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ee9c9500 1Bugfixes:
19aadacf 2* enabling an instance unit creates a pointless link, and
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3 the unit will be started with getty@getty.service:
4 $ systemctl enable getty@.service
5 ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service' '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@.service'
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7* check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
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9* swap units that are activated by one name but shown in the kernel under another are semi-broken
10
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11* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
12 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
13 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
14
a40593a0 15* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
20ffc4c4 16
19aadacf 17* When we detect invalid UTF-8, we cannot use it in an error message:
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18 log...("Path is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment: %s", rvalue);
19
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20* shorten the message to sane length:
21
22 Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status display-manager.service' for details.
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466784c8 24Fedora 20:
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969987ea 26* external: ps should gain colums for slice
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81d112a8 28* localed:
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29 - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps
30
55d32caf 31* when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
466784c8 32 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
55d32caf 33
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34CGroup Rework Completion:
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36* implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?)
37
38* implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
39
40* handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
41
049b4474 42* introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
bafb15ba 43
eb124a97 44Features:
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46* general: get rid of readdir_r/dirent_storage stuff, it's unnecessary on Linux
47
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48* add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
49
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50* sd-bus: synthesized messages should get serial number (uint32_t) -1
51
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52* sd-event: allow multiple signal handlers per signal
53
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54* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
55
56* move libasyncns into systemd as libsystemd-asyncns
57
58* calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
59
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60* sd-bus: when triggering property change events, allow a NULL strv indicate that all properties listed as such are send out as changed
61
62* sd-bus: enforce signatures on response messages
63
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64* sd-bus: see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
65
66* sd-bus: introduce sd_bus_creds object and attach it to messages as well as allow querying it for names
67
68* sd-bus: support "const" properties as flag
69
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70* sd-event: when a handler returns an error, just turn off its event
71 source, but do not return anything up to the event loop
72 caller. Instead add parameter to sd_event_request_quit() to take
73 retval. This way errors rippling upwards are the option, not the
74 default
75
76* sd-event: child pid handling: first invoke waitid(WNOHANG) and call event handler, only afterwards reap the process
77
78* sd-event: native support for watchdog stuff
79
80* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH call over the bus
81
82* sd-bus: SD_BUS_COMMENT() macro for inclusion in vtables, syntax inspired by gdbus
83
84* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
85
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86* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
87
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88* add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
89
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90* systemctl: rework wait filter to not require match callback
91
92* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
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94* bus: access policy as vtable flag
95
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96* journalctl: support -M to read journal of containers and determine journal directory from root directory of container
97
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98* tmpfiles: to make sure we don't delete unpacked tarballs with old timestamps right-away never delete stuff that is inside a directory with a new mtime
99
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100* "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
101 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
102
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103* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
104
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105* remove NSS usage from PID 1 (notably the specifiers)
106
a427c13d 107* socket-proxyd:
8cf030b3 108 - Support multiple inherited sockets mapped to different remote hosts
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109 - Use a nonblocking alternative to getaddrinfo
110 - Until we can start daemons directly, find a less ugly, less racy alternative than shell scripts for the second man page example.
111 - Support starting daemons directly without requiring a shell script; update man pages
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113* "systemctl cat" or "systemctl view" command or or so, that cats the backing unit file of a service, plus its drop-ins and shows them in a pager
114
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115* 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
116
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117* Add a new Distribute=$NUMBER key to socket units that makes use of SO_REUSEPORT to distribute network traffic on $NUMBER instances
118
19aadacf 119* tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal, also do this for the journal fails contained in it
7f79cd71 120
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121* we probably should replace the left-over uses of strv_append() and replace them by strv_push() or strv_extend()
122
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123* move config_parse_path_strv() out of conf-parser.c
124
7f79cd71 125* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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127* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
128 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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129 path anyway.
130
19aadacf 131* When a Type=forking service fails and needed another service, that
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132 service is not cleaned up again when it has StopWhenUnneeded=yes
133 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-July/012141.html
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135* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
136
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137* ensure scope units may be started only a single time
138
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139* better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
140
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141* systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
142
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143* for transient units, instead of writing out drop-ins for all properties consider serializing them in the normal serialization stream
144
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145* logind: when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects
146
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147* session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
148
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149* add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
150
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151* journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
152
19aadacf 153* given that logind/machined now let PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
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154 probably reduce the capability set they retain substantially.
155
6aaa8c2f 156* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
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158* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
159
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160* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
161
e1b7e7ec 162* make sure gdm doesn't use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
18d4e7c2 163
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164* when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we won't support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200
165
19aadacf 166* when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
fa7deadb 167
19aadacf 168* "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, but should
69af4503 169 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
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170 unit however should remove them all).
171
172* journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
173
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174* systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
175
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176* journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
177 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
178 to syslog when it works again.
179
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180* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
181
182* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
183
19aadacf 184* service_coldplug() appears to reinstall the wrong stop timeout watch.
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186* transient units: allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
187
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188* how to reset dynamically changed attributes sanely?
189
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190* when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
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4ad49000 192* journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
3d3ee759 193
9444b1f2 194* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 195 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 196 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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197 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
198 check for that and suppress event handling.
9444b1f2 199
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200* when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
201 the hierarchies of child processes
202
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203* document logic of auto/noauto and fail/nofail in fstab in systemd.mount or systemd-fstab-generator man page
204
19aadacf 205* something pulls in pcre as shared object dependency into our daemons such as hostnamed.
1f263d4d 206
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207* document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
208
a65f06bb 209* change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
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210 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
211 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
212 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
213
214* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
215 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
216
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217* libsystemd-bus:
218 - default policy (allow uid == 0 and our own uid)
219 - enforce alignment of pointers passed in
eb01ba5d 220 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
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221 - implement translator service
222 - port systemd to new library
223 - implement busname unit type in systemd
224 - move to gvariant
eb01ba5d 225 - merge busctl into systemctl or so?
e4ee6e5c 226 - synthesize sd_bus_message objects from kernel messages
c7819669 227 - properly implement name registry ioctls for kdbus
86312ab8 228 - implement monitor logic
07459db6 229 - properly map matches with well-known names against messages with unique names
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230 - longer term:
231 * priority queues
86312ab8 232 * priority inheritance
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234* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
235 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
236 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
237
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238* add an option to nspawn that uses seccomp to make socket(AF_NETLINK,
239 SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_AUDIT) fail the the appropriate error code that
240 makes the audit userspace to think auditing is not available in the
241 kernel.
242
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243* Introduce a way how we can kill the main process of a service with KillSignal, but all processes with SIGKILL later on
244 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952634
245
69af4503 246* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses where the access mode of unit files is nonsensical.
19aa7c4f 247
69af4503 248* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
e8a7a315 249
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250* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
251 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
252
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253* if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
254 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
255 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
256 needs setuid().
257
258* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
259
260* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
261
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262* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
263
264* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
265
4a449ed7 266* logind: add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
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268* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
269
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270* test/:
271 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
272 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
889a9042 273 - qemu wrapper script: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg72389.html
b8b4d3dd 274
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275* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
276
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277* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
278 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
279 file.
280
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281* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
282 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
283 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
284 destination.
285
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286* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
287 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
288
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289* add ConditionArchitecture= or so
290
291* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
292
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293* Support SO_REUSEPORT with socket activation:
294 - Let systemd maintain a pool of servers.
295 - Use for seamless upgrades, by running the new server before stopping the
296 old.
297
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298* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
299 need manual exponential loops after all
300
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301* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
302 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
303 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
304 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
305
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306* man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf
307
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308* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
309 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
310 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
311 that automatically.
312
69af4503 313* rework specifier logic so that we can distinguish OOM errors from other errors
487060c2 314
e5ec62c5 315* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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317* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
318
54c31a79 319* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 320
8973790e 321* documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
3679d112 322
69af4503 323* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapse and the time the units ran last
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325* man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
326
327* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
328
69af4503 329* man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
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331* systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
332
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333* man: add more examples to man pages
334
335* man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
336
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337* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
338
339* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
340
341* msgcatalog determine default language of entries from the catalog
342 file name. i.e. foobar.de_DE.catalog would set the default entry
343 name for the entries to de_DE if they aren't explicitly suffixed
344 individually.
345
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346* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
347
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348* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
349
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350* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
351 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
352 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
353 will be activated.
354
356ce991 355* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 356
81d112a8 357* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 358
b44be3ec 359* EFI:
b44be3ec 360 - write man page for efi boot generator
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361 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
362 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 363 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 364
c0fe5db5 365* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 366
b44be3ec 367* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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369* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
370 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 372* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 373
b44be3ec 374* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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376* logind:
377 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
378 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
379 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
380 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
381 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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382 - logind: non-local X11 server handling
383 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
b44be3ec 384 - pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree
e5ec62c5 385 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
e673ad04 386
b44be3ec 387* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 388
b44be3ec 389* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
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b44be3ec 391* journal:
c06bf414 392 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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393 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
394 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
395 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
396 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
397 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
398 - journal: reuse XZ context
399 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
400 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
401 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
402 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
403 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
404 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
405 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 406 - 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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407 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
408 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
409 - journal: when rotating, copy over old acls/access mode
b44be3ec 410 - journal: send out marker messages every now and then, and immediately sync with fdatasync() afterwards, in order to have hourly guaranteed syncs.
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411 - 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.
412 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
413 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 414 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 415 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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416 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
417 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
418 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
419 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
77a9e8de 420 - journalctl: expand tabs
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421 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
422 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
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423 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
424 - Port upower to use the journal for historical power information used in future calculations
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426* document:
427 - document unit_name_mangle()
428 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in
429 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
430 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
431 - Document word splitting syntax for ExecStart= and friends
432 - document that units from /etc override those from /usr and /run
433 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 434 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 435 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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437* systemctl:
438 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
439 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
440 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
441 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
442 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
443 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
444 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
445 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
446 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
447 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
448 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
449 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
450 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
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452* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
453
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454* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
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456* timer units:
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457 - timer events with system resume
458 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
459 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
460 o DST changes
eb124a97 461 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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463 - anacron-like feature
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465* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
466
467* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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468 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
469 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 470 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 471 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 472 user did not request anything like it.
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475 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
476 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
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479 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
480 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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482 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
483 better supported alternative.
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486
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487* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
488
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489* 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().
490
491* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
492* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
493* fedup: generator
603cd8fe 494
b44be3ec 495* timedated:
b44be3ec 496 - timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
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498* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
499
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500* introduce generic AUGMENT_PID=, AUGMENT_DEVICE= fields
501
b44be3ec 502* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
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504* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
505 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
506 - superset of tmpfiles model
507 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
508 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
509 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
510
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511* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
512 waiting for the timeout
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514* high level net_prio setting in execution context
515
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516* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
517
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518* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
519
15abdb9a 520* refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful (or set taint?)
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523 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly
524 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
525 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
526 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
527 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
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529 lxc.network.type=phys mode, and pass through entire network
530 interfaces to the container
531 - nspawn: maybe add a way to drop additional caps, in addition to add additional caps
532 - nspawn: maybe explicitly reset loginuid?
3679d112 533 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
9cb74bcb 534 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
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536* cryptsetup:
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537 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
538 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
539 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 540 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
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543
424a19f8 544* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 545 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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547* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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550
8556879e 551* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 552 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
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555
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556* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
557
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558* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
559
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560* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
561
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562* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
563
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564* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
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566* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container
567
68f16003 568* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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570* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
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573 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
574 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
575 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 576 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 577 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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581* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
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585* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
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588
88a6c589 589* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
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592 - syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls
593 - syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs?
594 - syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS?
595 - syscall filter: port to libseccomp
596 - system-wide seccomp filter
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598* .device aliases need to be implemented with the "following" logic, probably.
599
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600* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
601 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
602
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604
59cea26a 605* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
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607* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
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609* automount: implement expire:
610 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
611 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
612 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
613 - blocking, needs a thread
614 - run until -EAGAIN
615 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
616 - call umount
617 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
618 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
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e01a15b7 622* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 623
abd55b16 624* udev:
3f60bcb5 625 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
abd55b16 626 - move to LGPL
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628 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
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18b754d3 630* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording
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632* when a service has the same env var set twice we actually store it twice and return that in systemctl show -p... We should only show the last setting
633
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634* support container_ttys=
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636* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
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638* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
639
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640* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
641
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642* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
643
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644* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
645
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646* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
647
648* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
649
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650* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
651
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652* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
653 needs to be auto-respawned?
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655* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
656
de6c78f8 657* tmpfiles: apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
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b44be3ec 659* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
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662
d3c7d7dd 663* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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665* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
666 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
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671 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
672
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673* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
674
7c697168 675* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 676
71092d70 677* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
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680 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
681 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
682
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686 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
687
71092d70 688* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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691 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
692 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
693 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
694 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
695 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
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697* add support for /bin/mount -s
698
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699* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
700
68c7d001 701* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 702 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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703 - enabling dbus services
704 - status update
7a2a0b90 705 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 706 - remote access
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708 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 709 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 710 - auto-restart
e707c494 711 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 712 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 713 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 714 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 715 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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717 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
718 - how to create your own target
719 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
720 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
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44143309 722* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 723
71092d70 724* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 725
260abb78 726* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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729
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735
129126f3 736* port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID:
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738 - cups HAVEPATCH
a625ac1a 739 - postfix, saslauthd
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741 - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro)
742 - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!)
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71092d70 745* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
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50f2a90d 747* io priority during initialization
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7ba97195 751* systemd-python:
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753 works with ^C
b04c8c83 754 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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757 - plot per-process IO utilization
758 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
759 - document initcall_debug
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761
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763 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
764 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
765 on Path= matching
766 - NamePolicy= replace the current naming rules
767 - MACPolicy= support 'firmware', 'synthetic' and 'random'
768 - Check if Driver= is broken, or just my driver (bcma)
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2f8cd170 770External:
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cc9784c6 772* dbus:
cc9784c6 773 - dbus --user
3377af3e 774 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
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776 - allow disabling of fd passing when connecting a AF_UNIX connection
3377af3e 777 - allow disabling of UID passing for AUTH EXTERNAL
b69d29ce 778 - always pass cred data along each message
b44be3ec 779 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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9096ad36 785* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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787* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
788 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
789 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
790 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
791 the RTC to sync up.
792
71092d70 793* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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797* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
798
799* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
800
801* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
802
803* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
804
d2bbca68 805* 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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807* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
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809* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
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4641a16b 811* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
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129126f3 813Regularly:
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129126f3 815* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
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129126f3 817* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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819* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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71092d70 823* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 824
4db17f29 825* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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9e5f3dbb 829Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 831* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)