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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=
29
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
76
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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* tpm2: figure out if we need to do anything for TPM2 parameter encryption? And
87 if so, what precisely?
88
89* insert pkcs7 signature for verity gpt
90
91* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
92 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
93 that images cannot be misused.
94
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95* use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
96
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97* New udev block device symlink names:
98 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>/<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
99 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
100 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
101 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
102
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103* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
104
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105* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
106 make dirs appear under right UID.
107
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108* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
109 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
110
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111* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
112 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
113 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
114 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
115 for doing that.
116
117* pass systemd-detect-virt result to generators as env var. Modifying behaviour
118 based on whether we are virtualized or not is a pretty common thing, hence
119 maybe just pass that info along for free in an env var. We cache the result
120 anyway, so it's basically free.
121
24063ba1 122* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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123 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
124 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
125 already have it.
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127* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
128 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
129
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130* add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
131 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
132 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
133 socket: connect() to it.
134
135* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
136 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
137 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
138
139* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
140 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
141
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142* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
143 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
144
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145* sysext: optionally, if the merged trees allow it use bind mounts instead of
146 overlayfs
147
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148* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
149 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
150 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
151 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
152 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
153
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154* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
155
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156* allow passing creds into kernel when booting: in EFI stub, collect creds
157 files from ESP directory, generate CPIO archive on the fly from them, so that
158 they are dropped into /run/initramfs/creds/ and pass to kernel as additional
159 initrd. Then, use LoadCredentialEncrypted=foo:/run/initramfs/creds/foo to
160 load them.
161
162* make LoadCredential= automatically find credentials in /etc/creds,
163 /run/creds, … and so on, if path component is unqualified
164
165* teach LoadCredential=/LoadCredentialEncrypted= to load credentials from
166 kernel cmdline, maybe: LoadCredentialEncrypted=foobar:proc-cmdline:foobar
167
168* credentials system:
169 - acquire from kernel command line
170 - acquire from EFI variable?
171 - acquire via via ask-password?
172 - acquire creds via keyring?
173 - pass creds via keyring?
174 - pass creds via memfd?
175 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
176 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
177 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
178 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
179 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
180 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
181
182* teach LoadCredential= the ability to load all files from a specified dir as
183 individual creds
184
185* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
186 firmware indicates there is one.
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188* tpm2: support a PIN policy, i.e. allowing windows-style short authentication
189 passwords by using the TPM2 to enforce ratelimiting and such, use for
190 cryptsetup and homed
191
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192* Add concept for upgrading TPM2 enrollments, maybe a new switch
193 --pcrs=4:<hash> or so, i.e. select a PCR to include in the hash, and then
194 override its hash
195
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196* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
197 and such
198
199* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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201* cryptenroll: politely refuse enrolling new keys to homed volumes, since we
202 we cannot update identity info
203
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204* cryptsetup: if only recovery keys are registered and no regular passphrases,
205 ask user for "recovery key", not "passphrase"
206
207* cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
208
7d7c75f1 209* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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210 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
211
212* cryptsetup: when FIDO2/PKCS#11/TPM2 token/chip didn't show up after some
213 time, abort the attempt, fallback to asking for pw
214
215* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
216 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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218* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
219
220* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
221 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
222
223* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
224 systemd-makefs.service instead.
225
226* cryptsetup:
227 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
228 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
229
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230* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
231 it happens to be set up alright already.
232
233* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
234
235* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
236 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
237 default.
238
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239* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
240 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
241 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
242 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
243 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
244
08d33656 245* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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247* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
248 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
249
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250* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
251 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
252 temporary dir.
253
254* special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
255 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
256
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257* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
258
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259* add /etc/integritytab, to support dm-integrity setups. In particular those
260 with HMAC as hash function, so that we can have a protected /home without
261 encryption (leaving encryption to the individual dirs/homed).
262
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263* complement root=, rootflags=, rootfstype= with rootsubdir= which allows
264 mounting a subdir of the root fs as actual root. This can be used as
265 fstype-agnostic version of btrfs' rootflags=subvol=foobar.
266
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267* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
268
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269* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
270 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
271
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272* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
273
274* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
275
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276* pid1: support new cgroup.kill to terminate all processes in a cgroup
277
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278* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
279 when it exits
280
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281* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
282 o turn into dlopen() deps:
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283 - elfutils (always)
284 - p11-kit-trust (always)
285 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 286 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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287 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
288 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
289 since they are so basic and our defaults)
290 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
291 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
292
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293* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
294 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
295 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
296
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297* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
298 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
299
a6e1018d 300* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
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301 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, systemctl,
302 coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
303 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
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305* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
306
307* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
308 specific service
309
310* seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
311
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312* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
313 exists and responds.
314
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315* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
316 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
317 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
318
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319* by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
320 allow so that systemd survives
321
91fc013f 322* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 323 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
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325* unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
326 confusion is gone)
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327 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
328 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
329 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
330 - port importd over from libgcrypt
331 - when that's done: kill khash.c
332 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
333
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334* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
335 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
336
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337* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
338 realname substr searches in varlink API
006c44c1 339
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340* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
341
2a4be3c5 342* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 343
f1eb0ccd 344* pid1: activation by journal search expression
006c44c1 345
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346* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
347 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
348 initrd had set.
349
173c7873 350* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 351 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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352 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
353 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
354 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
355 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
356
357* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
358 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
359 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
360
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361* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
362 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
363 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
364 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
365 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
366 source.
367
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368* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
369 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
370 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
371
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372* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
373
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374* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
375 the hibernation
376
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377* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
378 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
379 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
380 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
381 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
382 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
383 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
384 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
385 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
386 hibernation mode. (see
387 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
388 section 10.2.2.8 and
389 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
390 at the end).
391
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392* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
393 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 394
c6526b8d 395* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
312dc153 396
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397* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
398 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
399 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
400 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
401 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
402 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
403 exec().
404
405* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
406
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407* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
408 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
409
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410* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
411 gnome-bluetooth and friends
412
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413* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
414 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
415 root.
416
417* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
418 is issued.
419
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420* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
421
422* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
423
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424* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
425 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
426 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 427
d238709c 428* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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429 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
430 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
431
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432* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
433
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434* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
435 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
436
06898123 437* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 438 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 439 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 440 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
06898123 441
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442* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
443
444* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
445 patching around
446
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447* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
448 log.c and sd-journal-send
449
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450* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
451
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452* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
453
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454* sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
455 can add in file system drivers and such
456
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457* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
458 non-zero "tries done" count
459
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460* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
461 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
462 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
463 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
464 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
465 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
466 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
467 CODE_FILE.
468
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469* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
470 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
471 some explanatory text online.
472
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473* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
474
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475* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
476 original defaults before calling parse_config()
477
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478* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
479 Specifically:
480
481 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
482 properly)
e83419d0 483 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 484 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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486* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
487 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
488
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489* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
490 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
491 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
492 files and suchlike we operate on.
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494* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
495
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496* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
497
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498* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
499 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
500
5da19043 501* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
5238e957 502 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
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503 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
504 numbers.
505
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506* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
507 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
508 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
509 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
510 unlinked from any dir.
511
bd1b3f75 512* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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515
516* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
517
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518* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
519 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
520 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
521 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
522 should reflink the image file itself.
523
524 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
525 specific paths only like this.
526
53c70a27 527* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 528 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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530 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 531 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
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533* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
534
535* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
536
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537* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
538 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
539
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540* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
541 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
542 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
543 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
544 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
545 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
546 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
547 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
548
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549* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
550 for root, but only then.
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552* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
553
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554* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
555 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
556
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557* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
558 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
559
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560* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
561 only when used. Add unit tests.
562
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563* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
564 host-side interface pointing to the container.
565
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566* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
567 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
568 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
569 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
570 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
571
cb77e122 572* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 573
899feb72 574* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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576* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
577 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
578 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
579
5f7ecd61 580* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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582* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
583 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
584
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585* blog about fd store and restartable services
586
587* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
588
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589* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
590 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
591
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592* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
593 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
594 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
595 ID is available.
596
597* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
598 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
599 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
600
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602 parameters
603
6fc373ee 604* maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 605 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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606 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
607 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
608 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
609 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
610 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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612* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
613 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
614
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615* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
616 about it in the resource log message
617
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618* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
619 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
620 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
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623 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
624
625 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
626
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628 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
629 "convertible" form factor
630
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632 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
633 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
634
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635* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
636 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
637
638* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
639 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
640 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
641 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
642 natural habitat.
643
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644* 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
645
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646* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
647 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
648 relative to the configured default value.
649
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651
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654* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
655
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656* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
657
04397464 658* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 659
04397464 660* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 661
04397464 662* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 663
8ce9b83a 664* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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666* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
667 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
668 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
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671 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
672
e40a326c 673* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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675* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
676 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
677 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
678 mapping to work.
679
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680* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
681
682* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
683
684* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
685
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686* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
687 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
688
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689* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
690 reload the unit file anyway
691
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692* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
693
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694* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
695
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696* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
697 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
698
f9bf1b8f 699* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 700 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 701 specifications.
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703* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
704
5ebbb45b 705* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
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707* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
708
a2088fd0 709* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 710 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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712 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
713
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714* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
715
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716* initrd-parse-etc.service: can we skip daemon-reload if /sysroot/etc/fstab is missing?
717 Note that we start initrd-fs.target and initrd-cleanup.target there, so a straightforward
718 ConditionPathExists= is not enough.
719
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720* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
721
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722* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
723 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
724 state.
725 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
726
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727* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
728 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
729 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
730 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
731 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
732
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734
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735* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
736 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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738* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
739 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
740
e031c227 741* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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743
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744* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
745
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746* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
747 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
748
25e773ee 749* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 750
720652b3 751* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 752
720652b3 753* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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755* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
756
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757* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
758 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
759
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760* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
761
9d6db739 762* resolved:
9d6db739 763 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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765 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 766 - avahi compat
9d6db739 767 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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768 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
769 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
770 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 771 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 772 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 773
e25b5a8d 774* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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776* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
777
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778* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
779
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780* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
781
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782* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
783
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784* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
785 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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787* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
788
6a3f892a 789* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 790 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 791 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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793* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
794 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
795 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 796
f9bf1b8f 797* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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800 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
801 for ReusePort=
802
f38afcd0 803* cgroups:
f38afcd0 804 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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805 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
806 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
807 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
808 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
809 the hierarchies of child processes
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f38afcd0 811* transient units:
f38afcd0 812 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
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814* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
815
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816* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
817
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818* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
819
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820* 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
821
7f79cd71 822* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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824* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
825 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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827
04397464 828* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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830* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
831
832* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
833
07eabc2b 834* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 835
07eabc2b 836* 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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838* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
839
840* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
841 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
842 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
843
844* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
845 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
846
847* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
848
849* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
850
851* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
852
853* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
854 needs to be auto-respawned?
855
856* pid1:
857 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
858 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
859 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
860 that are not supported...
861 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
862 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
863 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
864 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
865 - move PAM code into its own binary
866 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
867 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
868 - Support --test based on current system state
869 - 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().
870 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
871 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
872 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
873 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
874 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
875 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
876 but much rather a disconnect on success.
877 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
878 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
879 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
880 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
881 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
882
883* unit files:
884 - allow port=0 in .socket units
885 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
886 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
887 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
888 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
889 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
890 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
891 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
892 - introduce Type=pid-file
893 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
894 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
895 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
896
897* timer units:
898 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
899 o DST changes
900 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
901
902* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
903
904* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
905
906* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
907
908* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
909
910* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
911
912* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
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915
916* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
917
fff87a35 918* test/:
20d52ab6 919 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 920
b5c03638 921* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 922 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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924 destination.
925
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927 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
928
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930
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932 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
933 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
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936 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
937 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
938 is installed.
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940* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
941 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
942 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
943 that automatically.
944
e5ec62c5 945* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 946
ccddd104 947* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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949* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
950
356ce991 951* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
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953* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
954 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
955
956* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
957
958* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
959
960* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
961
962* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
963
964* sd-bus:
965 - EBADSLT handling
966 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
967 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
968 - 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
969 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
970 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
971 - longer term: priority inheritance
972 - dbus spec updates:
973 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
974 - GVariant
975 - path escaping
976 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
977
978* sd-event
979 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
980 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
981 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
982 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
983 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
984 here:
985 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
986
987* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
988 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
989
990* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
991
992* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
993
994* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
995
996* firstboot: allow provisioning of /etc/hosts entries, so that we can via the
997 credentials logic insert host name to resolve into containers/hosts. Usecase:
998 fork a container, and make it ping some specific address which is defined by
999 the host on invocation
1000
1001* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1002 reading/writing files
1003
1004* 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
1005
1006* sd-boot: define a drop-in dir in the ESP that may contain X.509
1007 certificates. If the firmware is detected to be in setup mode, automatically
1008 enroll them as PK/KEK/db, turn off setup mode and proceed. Optionally,
1009 instead of auto-enrolling them add them to the sd-boot menu, giving the user
1010 the option to manually enroll them, after selecting the menu entry. This way,
1011 installer images can just drop the certfiicates in the ESP, and on first boot
1012 can easily enroll the keys without ever booting up.
1013
1014* efi stub: optionally, load initrd from disk as a separate file, HMAC check it
1015 with key from TPM, bound to PCR, refusing if failing. This would then allow
1016 traditional distros that generate initrds locally to secure them with TPM:
1017 after generating the initrd, do the HMAC calculation, put result in initrd
1018 filename, done. This would then bind the validity of the initrd to the local
1019 host, and used kernel, and means people cannot change initrd or kernel
1020 without booting the kernel + initrd.
1021
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1023 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1024 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1025 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1026* bootctl
631427d6 1027 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1028
07eabc2b 1029* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1030
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1031* bootctl:
1032 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1033 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
1034 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
e6c6e7af 1035
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1037 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1038 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1039 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1040 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1041 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1042 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1043 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1044 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1045 needs setuid().
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1046 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1047 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1048 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1049 complete.
1050 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1051 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1052 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1053 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1054 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1055 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1056 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1057 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1058 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1059 relogins
77b19caf 1060 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 1061
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1062* move logind udev rules to top-level rule.d/ directory
1063
1064* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1065
1066* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1067 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1068 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1069
1070* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1071 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1072
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57f2a947 1074 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1076 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1077 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1078 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1079 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1080 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1081 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1082 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1083 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1084 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1085 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1086 - 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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1087 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1088 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1089 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1090 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1091 - 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.
1092 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1093 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1094 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1095 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1096 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1097 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1098 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1099 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1100 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1101 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1102 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1103 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1104 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1105 to syslog when it works again.
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1106 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1107 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1108 journals in.
1109 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1110 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1111 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1112 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1113 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1114 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1115 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1116 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1117 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1118 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1119 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1120 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1121 operation.
1122 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1123 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1124 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1125 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1126 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1127 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1128 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1129 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1130 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1131 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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1134 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
1135
1136* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
1137 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
1138 validated via TPM.
1139
1140* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
1141 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
1142
1143* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
1144 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
1145 user's journal stream down but not the others.
1146
1147* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
1148 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
1149 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
1150 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
1151 cgroup.
1152
1153* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
1154 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
1155 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
1156 logging.
1157
1158* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
1159
1160* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
1161 from the SIGBUS handler
1162
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1164 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1165 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1166 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1167
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1168* homed:
1169 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
1170 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
1171 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
1172 - resize on login?
1173 - shrink fs on logout?
1174 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
1175 - create on activate?
1176 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
1177 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
1178 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
1179 systemd --user is shut down.
1180 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
1181 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
1182 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
1183 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
1184 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
1185 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
1186 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
1187 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
1188 - query password from kernel keyring first
1189 - update even if record is "absent"
1190 - 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
1191 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
1192 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
1193 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
1194 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
1195 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
1196 - introduce API for "making room", that grows/shrinks home directory
1197 according to elastic parameters, discards blocks, and removes additional snapshots. Call it
1198 either from UI when disk space gets low
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1199 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
1200 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
1201 doesn't mean user B sees it
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1203* homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
1204 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
1205 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
1206
1207* homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
1208 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
1209 signature
1210
1211* homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
1212 and insert a local signature instead.
1213
1214* homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
1215 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
1216 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
1217 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
1218 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
1219
1220* homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
1221
1222* homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
1223 easily?
1224
1225* homed: if kernel 5.12 uid mapping mounts exist, use that instead of recursive
1226 chowns.
1227
1228* add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
1229 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
1230 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
1231 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
1232 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
1233
1234* homed: store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
1235 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
1236
1237* homed: try to unmount in regular intervals when home dir was busy when we
1238 tried because idle.
1239
1240* homed: keep an fd to the homedir open at all times, to keep the fs pinned
1241 (autofs and such) while user is logged in.
1242
1243* when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
1244
1245* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
1246 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
1247 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
1248
1249* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_PATH
1250
1251* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
1252 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
1253 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
1254 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
1255
1256* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
1257
1258* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
1259 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
1260 something goes wrong on the way.
1261
1262* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
1263
1264* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
1265 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
1266 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
1267 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
1268
1269* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
1270 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
1271 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
1272 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
1273 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
1274 automatically.
1275
1276* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
1277 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
1278
1279* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
1280 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
1281 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
1282 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
1283 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
1284 fails to apply use the latter.
1285
1286* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
1287 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
1288
1289* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
1290 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
1291
1292* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
1293 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
1294
1295* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
1296 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
1297
b44be3ec 1298* document:
8b8f2591 1299 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1300 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1301 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1302 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1303 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1304 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1305 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1306 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1307 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1308 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 1309 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1310 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1312* systemctl:
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1314 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1315 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1316 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1317 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1318 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1319 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1320 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1321 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1322 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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1324* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
1325 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
1326 it should skip the variant type string though.
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1328* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
1329 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
1330 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
1331 output for them.
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1333* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
1334 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
1335 the slices, and the units attached to them.
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1337* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
1338 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
1339 wait to retrieve their exit data.
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1341* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
1342 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
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1344* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
1345 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
1346 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
1347 do, for example)
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1349* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
1350 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
1351 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
1352 returning from the "systemctl stop".
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1354* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
1355
1356* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
1357
1358* unit install:
1359 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1360 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
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1363 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1364 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1365 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1366 from the kernel's logs.
1367 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1368 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1369 interface be missing
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1370 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1371 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1372 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1373 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1374 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1375 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1376 PID 1...
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1377 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1378 running, remove them when shut down.
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1380* nspawn: make --bind= work sanely with --private-users when uid mapping mounts
1381 are used.
1382
1383* nspawn: add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension=
1384 switch that takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already
1385 during startup.
1386
1387* when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
1388 so, freeze the payload too.
1389
1390* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
1391 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
1392 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
1393 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
1394 anything like that.
1395
1396* nspawn: support time namespaces
1397
1398* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
1399 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
1400
1401* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
1402 fallback in "machinectl shell"
1403
1404* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
1405 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
1406 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
1407
1408* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
1409
1410* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
1411
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1414 removed or added to an existing machine
1415 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1416 difference host, via ssh
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1417 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1418 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1419 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1420 question
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1421 - "machinectl history"
1422 - "machinectl diff"
1423 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1424 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1425
abd55b16 1426* udev:
abd55b16 1427 - move to LGPL
abd55b16
KS
1428 - kill scsi_id
1429 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1430 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1431
e25b5a8d
DH
1432* coredump:
1433 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1434 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
87a8baa3
LP
1435
1436* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1437
f38afcd0 1438* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1439 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1440 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
1441 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1442 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1443 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 1444 - add --test mode
ba405b22
ZJS
1445 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
1446 project quota
1258097c 1447
af6f0d42
TG
1448* udev-link-config:
1449 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1450 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1451 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1452
88e4d1d7 1453* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1454 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1455 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1456
0a4b9a07 1457* networkd:
c74ecd71
TG
1458 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1459 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 1460 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 1461 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1462 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 1463 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
1464 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1465 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1466 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 1467 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 1468 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
1469 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1470 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1471 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1472 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1473 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1474 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 1475 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1476
07eabc2b
LB
1477* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
1478
d5e172d2
ZJS
1479* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1480
ac976532 1481* dhcp:
424a8732 1482 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1483
37d8b536
PF
1484* dhcp6:
1485 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1486 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1487 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1488 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1489 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
1490 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1491 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1492 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1493 or interface down
1494 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1495 this behavior
4a77c53d 1496 - RouteTable= ?