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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 11External:
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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25* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29* register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31* zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
34
35* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
36* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
37 after being started.
38
39* write blog stories about:
40 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
41 - enabling dbus services
42 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
43 - remote access
44 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
45 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
46 - auto-restart
47 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
48 - the journal HTTP iface
49 - non-cgroup resource management
50 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
51 - refreshed, longer missions statement
52 - calendar time events
53 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
54 - how to create your own target
55 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
56 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
57
58Regularly:
59
60* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
61
62* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
63
64* pahole
65
66* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
67
68* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
69
70* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
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72Janitorial Clean-ups:
73
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74* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
75
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76* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
77 semantics, like we do for device.c now
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79Features:
80
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81* initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
82 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
83 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
84
85* in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
86 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
87 pre-built kernels.
88
89* sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
90
91* maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
92 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
93 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
94 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
95 comprehensively.
96
97* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
98 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
99 words: show partition labels).
100
101* systemd-nspawn: make boot assessment do something sensible in a
102 container. i.e send an sd_notify() from payload to container manager once
103 boot-up is completed successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with
104 boot counting, implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
105
106* maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
107 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
108 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
109 systemd-pull calls thta download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
110 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
111 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
112 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
113
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114* improve scope units to support creation by pidfd instead of by PID
115
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116* deprecate cgroupsv1 (i.e. taint system with it, print log message at boot)
117
118* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
119
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120* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
121 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
122 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
123 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
124 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
125 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
126 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
127 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
128 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
129 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
130
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131* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
132 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
133 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
134 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
135 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
136 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
137 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
138 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
139 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
140 an NTP sync is acquired.
141
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142* kernel-install:
143 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
144 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
145 call it at the end only
146
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147* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
148 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
149
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150* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
151 jobs, units
152
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153* bootspec: remove tries counter from boot entry ids
154
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155* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
156 sync, i.e. parse out tries in both
157
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158* automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
159
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160* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
161 json package metadata, and use that when logging
162
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163* systemd-dissect: show GPT disk UUID in output
164
165* Enable RestricFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
166 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
167
168* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
169 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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171* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
172 internal clock.
173
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f08e143c 175 traffic on port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
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177* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
178 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
179
180* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
181 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
182 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
183 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
184
185* sysext: ensure one can build a sysext that can safely apply to *any* system
186 (because it contains only static go binaries in /opt/ or so)
187
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188* userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
189 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
190 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
191
192* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
193 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
194 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
195 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
196 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
197 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
198 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
199 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
200 thread:
201 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
202 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
203 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
204 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
205 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
206 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
207
208* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
209 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
210 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
211
212* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
213 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
214 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
215 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
216 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
217 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
218 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
219 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
220 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
221 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
222 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
223 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
224 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
225 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
226 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
227
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228* add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
229 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
230 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
231 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
232 for debugging purposes.
233
234* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
235 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us drop drop libcap
236 dep in the base OS image)
237
238* sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
239 sysext pickup logic.
240
241* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
242 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
243 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
244 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
245 on-disk storage.
246
247* sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP and synthesize initrd from
248 it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as microcode does that on its
249 own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
250
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251* userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
252 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
253 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
254 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
255 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
256
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257* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
258 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
259 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
260 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
261 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
262 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
263 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
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265* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
266 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
267 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
268 externally and provide to us on demand only.
269
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270* add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
271 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
272 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
273 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
274 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
275 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
276 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
277 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
278
279* nspawn: maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so
280 that such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as
281 one.
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283* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
284 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option tpm2-measure=8 or so to measure it
285 into PCR 8)
286
287* add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
288 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
289 authentication.
290
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291* in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCRs are being used, store that
292 in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify that
293 the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
294
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295* rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
296
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299* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
300 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
301 that images cannot be misused.
302
aca8ecc3 303* New udev block device symlink names:
178d3ff2 304 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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305 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
306 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
307 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
308
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309* sysupdate:
310 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
311 - support casync as download mechanism
312 - direct TPM2 PCR change handling, possible renrolling LUKS2 media if needed.
313 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
314 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
315 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
316 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
317 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
318 override the host's update files.)
319 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
320 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
321 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
322 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
323
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324* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
325
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326* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
327 make dirs appear under right UID.
328
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329* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
330 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
331
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332* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
333 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
334 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
335 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
336 for doing that.
337
338* pass systemd-detect-virt result to generators as env var. Modifying behaviour
339 based on whether we are virtualized or not is a pretty common thing, hence
340 maybe just pass that info along for free in an env var. We cache the result
341 anyway, so it's basically free.
342
24063ba1 343* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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344 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
345 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
346 already have it.
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348* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
349 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
350
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351* add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
352 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
353 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
354 socket: connect() to it.
355
356* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
357 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
358 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
359
360* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
361 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
362
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363* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
364 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
365
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366* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
367 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
368 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
369 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
370 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
371
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372* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
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374* make LoadCredential= automatically find credentials in /etc/creds,
375 /run/creds, … and so on, if path component is unqualified
376
377* teach LoadCredential=/LoadCredentialEncrypted= to load credentials from
378 kernel cmdline, maybe: LoadCredentialEncrypted=foobar:proc-cmdline:foobar
379
380* credentials system:
381 - acquire from kernel command line
382 - acquire from EFI variable?
383 - acquire via via ask-password?
384 - acquire creds via keyring?
385 - pass creds via keyring?
386 - pass creds via memfd?
387 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
388 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
389 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
390 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
391 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
392 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
393
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394* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
395 firmware indicates there is one.
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397* Add concept for upgrading TPM2 enrollments, maybe a new switch
398 --pcrs=4:<hash> or so, i.e. select a PCR to include in the hash, and then
399 override its hash
400
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401* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
402 and such
403
404* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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406* cryptsetup: if only recovery keys are registered and no regular passphrases,
407 ask user for "recovery key", not "passphrase"
408
409* cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
410
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412 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
413
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414* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
415 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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417* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
418
419* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
420 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
421
422* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
423 systemd-makefs.service instead.
424
425* cryptsetup:
426 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
427 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
428
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429* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
430 it happens to be set up alright already.
431
432* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
433
434* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
435 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
436 default.
437
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438* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
439 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
440 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
441 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
442 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
443
08d33656 444* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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446* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
447 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
448
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449* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
450 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
451 temporary dir.
452
453* special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
454 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
455
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456* add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
457 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
458
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459* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
460
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461* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
462
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463* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
464 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
465
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466* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
467
468* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
469
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470* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
471 when it exits
472
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473* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
474 o turn into dlopen() deps:
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475 - p11-kit-trust (always)
476 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 477 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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478 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
479 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
480 since they are so basic and our defaults)
481 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
482 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
483
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484* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
485 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
486 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
487
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488* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
489 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
490
a6e1018d 491* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
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492 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, systemctl,
493 coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
494 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
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496* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
497
498* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
499 specific service
500
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501* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
502 exists and responds.
503
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504* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
505 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
506 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
507
91fc013f 508* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 509 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 510
7e8facb3 511* unify on openssl:
492f91d8 512 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
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513 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
514
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515* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
516 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
517
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518* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
519 realname substr searches in varlink API
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521* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
522
2a4be3c5 523* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 524
f1eb0ccd 525* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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527* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
528 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
529 initrd had set.
530
173c7873 531* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 532 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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533 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
534 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
535 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
536 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
537
538* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
539 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
540 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
541
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542* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
543 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
544 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
545 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
546 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
547 source.
548
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549* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
550 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
551 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
552
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553* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
554
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555* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
556 the hibernation
557
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558* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
559 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
560 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
561 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
562 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
563 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
564 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
565 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
566 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
567 hibernation mode. (see
568 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
569 section 10.2.2.8 and
570 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
571 at the end).
572
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573* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
574 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 575
c6526b8d 576* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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578* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
579 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
580 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
581 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
582 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
583 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
584 exec().
585
586* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
587
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588* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
589 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
590
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591* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
592 gnome-bluetooth and friends
593
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594* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
595 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
596 root.
597
598* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
599 is issued.
600
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601* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
602
603* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
604
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605* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
606 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
607 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 608
d238709c 609* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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610 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
611 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
612
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613* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
614
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615* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
616 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
617
06898123 618* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 619 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 620 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 621 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
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623* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
624
625* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
626 patching around
627
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628* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
629 log.c and sd-journal-send
630
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631* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
632
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633* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
634
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635* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
636 non-zero "tries done" count
637
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638* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
639 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
640 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
641 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
642 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
643 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
644 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
645 CODE_FILE.
646
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647* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
648 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
649 some explanatory text online.
650
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651* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
652
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653* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
654 original defaults before calling parse_config()
655
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656* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
657 Specifically:
658
659 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
660 properly)
e83419d0 661 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 662 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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664* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
665 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
666
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667* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
668 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
669 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
670 files and suchlike we operate on.
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672* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
673
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674* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
675
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676* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
677 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
678
5da19043 679* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 680 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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682* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
683 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
684 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
685 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
686 unlinked from any dir.
687
bd1b3f75 688* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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690* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
691
692* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
693
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694* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
695 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
696 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
697 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
698 should reflink the image file itself.
699
700 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
701 specific paths only like this.
702
53c70a27 703* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 704 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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705 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
706 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 707 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
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709* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
710
711* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
712
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713* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
714 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
715
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716* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
717 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
718 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
719 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
720 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
721 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
722 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
723 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
724
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725* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
726 for root, but only then.
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728* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
729
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730* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
731 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
732
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733* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
734 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
735
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736* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
737 only when used. Add unit tests.
738
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739* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
740 host-side interface pointing to the container.
741
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742* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
743 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
744 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
745 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
746 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
747
cb77e122 748* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 749
899feb72 750* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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752* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
753 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
754 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
755
5f7ecd61 756* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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758* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
759 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
760
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761* blog about fd store and restartable services
762
763* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
764
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765* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
766 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
767
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768* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
769 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
770 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
771 ID is available.
772
773* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
774 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
775 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
776
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777* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
778 parameters
779
63a185dc 780* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 781 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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782 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
783 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
784 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
785 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
786 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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788* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
789 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
790
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791* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
792 about it in the resource log message
793
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794* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
795 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
796 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
797
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798* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
799 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
800
801 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
802
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803* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
804 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
805 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
806
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807* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
808 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
809
810* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
811 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
812 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
813 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
814 natural habitat.
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816* 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
817
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818* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
819 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
820 relative to the configured default value.
821
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822* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
823
04397464 824* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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826* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
827
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828* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
829
04397464 830* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 831
04397464 832* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 833
04397464 834* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 835
8ce9b83a 836* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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838* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
839 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
840 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
841
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842* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
843 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
844
e40a326c 845* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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847* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
848 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
849 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
850 mapping to work.
851
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852* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
853
854* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
855
856* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
857
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858* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
859 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
860
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861* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
862 reload the unit file anyway
863
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864* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
865
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866* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
867
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868* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
869 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
870
f9bf1b8f 871* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 872 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 873 specifications.
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875* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
876
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877* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
878
a2088fd0 879* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 880 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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881 prefixed with /sys generally special.
882 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
883
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884* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
885
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886* initrd-parse-etc.service: can we skip daemon-reload if /sysroot/etc/fstab is missing?
887 Note that we start initrd-fs.target and initrd-cleanup.target there, so a straightforward
888 ConditionPathExists= is not enough.
889
931bc195 890* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
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892* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
893 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
894 state.
895 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
896
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897* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
898 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
899 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
900 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
901 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
902
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903* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
904
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905* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
906 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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908* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
909 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
910
e031c227 911* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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912 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
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914* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
915
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916* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
917 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
918
25e773ee 919* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 920
720652b3 921* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 922
720652b3 923* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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925* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
926
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927* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
928 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
929
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930* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
931
9d6db739 932* resolved:
9d6db739 933 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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935 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 936 - avahi compat
9d6db739 937 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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938 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
939 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
940 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 941 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 942 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 943
e25b5a8d 944* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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946* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
947
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948* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
949
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950* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
951
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952* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
953
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954* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
955 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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957* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
958
6a3f892a 959* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 960 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 961 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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963* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
964 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
965 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 966
f9bf1b8f 967* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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969* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
970 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
971 for ReusePort=
972
f38afcd0 973* cgroups:
f38afcd0 974 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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975 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
976 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
977 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
978 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
979 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 980
f38afcd0 981* transient units:
f38afcd0 982 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 983
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984* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
985
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986* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
987
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988* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
989
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990* 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
991
7f79cd71 992* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 993
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994* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
995 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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996 path anyway.
997
04397464 998* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 999
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1000* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1001
1002* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1003
07eabc2b 1004* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1005
07eabc2b 1006* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1007
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1008* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1009
1010* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1011 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1012 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1013
1014* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1015 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1016
1017* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1018
1019* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1020
1021* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1022
1023* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1024 needs to be auto-respawned?
1025
1026* pid1:
1027 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1028 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1029 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1030 that are not supported...
1031 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1032 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1033 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1034 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1035 - move PAM code into its own binary
1036 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1037 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1038 - Support --test based on current system state
1039 - 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().
1040 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1041 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1042 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1043 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1044 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1045 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1046 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1047 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1048 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1049 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1050 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1051 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1052
1053* unit files:
1054 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1055 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1056 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1057 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1058 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1059 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1060 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1061 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1062 - introduce Type=pid-file
1063 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1064 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1065 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1066
1067* timer units:
63a185dc 1068 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1069 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1070
1071* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1072
1073* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1074
1075* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1076
1077* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1078
07eabc2b 1079* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
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1081* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1082
1083* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1084
fff87a35 1085* test/:
20d52ab6 1086 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1087
b5c03638 1088* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1089 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1090 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1091 destination.
1092
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1093* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1094 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1095
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1096* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1097
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1098* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1099 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1100 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1101
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1102* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1103 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1104
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1105* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1106 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1107 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1108 that automatically.
1109
e5ec62c5 1110* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1111
ccddd104 1112* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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1114* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1115
356ce991 1116* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1117
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1118* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1119
1120* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1121
1122* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1123
1124* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1125
1126* sd-bus:
1127 - EBADSLT handling
1128 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1129 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1130 - 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
1131 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1132 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1133 - longer term: priority inheritance
1134 - dbus spec updates:
1135 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
1136 - GVariant
1137 - path escaping
1138 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1139
1140* sd-event
1141 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1142 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1143 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1144 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1145 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1146 here:
1147 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1148
1149* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1150 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1151
1152* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1153
1154* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1155
1156* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1157
1158* firstboot: allow provisioning of /etc/hosts entries, so that we can via the
1159 credentials logic insert host name to resolve into containers/hosts. Usecase:
1160 fork a container, and make it ping some specific address which is defined by
1161 the host on invocation
1162
1163* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1164 reading/writing files
1165
1166* 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
1167
1168* sd-boot: define a drop-in dir in the ESP that may contain X.509
1169 certificates. If the firmware is detected to be in setup mode, automatically
1170 enroll them as PK/KEK/db, turn off setup mode and proceed. Optionally,
1171 instead of auto-enrolling them add them to the sd-boot menu, giving the user
1172 the option to manually enroll them, after selecting the menu entry. This way,
1173 installer images can just drop the certfiicates in the ESP, and on first boot
1174 can easily enroll the keys without ever booting up.
1175
1176* efi stub: optionally, load initrd from disk as a separate file, HMAC check it
1177 with key from TPM, bound to PCR, refusing if failing. This would then allow
1178 traditional distros that generate initrds locally to secure them with TPM:
1179 after generating the initrd, do the HMAC calculation, put result in initrd
1180 filename, done. This would then bind the validity of the initrd to the local
1181 host, and used kernel, and means people cannot change initrd or kernel
1182 without booting the kernel + initrd.
1183
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1185 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1186 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1187 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1188* bootctl
631427d6 1189 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1190
07eabc2b 1191* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1192
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1193* bootctl:
1194 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1195 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
1196 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
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1197 - bootspec: properly support boot attempt counters when parsing entry file names
1198
1199* kernel-install:
1200 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
e6c6e7af 1201
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1202* logind:
1203 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1204 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1205 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1206 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1207 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1208 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1209 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1210 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1211 needs setuid().
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1212 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1213 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1214 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1215 complete.
1216 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1217 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1218 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1219 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1220 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1221 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1222 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1223 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1224 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1225 relogins
77b19caf 1226 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 1227
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1228* move logind udev rules to top-level rule.d/ directory
1229
1230* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1231
1232* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1233 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1234 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1235
1236* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1237 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1238
b44be3ec 1239* journal:
57f2a947 1240 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1241 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1242 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1243 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1244 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1245 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1246 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1247 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1248 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1249 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1250 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1251 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1252 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
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1253 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1254 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1255 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1256 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1257 - 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.
1258 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1259 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1260 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1261 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1262 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1263 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1264 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1265 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1266 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1267 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1268 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1269 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1270 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1271 to syslog when it works again.
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1272 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1273 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1274 journals in.
1275 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1276 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1277 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1278 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1279 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1280 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1281 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1282 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1283 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1284 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1285 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1286 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1287 operation.
1288 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1289 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1290 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1291 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1292 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1293 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1294 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1295 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1296 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1297 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
b44be3ec 1298
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1299* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
1300 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
1301
1302* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
1303 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
1304 validated via TPM.
1305
1306* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
1307 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
1308
1309* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
1310 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
1311 user's journal stream down but not the others.
1312
1313* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
1314 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
1315 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
1316 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
1317 cgroup.
1318
1319* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
1320 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
1321 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
1322 logging.
1323
1324* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
1325
1326* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
1327 from the SIGBUS handler
1328
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1330 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1331 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1332 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1333
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1334* homed:
1335 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
1336 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
1337 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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1338 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
1339 - create on activate?
1340 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
1341 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
1342 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
1343 systemd --user is shut down.
1344 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
1345 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
1346 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
1347 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
1348 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
1349 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
1350 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
1351 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
1352 - query password from kernel keyring first
1353 - update even if record is "absent"
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1354 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
1355 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
1356 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
1357 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
1358 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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1359 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
1360 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
1361 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 1362 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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1363 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
1364 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
1365 signature
1366 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
1367 and insert a local signature instead.
1368 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
1369 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
1370 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
1371 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
1372 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
1373 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
1374 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
1375 easily?
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1376 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
1377 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
1378 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
1379 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
1380 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
1381 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
1382 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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1383 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
1384 can easily set overall quota for all users
1385 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
1386 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 1387 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 1388 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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1389 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
1390 large.
07eabc2b 1391
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1392* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
1393 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
1394 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
1395
1396* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_PATH
1397
1398* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
1399 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
1400 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
1401 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
1402
1403* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
1404
1405* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
1406 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
1407 something goes wrong on the way.
1408
1409* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
1410
1411* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
1412 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
1413 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
1414 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
1415
1416* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
1417 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
1418 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
1419 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
1420 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
1421 automatically.
1422
1423* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
1424 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
1425
1426* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
1427 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
1428 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
1429 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
1430 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
1431 fails to apply use the latter.
1432
1433* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
1434 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
1435
1436* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
1437 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
1438
1439* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
1440 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
1441
1442* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
1443 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
1444
b44be3ec 1445* document:
8b8f2591 1446 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1447 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1448 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1449 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1450 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1451 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1452 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1453 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1454 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1455 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 1456 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1457 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1459* systemctl:
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1460 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1461 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1462 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1463 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1464 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1465 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1466 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1467 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1468 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1469 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 1470
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1471* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
1472 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
1473 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 1474
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1475* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
1476 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
1477 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
1478 output for them.
d2e83c23 1479
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1480* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
1481 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
1482 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 1483
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1484* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
1485 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
1486 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 1487
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1488* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
1489 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 1490
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1491* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
1492 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
1493 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
1494 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 1495
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1496* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
1497 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
1498 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
1499 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 1500
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1501* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
1502
1503* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
1504
1505* unit install:
1506 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1507 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 1508
b44be3ec 1509* nspawn:
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1510 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1511 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1512 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1513 from the kernel's logs.
1514 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1515 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1516 interface be missing
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1517 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1518 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1519 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1520 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1521 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1522 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1523 PID 1...
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1524 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1525 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1526
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1527* nspawn: add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension=
1528 switch that takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already
1529 during startup.
1530
1531* when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
1532 so, freeze the payload too.
1533
1534* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
1535 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
1536 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
1537 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
1538 anything like that.
1539
1540* nspawn: support time namespaces
1541
1542* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
1543 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
1544
1545* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
1546 fallback in "machinectl shell"
1547
1548* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
1549 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
1550 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
1551
1552* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
1553
1554* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
1555
e25b5a8d 1556* machined:
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1557 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1558 removed or added to an existing machine
1559 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1560 difference host, via ssh
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1561 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1562 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1563 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1564 question
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1565 - "machinectl history"
1566 - "machinectl diff"
1567 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1568 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1569
abd55b16 1570* udev:
abd55b16 1571 - move to LGPL
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1572 - kill scsi_id
1573 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1574 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1575
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1576* coredump:
1577 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1578 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
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1580* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1581
f38afcd0 1582* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1583 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1584 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1585 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1586 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1587 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 1588 - add --test mode
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1589 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
1590 project quota
1258097c 1591
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1592* udev-link-config:
1593 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1594 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1595 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1596
88e4d1d7 1597* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1598 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1599 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1600
0a4b9a07 1601* networkd:
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1602 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1603 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 1604 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 1605 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1606 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 1607 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1608 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1609 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1610 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 1611 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 1612 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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1613 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1614 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1615 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1616 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1617 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1618 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 1619 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1620
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1621* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
1622
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1623* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1624
ac976532 1625* dhcp:
424a8732 1626 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1627
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1628* dhcp6:
1629 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1630 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1631 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1632 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1633 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1634 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1635 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1636 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1637 or interface down
1638 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1639 this behavior
4a77c53d 1640 - RouteTable= ?