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1 Bugfixes:
2
3 * Should systemctl status \* work on all unit types, not just .service?
4
5 * Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
6 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
7 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
8
9 * ExecStart with unicode characters fails in strv_split_extract:
10
11 [Service]
12 Environment=ONE='one' "TWO='two two' too" THREE=
13 ExecStart=/bin/python3 -c 'import sys;print(sys.argv)' $ONE $TWO $THREE
14
15 * When systemctl --host is used, underlying ssh connection can remain open.
16 bus_close does not kill children?
17
18 External:
19
20 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
21
22 * wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
23
24 * When lz4 gets an API for lz4 command output, make use of it to
25 compress coredumps in a way compatible with /usr/bin/lz4.
26
27 Janitorial Clean-ups:
28
29 * code cleanup: retire FOREACH_WORD_QUOTED, port to extract_first_word() loops instead
30
31 * replace manual readdir() loops with FOREACH_DIRENT or FOREACH_DIRENT_ALL
32
33 * Get rid of the last strerror() invocations in favour of %m and strerror_r()
34
35 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
36
37 Features:
38
39 * do something about "/control" subcgroups in the unified cgroup hierarchy
40
41 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
42
43 * push CPUAffinity also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
44
45 * add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
46
47 * add a new command "systemctl revert" or so, that removes all dropin
48 snippets in /run and /etc, and all unit files with counterparts in
49 /usr, and thus undoes what "systemctl set-property" and "systemctl
50 edit" create. Maybe even add "systemctl revert -a" to do this for
51 all units.
52
53 * sd-event: maybe add support for inotify events
54
55 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
56
57 * nspawn should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages
58
59 * nspawn should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload PID 1...
60
61 * consider throwing a warning if a service declares it wants to be "Before=" a .device unit.
62
63 * "systemctl edit" should know a mode to create a new unit file
64
65 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
66 as we have for debugfs. for exmaple, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
67 prefixed with /sys generally special.
68 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
69
70 * Add PassEnvironment= setting to service units, to import select env vars from PID 1 into the service env block
71
72 * nspawn: fix logic always print a final newline on output.
73 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
74
75 * make nspawn's --network-veth switch more powerful:
76 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/033121.html
77
78 * man: document that unless you use StandardError=null the shell >/dev/stderr won't work in shell scripts in services
79
80 * man: clarify that "machinectl show" shows different information than "machinectl status" (no cgroup tree, no IP addresses, ...)
81
82 * "systemctl daemon-reload" should result in /etc/systemd/system.conf being reloaded by systemd
83
84 * install: include generator dirs in unit file search paths
85
86 * logind: follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and relogins
87
88 * invent a better systemd-run scheme for naming scopes, that works with remoting
89
90 * add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through binary logs data
91
92 * change journalctl -M to acquire fd to journal directory via machined, and then operate on that via openat() instead of absolute paths
93
94 * add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
95
96 * log accumulated resource usage after each service invocation
97
98 * nspawn: a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
99
100 * logind: rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
101 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
102 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
103
104 * journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going. Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
105
106 * nspawn: don't copy /etc/resolv.conf from host into container unless we are in shared-network mode
107
108 * nspawn: optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is running, remove them when shut down.
109
110 * importd: generate a nice warning if mkfs.btrfs is missing
111
112 * nspawn: add a logic for cleaning up read-only, hidden container images in /var/lib/machines that are not ancestors of any non-hidden containers
113
114 * nspawn: Improve error message when --bind= is used on a non-existing source directory
115
116 * nspawn: maybe make copying of /etc/resolv.conf optional, and skip it if --read-only is used
117
118 * man: document how update dkr images works with machinectl
119 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028630.html
120
121 * nspawn: as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=, --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an interface be missing
122
123 * "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
124 difference host, via ssh
125
126 * tmpfiles: creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
127 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
128 calls follow symlinks.
129
130 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
131
132 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
133
134 * mounting and unmounting mount points manually with different source
135 devices will result in collected collected on all devices used.
136 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030225.html
137
138 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
139 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
140 state.
141 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
142
143 * Maybe add support for the equivalent of "ethtool advertise" to .link files?
144 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030112.html
145
146 * .timer units should optionally support CLOCK_BOOTTIME in addition to CLOCK_MONOTONIC
147
148 * When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
149 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
150
151 * to allow "linking" of nspawn containers, extend --network-bridge= so
152 that it can dynamically create bridge interfaces that are refcounted
153 by the containers on them. For each group of containers to link together
154
155 * journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
156 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written
157 to.
158
159 * assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
160
161 * coredump: make the handler check /proc/$PID/rlimits for RLIMIT_CORE,
162 and supress coredump if turned off. Then change RLIMIT_CORE to
163 infinity by default for all services. This then allows per-service
164 control of coredumping.
165
166 * generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
167 that are not supported...
168 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
169
170 * maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
171 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
172
173 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
174 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
175 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
176 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
177 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
178
179 * nspawn: emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
180 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
181 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
182 from the kernel's logs.
183
184 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
185 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
186
187 * Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
188 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
189 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
190 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
191 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
192 operation.
193
194 * logind: maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
195
196 * Set NoNewPrivileges= on all of our own services, where that makes sense
197
198 * Rework systemctl's GetAll property parsing to use the generic bus_map_all_properties() API
199
200 * rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
201
202 * import-dkr: support tarsum checksum verification, if it becomes reality one day...
203
204 * import-dkr: convert json bits to nspawn configuration
205
206 * core/cgroup: support net_cls modules, and support automatically allocating class ids, then add support for making firewall changes depending on it, to implement a per-service firewall
207
208 * introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
209
210 * "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in question
211
212 * "machinectl list-images" should show os-release data, as well as machine-info data (including deployment level)
213
214 * Port various tools to make use of verbs.[ch], where applicable
215
216 * "machinectl history"
217
218 * "machinectl diff"
219
220 * "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
221
222 * systemd-nspawn -x should support ephemeral instances of gpt images
223
224 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
225
226 * sysfs set api in libudev is not const
227
228 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
229 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
230
231 * port libmount hookup to use API's own inotify interface, as soon as that is table in libmount
232
233 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
234 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
235 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
236 do, for example)
237
238 * resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
239 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
240 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
241
242 * systemd-journal-upload (or a new, related tool): allow pushing out
243 journal messages onto the network in BSD syslog protocol,
244 continuously. Default to some link-local IP mcast group, to make this
245 useful as a one-stop debugging tool.
246
247 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
248 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
249
250 * as soon as we have kdbus, and sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
251 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
252
253 * the install state probably shouldn't get confused by generated units, think dbus1/kdbus compat!
254
255 * in systemctl list-unit-files: show the install value the presets would suggest for a service in a third column
256
257 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
258
259 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
260 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
261 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
262 returning from the "systemctl stop".
263
264 * 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
265
266 * timesyncd + resolved: add ugly bus calls to set NTP and DNS servers per-interface, for usage by NM
267
268 * add infrastructure to allocate dynamic/transient users and UID ranges, for use in user-namespaced containers, per-seat gdm login screens and gdm guest sessions
269
270 * machined: add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being removed or added to an existing machine
271
272 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
273
274 * introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix?
275
276 * systemd --user should issue sd_notify() upon reaching basic.target, not on becoming idle
277
278 * consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions
279
280 * dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
281
282 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
283 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
284
285 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
286
287 * maybe provide an API to allow migration of foreign PIDs into existing scopes.
288
289 * maybe support a new very "soft" reboot mode, that simply kills all processes, disassembles everything, flushes /run and sysvipc, and then reexecs systemd again
290
291 * man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
292
293 * man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
294
295 * "machinectl list" should probably show columns for OS version and IP addresses
296
297 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
298
299 * systemctl edit:
300 - allow creation of units from scratch
301 - use equvalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
302 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
303
304 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
305
306 * exponential backoff in timesyncd and resolved when we cannot reach a server
307
308 * extract_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that
309 currently uses FOREACH_WORD and friends. For example, most conf
310 parsing callbacks should use it.
311
312 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
313
314 * systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
315 units are shown.
316
317 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
318 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
319
320 * networkd:
321 - add LLDP client side support
322 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
323 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
324 - expose in the API the following bits:
325 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
326 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
327 - option 123, 144, geolocation
328 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
329 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
330 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
331 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
332 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
333 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
334 - allow DUID/IAID to be customized, see issue #394.
335 - support configuration option for TSO (tcp segmentation offload)
336 - networkd: whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
337
338 * resolved:
339 - put networkd events and rtnl events at a higher priority, so that
340 we always process them before we process client requests
341 - DNSSEC
342 - add display of private key types (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4034#appendix-A.1.1)?
343 - DNS
344 - search paths
345 - mDNS/DNS-SD
346 - avahi compat
347 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
348 - edns0
349 - dname: Not necessary for plain DNS as synthesized cname is handed out instead if we do not
350 announce dname support. However, for DNSSEC it is necessary as the synthesized cname
351 will not be signed.
352 - cname on PTR (?)
353
354 * Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
355
356 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
357
358 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
359
360 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
361 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
362 - fstab-generator: support systemd.volatile=yes|no|state on the kernel cmdline, too, similar to nspawn's --volatile=
363
364 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
365
366 * timer units: actually add extra delays to timer units with high AccuracySec values, don't start them already when we are awake...
367
368 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
369
370 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
371
372 * mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied
373
374 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
375 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
376
377 * Run most system services with cgroupfs read-only and procfs with a more secure mode (doesn't work, since the hidepid= option is per-pid-namespace, not per-mount)
378
379 * sd-event: generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
380
381 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
382
383 * consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
384
385 * sd-event: define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
386
387 * gpt-auto-generator:
388 - Support LUKS for root devices
389 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
390 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
391
392 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
393 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
394 when it is otherwise off
395
396 * MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
397
398 * "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
399 /proc/$PID/exe
400
401 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
402 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
403 for ReusePort=
404
405 * socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
406 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
407 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
408 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
409 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
410
411 * New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
412
413 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
414 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
415 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
416 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
417 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
418 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
419
420 * cgroups:
421 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
422 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
423 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
424 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
425 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
426 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
427 the hierarchies of child processes
428
429 * transient units:
430 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
431 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
432
433 * Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
434
435 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
436
437 * machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
438
439 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
440
441 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
442
443 * unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
444
445 * 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
446
447 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
448
449 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
450 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
451 path anyway.
452
453 * refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
454
455 * btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
456
457 * make sure gdm does not use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
458
459 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
460
461 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
462
463 * allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
464 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
465
466 * sd-bus:
467 - EBADSLT handling
468 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
469 - kdbus: process fd=-1 for incoming msgs
470 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
471 - kdbus: maybe add controlling tty metadata fields
472 - 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
473 - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
474 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
475 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
476 - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async?
477 - kdbus: matches against source or destination pids for an "strace -p"-like feel. Problem: The PID info needs to be available in userspace too...
478 - longer term: priority inheritance
479 - dbus spec updates:
480 - kdbus mapping
481 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
482 - GVariant
483 - path escaping
484 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
485 - test bloom filter generation indexes
486 - bus-proxy: when passing messages from kdbus, make sure we properly
487 handle the case where a large number of fds is appended that we
488 cannot pass into sendmsg() of the AF_UNIX sokcet (which only accepts
489 253 messages)
490 - kdbus: introduce a concept of "send-only" connections
491 - kdbus: add counter for refused unicast messages that is passed out via the RECV ioctl. SImilar to the counter for dropped multicast messages we already have.
492
493 * sd-event
494 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
495 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
496
497 * in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
498 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
499 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
500
501 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
502
503 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
504 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
505
506 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
507
508 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
509
510 * maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
511
512 * cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
513
514 * test/:
515 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
516 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
517
518 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
519 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
520 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
521 destination.
522
523 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
524 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
525
526 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
527
528 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
529 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
530 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
531 is installed.
532
533 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
534 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
535 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
536 that automatically.
537
538 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
539
540 * journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
541
542 * remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
543
544 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
545
546 * write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
547
548 * think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
549
550 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
551
552 * introduce ExecCondition= in services
553
554 * EFI:
555 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
556 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
557 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
558
559 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
560
561 * fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
562 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
563
564 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
565
566 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
567
568 * logind:
569 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
570 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
571 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
572 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
573 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
574 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
575 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
576 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
577 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
578 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
579 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
580 needs setuid().
581 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
582 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
583 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
584 complete.
585 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
586 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
587 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
588 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
589 - given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
590 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
591 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
592 - expose orientation sensors and tablet mode through logind
593
594 * exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
595
596 * service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
597
598 * journal:
599 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
600 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
601 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
602 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
603 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
604 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
605 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
606 - journal: reuse XZ context
607 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
608 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
609 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
610 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
611 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
612 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
613 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
614 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
615 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
616 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
617 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
618 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
619 - 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.
620 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
621 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
622 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
623 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
624 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
625 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
626 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
627 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
628 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
629 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
630 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
631 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
632 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
633 to syslog when it works again.
634 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
635 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
636 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
637 so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
638 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
639 - optionally support running journald from the command line for testing purposes in external projects
640 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
641 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
642 journals in.
643 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
644 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
645 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
646 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
647 the most common operations.
648
649 * document:
650 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
651 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
652 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
653 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
654 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
655 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
656 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
657 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
658 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
659 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
660 - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
661 - man: add more examples to man pages
662 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
663
664 * systemctl:
665 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
666 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
667 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
668 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
669 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
670 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
671 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
672 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
673 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
674 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
675 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
676 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
677 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
678 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
679
680 * unit install:
681 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
682 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
683 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
684
685 * timer units:
686 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
687 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
688 o DST changes
689 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
690 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
691 - when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we will not support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200
692 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
693
694 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
695
696 * 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().
697
698 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
699
700 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
701
702 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
703 waiting for the timeout
704
705 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
706
707 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
708
709 * nspawn:
710 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
711
712 * cryptsetup:
713 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
714 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
715 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
716 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
717
718 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
719 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
720
721 * after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
722
723 * make timer units go away after they elapsed
724
725 * move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
726
727 * create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
728
729 * allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
730
731 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
732
733 * drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
734 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
735 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
736 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
737 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
738 but much rather a disconnect on success.
739
740 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
741
742 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
743
744 * rename "userspace" to "core-os"
745
746 * load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
747 verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
748
749 * introduce Type=pid-file
750
751 * change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
752
753 * when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
754
755 * ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
756
757 * udev:
758 - move to LGPL
759 - kill scsi_id
760 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
761 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
762
763 * when a service has the same env var set twice we actually store it twice and return that in systemctl show -p... We should only show the last setting
764
765 * introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
766
767 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
768
769 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
770
771 * default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
772
773 * save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
774
775 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
776
777 * default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
778
779 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
780 needs to be auto-respawned?
781
782 * when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
783
784 * tmpfiles:
785 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
786 - replace F with f+.
787 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
788
789 * for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested
790
791 * hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
792
793 * when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
794
795 * allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
796 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
797
798 * move PAM code into its own binary
799
800 * implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
801 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
802
803 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
804
805 * add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
806
807 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
808 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
809 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
810
811 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
812 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
813
814 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
815
816 * GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
817
818 * write blog stories about:
819 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
820 - enabling dbus services
821 - status update
822 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
823 - remote access
824 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
825 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
826 - auto-restart
827 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
828 - the journal HTTP iface
829 - non-cgroup resource management
830 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
831 - refreshed, longer missions statement
832 - calendar time events
833 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
834 - how to create your own target
835 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
836 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
837
838 * allow port=0 in .socket units
839
840 * recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
841
842 * Support --test based on current system state
843
844 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
845
846 * maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
847
848 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
849
850 * fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
851
852 * systemd-python:
853 - figure out a simple way to wait for journal events in a way that
854 works with ^C
855 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
856
857 * bootchart:
858 - plot per-process IO utilization
859 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
860 - document initcall_debug
861 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
862
863 * udev-link-config:
864 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
865 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
866 on Path= matching
867 - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
868
869 * sd-rtnl:
870 - add support for more attribute types
871 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
872
873 * networkd:
874 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
875 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
876 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
877 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
878 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
879 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
880 - add more attribute support for SIT tunnel
881 - work with non-ethernet devices
882 - add support for more bond options
883
884 * networkd-wait-online:
885 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
886
887 * dhcp:
888 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
889 - support RFC4702 (pass FQDN)
890
891 * dhcp6:
892 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
893 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
894 - write more test cases
895 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
896 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
897 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
898 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
899 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
900 or interface down
901 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
902 this behavior
903
904 External:
905
906 * dbus:
907 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
908 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
909
910 * fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
911
912 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
913
914 * patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
915
916 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
917
918 * drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields
919
920 * dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and should not
921
922 * dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
923
924 * add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
925
926 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
927
928 * 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=
929
930 * fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
931
932 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
933
934 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
935
936 * register catalog database signature as file magic
937
938 * zsh shell completion:
939 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
940 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
941
942
943 Regularly:
944
945 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
946
947 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
948
949 * Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
950
951 * pahole
952
953 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
954
955 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
956
957 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
958
959 Scheduled for removal or fixing:
960
961 * xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)