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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* userdbctl: "Password OK: yes" is shown even when there are no passwords
8 or the password is locked.
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10* Get rid of nftw(). We should refuse to use such useless APIs on principle.
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12* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
13 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
14 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 16External:
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f38afcd0 18* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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20* dbus:
21 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
22 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
23
24* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
25
26* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
27
28* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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30* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
31
32* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
33
34* register catalog database signature as file magic
35
36* zsh shell completion:
37 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
38 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
39
40* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
41* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
42 after being started.
43
44* write blog stories about:
45 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
46 - enabling dbus services
47 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
48 - remote access
49 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
50 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
51 - auto-restart
52 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
53 - the journal HTTP iface
54 - non-cgroup resource management
55 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
56 - refreshed, longer missions statement
57 - calendar time events
58 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
59 - how to create your own target
60 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
61 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
62
63Regularly:
64
65* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
66
67* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
68
69* pahole
70
71* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
72
73* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
74
75* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
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77Janitorial Clean-ups:
78
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79* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
80
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81* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
82 semantics, like we do for device.c now
83
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84Features:
85
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86* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
87
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88* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
89 make dirs appear under right UID.
90
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91* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
92 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
93
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94* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
95 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
96 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
97 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
98 for doing that.
99
100* pass systemd-detect-virt result to generators as env var. Modifying behaviour
101 based on whether we are virtualized or not is a pretty common thing, hence
102 maybe just pass that info along for free in an env var. We cache the result
103 anyway, so it's basically free.
104
24063ba1 105* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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106 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
107 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
108 already have it.
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110* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
111 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
112
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113* add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
114 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
115 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
116 socket: connect() to it.
117
118* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
119 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
120 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
121
122* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
123 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
124
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125* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
126 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
127
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128* sysext: optionally, if the merged trees allow it use bind mounts instead of
129 overlayfs
130
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131* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
132 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
133 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
134 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
135 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
136
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137* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
138
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139* ability to insert trusted configuration and secrets into the boot parameters
140 of a kernel booting in a VM or on baremetal some way, via TPM
141 protection. idea:
142 1. pass via /proc/bootconfig
143 2. for secrets: put secrets in node of /proc/bootconfig, decrypt them via
144 TPM early on in PID 1, put them in $CREDENTIAL_PATH logic
145 3. for config: put signed data in node /proc/booconfig, validate via TPM
146 early on in PID 1, put data into /run/bootconfig/ as individual files
147 4. boot loader/stub should pick these up automatically from the boot loader
148 file systems
149
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150* tpm2: support a PIN policy, i.e. allowing windows-style short authentication
151 passwords by using the TPM2 to enforce ratelimiting and such, use for
152 cryptsetup and homed
153
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154* Add concept for upgrading TPM2 enrollments, maybe a new switch
155 --pcrs=4:<hash> or so, i.e. select a PCR to include in the hash, and then
156 override its hash
157
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158* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
159 and such
160
161* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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163* cryptenroll: politely refuse enrolling new keys to homed volumes, since we
164 we cannot update identity info
165
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166* cryptsetup: if only recovery keys are registered and no regular passphrases,
167 ask user for "recovery key", not "passphrase"
168
169* cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
170
7d7c75f1 171* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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172 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
173
174* cryptsetup: when FIDO2/PKCS#11/TPM2 token/chip didn't show up after some
175 time, abort the attempt, fallback to asking for pw
176
177* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
178 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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180* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
181
182* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
183 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
184
185* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
186 systemd-makefs.service instead.
187
188* cryptsetup:
189 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
190 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
191
192* credentials system:
193 - maybe add AcquireCredential= for querying a cred via ask-password
194 - maybe try to acquire creds via keyring?
195 - maybe try to pass creds via keyring?
196 - maybe optionally pass creds via memfd
197 - maybe add support for decrypting creds via TPM
198 - maybe add support for decrypting/importing creds via pkcs11
199 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
200 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
201 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
202 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
203 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
204
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205* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
206 it happens to be set up alright already.
207
208* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
209
210* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
211 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
212 default.
213
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214* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
215 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
216 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
217 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
218 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
219
377a9545 220* teach LoadCredential= the ability to load all files from a specified dir as
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221 individual creds
222
08d33656 223* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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225* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
226 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
227
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228* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
229 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
230 temporary dir.
231
232* special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
233 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
234
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235* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
236
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237* add /etc/integritytab, to support dm-integrity setups. In particular those
238 with HMAC as hash function, so that we can have a protected /home without
239 encryption (leaving encryption to the individual dirs/homed).
240
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241* complement root=, rootflags=, rootfstype= with rootsubdir= which allows
242 mounting a subdir of the root fs as actual root. This can be used as
243 fstype-agnostic version of btrfs' rootflags=subvol=foobar.
244
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245* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
246
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247* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
248 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
249
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250* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
251
252* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
253
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254* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
255 when it exits
256
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257* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
258 o turn into dlopen() deps:
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259 - elfutils (always)
260 - p11-kit-trust (always)
261 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 262 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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263 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
264 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
265 since they are so basic and our defaults)
266 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
267 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
268
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269* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
270 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
271 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
272
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273* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
274 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
275
a6e1018d 276* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
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277 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, systemctl,
278 coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
279 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
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281* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
282
283* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
284 specific service
285
286* seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
287
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288* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
289 exists and responds.
290
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291* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
292 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
293 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
294
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295* by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
296 allow so that systemd survives
297
91fc013f 298* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 299 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 300
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301* unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
302 confusion is gone)
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303 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
304 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
305 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
306 - port importd over from libgcrypt
307 - when that's done: kill khash.c
308 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
309
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310* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
311 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
312
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313* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
314 realname substr searches in varlink API
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316* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
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2a4be3c5 318* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 319
f1eb0ccd 320* pid1: activation by journal search expression
006c44c1 321
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322* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
323 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
324 initrd had set.
325
173c7873 326* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 327 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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328 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
329 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
330 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
331 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
332
333* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
334 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
335 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
336
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337* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
338 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
339 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
340 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
341 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
342 source.
343
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344* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
345 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
346 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
347
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348* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
349
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350* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
351 the hibernation
352
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353* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
354 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
355 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
356 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
357 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
358 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
359 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
360 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
361 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
362 hibernation mode. (see
363 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
364 section 10.2.2.8 and
365 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
366 at the end).
367
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368* We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
369 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
370 constant vendor data.
371
c6526b8d 372* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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374* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
375 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
376 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
377 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
378 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
379 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
380 exec().
381
382* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
383
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384* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
385 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
386
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387* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
388 gnome-bluetooth and friends
389
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390* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
391 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
392 root.
393
394* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
395 is issued.
396
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397* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
398
399* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
400
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401* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
402 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
403 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
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d238709c 405* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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406 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
407 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
408
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409* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
410
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411* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
412 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
413
06898123 414* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 415 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 416 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
06898123 417
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418* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
419
420* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
421 patching around
422
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423* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
424 log.c and sd-journal-send
425
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426* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
427
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428* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
429
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430* sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
431 can add in file system drivers and such
432
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433* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
434 non-zero "tries done" count
435
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436* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
437 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
438 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
439 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
440 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
441 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
442 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
443 CODE_FILE.
444
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445* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
446 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
447 some explanatory text online.
448
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449* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
450
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451* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
452 original defaults before calling parse_config()
453
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454* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
455 Specifically:
456
457 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
458 properly)
e83419d0 459 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 460 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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462* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
463 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
464
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465* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
466 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
467 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
468 files and suchlike we operate on.
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470* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
471
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472* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
473
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474* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
475 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
476
5da19043 477* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
5238e957 478 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
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479 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
480 numbers.
481
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482* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
483 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
484 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
485 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
486 unlinked from any dir.
487
bd1b3f75 488* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
5da19043 489
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490* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
491
492* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
493
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494* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
495 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
496 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
497 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
498 should reflink the image file itself.
499
500 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
501 specific paths only like this.
502
53c70a27 503* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 504 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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506 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 507 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
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510
511* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
512
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513* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
514 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
515
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516* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
517 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
518 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
519 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
520 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
521 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
522 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
523 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
524
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525* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
526 for root, but only then.
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528* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
529
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530* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
531 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
532
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533* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
534 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
535
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536* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
537 only when used. Add unit tests.
538
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539* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
540 host-side interface pointing to the container.
541
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542* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
543 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
544 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
545 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
546 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
547
cb77e122 548* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 549
899feb72 550* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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553 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
554 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
555
5f7ecd61 556* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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558* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
559 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
560
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561* blog about fd store and restartable services
562
563* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
564
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565* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
566 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
567
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568* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
569 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
570 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
571 ID is available.
572
573* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
574 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
575 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
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578 parameters
579
6fc373ee 580* maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 581 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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583 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
584 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
585 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
586 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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588* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
589 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
590
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591* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
592 about it in the resource log message
593
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594* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
595 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
596 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
597
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599 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
600
601 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
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604 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
605 "convertible" form factor
606
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608 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
609 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
610
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612 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
613
614* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
615 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
616 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
617 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
618 natural habitat.
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620* 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
621
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622* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
623 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
624 relative to the configured default value.
625
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627
04397464 628* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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630* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
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632* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
633
04397464 634* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
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04397464 636* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 637
04397464 638* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 639
8ce9b83a 640* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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642* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
643 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
644 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
645
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647 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
648
e40a326c 649* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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652 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
653 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
654 mapping to work.
655
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657
658* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
659
660* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
661
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662* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
663 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
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665* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
666 reload the unit file anyway
667
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668* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
669
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670* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
671
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672* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
673 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
674
f9bf1b8f 675* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 676 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 677 specifications.
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680
5ebbb45b 681* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
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683* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
684
a2088fd0 685* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 686 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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687 prefixed with /sys generally special.
688 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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690* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
691
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692* initrd-parse-etc.service: can we skip daemon-reload if /sysroot/etc/fstab is missing?
693 Note that we start initrd-fs.target and initrd-cleanup.target there, so a straightforward
694 ConditionPathExists= is not enough.
695
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696* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
697
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698* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
699 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
700 state.
701 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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703* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
704 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
705 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
706 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
707 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
708
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710
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711* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
712 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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715 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
716
e031c227 717* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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720* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
721
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722* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
723 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
724
25e773ee 725* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 726
720652b3 727* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 728
720652b3 729* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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731* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
732
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733* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
734 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
735
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737
9d6db739 738* resolved:
9d6db739 739 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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741 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 742 - avahi compat
9d6db739 743 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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744 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
745 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
746 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 747 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 748 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 749
e25b5a8d 750* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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752* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
753
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754* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
755
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756* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
757
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758* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
759
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760* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
761 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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763* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
764
6a3f892a 765* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 766 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 767 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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770 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
771 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 772
f9bf1b8f 773* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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776 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
777 for ReusePort=
778
f38afcd0 779* cgroups:
f38afcd0 780 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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782 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
783 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
784 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
785 the hierarchies of child processes
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f38afcd0 787* transient units:
f38afcd0 788 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
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790* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
791
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792* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
793
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794* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
795
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796* 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
797
7f79cd71 798* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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800* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
801 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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802 path anyway.
803
04397464 804* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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806* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
807
808* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
809
07eabc2b 810* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 811
07eabc2b 812* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
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814* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
815
816* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
817 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
818 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
819
820* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
821 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
822
823* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
824
825* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
826
827* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
828
829* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
830 needs to be auto-respawned?
831
832* pid1:
833 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
834 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
835 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
836 that are not supported...
837 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
838 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
839 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
840 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
841 - move PAM code into its own binary
842 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
843 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
844 - Support --test based on current system state
845 - 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().
846 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
847 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
848 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
849 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
850 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
851 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
852 but much rather a disconnect on success.
853 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
854 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
855 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
856 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
857 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
858
859* unit files:
860 - allow port=0 in .socket units
861 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
862 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
863 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
864 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
865 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
866 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
867 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
868 - introduce Type=pid-file
869 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
870 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
871 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
872
873* timer units:
874 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
875 o DST changes
876 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
877
878* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
879
880* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
881
882* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
883
884* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
885
886* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
887
888* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
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891
892* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
893
fff87a35 894* test/:
20d52ab6 895 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 896
b5c03638 897* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 898 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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900 destination.
901
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902* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
903 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
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905* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
906
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907* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
908 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
909 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
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912 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
913 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
914 is installed.
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917 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
918 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
919 that automatically.
920
e5ec62c5 921* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 922
ccddd104 923* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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925* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
926
356ce991 927* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
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930 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
931
932* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
933
934* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
935
936* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
937
938* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
939
940* sd-bus:
941 - EBADSLT handling
942 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
943 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
944 - 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
945 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
946 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
947 - longer term: priority inheritance
948 - dbus spec updates:
949 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
950 - GVariant
951 - path escaping
952 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
953
954* sd-event
955 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
956 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
957 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
958 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
959 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
960 here:
961 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
962
963* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
964 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
965
966* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
967
968* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
969
970* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
971
972* firstboot: allow provisioning of /etc/hosts entries, so that we can via the
973 credentials logic insert host name to resolve into containers/hosts. Usecase:
974 fork a container, and make it ping some specific address which is defined by
975 the host on invocation
976
977* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
978 reading/writing files
979
980* 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
981
982* sd-boot: define a drop-in dir in the ESP that may contain X.509
983 certificates. If the firmware is detected to be in setup mode, automatically
984 enroll them as PK/KEK/db, turn off setup mode and proceed. Optionally,
985 instead of auto-enrolling them add them to the sd-boot menu, giving the user
986 the option to manually enroll them, after selecting the menu entry. This way,
987 installer images can just drop the certfiicates in the ESP, and on first boot
988 can easily enroll the keys without ever booting up.
989
990* efi stub: optionally, load initrd from disk as a separate file, HMAC check it
991 with key from TPM, bound to PCR, refusing if failing. This would then allow
992 traditional distros that generate initrds locally to secure them with TPM:
993 after generating the initrd, do the HMAC calculation, put result in initrd
994 filename, done. This would then bind the validity of the initrd to the local
995 host, and used kernel, and means people cannot change initrd or kernel
996 without booting the kernel + initrd.
997
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1000 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1001 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1002* bootctl
631427d6 1003 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1004
07eabc2b 1005* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
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1007* sd-boot: add service that automatically runs "bootctl update" on every boot,
1008 in a graceful way, so that updated /usr trees automatically propagate into
1009 updated boot loaders on reboot.
8ed20651 1010
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1011* bootctl:
1012 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1013 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
1014 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
e6c6e7af 1015
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1016* logind:
1017 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1018 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1019 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1020 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1021 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1022 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1023 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1024 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1025 needs setuid().
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1027 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1028 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1029 complete.
1030 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1031 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1032 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1033 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1034 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1035 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1036 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1037 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1038 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1039 relogins
77b19caf 1040 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 1041
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1043
1044* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1045
1046* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1047 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1048 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1049
1050* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1051 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1052
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57f2a947 1054 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1056 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1057 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1058 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
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1060 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1061 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1062 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1063 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1065 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1066 - 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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1067 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1068 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1069 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1070 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1071 - 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.
1072 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1073 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1074 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1075 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1076 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1077 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1078 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1079 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1080 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1081 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1082 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1083 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1084 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1085 to syslog when it works again.
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1087 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1088 journals in.
1089 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1090 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1091 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1092 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1093 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1094 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1095 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1096 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1097 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1098 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1099 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1100 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1101 operation.
1102 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1103 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1104 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1105 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1106 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1107 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1108 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1109 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1110 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1111 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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1114 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
1115
1116* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
1117 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
1118 validated via TPM.
1119
1120* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
1121 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
1122
1123* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
1124 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
1125 user's journal stream down but not the others.
1126
1127* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
1128 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
1129 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
1130 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
1131 cgroup.
1132
1133* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
1134 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
1135 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
1136 logging.
1137
1138* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
1139
1140* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
1141 from the SIGBUS handler
1142
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1144 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1145 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1146 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1147
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1148* homed:
1149 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
1150 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
1151 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
1152 - resize on login?
1153 - shrink fs on logout?
1154 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
1155 - create on activate?
1156 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
1157 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
1158 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
1159 systemd --user is shut down.
1160 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
1161 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
1162 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
1163 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
1164 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
1165 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
1166 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
1167 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
1168 - query password from kernel keyring first
1169 - update even if record is "absent"
1170 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
1171 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
1172 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
1173 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
1174 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
1175 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
1176 - introduce API for "making room", that grows/shrinks home directory
1177 according to elastic parameters, discards blocks, and removes additional snapshots. Call it
1178 either from UI when disk space gets low
1179
1180* homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
1181 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
1182 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
1183
1184* homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
1185 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
1186 signature
1187
1188* homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
1189 and insert a local signature instead.
1190
1191* homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
1192 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
1193 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
1194 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
1195 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
1196
1197* homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
1198
1199* homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
1200 easily?
1201
1202* homed: if kernel 5.12 uid mapping mounts exist, use that instead of recursive
1203 chowns.
1204
1205* add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
1206 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
1207 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
1208 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
1209 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
1210
1211* homed: store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
1212 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
1213
1214* homed: try to unmount in regular intervals when home dir was busy when we
1215 tried because idle.
1216
1217* homed: keep an fd to the homedir open at all times, to keep the fs pinned
1218 (autofs and such) while user is logged in.
1219
1220* when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
1221
1222* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
1223 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
1224 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
1225
1226* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_PATH
1227
1228* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
1229 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
1230 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
1231 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
1232
1233* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
1234
1235* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
1236 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
1237 something goes wrong on the way.
1238
1239* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
1240
1241* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
1242 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
1243 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
1244 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
1245
1246* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
1247 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
1248 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
1249 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
1250 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
1251 automatically.
1252
1253* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
1254 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
1255
1256* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
1257 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
1258 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
1259 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
1260 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
1261 fails to apply use the latter.
1262
1263* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
1264 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
1265
1266* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
1267 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
1268
1269* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
1270 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
1271
1272* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
1273 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
1274
b44be3ec 1275* document:
8b8f2591 1276 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1278 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1279 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1280 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1281 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1282 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1283 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1285 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 1286 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1287 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1289* systemctl:
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1291 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1292 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1293 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1294 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1295 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1296 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1297 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1298 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1299 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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1301* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
1302 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
1303 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 1304
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1305* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
1306 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
1307 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
1308 output for them.
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1310* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
1311 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
1312 the slices, and the units attached to them.
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1314* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
1315 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
1316 wait to retrieve their exit data.
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1318* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
1319 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
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1321* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
1322 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
1323 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
1324 do, for example)
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1326* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
1327 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
1328 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
1329 returning from the "systemctl stop".
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1331* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
1332
1333* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
1334
1335* unit install:
1336 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1337 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
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1340 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1341 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1342 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1343 from the kernel's logs.
1344 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1345 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1346 interface be missing
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1347 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1348 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1349 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1350 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1351 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1352 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1353 PID 1...
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1354 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1355 running, remove them when shut down.
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1357* nspawn: make --bind= work sanely with --private-users when uid mapping mounts
1358 are used.
1359
1360* nspawn: add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension=
1361 switch that takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already
1362 during startup.
1363
1364* when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
1365 so, freeze the payload too.
1366
1367* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
1368 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
1369 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
1370 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
1371 anything like that.
1372
1373* nspawn: support time namespaces
1374
1375* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
1376 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
1377
1378* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
1379 fallback in "machinectl shell"
1380
1381* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
1382 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
1383 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
1384
1385* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
1386
1387* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
1388
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1390 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1391 removed or added to an existing machine
1392 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1393 difference host, via ssh
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1394 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1395 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1396 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1397 question
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1398 - "machinectl history"
1399 - "machinectl diff"
1400 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1401 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1402
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abd55b16 1404 - move to LGPL
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1406 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1407 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
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1409* coredump:
1410 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1411 - 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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1413* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1414
f38afcd0 1415* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1416 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1417 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1418 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1419 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1420 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 1421 - add --test mode
ba405b22
ZJS
1422 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
1423 project quota
1258097c 1424
af6f0d42
TG
1425* udev-link-config:
1426 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1427 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1428 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1429
88e4d1d7 1430* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1431 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1432 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1433
0a4b9a07 1434* networkd:
c74ecd71
TG
1435 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1436 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 1437 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 1438 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1439 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 1440 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
1441 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1442 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1443 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 1444 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 1445 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
1446 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1447 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1448 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1449 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1450 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1451 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 1452 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1453
07eabc2b
LB
1454* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
1455
d5e172d2
ZJS
1456* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1457
ac976532 1458* dhcp:
424a8732 1459 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1460
37d8b536
PF
1461* dhcp6:
1462 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1463 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1464 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1465 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1466 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
1467 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1468 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1469 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1470 or interface down
1471 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1472 this behavior
4a77c53d 1473 - RouteTable= ?