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1 Bugfixes:
2
3 * Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
6
7 * busctl prints errors to stdout:
8 busctl tree org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1
9
10 External:
11
12 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
13
14 * wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
15
16 Janitorial Clean-ups:
17
18 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
19
20 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
21 semantics, like we do for device.c now
22
23 Features:
24
25 * move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
26 these days
27
28 * nspawn: support time namespaces
29
30 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
31
32 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
33
34 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
35 when it exits
36
37 * make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
38 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
39 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
40
41 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
42 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, firstboot, tmpfiles,
43 sysusers, systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl.
44
45 * per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
46 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
47 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
48 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
49 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
50 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
51 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
52 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
53
54 * homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
55 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
56
57 * homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
58 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
59
60 * homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
61 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
62 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
63
64 * homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
65 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
66 signature
67
68 * homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
69 and insert a local signature instead.
70
71 * Maybe expose path_is_encrypted() as a new ConditionPathIsEncrypted=?
72
73 * homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
74 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
75 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
76 though: if noone is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
77 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
78
79 * homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
80
81 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
82 exists and responds.
83
84 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
85 easily?
86
87 * when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
88 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
89 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
90 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
91 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
92
93 * cryptsetup/homed: also support FIDO2 HMAC password logic for unlocking
94 devices. (see: https://github.com/mjec/fido2-hmac-secret)
95
96 * systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
97 creates
98
99 * homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
100 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
101 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
102 hence we can make them quicker to work.
103
104 * bootctl:
105 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
106 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
107 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
108
109 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
110 allow so that systemd survives
111
112 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
113 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
114
115 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
116 systemd-makefs.service instead.
117
118 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
119 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
120
121 * unify on openssl:
122 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
123 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
124 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
125 - port importd over from libgcrypt
126 - when that's done: kill khash.c
127 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
128
129 * kill zenata, all hail weblate?
130
131 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
132
133 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
134 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
135
136 * hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
137 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
138 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
139 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
140 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
141
142 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
143 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
144 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
145 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
146
147 * systemd-repart: optionally, allow specifying a path to initialize new
148 partitions from, i.e. an fs image file or a source device node. This would
149 then turn systemd-repart into a simple installer: with a few .repart files
150 you could replicate the host system on another device. a full installer would
151 then be: "systemd-repart /dev/sda && bootctl install /dev/sda &&
152 systemd-firstboot --image= …"
153
154 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
155 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
156 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
157 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
158 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
159 automatically.
160
161 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
162 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
163
164 * systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
165 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
166
167 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
168
169 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
170 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
171
172 * systemd-repart: add specifier expansion, add especifier that refers to root
173 device node of current system, /usr device node, and matching verity, so that
174 an installer can be made a "copy" installer of the booted OS
175
176 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
177 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
178
179 * systemd-repart: allow config of partition uuid
180
181 * systemd-repart: add --make= switch for fallocating a new file of the
182 specified size first.
183
184 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
185 realname substr searches in varlink API
186
187 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
188
189 * userdb: allow existence checks
190
191 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
192
193 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
194 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
195 initrd had set.
196
197 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
198 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
199 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
200 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
201 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
202 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
203
204 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
205 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
206 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
207
208 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
209 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
210 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
211 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
212 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
213 source.
214
215 * figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
216 with immutable /usr
217
218 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
219 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
220 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
221
222 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
223
224 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
225 the hibernation
226
227 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
228 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
229 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
230 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
231 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
232 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
233 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
234 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
235 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
236 hibernation mode. (see
237 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
238 section 10.2.2.8 and
239 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
240 at the end).
241
242 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
243 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
244 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
245 output for them.
246
247 * systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
248 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
249
250 * systemd-firstboot: add --force mode that replaces existing configuration.
251
252 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
253 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
254 constant vendor data.
255
256 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: 1) to force first-boot mode + 2) to force
257 random seed crediting
258
259 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
260 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
261
262 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
263 fallback in "machinectl shell"
264
265 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
266 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
267 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
268
269 * homed:
270 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
271 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
272 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
273 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
274 - resize on login?
275 - shrink fs on logout?
276 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
277 - create on activate?
278 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
279 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
280 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
281 systemd --user is shut down.
282 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
283 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk images (think: time machine)
284 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
285 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
286 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
287 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
288 - description field for groups
289 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
290 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
291 - query password from kernel keyring first
292 - update even if record is "absent"
293 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
294 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
295 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
296 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
297 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
298 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
299
300 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
301 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
302 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
303 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
304 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
305 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
306 exec().
307
308 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
309
310 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
311 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
312
313 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
314
315 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
316 gnome-bluetooth and friends
317
318 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
319 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
320 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
321 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
322 cgroup.
323
324 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
325 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
326 root.
327
328 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
329 is issued.
330
331 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
332
333 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
334
335 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
336 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
337 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
338
339 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
340 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
341 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
342
343 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
344 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
345 ConfigurationDirectory=.
346
347 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
348
349 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
350
351 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
352 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
353
354 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
355 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
356 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
357
358 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
359
360 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
361 patching around
362
363 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
364 log.c and sd-journal-send
365
366 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
367
368 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
369
370 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
371 can add in file system drivers and such
372
373 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
374 non-zero "tries done" count
375
376 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
377 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
378 it should skip the variant type string though.
379
380 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
381 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
382 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
383 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
384 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
385 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
386 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
387 CODE_FILE.
388
389 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
390 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
391 some explanatory text online.
392
393 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
394
395 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
396 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
397 the slices, and the units attached to them.
398
399 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
400 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
401 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
402 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
403 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
404 way)
405
406 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
407 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
408 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
409
410 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
411 original defaults before calling parse_config()
412
413 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
414
415 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
416 Specifically:
417
418 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
419 properly)
420 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
421 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
422
423 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
424 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
425
426 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
427 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
428 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
429 files and suchlike we operate on.
430
431 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
432
433 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
434
435 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
436 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
437
438 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
439 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
440 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
441 numbers.
442
443 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
444 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
445 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
446 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
447 unlinked from any dir.
448
449 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
450
451 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
452
453 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
454
455 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
456 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
457 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
458 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
459 should reflink the image file itself.
460
461 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
462 specific paths only like this.
463
464 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
465 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
466 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
467 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
468 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
469
470 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
471
472 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
473
474 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
475 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
476
477 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
478 project quota
479
480 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
481 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
482 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
483 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
484 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
485 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
486 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
487 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
488
489 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
490 for root, but only then.
491
492 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
493
494 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
495 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
496
497 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
498 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
499
500 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
501 host-side interface pointing to the container.
502
503 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
504 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
505 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
506 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
507 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
508
509 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
510
511 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
512
513 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
514 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
515 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
516
517 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
518
519 * maybe use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (i.e. the env var the reproducible builds folks
520 introduced) as the RTC epoch, instead of the mtime of NEWS.
521
522 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
523 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
524
525 * blog about fd store and restartable services
526
527 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
528
529 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
530 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
531
532 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
533 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
534 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
535 ID is available.
536
537 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
538 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
539 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
540
541 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
542 parameters
543
544 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
545 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
546 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
547 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
548 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
549 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
550 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
551
552 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
553 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
554
555 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
556 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
557 wait to retrieve their exit data.
558
559 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
560 about it in the resource log message
561
562 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
563 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
564
565 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
566 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
567 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
568
569 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
570 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
571
572 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
573
574 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
575 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
576 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
577 logging.
578
579 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
580 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
581 "convertible" form factor
582
583 * Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
584 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
585 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
586 as MAINPID.
587
588 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
589 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
590 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
591
592 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
593 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
594
595 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
596 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
597 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
598 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
599 natural habitat.
600
601 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
602 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
603 /usr is mounted into.
604
605 * 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
606
607 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
608
609 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
610 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
611 relative to the configured default value.
612
613 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
614
615 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
616
617 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
618
619 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
620
621 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
622
623 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
624
625 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
626
627 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
628
629 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
630
631 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
632
633 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
634 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
635 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
636
637 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
638
639 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
640
641 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
642 partitions
643
644 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
645 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
646 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
647 mapping to work.
648
649 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
650
651 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
652
653 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
654
655 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
656 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
657
658 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
659 reload the unit file anyway
660
661 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
662 from the SIGBUS handler
663
664 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
665
666 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
667 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
668
669 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
670
671 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
672 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
673
674 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
675 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
676 specifications.
677
678 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
679
680 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
681
682 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
683
684 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
685 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
686 prefixed with /sys generally special.
687 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
688
689 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
690
691 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
692
693 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
694 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
695 state.
696 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
697
698 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
699 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
700 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
701 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
702 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
703
704 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
705 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
706
707 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
708
709 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
710 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
711
712 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
713 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
714 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
715 do, for example)
716
717 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
718 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
719
720 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
721 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
722
723 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
724
725 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
726 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
727 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
728 returning from the "systemctl stop".
729
730 * 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
731
732 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
733
734 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
735 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
736
737 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
738
739 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
740
741 * systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
742 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
743
744 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
745
746 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
747
748 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
749
750 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
751 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
752
753 * resolved:
754 - mDNS/DNS-SD
755 - service registration
756 - service/domain/types browsing
757 - avahi compat
758 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
759 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
760 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
761 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
762 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
763 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
764
765 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
766
767 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
768
769 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
770
771 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
772 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
773
774 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
775
776 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
777
778 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
779
780 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
781 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
782
783 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
784
785 * gpt-auto-generator:
786 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
787 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
788
789 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
790 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
791 when it is otherwise off
792
793 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
794
795 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
796 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
797 for ReusePort=
798
799 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
800 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
801 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
802 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
803 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
804 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
805
806 * cgroups:
807 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
808 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
809 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
810 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
811 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
812 the hierarchies of child processes
813
814 * transient units:
815 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
816
817 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
818
819 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
820
821 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
822
823 * 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
824
825 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
826
827 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
828 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
829 path anyway.
830
831 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
832
833 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
834
835 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
836
837 * sd-bus:
838 - EBADSLT handling
839 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
840 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
841 - 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
842 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
843 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
844 - longer term: priority inheritance
845 - dbus spec updates:
846 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
847 - GVariant
848 - path escaping
849 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
850
851 * sd-event
852 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
853 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
854 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
855
856 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
857
858 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
859 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
860
861 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
862
863 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
864
865 * test/:
866 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
867
868 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
869 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
870 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
871 destination.
872
873 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
874 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
875
876 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
877
878 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
879 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
880 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
881
882 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
883 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
884 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
885 is installed.
886
887 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
888 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
889 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
890 that automatically.
891
892 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
893
894 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
895
896 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
897
898 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
899
900 * EFI:
901 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
902 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
903 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
904 * bootctl
905 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
906
907 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
908
909 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
910
911 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
912
913 * logind:
914 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
915 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
916 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
917 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
918 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
919 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
920 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
921 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
922 needs setuid().
923 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
924 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
925 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
926 complete.
927 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
928 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
929 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
930 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
931 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
932 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
933 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
934 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
935 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
936 relogins
937 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
938
939 * journal:
940 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
941 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
942 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
943 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
944 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
945 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
946 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
947 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
948 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
949 message that works, but already after a short timeout
950 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
951 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
952 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
953 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
954 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
955 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
956 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
957 - 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.
958 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
959 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
960 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
961 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
962 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
963 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
964 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
965 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
966 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
967 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
968 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
969 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
970 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
971 to syslog when it works again.
972 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
973 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
974 journals in.
975 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
976 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
977 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
978 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
979 the most common operations.
980 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
981 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
982 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
983 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
984 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
985 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
986 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
987 operation.
988 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
989 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
990 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
991 binary logs data
992 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
993 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
994 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
995 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
996 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
997
998 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
999 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1000 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1001 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1002
1003 * document:
1004 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1005 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1006 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1007 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1008 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1009 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1010 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1011 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1012 - man: add more examples to man pages
1013 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1014 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1015
1016 * systemctl:
1017 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1018 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1019 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1020 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1021 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1022 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1023 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1024 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1025 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1026 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1027
1028 * unit install:
1029 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1030 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1031
1032 * timer units:
1033 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1034 o DST changes
1035 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1036
1037 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1038
1039 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1040
1041 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1042
1043 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1044
1045 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1046
1047 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1048
1049 * nspawn:
1050 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1051 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1052 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1053 from the kernel's logs.
1054 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1055 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1056 interface be missing
1057 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1058 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1059 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1060 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1061 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1062 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1063 PID 1...
1064 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1065 running, remove them when shut down.
1066
1067 * dissect
1068 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1069 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1070
1071 * machined:
1072 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1073 removed or added to an existing machine
1074 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1075 difference host, via ssh
1076 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1077 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1078 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1079 question
1080 - "machinectl history"
1081 - "machinectl diff"
1082 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1083 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1084
1085 * cryptsetup:
1086 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1087 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1088
1089 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1090 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1091
1092 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1093
1094 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1095
1096 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1097
1098 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1099
1100 * udev:
1101 - move to LGPL
1102 - kill scsi_id
1103 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1104 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1105
1106 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1107
1108 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1109
1110 * coredump:
1111 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1112 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1113
1114 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1115
1116 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1117 needs to be auto-respawned?
1118
1119 * tmpfiles:
1120 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1121 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1122 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1123 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1124 calls follow symlinks.
1125
1126 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1127
1128 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1129 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1130 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1131
1132 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1133 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1134
1135 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1136
1137 * write blog stories about:
1138 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1139 - enabling dbus services
1140 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1141 - remote access
1142 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1143 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1144 - auto-restart
1145 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1146 - the journal HTTP iface
1147 - non-cgroup resource management
1148 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1149 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1150 - calendar time events
1151 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1152 - how to create your own target
1153 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1154 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1155
1156 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1157
1158 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1159
1160 * pid1:
1161 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1162 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1163 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1164 that are not supported...
1165 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1166 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1167 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1168 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1169 - move PAM code into its own binary
1170 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1171 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1172 - Support --test based on current system state
1173 - 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().
1174 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1175 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1176 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1177 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1178 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1179 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1180 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1181 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1182 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1183
1184 * unit files:
1185 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1186 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1187 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1188 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1189 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1190 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1191 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1192 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1193 - introduce Type=pid-file
1194 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1195 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1196 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1197 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1198
1199 * udev-link-config:
1200 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1201 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1202 on Path= matching
1203
1204 * sd-rtnl:
1205 - add support for more attribute types
1206 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1207
1208 * networkd:
1209 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1210 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1211 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
1212 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1213 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
1214 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1215 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1216 - add support for more bond options
1217 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1218 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1219 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1220 - expose in the API the following bits:
1221 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
1222 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1223 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1224 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1225 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1226 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1227 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1228 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1229 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1230 - allow DUID/IAID to be customized, see issue #394.
1231 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1232
1233 * networkd-wait-online:
1234 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
1235
1236 * dhcp:
1237 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1238
1239 * dhcp6:
1240 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1241 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1242 - write more test cases
1243 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1244 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1245 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1246 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1247 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1248 or interface down
1249 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1250 this behavior
1251 - RouteTable= ?
1252
1253 External:
1254
1255 * dbus:
1256 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1257 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1258
1259 * fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
1260
1261 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1262
1263 * patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
1264
1265 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1266
1267 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1268
1269 * 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=
1270
1271 * fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
1272
1273 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1274
1275 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1276
1277 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1278
1279 * zsh shell completion:
1280 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1281 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1282
1283 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1284 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1285 after being started.
1286
1287 Regularly:
1288
1289 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1290
1291 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1292
1293 * pahole
1294
1295 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1296
1297 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1298
1299 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
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