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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* busctl prints errors to stdout:
8 busctl tree org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1
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f38afcd0 10External:
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f38afcd0 12* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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14* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
15
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16Janitorial Clean-ups:
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18* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
19
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20* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
21 semantics, like we do for device.c now
22
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23Features:
24
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25* move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
26 these days
27
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28* nspawn: support time namespaces
29
30* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
31
32* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
33
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34* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
35 when it exits
36
37* make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
38 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
39 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
40
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41* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
42 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, firstboot, tmpfiles,
43 sysusers, systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl.
44
45* per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
46 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
47 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
48 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
49 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
50 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
51 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
52 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
53
54* homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
55 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
56
57* homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
58 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
59
60* homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
61 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
62 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
63
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64* homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
65 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
66 signature
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68* homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
69 and insert a local signature instead.
70
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71* homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
72 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
73 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
74 though: if noone is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
75 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
76
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77* homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
78
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79* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
80 exists and responds.
81
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82* homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
83 easily?
84
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85* when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
86 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
87 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
88 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
89 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
90
97cd52c1 91* cryptsetup/homed: also support FIDO2 HMAC password logic for unlocking
70e9d9a5 92 devices. (see: https://github.com/mjec/fido2-hmac-secret)
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94* systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
95 creates
96
86b52a39 97* homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
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98 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
99 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
100 hence we can make them quicker to work.
101
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102* bootctl:
103 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
104 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
105 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
106
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107* by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
108 allow so that systemd survives
109
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110* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
111 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
112
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113* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
114 systemd-makefs.service instead.
115
91fc013f 116* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 117 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 118
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119* unify on openssl:
120 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
121 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
122 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
123 - port importd over from libgcrypt
124 - when that's done: kill khash.c
125 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
126
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127* kill zenata, all hail weblate?
128
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129* when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
130
131* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
132 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
133
134* hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
135 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
136 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
137 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
138 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
139
492f91d8 140* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
86b52a39 141 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
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142 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
143 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
144
86b52a39 145* systemd-repart: optionally, allow specifying a path to initialize new
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146 partitions from, i.e. an fs image file or a source device node. This would
147 then turn systemd-repart into a simple installer: with a few .repart files
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148 you could replicate the host system on another device. a full installer would
149 then be: "systemd-repart /dev/sda && bootctl install /dev/sda &&
150 systemd-firstboot --image= …"
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152* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
153 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
154 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
155 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
156 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
157 automatically.
158
159* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
160 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
161
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162* systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
163 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
164
165* systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
166
167* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
168 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
169
170* systemd-repart: add specifier expansion, add especifier that refers to root
171 device node of current system, /usr device node, and matching verity, so that
172 an installer can be made a "copy" installer of the booted OS
173
2a4be3c5 174* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
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175 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
176
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177* systemd-repart: allow config of partition uuid
178
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179* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
180 realname substr searches in varlink API
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182* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
183
2a4be3c5 184* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 185
f1eb0ccd 186* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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188* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
189 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
190 initrd had set.
191
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192* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
193 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
194 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
195 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
196 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
197 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
198
199* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
200 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
201 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
202
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203* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
204 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
205 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
206 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
207 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
208 source.
209
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210* figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
211 with immutable /usr
212
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213* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
214 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
215 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
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217* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
218
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219* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
220 the hibernation
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222* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
223 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
224 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
225 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
226 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
227 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
228 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
229 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
230 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
231 hibernation mode. (see
232 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
233 section 10.2.2.8 and
234 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
235 at the end).
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237* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
238 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
239 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
240 output for them.
241
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242* systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
243 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
244
245* systemd-firstboot: add --force mode that replaces existing configuration.
246
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247* We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
248 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
249 constant vendor data.
250
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251* maybe add kernel cmdline params: 1) to force first-boot mode + 2) to force
252 random seed crediting
253
254* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
255 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
256
257* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
258 fallback in "machinectl shell"
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260* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
261 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
262 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
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264* homed:
265 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
266 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
267 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
268 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
269 - resize on login?
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270 - shrink fs on logout?
271 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
272 - create on activate?
273 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
274 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
275 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
276 systemd --user is shut down.
277 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
278 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk images (think: time machine)
86b52a39 279 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
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280 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
281 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
282 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
283 - description field for groups
284 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
285 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
286 - query password from kernel keyring first
287 - update even if record is "absent"
288 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
289 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
290 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
291 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
292 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
293 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
294
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295* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
296 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
297 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
298 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
299 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
300 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
301 exec().
302
303* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
304
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305* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
306 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
307
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308* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
309
310* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
311 gnome-bluetooth and friends
312
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313* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
314 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
315 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
316 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
317 cgroup.
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319* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
320 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
321 root.
322
323* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
324 is issued.
325
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326* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
327
328* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
329
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330* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
331 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
332 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 333
d238709c 334* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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335 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
336 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
337
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338* add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
339 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
340 ConfigurationDirectory=.
341
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342* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
343
d3584ec4 344* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
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346* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
347 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
348
06898123 349* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 350 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 351 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
06898123 352
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353* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
354
355* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
356 patching around
357
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358* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
359 log.c and sd-journal-send
360
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361* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
362
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363* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
364
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365* sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
366 can add in file system drivers and such
367
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368* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
369 non-zero "tries done" count
370
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371* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
372 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
373 it should skip the variant type string though.
374
375* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
376 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
377 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
378 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
379 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
380 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
381 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
382 CODE_FILE.
383
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384* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
385 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
386 some explanatory text online.
387
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388* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
389
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390* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
391 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
392 the slices, and the units attached to them.
393
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394* the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
395 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
bc130b68 396 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
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397 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
398 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
399 way)
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401* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
402 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
403 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
404
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405* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
406 original defaults before calling parse_config()
407
72d711ef 408* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
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410* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
411 Specifically:
412
413 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
414 properly)
e83419d0 415 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 416 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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418* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
419 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
420
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421* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
422 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
423 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
424 files and suchlike we operate on.
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426* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
427
428* add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
429
430* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
431 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
432
5da19043 433* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
5238e957 434 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
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435 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
436 numbers.
437
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438* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
439 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
440 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
441 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
442 unlinked from any dir.
443
bd1b3f75 444* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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446* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
447
448* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
449
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450* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
451 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
452 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
453 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
454 should reflink the image file itself.
455
456 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
457 specific paths only like this.
458
53c70a27 459* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 460 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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461 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
462 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
463 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
464
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465* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
466
467* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
468
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469* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
470 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
471
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472* teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
473 project quota
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475* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
476 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
477 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
478 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
479 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
480 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
481 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
482 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
483
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484* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
485 for root, but only then.
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487* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
488
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489* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
490 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
491
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492* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
493 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
494
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495* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
496 host-side interface pointing to the container.
497
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498* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
499 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
500 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
501 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
502 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
503
cb77e122 504* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 505
899feb72 506* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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508* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
509 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
510 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
511
5f7ecd61 512* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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514* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
515 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
516
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517* blog about fd store and restartable services
518
519* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
520
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521* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
522 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
523
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524* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
525 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
526 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
527 ID is available.
528
529* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
530 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
531 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
532
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533* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
534 parameters
535
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536* maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
537 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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538 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
539 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
540 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
541 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
542 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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544* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
545 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
546
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547* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
548 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
549 wait to retrieve their exit data.
550
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551* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
552 about it in the resource log message
553
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554* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
555 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
556
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557* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
558 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
559 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
560
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561* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
562 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
563
564 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
565
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567 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
568 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
569 logging.
570
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571* hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
572 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
573 "convertible" form factor
574
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575* Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
576 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
577 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
578 as MAINPID.
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580* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
581 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
582 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
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584* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
585 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
586
587* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
588 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
589 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
590 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
591 natural habitat.
592
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593* gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
594 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
595 /usr is mounted into.
596
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597* 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
598
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599* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
600
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601* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
602 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
603 relative to the configured default value.
604
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605* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
606
607* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
608
04397464 609* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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611* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
612
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613* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
614
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615* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
616
04397464 617* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 618
04397464 619* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 620
04397464 621* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 622
8ce9b83a 623* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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625* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
626 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
627 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
628
e40a326c 629* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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631* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
632
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633* mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
634 partitions
635
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636* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
637 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
638 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
639 mapping to work.
640
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641* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
642
643* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
644
645* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
646
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647* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
648 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
649
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650* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
651 reload the unit file anyway
652
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653* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
654 from the SIGBUS handler
655
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656* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
657
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658* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
659 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
660
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661* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
662
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663* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
664 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
665
f9bf1b8f 666* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 667 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 668 specifications.
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670* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
671
5ebbb45b 672* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
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674* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
675
a2088fd0 676* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 677 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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678 prefixed with /sys generally special.
679 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
680
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681* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
682
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683* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
684
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685* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
686 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
687 state.
688 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
689
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690* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
691 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
692 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
693 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
694 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
695
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696* networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
697 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
698
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699* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
700
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701* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
702 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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704* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
705 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
706 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
707 do, for example)
708
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709* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
710 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
711
e031c227 712* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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713 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
714
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715* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
716
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717* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
718 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
719 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
720 returning from the "systemctl stop".
721
b568ef14 722* 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
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724* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
725
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726* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
727 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
728
25e773ee 729* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 730
279f0366 731* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 732
5238e957 733* systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
b42de08a 734 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
202aea45 735
720652b3 736* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 737
720652b3 738* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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740* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
741
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742* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
743 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
744
9d6db739 745* resolved:
9d6db739 746 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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748 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 749 - avahi compat
9d6db739 750 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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751 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
752 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
753 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 754 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 755 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 756
e25b5a8d 757* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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759* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
760
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761* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
762
a01647e5 763* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 764 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
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766* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
767
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768* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
769
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770* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
771
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772* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
773 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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775* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
776
6a3f892a 777* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 778 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 779 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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781* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
782 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
783 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 784
f9bf1b8f 785* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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787* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
788 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
789 for ReusePort=
790
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791* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
792 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
793 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
794 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
795 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
796 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
797
f38afcd0 798* cgroups:
f38afcd0 799 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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800 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
801 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
802 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
803 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
804 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 805
f38afcd0 806* transient units:
f38afcd0 807 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
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809* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
810
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811* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
812
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813* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
814
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815* 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
816
7f79cd71 817* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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819* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
820 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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821 path anyway.
822
04397464 823* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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825* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
826
827* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
828
6bb648a1 829* sd-bus:
0d43ffef 830 - EBADSLT handling
fa607802 831 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
7212c608 832 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
57f2a947 833 - 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
f38afcd0 834 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 835 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
ab9716c2 836 - longer term: priority inheritance
df98a87b 837 - dbus spec updates:
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839 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 840 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 841 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
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843* sd-event
12179984 844 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 845 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
e25b5a8d 846 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
eb01ba5d 847
69af4503 848* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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850* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
851 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
852
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853* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
854
855* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
856
fff87a35 857* test/:
20d52ab6 858 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 859
b5c03638 860* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 861 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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862 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
863 destination.
864
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865* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
866 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
867
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868* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
869
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870* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
871 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
872 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
873
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874* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
875 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
876 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
877 is installed.
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879* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
880 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
881 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
882 that automatically.
883
e5ec62c5 884* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 885
ccddd104 886* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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888* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
889
356ce991 890* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 891
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894 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 895 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 896* bootctl
631427d6 897 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 898
c0fe5db5 899* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 900
b44be3ec 901* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 902
b44be3ec 903* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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906 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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907 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
908 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
909 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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910 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
911 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
912 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
913 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
914 needs setuid().
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916 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
917 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
918 complete.
919 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
920 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
921 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
279f0366 922 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
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924 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
925 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
926 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
927 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
928 relogins
77b19caf 929 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 930
b44be3ec 931* journal:
57f2a947 932 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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934 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
935 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 936 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 937 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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938 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
939 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
940 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 941 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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942 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
943 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 944 - 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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945 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
946 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
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947 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
948 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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949 - 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.
950 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
951 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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952 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
953 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
954 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
955 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 956 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 957 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 958 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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959 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
960 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
961 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
962 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
963 to syslog when it works again.
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964 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
965 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
966 journals in.
967 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
968 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
969 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
970 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
971 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 972 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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973 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
974 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
975 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
976 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
977 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
978 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
979 operation.
980 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
981 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
982 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
983 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 984 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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985 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
986 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
987 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
988 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
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990* add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
991 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
992 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
993 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
994
b44be3ec 995* document:
8b8f2591 996 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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997 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
998 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 999 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1000 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1001 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1002 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1003 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1004 - man: add more examples to man pages
1005 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1006 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1008* systemctl:
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1009 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1010 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1011 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1012 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1013 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1014 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1015 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1016 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1017 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1018 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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1020* unit install:
1021 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1022 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
8b04b925 1023
b44be3ec 1024* timer units:
b44be3ec 1025 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
b44be3ec 1026 o DST changes
90e071d1 1027 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 1028
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1029* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1030
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1031* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1032
b44be3ec 1033* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 1034
f59d1da8 1035* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
dcfc4b2e 1036
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1038
d28315e4 1039* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 1040
b44be3ec 1041* nspawn:
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1042 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1043 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1044 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1045 from the kernel's logs.
1046 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1047 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1048 interface be missing
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1049 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1050 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1051 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1052 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1053 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1054 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1055 PID 1...
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1056 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1057 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1058
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1059* dissect
1060 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1061 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1062
e25b5a8d 1063* machined:
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1064 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1065 removed or added to an existing machine
1066 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1067 difference host, via ssh
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1068 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1069 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1070 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1071 question
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1072 - "machinectl history"
1073 - "machinectl diff"
1074 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1075 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1076
b44be3ec 1077* cryptsetup:
b44be3ec 1078 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
5f1dac6b 1079 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 1080
424a19f8 1081* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 1082 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
424a19f8 1083
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1084* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1085
68f16003 1086* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 1087
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1088* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1089
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1090* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1091
abd55b16 1092* udev:
abd55b16 1093 - move to LGPL
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1094 - kill scsi_id
1095 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1096 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1097
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1098* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1099
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1100* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1101
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1102* coredump:
1103 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1104 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
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1105
1106* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1107
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1108* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1109 needs to be auto-respawned?
1110
f38afcd0 1111* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1112 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1113 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1114 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1115 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1116 calls follow symlinks.
1258097c 1117
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1118* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1119
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1120* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1121 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1122 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1123
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1124* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1125 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1126
71092d70 1127* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 1128
68c7d001 1129* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 1130 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
68c7d001 1131 - enabling dbus services
7a2a0b90 1132 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 1133 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 1134 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 1135 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 1136 - auto-restart
e707c494 1137 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 1138 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 1139 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 1140 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 1141 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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1142 - calendar time events
1143 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1144 - how to create your own target
1145 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1146 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 1147
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1148* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1149
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1150* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1151
e25b5a8d 1152* pid1:
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1153 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1154 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1155 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1156 that are not supported...
1157 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1158 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1159 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1160 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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1161 - move PAM code into its own binary
1162 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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1163 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1164 - Support --test based on current system state
1165 - 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().
1166 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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1167 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1168 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1169 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1170 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1171 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1172 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1173 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1174 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1175
1176* unit files:
1177 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1178 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1179 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1180 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1181 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1182 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1183 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1184 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
e25b5a8d 1185 - introduce Type=pid-file
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1186 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1187 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
e25b5a8d 1188 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
e5171296 1189 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
e25b5a8d 1190
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1191* udev-link-config:
1192 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1193 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1194 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1195
88e4d1d7 1196* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1197 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1198 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1199
0a4b9a07 1200* networkd:
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1201 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1202 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 1203 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 1204 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
5c1d3fc9 1205 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
798e174a 1206 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1207 - work with non-Ethernet devices
c9fa3670 1208 - add support for more bond options
e25b5a8d 1209 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1210 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1211 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1212 - expose in the API the following bits:
1213 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
38b38500 1214 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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1215 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1216 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1217 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1218 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1219 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1220 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1221 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1222 - allow DUID/IAID to be customized, see issue #394.
e25b5a8d 1223 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1224
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1225* networkd-wait-online:
1226 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
8f5675cc 1227
ac976532 1228* dhcp:
424a8732 1229 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1230
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1231* dhcp6:
1232 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1233 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1234 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1235 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1236 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1237 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1238 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1239 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1240 or interface down
1241 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1242 this behavior
4a77c53d 1243 - RouteTable= ?
37d8b536 1244
2f8cd170 1245External:
74fe1fe3 1246
cc9784c6 1247* dbus:
3377af3e 1248 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 1249 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 1250
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1251* fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
1252
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1253* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1254
9096ad36 1255* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
06ae4bfe 1256
71092d70 1257* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
14bd37fe 1258
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1259* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1260
d2bbca68 1261* 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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1262
1263* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
1264
1265* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 1266
4641a16b 1267* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
19aa7c4f 1268
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1269* register catalog database signature as file magic
1270
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1271* zsh shell completion:
1272 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 1273 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1cf3c30c 1274
90137b62 1275* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
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1276* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1277 after being started.
2c12a402 1278
129126f3 1279Regularly:
874aa2cc 1280
129126f3 1281* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 1282
129126f3 1283* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
5b6319dc 1284
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1285* pahole
1286
d28315e4 1287* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 1288
4db17f29 1289* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
88fae6e0 1290
d05c556b 1291* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
62353f69 1292String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment