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71092d70 1Bugfixes:
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2* the running hwdb seems not to pick up updated database files without
3 an explicit: udevadm control --reload
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5* enabling an instance unit creates pointless link, and
6 the unit will be started with getty@getty.service:
7 $ systemctl enable getty@.service
8 ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service' '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@.service'
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10* check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
11
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12* swap units that are activated by one name but shown in the kernel under another are semi-broken
13
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14* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
15 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
16 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
17
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18* make polkit checks async
19
a40593a0 20* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
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22* ellipsize_mem must take into account multi-byte unicode characters, and
23 - make the resulting line the requested number of *characters*, not *bytes*,
24 - avoid truncuating multi-byte sequences in the middle.
25
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26* When we detect invalid UTF-8, we cant't use it in an error message:
27 log...("Path is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment: %s", rvalue);
28
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29* shorten the message to sane length:
30
31 Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status display-manager.service' for details.
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466784c8 33Fedora 20:
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dc7adf20 35* external: ps should gain colums for slice and machine
7b4da18c 36
81d112a8 37* localed:
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38 - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps
39
55d32caf 40* when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
466784c8 41 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
55d32caf 42
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43CGroup Rework Completion:
44
94bbc991 45* introduce "mainpid" for scopes (or maybe not?)
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47* implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?)
48
49* implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
50
51* handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
52
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53* make BlockIODeviceWeight=, BlockIODeviceBandwidth= runtime settable
54
049b4474 55* introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
bafb15ba 56
431c72dc 57* wiki: document new bus APIs of PID 1 (transient units, Reloading signal)
bafb15ba 58
eb124a97 59Features:
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61* libdsystemd-bus should expose utf8 validation calls
62
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63* When using "systemd status" on a slice unit also show all messages
64 matching _SYSTEMD_SLICE= not just _SYSTEMD_UNIT=
65
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66* always set memory.user_hierarchy for all cgroups we create
67
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68* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition
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70* mounts: do not test each mount unit against each other mount unit to
71 determine prefixes. Instead generated list of all prefixes and
72 interate through that to bring down complexity from O(n^2) to O(n)
73 when loading units
74
d2e2c03d 75* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink generate a clean
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76 error. Currently we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
77 path anyway.
78
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79* When a Type=forking service fails and needed another service that
80 service is not cleaned up again when it has StopWhenUnneeded=yes
81 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-July/012141.html
82
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83* backlight: properly handle multiple backlight devices for the same
84 hardware: at shutdown we should only save the backlight setting for
85 the "best" way to access the backlight. Strategy should be: at
86 shutdown, ignore all backlights that are connected to a non-eDP or
87 non-LVDS port, and then prefer the firmware device over platform
88 device over raw device per-PCI card. Delete all old data. At boot
89 simply apply whatever data we find. Also see
90 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libbacklight/tree/libbacklight.c#n194
91
92* rfkill: save/restore soft rfkill status across reboots
93
94* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
95
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96* ensure scope units may be started only a single time
97
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98* document that in instead of FsckPassNo= people should just add a manual dep to systemd-fsck@.service to their mount units.
99
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100* better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
101
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102* systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
103
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104* for transient units, instead of writing out drop-ins for all properties consider serializing them in the normal serialization stream
105
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106* logind: when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects
107
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108* session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
109
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110* add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
111
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112* journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
113
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114* given that logind/machined now let PID 1 do all nasty work we can
115 probably reduce the capability set they retain substantially.
116
6aaa8c2f 117* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
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119* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
120
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121* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
122
e1b7e7ec 123* make sure gdm doesn't use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
18d4e7c2 124
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125* 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
126
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127* when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop we should ratelimit that too.
128
c5757cc8 129* "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, should
69af4503 130 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
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131 unit however should remove them all).
132
133* journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
134
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135* systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
136
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137* journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
138 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
139 to syslog when it works again.
140
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141* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
142
143* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
144
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145* add a fixed dbus path for "my own unit", "my own session", ... to PID1, logind, ...
146
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147* service_coldplug() appears to reinstall the wrong stop timeout watch?
148
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149* transient units: allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
150
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151* how to reset dynamically changed attributes sanely?
152
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153* when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
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4ad49000 155* journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
3d3ee759 156
9444b1f2 157* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 158 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 159 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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160 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
161 check for that and suppress event handling.
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163* when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
164 the hierarchies of child processes
165
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166* document logic of auto/noauto and fail/nofail in fstab in systemd.mount or systemd-fstab-generator man page
167
9444b1f2 168* we should properly escape ssh hostnames we add into dbus server strings
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170* something pulls in pcre as so dep into our daemons such as hostnamed.
171
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172* document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
173
a65f06bb 174* change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
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175 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
176 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
177 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
178
179* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
180 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
181
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182* libsystemd-bus:
183 - default policy (allow uid == 0 and our own uid)
184 - enforce alignment of pointers passed in
eb01ba5d 185 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
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186 - implement translator service
187 - port systemd to new library
188 - implement busname unit type in systemd
189 - move to gvariant
eb01ba5d 190 - merge busctl into systemctl or so?
e4ee6e5c 191 - synthesize sd_bus_message objects from kernel messages
c7819669 192 - properly implement name registry ioctls for kdbus
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193 - get rid of object hash table, use decision tree everyhwere instead?
194 - implement monitor logic
195 - object vtable logic
196 - longer term:
197 * priority queues
86312ab8 198 * priority inheritance
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200* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
201 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
202 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
203
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204* add an option to nspawn that uses seccomp to make socket(AF_NETLINK,
205 SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_AUDIT) fail the the appropriate error code that
206 makes the audit userspace to think auditing is not available in the
207 kernel.
208
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209* Introduce a way how we can kill the main process of a service with KillSignal, but all processes with SIGKILL later on
210 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952634
211
69af4503 212* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses where the access mode of unit files is nonsensical.
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69af4503 214* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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216* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
217 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
218
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219* if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
220 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
221 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
222 needs setuid().
223
224* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
225
226* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
227
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228* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
229
230* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
231
4a449ed7 232* logind: add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
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234* we need dynamic units
235
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236* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
237
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238* test/:
239 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
240 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
241 - remove all the duplicated code in test/
b8b4d3dd 242
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243* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
244
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245* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
246 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
247 file.
248
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249* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
250 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
251 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
252 destination.
253
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254* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
255 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
256
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257* add ConditionArchitecture= or so
258
259* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
260
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261* Support SO_REUSEPORT with socket activation:
262 - Let systemd maintain a pool of servers.
263 - Use for seamless upgrades, by running the new server before stopping the
264 old.
265
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266* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
267 need manual exponential loops after all
268
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269* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
270 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
271 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
272 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
273
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274* man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf
275
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276* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
277 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
278 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
279 that automatically.
280
69af4503 281* rework specifier logic so that we can distinguish OOM errors from other errors
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e5ec62c5 283* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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285* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
286
54c31a79 287* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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8973790e 289* documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
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69af4503 291* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapse and the time the units ran last
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293* man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
294
295* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
296
69af4503 297* man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
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299* systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
300
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301* man: add more examples to man pages
302
303* man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
304
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305* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
306
307* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
308
309* msgcatalog determine default language of entries from the catalog
310 file name. i.e. foobar.de_DE.catalog would set the default entry
311 name for the entries to de_DE if they aren't explicitly suffixed
312 individually.
313
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314* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
315
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316* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
317
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318* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
319 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
320 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
321 will be activated.
322
356ce991 323* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 324
81d112a8 325* introduce ExecCondition= in services
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327* EFI:
328 - fsck hookup for the ESP mount is missing
329 - write man page for efi boot generator
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330 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
331 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 332 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
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c0fe5db5 334* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 335
b44be3ec 336* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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338* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
339 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 341* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 342
b44be3ec 343* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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345* logind:
346 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
347 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
348 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
349 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
350 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
351 - logind: spawn user@..service on login
352 - logind: non-local X11 server handling
353 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
b44be3ec 354 - pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree
eb124a97 355 - logind: GetSessionByPID() should accept 0 as PID value
e5ec62c5 356 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
e673ad04 357
b44be3ec 358* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 359
b44be3ec 360* DeviceAllow/DeviceDeny: disallow everything by default, but whitelist /dev/zero, /dev/null and friends
e673ad04 361
b44be3ec 362* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
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b44be3ec 364* journal:
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365 - do not use magic msync() in src/journal/journal-file.c, just call fsync()
366 <alxchk> poettering: looks like msync just calls vfs_fsync
367 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/mm/msync.c#n18
c06bf414 368 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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369 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
370 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
371 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
372 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
373 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
374 - journal: reuse XZ context
375 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
376 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
377 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
378 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
379 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
380 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
381 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 382 - 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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383 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
384 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
385 - journal: when rotating, copy over old acls/access mode
b44be3ec 386 - journal: send out marker messages every now and then, and immediately sync with fdatasync() afterwards, in order to have hourly guaranteed syncs.
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387 - 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.
388 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
389 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 390 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 391 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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392 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
393 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
394 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
395 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
77a9e8de 396 - journalctl: expand tabs
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397 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
398 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
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399 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
400 - Port upower to use the journal for historical power information used in future calculations
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402* document:
403 - document unit_name_mangle()
404 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in
405 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
406 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
407 - Document word splitting syntax for ExecStart= and friends
408 - document that units from /etc override those from /usr and /run
409 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 410 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 411 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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413* systemctl:
414 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
415 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
416 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
417 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
418 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
419 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
420 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
421 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
422 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
423 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
424 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
425 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
426 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
8b04b925 427
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428* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
429
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430* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
431
432* timer units:
433 - configurable jitter for timer events
434 - timer events with system resume
435 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
436 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
437 o DST changes
eb124a97 438 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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440* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
441
442* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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443 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
444 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 445 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 446 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 447 user did not request anything like it.
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449* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
450 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
451 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
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453* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
454 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
455 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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456 we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in
457 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
458 better supported alternative.
e707c494 459
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460* figure out relation of --all and --full in the various tools
461
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462* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
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464* 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().
465
466* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
467* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
468* fedup: generator
603cd8fe 469
b44be3ec 470* timedated:
b44be3ec 471 - timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
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473* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
474
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475* introduce generic AUGMENT_PID=, AUGMENT_DEVICE= fields
476
b44be3ec 477* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
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479* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
480 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
481 - superset of tmpfiles model
482 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
483 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
484 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
485
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486* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
487 waiting for the timeout
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489* high level net_prio setting in execution context
490
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491* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
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493* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
494
15abdb9a 495* refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful (or set taint?)
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498 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly
499 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
500 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
501 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
502 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
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503 - nspawn: investigate whether we can support the same as LXC's
504 lxc.network.type=phys mode, and pass through entire network
505 interfaces to the container
506 - nspawn: maybe add a way to drop additional caps, in addition to add additional caps
507 - nspawn: maybe explicitly reset loginuid?
3679d112 508 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
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510* cryptsetup:
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511 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
512 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
513 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 514 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 515
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516* move debug shell to tty6 and make sure this doesn't break the gettys on tty6
517
424a19f8 518* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 519 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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521* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
522
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523* make timer units go away after they elapsed
524
8556879e 525* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 526 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
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528* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
529
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530* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
531
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532* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
533
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534* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
535
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536* system.conf should have controls for cgroups
537
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538* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
539
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540* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
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542* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container
543
68f16003 544* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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546* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
547
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548* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
549 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
550 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
551 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 552 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 553 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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555* use opterr = 0 for all getopt tools
556
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557* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
558
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559* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
560
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561* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
562
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563* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
564
88a6c589 565* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
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568 - syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls
569 - syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs?
570 - syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS?
571 - syscall filter: port to libseccomp
572 - system-wide seccomp filter
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574* .device aliases need to be implemented with the "following" logic, probably.
575
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576* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
577 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
578
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579* introduce Type=pid-file
580
59cea26a 581* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
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583* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
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585* move passno parsing to fstab generator
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587* automount: implement expire:
588 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
589 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
590 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
591 - blocking, needs a thread
592 - run until -EAGAIN
593 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
594 - call umount
595 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
596 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
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598* services which create their own subcgroups break cgroup-empty notification (needs to be fixed in the kernel)
599
e01a15b7 600* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 601
abd55b16 602* udev:
3f60bcb5 603 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
abd55b16 604 - move to LGPL
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606 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
b8217b7b 607
18b754d3 608* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording
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610* 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
611
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612* support container_ttys=
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614* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
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616* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
617
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618* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
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620* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
621
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622* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
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624* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
625
626* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
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628* clean up session cgroups that remain after logout (think sshd), but eventually run empty
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630* when an instanced service exits, remove its parent cgroup too if possible.
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632* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
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634* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
635 needs to be auto-respawned?
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637* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
638
de6c78f8 639* tmpfiles: apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 640
b44be3ec 641* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
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644
d3c7d7dd 645* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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647* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
648 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
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650* move PAM code into its own binary
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652* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
653 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
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655* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
656
7c697168 657* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 658
71092d70 659* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
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661* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
662 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
663 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
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667* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
668 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
669
71092d70 670* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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672* readahead:
673 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
674 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
675 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
676 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
677 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
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679* add support for /bin/mount -s
680
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681* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
682
68c7d001 683* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 684 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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685 - enabling dbus services
686 - status update
7a2a0b90 687 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 688 - remote access
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689 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
690 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 691 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 692 - auto-restart
e707c494 693 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 694 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 695 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 696 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 697 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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699 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
700 - how to create your own target
701 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
702 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 703
44143309 704* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 705
71092d70 706* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 707
260abb78 708* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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710* Support --test based on current system state
711
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712* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
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714* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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716* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
717
129126f3 718* port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID:
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719 - rpcbind (/var/run/rpcbind.sock!) HAVEPATCH
720 - cups HAVEPATCH
a625ac1a 721 - postfix, saslauthd
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723 - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro)
724 - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!)
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726
71092d70 727* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
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50f2a90d 729* io priority during initialization
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7ba97195 733* systemd-python:
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735 works with ^C
b04c8c83 736 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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739 - plot per-process IO utilization
740 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
741 - document initcall_debug
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743
64eed40c 744* systemd-run is missing zsh completion scripts
c9d954b2 745
2f8cd170 746External:
74fe1fe3 747
cc9784c6 748* dbus:
cc9784c6 749 - dbus --user
3377af3e 750 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
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752 - allow disabling of fd passing when connecting a AF_UNIX connection
3377af3e 753 - allow disabling of UID passing for AUTH EXTERNAL
b69d29ce 754 - always pass cred data along each message
b44be3ec 755 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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757* fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
758
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759* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
760
9096ad36 761* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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763* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
764 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
765 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
766 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
767 the RTC to sync up.
768
71092d70 769* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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773* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
774
775* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
776
777* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
778
779* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
780
d2bbca68 781* 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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783* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
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785* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 786
4641a16b 787* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
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129126f3 789Regularly:
874aa2cc 790
129126f3 791* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 792
129126f3 793* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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795* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
8c6db833 796
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799* pahole
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71092d70 801* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 802
4db17f29 803* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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806
9e5f3dbb 807Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 809* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)