]> git.ipfire.org Git - thirdparty/systemd.git/blame - TODO
tests: skip tests when executed without privileges but which require them
[thirdparty/systemd.git] / TODO
CommitLineData
71092d70 1Bugfixes:
7c66aeba
KS
2* check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
3
c904f64d
LP
4* swap units that are activated by one name but shown in the kernel under another are semi-broken
5
f957632b
KS
6* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
7 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
8 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
9
9a366075
LP
10* make polkit checks async
11
a40593a0 12* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
20ffc4c4 13
26306aed
KS
14* stop importing kernel exported env variables. The utterly broken logic in
15 the kernel exports every kernel command line option which is not recognized
16 as a built-in module option as an env variable. Systemd should not pass-on
17 that nonsense, a kernel command line option is a command line option not an
18 env variable:
19 $ cat /proc/252/environ
20 initrd=\6a9857a393724b7a981ebb5b8495b9ea\3.10.0-2.fc20.x86_64\initrd
21
2d19f95c 22Fedora 19:
3679d112 23
a4cc3e5c
LP
24* external: maybe it is time to patch procps so that "ps" links to
25 libsystemd-logind to print a pretty service name, seat name, session
26 name in its output. Currently it only shows cgroup membership, but
0028da22 27 that's sometimes kinda hard to parse for a human.
a4cc3e5c 28
7e2c2bcf 29* cgroup attrs:
f0c15f28 30 - update dbus interface docs in wiki
7b4da18c 31
81d112a8 32* localed:
81d112a8
LP
33 - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps
34
55d32caf
LP
35* when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
36
bafb15ba
LP
37CGroup Rework Completion:
38
bafb15ba
LP
39* introduce "mainpid" for scopes
40
41* implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?)
42
43* implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
44
45* handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
46
47* logind: implement session kill exceptions
48
bafb15ba
LP
49* make BlockIODeviceWeight=, BlockIODeviceBandwidth= runtime settable
50
049b4474 51* introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
bafb15ba
LP
52
53* man: document new bus apis
54
248aa28f
LP
55* Send SIGHUP and SIGTERM in session scopes
56
eb124a97 57Features:
154ff088 58
c3bb87db
LP
59* btfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
60
e7256c5c
LP
61* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
62
042e33ae
LP
63* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
64
18d4e7c2
LP
65* add rpm macros for applying tmpfiles --create after package installation
66
36c0868b
LP
67* when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we won't support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200
68
fa7deadb
LP
69* when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop we should ratelimit that too.
70
c5757cc8 71* "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, should
69af4503 72 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
c5757cc8
LP
73 unit however should remove them all).
74
75* journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
76
69af4503 77* journald: optionally, when messages with a high log priority are logged, sync() immediately.
d907c208
LP
78
79* introduce %v resolving to the string returned by "uname -r"
80
81* systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
82
47a1454f
LP
83* Get rid of systemd-sysv:
84 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Toshio/Systemd_Convert_draft
85
049b4474
LP
86* do we really need both hasprefix() and startswith()?
87
b0adb546
LP
88* when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop we should ratelimit that too.
89
bdeeb6b5
LP
90* journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
91 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
92 to syslog when it works again.
93
94* prohibit Restart= set with Type=oneshot
95
96* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
97
98* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
99
174da5c5
LP
100* move systemctl set-log-level to systemd-analyze?
101
fb6becb4
LP
102* move "systemctl dump" to systemd-analyze
103
fb6becb4
LP
104* add a fixed dbus path for "my own unit", "my own session", ... to PID1, logind, ...
105
6c12b52e
LP
106* service_coldplug() appears to reinstall the wrong stop timeout watch?
107
11ddb6f4
LP
108* transient units: allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
109
7041efe9
LP
110* how to reset dynamically changed attributes sanely?
111
b42defe3
LP
112* when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
113
4ad49000 114* journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
3d3ee759 115
9444b1f2
LP
116* libsystemd-logind: sd_session_is_active() and friends: verify
117 validity of session name before appending it to a path
118
9444b1f2 119* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 120 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2
LP
121 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
122
a016b922
LP
123* when a service changes state make reflect that in the
124 RUNNING/LISTENING states of its socket
125
a016b922
LP
126* when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
127 the hierarchies of child processes
128
1f263d4d
LP
129* document logic of auto/noauto and fail/nofail in fstab in systemd.mount or systemd-fstab-generator man page
130
9444b1f2 131* we should properly escape ssh hostnames we add into dbus server strings
1f263d4d
LP
132
133* something pulls in pcre as so dep into our daemons such as hostnamed.
134
4e09014d
LP
135* cgroup-agent: downgrade error messages
136
137* document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
138
a65f06bb 139* change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
4e09014d
LP
140 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
141 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
142 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
143
144* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
145 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
146
eb01ba5d
LP
147* libsystemd-bus:
148 - default policy (allow uid == 0 and our own uid)
149 - enforce alignment of pointers passed in
eb01ba5d 150 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
eb01ba5d
LP
151 - implement translator service
152 - port systemd to new library
153 - implement busname unit type in systemd
154 - move to gvariant
eb01ba5d 155 - merge busctl into systemctl or so?
e4ee6e5c 156 - synthesize sd_bus_message objects from kernel messages
c7819669 157 - properly implement name registry ioctls for kdbus
86312ab8
LP
158 - get rid of object hash table, use decision tree everyhwere instead?
159 - implement monitor logic
160 - object vtable logic
161 - longer term:
162 * priority queues
86312ab8 163 * priority inheritance
eb01ba5d 164
154ff088
LP
165* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
166 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
167 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
168
7e853a9b
LP
169* add an option to nspawn that uses seccomp to make socket(AF_NETLINK,
170 SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_AUDIT) fail the the appropriate error code that
171 makes the audit userspace to think auditing is not available in the
172 kernel.
173
d686f034
LP
174* Introduce a way how we can kill the main process of a service with KillSignal, but all processes with SIGKILL later on
175 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952634
176
69af4503 177* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses where the access mode of unit files is nonsensical.
19aa7c4f 178
69af4503 179* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
e8a7a315 180
461bd8e4
LP
181* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
182 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
183
ab8e074c
LP
184* if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
185 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
186 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
187 needs setuid().
188
189* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
190
191* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
192
b454b112
LP
193* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
194
195* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
196
4a449ed7 197* logind: add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
75512303 198
4a449ed7
LP
199* we need dynamic units
200
4ff49cb6
LP
201* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
202
fff87a35
ZJS
203* test/:
204 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
205 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
206 - remove all the duplicated code in test/
b8b4d3dd
LP
207
208* suppress log output on shutdown when "quiet" is used
209
210* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
211
3df82d5a
LP
212* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
213 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
214 file.
215
b5c03638
LP
216* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
217 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
218 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
219 destination.
220
752beb0c
LP
221* remove duplicate default deps logic from fstab-generator vs. mount.c
222
eece8c6f
LP
223* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
224 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
225
d325d9bc
KS
226* teach udev + logind's uaccess to somehow handle the "dead" device nodes from:
227 /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.devname
228 and apply ACLs to them if they have TAG=="uaccess" in udev rules.
3679d112 229
356ce991
LP
230* add ConditionArchitecture= or so
231
232* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
233
3b953d68
JT
234* Support SO_REUSEPORT with socket activation:
235 - Let systemd maintain a pool of servers.
236 - Use for seamless upgrades, by running the new server before stopping the
237 old.
238
09f727ee
LP
239* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
240 need manual exponential loops after all
241
795607b2
LP
242* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
243 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
244 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
245 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
246
795607b2
LP
247* man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf
248
0be8342c
LP
249* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
250 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
251 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
252 that automatically.
253
69af4503 254* rework specifier logic so that we can distinguish OOM errors from other errors
487060c2 255
e5ec62c5 256* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 257
826872b6
LP
258* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
259
54c31a79 260* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 261
8973790e 262* documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
3679d112 263
69af4503 264* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapse and the time the units ran last
3679d112
LP
265
266* man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
267
268* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
269
69af4503 270* man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
3679d112
LP
271
272* systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
273
3679d112
LP
274* man: add more examples to man pages
275
276* man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
277
3679d112
LP
278* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
279
280* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
281
282* msgcatalog determine default language of entries from the catalog
283 file name. i.e. foobar.de_DE.catalog would set the default entry
284 name for the entries to de_DE if they aren't explicitly suffixed
285 individually.
286
cbb77121
LP
287* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
288
d01a73b6
LP
289* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
290
990ffbe5 291* Honour "-" prefix for InaccessibleDirectories= and ReadOnlyDirectories= to
f8aeee1f
LP
292 suppress errors of the specified path doesn't exist
293
294* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
295 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
296 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
297 will be activated.
298
356ce991 299* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 300
81d112a8 301* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 302
b44be3ec
LP
303* EFI:
304 - fsck hookup for the ESP mount is missing
305 - write man page for efi boot generator
b44be3ec
LP
306 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
307 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
308 - introduce bootctl (backed by systemd-bootd) to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 309
c0fe5db5 310* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 311
b44be3ec 312* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
e9fd44b7 313
b44be3ec
LP
314* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
315 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
3040728b 316
b44be3ec 317* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 318
b44be3ec 319* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
e6c6e7af 320
b44be3ec
LP
321* logind:
322 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
323 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
324 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
325 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
326 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
327 - logind: spawn user@..service on login
328 - logind: non-local X11 server handling
329 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
b44be3ec 330 - pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree
eb124a97 331 - logind: GetSessionByPID() should accept 0 as PID value
e5ec62c5 332 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
e673ad04 333
b44be3ec 334* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 335
b44be3ec 336* DeviceAllow/DeviceDeny: disallow everything by default, but whitelist /dev/zero, /dev/null and friends
e673ad04 337
b44be3ec 338* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
e673ad04 339
b44be3ec 340* journal:
b87b8b2b
KS
341 - do not use magic msync() in src/journal/journal-file.c, just call fsync()
342 <alxchk> poettering: looks like msync just calls vfs_fsync
343 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/mm/msync.c#n18
c06bf414 344 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
b44be3ec
LP
345 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
346 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
347 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
348 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
349 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
350 - journal: reuse XZ context
351 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
352 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
353 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
354 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
355 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
356 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
357 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 358 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
b44be3ec
LP
359 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
360 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
361 - journal: when rotating, copy over old acls/access mode
b44be3ec 362 - journal: send out marker messages every now and then, and immediately sync with fdatasync() afterwards, in order to have hourly guaranteed syncs.
b44be3ec
LP
363 - 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.
364 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
365 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 366 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 367 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
b44be3ec
LP
368 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
369 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
370 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
371 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
77a9e8de 372 - journalctl: expand tabs
b44be3ec
LP
373 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
374 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f
JT
375 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
376 - Port upower to use the journal for historical power information used in future calculations
b44be3ec
LP
377
378* document:
379 - document unit_name_mangle()
380 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in
381 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
382 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
383 - Document word splitting syntax for ExecStart= and friends
384 - document that units from /etc override those from /usr and /run
385 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 386 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 387 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
b44be3ec
LP
388
389* systemctl:
390 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
391 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
392 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
393 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
394 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
395 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
396 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
397 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
398 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
399 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
400 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
401 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
402 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
8b04b925 403
e673ad04
LP
404* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
405
b44be3ec
LP
406* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
407
408* timer units:
409 - configurable jitter for timer events
410 - timer events with system resume
411 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
412 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
413 o DST changes
eb124a97 414 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
d2e83c23
KS
415
416* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
417
418* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
f6113d42
KS
419 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
420 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 421 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 422 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 423 user did not request anything like it.
c55b1b59 424
6c1703cc
KS
425* hwdb:
426 - implement conditional properties (dmi matches)
427 - hwdb --filter=ID_DRIVE_*
08f95888 428
59704f3e
LP
429* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
430 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
431 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
9ec82de1 432
e707c494
LP
433* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
434 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
435 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
7f873283
LP
436 we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in
437 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
438 better supported alternative.
e707c494 439
e707c494
LP
440* figure out relation of --all and --full in the various tools
441
a19554ed
LP
442* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
443
1cb88f2c
LP
444* 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().
445
446* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
447* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
448* fedup: generator
603cd8fe 449
b44be3ec 450* timedated:
b44be3ec 451 - timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
6d0274f1 452
a7a3f28b
LP
453* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
454
9b27910b
LP
455* introduce generic AUGMENT_PID=, AUGMENT_DEVICE= fields
456
b44be3ec 457* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 458
7d8197d1
KS
459* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
460 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
461 - superset of tmpfiles model
462 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
463 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
464 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
465
9ee58bdd
KS
466* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
467 waiting for the timeout
dcfc4b2e 468
71ef24d0
LP
469* high level net_prio setting in execution context
470
71ef24d0
LP
471* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
472
1b89884b
LP
473* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
474
15abdb9a 475* refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful (or set taint?)
1920e37e 476
b44be3ec
LP
477* nspawn:
478 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly
479 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
480 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
481 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
482 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
eb124a97
LP
483 - nspawn: investigate whether we can support the same as LXC's
484 lxc.network.type=phys mode, and pass through entire network
485 interfaces to the container
486 - nspawn: maybe add a way to drop additional caps, in addition to add additional caps
487 - nspawn: maybe explicitly reset loginuid?
3679d112 488 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
b44be3ec
LP
489
490* cryptsetup:
b44be3ec
LP
491 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
492 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
493 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 494 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 495
de34a42b
LP
496* move debug shell to tty6 and make sure this doesn't break the gettys on tty6
497
424a19f8 498* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 499 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
424a19f8
LP
500
501* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
502
a1cccad1
LP
503* make timer units go away after they elapsed
504
8556879e 505* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 506 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
8556879e 507
8556879e
LP
508* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
509
4a30847b
LP
510* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
511
5e8b2883
LP
512* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
513
d87be9b0
LP
514* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
515
88f89a9b
LP
516* system.conf should have controls for cgroups
517
38a60d71
LP
518* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
519
d8b78264
LP
520* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
521
7560fffc
LP
522* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container
523
68f16003 524* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 525
5a7e9599
LP
526* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
527
68f16003
LP
528* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
529 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
530 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
531 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 532 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 533 but much rather a disconnect on success.
0790b9fe 534
918943c7
LP
535* use opterr = 0 for all getopt tools
536
fd4d89b2
LP
537* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
538
8230e26d
LP
539* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
540
4d9909c9
LP
541* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
542
47ae7201
LP
543* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
544
88a6c589 545* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
8351ceae 546
b44be3ec
LP
547* syscall filter:
548 - syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls
549 - syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs?
550 - syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS?
551 - syscall filter: port to libseccomp
552 - system-wide seccomp filter
c66d36e5 553
be0aa784
LP
554* .device aliases need to be implemented with the "following" logic, probably.
555
9946996c
LP
556* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
557 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
558
3471bedc
LP
559* introduce Type=pid-file
560
59cea26a 561* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 562
5b40d337
LP
563* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
564
b86fa936
LP
565* move passno parsing to fstab generator
566
d3a3f222
KS
567* automount: implement expire:
568 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
569 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
570 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
571 - blocking, needs a thread
572 - run until -EAGAIN
573 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
574 - call umount
575 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
576 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
465349c0 577
06dab8e1
LP
578* services which create their own subcgroups break cgroup-empty notification (needs to be fixed in the kernel)
579
e01a15b7 580* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 581
abd55b16 582* udev:
3f60bcb5 583 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
abd55b16
KS
584 - move to LGPL
585 - unify utf8 validator code with shared/
586 - kill scsi_id
587 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
b8217b7b 588
18b754d3 589* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording
068665b6 590
169c4f65
LP
591* when a service has the same env var set twice we actually store it twice and return that in systemctl show -p... We should only show the last setting
592
bd08f242
LP
593* support container_ttys=
594
fb0864e7
LP
595* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
596
9586cdfa
LP
597* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
598
7f110ff9
LP
599* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
600
d0e5a333
LP
601* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
602
d0e5a333
LP
603* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
604
87a8baa3
LP
605* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
606
607* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
608
5ba081b0
LP
609* clean up session cgroups that remain after logout (think sshd), but eventually run empty
610
4cbd9ecf
LP
611* when an instanced service exits, remove its parent cgroup too if possible.
612
65c0cf71
LP
613* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
614
f957632b
KS
615* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
616 needs to be auto-respawned?
617
ad740100
LP
618* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
619
de6c78f8 620* tmpfiles: apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 621
b44be3ec 622* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
14e639ae 623
ff01d048
LP
624* hide PAM/TCPWrap options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
625
d3c7d7dd 626* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
72b9ed82 627
1d6702e8
LP
628* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
629 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
630
71092d70
LP
631* move PAM code into its own binary
632
1258097c
LP
633* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
634 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
635
a4c279f8
LP
636* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
637
7c697168 638* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 639
71092d70 640* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
8d0e38a2 641
f28f1daf
LP
642* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
643 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
644 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
645
88a07670
LP
646* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
647 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
648
71092d70 649* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 650
b44be3ec
LP
651* readahead:
652 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
653 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
654 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
655 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
656 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
b23de6af 657
21bdae12
LP
658* add support for /bin/mount -s
659
9534ce54
LP
660* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
661
68c7d001 662* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 663 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
68c7d001
LP
664 - enabling dbus services
665 - status update
7a2a0b90 666 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 667 - remote access
5d0fcd7c
LP
668 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
669 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 670 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 671 - auto-restart
e707c494 672 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 673 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 674 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 675 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 676 - refreshed, longer missions statement
3679d112
LP
677 - calendar time events
678 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
679 - how to create your own target
680 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
681 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 682
44143309 683* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 684
71092d70 685* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 686
260abb78 687* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
2791a8f8 688
a8f11321
LP
689* Support --test based on current system state
690
21bdae12
LP
691* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
692
c32e0c40
LP
693* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
694
59fee421
LP
695* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
696
129126f3 697* port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID:
7d9e57d2
KS
698 - rpcbind (/var/run/rpcbind.sock!) HAVEPATCH
699 - cups HAVEPATCH
a625ac1a 700 - postfix, saslauthd
a625ac1a
LP
701 - apache/samba
702 - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro)
703 - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!)
a625ac1a
LP
704 - distccd
705
71092d70 706* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
246756ca 707
50f2a90d 708* io priority during initialization
8fe914ec 709
9534ce54
LP
710* drop cap bounding set in readahead and other services
711
7ba97195 712* systemd-python:
7ba97195
ZJS
713 - figure out a simple way to wait for journal events in a way that
714 works with ^C
b04c8c83 715 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
7ba97195 716
8973790e
LP
717* bootchart:
718 - plot per-process IO utilization
719 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
720 - document initcall_debug
8973790e
LP
721 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
722
2f8cd170 723External:
74fe1fe3 724
cc9784c6 725* dbus:
cc9784c6 726 - dbus --user
3377af3e 727 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
cc9784c6
LP
728 - allow specification of socket mode/umask when allocating DBusServer
729 - allow disabling of fd passing when connecting a AF_UNIX connection
3377af3e 730 - allow disabling of UID passing for AUTH EXTERNAL
b69d29ce 731 - always pass cred data along each message
b44be3ec 732 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 733
71092d70
LP
734* fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
735
74fe1fe3
LP
736* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
737
9096ad36 738* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
06ae4bfe 739
69b1c674
KS
740* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
741 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
742 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
743 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
744 the RTC to sync up.
745
71092d70 746* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
14bd37fe 747
8973790e
LP
748* drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields
749
750* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
751
752* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
753
754* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
755
756* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
757
d2bbca68 758* 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=
8973790e
LP
759
760* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
761
762* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 763
4641a16b 764* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
19aa7c4f 765
129126f3 766Regularly:
874aa2cc 767
129126f3 768* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 769
129126f3 770* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
5b6319dc
LP
771
772* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
8c6db833 773
14212119 774* %m in printf() instead of strerror(errno);
444a79d3
LP
775
776* pahole
777
71092d70 778* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 779
4db17f29 780* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
88fae6e0 781
d05c556b
ZJS
782* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
783
9e5f3dbb 784Scheduled for removal or fixing:
a3a3e5b6 785
9e5f3dbb 786* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)