 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
504 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
505
506* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
507 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
508
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509* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
510 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
511
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512* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
513 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
514 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
515 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
516 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
517
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518* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
519
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520* make LoadCredential= automatically find credentials in /etc/creds,
521 /run/creds, … and so on, if path component is unqualified
522
523* teach LoadCredential=/LoadCredentialEncrypted= to load credentials from
524 kernel cmdline, maybe: LoadCredentialEncrypted=foobar:proc-cmdline:foobar
525
526* credentials system:
527 - acquire from kernel command line
528 - acquire from EFI variable?
529 - acquire via via ask-password?
530 - acquire creds via keyring?
531 - pass creds via keyring?
532 - pass creds via memfd?
533 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
534 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
535 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
536 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
537 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
538 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
539
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540* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
541 firmware indicates there is one.
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543* Add concept for upgrading TPM2 enrollments, maybe a new switch
544 --pcrs=4:<hash> or so, i.e. select a PCR to include in the hash, and then
545 override its hash
546
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547* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
548 and such
549
550* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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552* cryptsetup: if only recovery keys are registered and no regular passphrases,
553 ask user for "recovery key", not "passphrase"
554
555* cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
556
7d7c75f1 557* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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558 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
559
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560* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
561 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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563* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
564
565* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
566 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
567
568* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
569 systemd-makefs.service instead.
570
571* cryptsetup:
572 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
573 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
574
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575* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
576 it happens to be set up alright already.
577
578* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
579
580* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
581 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
582 default.
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584* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
585 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
586 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
587 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
588 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
589
08d33656 590* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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592* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
593 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
594
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595* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
596 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
597 temporary dir.
598
599* special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
600 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
601
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602* add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
603 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
604
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605* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
606
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607* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
608
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609* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
610 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
611
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612* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
613
614* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
615
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616* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
617 when it exits
618
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619* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
620 o turn into dlopen() deps:
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622 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 623 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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625 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
626 since they are so basic and our defaults)
627 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
628 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
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630* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
631 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
632 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
633
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634* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
635 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
636
a6e1018d 637* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
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638 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, systemctl,
639 coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
640 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
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642* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
643
644* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
645 specific service
646
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647* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
648 exists and responds.
649
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650* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
651 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
652 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
653
91fc013f 654* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 655 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
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7e8facb3 657* unify on openssl:
492f91d8 658 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
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659 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
660
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661* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
662 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
663
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664* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
665 realname substr searches in varlink API
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667* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
668
2a4be3c5 669* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 670
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673* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
674 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
675 initrd had set.
676
173c7873 677* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 678 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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679 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
680 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
681 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
682 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
683
684* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
685 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
686 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
687
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689 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
690 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
691 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
692 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
693 source.
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695* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
696 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
697 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
698
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699* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
700
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701* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
702 the hibernation
703
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704* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
705 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
706 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
707 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
708 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
709 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
710 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
711 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
712 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
713 hibernation mode. (see
714 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
715 section 10.2.2.8 and
716 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
717 at the end).
718
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720 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 721
c6526b8d 722* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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724* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
725 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
726 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
727 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
728 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
729 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
730 exec().
731
732* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
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734* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
735 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
736
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737* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
738 gnome-bluetooth and friends
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740* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
741 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
742 root.
743
744* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
745 is issued.
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747* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
748
749* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
750
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751* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
752 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
753 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 754
d238709c 755* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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756 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
757 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
758
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759* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
760
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761* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
762 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
763
06898123 764* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 765 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 766 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 767 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
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769* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
770
771* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
772 patching around
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774* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
775 log.c and sd-journal-send
776
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777* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
778
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779* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
780
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781* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
782 non-zero "tries done" count
783
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784* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
785 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
786 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
787 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
788 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
789 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
790 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
791 CODE_FILE.
792
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793* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
794 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
795 some explanatory text online.
796
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797* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
798
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799* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
800 original defaults before calling parse_config()
801
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802* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
803 Specifically:
804
805 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
806 properly)
e83419d0 807 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 808 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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810* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
811 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
812
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813* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
814 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
815 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
816 files and suchlike we operate on.
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818* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
819
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820* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
821
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822* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
823 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
824
5da19043 825* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 826 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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828* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
829 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
830 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
831 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
832 unlinked from any dir.
833
bd1b3f75 834* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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837
838* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
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840* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
841 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
842 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
843 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
844 should reflink the image file itself.
845
846 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
847 specific paths only like this.
848
53c70a27 849* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 850 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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852 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 853 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
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855* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
856
857* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
858
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859* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
860 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
861
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862* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
863 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
864 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
865 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
866 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
867 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
868 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
869 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
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871* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
872 for root, but only then.
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874* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
875
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876* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
877 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
878
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879* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
880 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
881
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882* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
883 only when used. Add unit tests.
884
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885* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
886 host-side interface pointing to the container.
887
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888* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
889 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
890 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
891 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
892 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
893
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896* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
897 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
898 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
899
5f7ecd61 900* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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902* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
903 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
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905* blog about fd store and restartable services
906
907* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
908
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909* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
910 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
911
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912* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
913 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
914 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
915 ID is available.
916
917* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
918 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
919 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
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921* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
922 parameters
923
63a185dc 924* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 925 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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927 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
928 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
929 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
930 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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933 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
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935* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
936 about it in the resource log message
937
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938* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
939 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
940 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
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943 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
944
945 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
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948 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
949 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
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951* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
952 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
953
954* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
955 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
956 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
957 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
958 natural habitat.
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960* 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
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963 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
964 relative to the configured default value.
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966* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
967
04397464 968* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
d82047be 969
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970* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
971
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972* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
973
04397464 974* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 975
04397464 976* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 977
04397464 978* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 979
8ce9b83a 980* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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981
982* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
983 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
984 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
985
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986* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
987 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
988
e40a326c 989* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 990
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991* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
992 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
993 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
994 mapping to work.
995
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996* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
997
998* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
999
1000* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1001
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1002* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1003 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1004
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1005* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1006 reload the unit file anyway
1007
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1008* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1009
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1010* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1011
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1012* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1013 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1014
f9bf1b8f 1015* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1016 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1017 specifications.
de7399eb 1018
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1019* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1020
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1021* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1022
a2088fd0 1023* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1024 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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1025 prefixed with /sys generally special.
1026 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
1027
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1028* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1029
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1030* initrd-parse-etc.service: can we skip daemon-reload if /sysroot/etc/fstab is missing?
1031 Note that we start initrd-fs.target and initrd-cleanup.target there, so a straightforward
1032 ConditionPathExists= is not enough.
1033
931bc195 1034* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1035
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1036* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1037 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1038 state.
1039 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
1040
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1041* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1042 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1043 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1044 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1045 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1046
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1047* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1048
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1049* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
1050 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1051
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1052* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
1053 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
1054
e031c227 1055* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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1056 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
1057
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1058* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1059
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1060* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1061 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1062
25e773ee 1063* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1064
720652b3 1065* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1066
720652b3 1067* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1068
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1069* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1070
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1071* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1072 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1073
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1074* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1075
9d6db739 1076* resolved:
9d6db739 1077 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1078 - service registration
1079 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1080 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1081 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1082 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1083 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1084 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1085 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1086 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1087
e25b5a8d 1088* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1089
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1090* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1091
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1092* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1093
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1094* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1095
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1096* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1097
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1098* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1099 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1100
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1101* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1102
6a3f892a 1103* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1104 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1105 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1106
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1107* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1108 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1109 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1110
f9bf1b8f 1111* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1112
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1113* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1114 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1115 for ReusePort=
1116
f38afcd0 1117* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1118 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1119 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1120 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1121 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1122 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1123 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 1124
f38afcd0 1125* transient units:
f38afcd0 1126 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1127
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1128* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1129
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1130* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1131
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1132* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1133
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1134* 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
1135
7f79cd71 1136* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1137
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1138* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1139 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1140 path anyway.
1141
04397464 1142* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1143
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1144* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1145
1146* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1147
07eabc2b 1148* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1149
07eabc2b 1150* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1151
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1152* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1153
1154* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1155 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1156 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1157
1158* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1159 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1160
1161* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1162
1163* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1164
1165* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1166
1167* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1168 needs to be auto-respawned?
1169
1170* pid1:
1171 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1172 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1173 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1174 that are not supported...
1175 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1176 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1177 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1178 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1179 - move PAM code into its own binary
1180 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1181 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1182 - Support --test based on current system state
1183 - 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().
1184 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1185 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1186 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1187 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1188 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1189 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1190 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1191 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1192 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1193 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1194 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1195 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1196
1197* unit files:
1198 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1199 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1200 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1201 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1202 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1203 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1204 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1205 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1206 - introduce Type=pid-file
1207 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1208 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1209 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1210
1211* timer units:
63a185dc 1212 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1213 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1214
1215* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1216
1217* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1218
1219* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1220
1221* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1222
07eabc2b 1223* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1224
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1225* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1226
1227* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1228
fff87a35 1229* test/:
20d52ab6 1230 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1231
b5c03638 1232* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1233 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1234 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1235 destination.
1236
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1237* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1238 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1239
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1240* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1241
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1242* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1243 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1244 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1245
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1246* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1247 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1248
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1249* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1250 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1251 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1252 that automatically.
1253
e5ec62c5 1254* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1255
ccddd104 1256* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1257
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1258* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1259
356ce991 1260* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1261
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1262* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1263
1264* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1265
1266* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1267
1268* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1269
1270* sd-bus:
1271 - EBADSLT handling
1272 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1273 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1274 - 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
1275 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1276 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1277 - longer term: priority inheritance
1278 - dbus spec updates:
1279 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
1280 - GVariant
1281 - path escaping
1282 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1283
1284* sd-event
1285 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1286 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1287 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1288 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1289 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1290 here:
1291 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1292
1293* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1294 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1295
1296* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1297
1298* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1299
1300* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1301
1302* firstboot: allow provisioning of /etc/hosts entries, so that we can via the
1303 credentials logic insert host name to resolve into containers/hosts. Usecase:
1304 fork a container, and make it ping some specific address which is defined by
1305 the host on invocation
1306
1307* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1308 reading/writing files
1309
1310* 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
1311
1312* sd-boot: define a drop-in dir in the ESP that may contain X.509
1313 certificates. If the firmware is detected to be in setup mode, automatically
1314 enroll them as PK/KEK/db, turn off setup mode and proceed. Optionally,
1315 instead of auto-enrolling them add them to the sd-boot menu, giving the user
1316 the option to manually enroll them, after selecting the menu entry. This way,
1317 installer images can just drop the certfiicates in the ESP, and on first boot
1318 can easily enroll the keys without ever booting up.
1319
1320* efi stub: optionally, load initrd from disk as a separate file, HMAC check it
1321 with key from TPM, bound to PCR, refusing if failing. This would then allow
1322 traditional distros that generate initrds locally to secure them with TPM:
1323 after generating the initrd, do the HMAC calculation, put result in initrd
1324 filename, done. This would then bind the validity of the initrd to the local
1325 host, and used kernel, and means people cannot change initrd or kernel
1326 without booting the kernel + initrd.
1327
b44be3ec 1328* EFI:
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1329 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1330 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1331 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1332* bootctl
631427d6 1333 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1334
07eabc2b 1335* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1336
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1337* bootctl:
1338 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1339 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
1340 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
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1341 - bootspec: properly support boot attempt counters when parsing entry file names
1342
1343* kernel-install:
1344 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
e6c6e7af 1345
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1346* logind:
1347 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1348 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1349 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1350 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1351 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1352 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1353 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1354 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1355 needs setuid().
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1356 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1357 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1358 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1359 complete.
1360 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1361 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1362 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1363 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1364 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1365 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1366 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1367 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1368 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1369 relogins
77b19caf 1370 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 1371
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1372* move logind udev rules to top-level rule.d/ directory
1373
1374* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1375
1376* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1377 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1378 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1379
1380* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1381 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1382
b44be3ec 1383* journal:
57f2a947 1384 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1385 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1386 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1387 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1388 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1389 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1390 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1391 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1392 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1393 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1394 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1395 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1396 - 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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1397 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1398 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1399 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1400 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1401 - 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.
1402 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1403 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1404 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1405 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1406 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1407 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1408 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1409 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1410 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1411 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1412 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1413 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1414 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1415 to syslog when it works again.
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1416 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1417 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1418 journals in.
1419 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1420 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1421 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1422 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1423 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1424 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1425 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1426 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1427 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1428 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1429 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1430 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1431 operation.
1432 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1433 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1434 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1435 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1436 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1437 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1438 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1439 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1440 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1441 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
b44be3ec 1442
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1443* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
1444 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
1445
1446* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
1447 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
1448 validated via TPM.
1449
1450* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
1451 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
1452
1453* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
1454 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
1455 user's journal stream down but not the others.
1456
1457* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
1458 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
1459 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
1460 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
1461 cgroup.
1462
1463* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
1464 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
1465 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
1466 logging.
1467
1468* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
1469
1470* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
1471 from the SIGBUS handler
1472
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1473* add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1474 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1475 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1476 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1477
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1478* homed:
1479 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
1480 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
1481 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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1482 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
1483 - create on activate?
1484 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
1485 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
1486 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
1487 systemd --user is shut down.
1488 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
1489 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
1490 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
1491 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
1492 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
1493 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
1494 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
1495 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
1496 - query password from kernel keyring first
1497 - update even if record is "absent"
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1498 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
1499 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
1500 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
1501 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
1502 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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1503 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
1504 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
1505 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 1506 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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1507 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
1508 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
1509 signature
1510 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
1511 and insert a local signature instead.
1512 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
1513 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
1514 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
1515 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
1516 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
1517 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
1518 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
1519 easily?
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1520 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
1521 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
1522 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
1523 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
1524 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
1525 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
1526 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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1527 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
1528 can easily set overall quota for all users
1529 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
1530 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 1531 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 1532 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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1533 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
1534 large.
07eabc2b 1535
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1536* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
1537 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
1538 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
1539
2df2bb1f 1540* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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1541
1542* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
1543 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
1544 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
1545 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
1546
1547* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
1548
1549* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
1550 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
1551 something goes wrong on the way.
1552
1553* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
1554
1555* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
1556 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
1557 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
1558 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
1559
1560* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
1561 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
1562 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
1563 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
1564 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
1565 automatically.
1566
1567* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
1568 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
1569
1570* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
1571 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
1572 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
1573 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
1574 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
1575 fails to apply use the latter.
1576
1577* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
1578 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
1579
1580* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
1581 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
1582
1583* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
1584 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
1585
1586* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
1587 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
1588
b44be3ec 1589* document:
8b8f2591 1590 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1591 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1592 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1593 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1594 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1595 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1596 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1597 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1598 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1599 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 1600 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1601 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1602
1603* systemctl:
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1604 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1605 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1606 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1607 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1608 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1609 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1610 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1611 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1612 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1613 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 1614
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1615* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
1616 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
1617 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 1618
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1619* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
1620 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
1621 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
1622 output for them.
d2e83c23 1623
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1624* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
1625 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
1626 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 1627
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1628* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
1629 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
1630 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 1631
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1632* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
1633 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 1634
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1635* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
1636 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
1637 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
1638 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 1639
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1640* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
1641 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
1642 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
1643 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 1644
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1645* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
1646
1647* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
1648
1649* unit install:
1650 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1651 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 1652
b44be3ec 1653* nspawn:
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1654 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1655 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1656 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1657 from the kernel's logs.
1658 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1659 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1660 interface be missing
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1661 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1662 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1663 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1664 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1665 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1666 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1667 PID 1...
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1668 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1669 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1670
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1671* nspawn: add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension=
1672 switch that takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already
1673 during startup.
1674
1675* when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
1676 so, freeze the payload too.
1677
1678* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
1679 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
1680 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
1681 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
1682 anything like that.
1683
1684* nspawn: support time namespaces
1685
1686* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
1687 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
1688
1689* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
1690 fallback in "machinectl shell"
1691
1692* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
1693 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
1694 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
1695
1696* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
1697
1698* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
1699
e25b5a8d 1700* machined:
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1701 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1702 removed or added to an existing machine
1703 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1704 difference host, via ssh
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1705 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1706 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1707 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1708 question
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1709 - "machinectl history"
1710 - "machinectl diff"
1711 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1712 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1713
abd55b16 1714* udev:
abd55b16 1715 - move to LGPL
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1716 - kill scsi_id
1717 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1718 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1719
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1720* coredump:
1721 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1722 - 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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1723
1724* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1725
f38afcd0 1726* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1727 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1728 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1729 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1730 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1731 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 1732 - add --test mode
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1733 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
1734 project quota
1258097c 1735
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1736* udev-link-config:
1737 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1738 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1739 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1740
88e4d1d7 1741* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1742 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1743 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1744
0a4b9a07 1745* networkd:
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1746 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1747 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 1748 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 1749 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1750 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 1751 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1752 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1753 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1754 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 1755 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 1756 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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1757 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1758 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1759 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1760 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1761 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1762 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 1763 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1764
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1765* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
1766
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1767* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1768
ac976532 1769* dhcp:
424a8732 1770 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1771
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1772* dhcp6:
1773 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1774 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1775 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1776 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1777 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1778 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1779 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1780 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1781 or interface down
1782 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1783 this behavior
4a77c53d 1784 - RouteTable= ?