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1Preparations for 218:
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3* cgroup delegation issues
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5* test-bus-kernel-bloom is borked
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afe3ab58 7Bugfixes:
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9* Should systemctl status \* work on all unit types, not just .service?
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11* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
12 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
13 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
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a40593a0 15* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
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afe3ab58 17* ExecStart with unicode characters fails in strv_split_quoted:
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19 [Service]
20 Environment=ONE='one' "TWO='two two' too" THREE=
21 ExecStart=/bin/python3 -c 'import sys;print(sys.argv)' $ONE $TWO $THREE
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3f85ef0f 23* MEMORY return code is overloaded for syntax errors in the command line.
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24 str_split_quoted() should return a real return code, so spawn_child can
25 report the failure properly.
afea8d38 26
f38afcd0 27External:
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f38afcd0 29* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
bafb15ba 30
f38afcd0 31* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
bafb15ba 32
81429136 33* Fedora: move kernel image to /usr/lib/modules/, kernel-install will take care of populating /boot
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35* Fedora: remove /etc/resolv.conf tmpfiles hack
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37* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
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39* When lz4 gets an API for lz4 command output, make use of it to
40 compress coredumps in a way compatible with /usr/bin/lz4.
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81429136 42Features:
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44* port libmount hookup to use API's own inotify interface, as soon as that is table in libmount
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46* bash completion for busctl, to make it truly useful
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48* journald: broken file systems are real (btrfs), we need to handle
49 SIGBUS in some way if we cannot write or read from the disk.
50 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151848
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52* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
53 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
54 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
55 do, for example)
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57* resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
58 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
59 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
60
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61* systemd-journal-upload (or a new, related tool): allow pushing out
62 journal messages onto the network in BSD syslog protocol,
63 continously. Default to some link-local IP mcast group, to make this
64 useful as a one-stop debugging tool.
65
66* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
67 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
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69* as soon as we have kdbus, and sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
70 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
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72* set $REMOTE_IP (or $REMOTE_ADDR/$REMOTE_PORT) environment variable when doing per-connection socket activation. use format introduced by xinetd or CGI for this
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74* the install state probably shouldn't get confused by generated units, think dbus1/kdbus compat!
75
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76* in systemctl list-unit-files: show the install value the presets would suggest for a service in a third column
77
78* we should try harder to collapse start jobs for swaps that end up being the same:
79 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-November/025359.html
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81* timedated should compensate on SetTime for the time spent in polkit
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83* figure out what to do with libmount and utab?
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85* We really should have a FOREACH macro to iterate through inotify events we read, similar to KDBUS_FOREACH_ITEM
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87* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
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89* sd-resolve: drop res_query wrapping, people should call via the bus to resolved instead
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91* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
92 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
93 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
94 returning from the "systemctl stop".
95
b568ef14 96* 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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98* timesyncd + resolved: add ugly bus calls to set NTP and DNS servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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100* networkd-wait-online really should have a timeout by default
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102* add infrastructure to allocate dynamic/transient users and UID ranges, for use in user-namespaced containers, per-seat gdm login screens and gdm guest sessions
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104* machined: add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being removed or added to an existing machine
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106* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
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108* code cleanup: retire FOREACH_WORD_QUOTED, port to unquote_first_word() loops instead
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110* introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix?
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112* systemd --user should issue sd_notify() upon reaching basic.target, not on becoming idle
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114* configure.ac pretends dbus was optional but actually hardcodes use of dbus' pkg-config file to determine various dbus dirs such as policy and activation dirs
115
116* consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions
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118* dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
119
120* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
121 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
122
25e773ee 123* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 124
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125* maybe provide an API to allow migration of foreign PIDs into existing scopes.
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127* maybe support a new very "soft" reboot mode, that simply kills all processes, disassembles everything, flushes /run and sysvipc, and then reexecs systemd again
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129* man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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131* man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
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133* "machinectl list" should probably show columns for OS version and IP addresses
134
279f0366 135* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 136
7d4fb3b1 137* systemctl edit: add commented help text to the end, like git commit
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139* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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141* exponential backoff in timesyncd and resolved when we cannot reach a server
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143* tmpfiles: port to unquote_many_words(), similar to sysusers
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145* unquote_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that
146 currently uses FOREACH_WORD and friends. For example, most conf
147 parsing callbacks should use it.
148
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149* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
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151* systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
152 units are shown.
153
b873d33e 154* networkd:
d61bb44a 155 - add LLDP client side support
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156 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
157 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
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158 - .network setting that allows overriding of the hostname to send to the dhcp server
159 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-July/021550.html
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160 - expose in the API the following bits:
161 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
162 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
163 - option 100, 101, timezone
164 - option 123, 144, geolocation
165 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
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166 - networkd's dhcp server should transparently pass on the DNS and
167 NTP server list it got from user configuration and its dhcp client
168 to clients. It should also pass on its own timezone information.
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169 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
170 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
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171 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
172 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
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9d6db739 174* resolved:
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175 - put networkd events and rtnl events at a higher priority, so that
176 we always process them before we process client requests
9d6db739 177 - DNSSEC
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178 - use base64 for key presentation?
179 - add display of private key types (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4034#appendix-A.1.1)?
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181 - DNS
182 - search paths
9d6db739 183 - mDNS/DNS-SD
0f47ed0a 184 - avahi compat
9d6db739 185 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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186 - edns0
187 - dname
b6b63571 188 - cname on PTR (?)
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189 - maybe randomize DNS UDP source ports
190 - maybe compare query section of DNS replies
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192* Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
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194* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
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196* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
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a01647e5 198* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 199 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
a940778f 200 - fstab-generator: support systemd.volatile=yes|no|state on the kernel cmdline, too, similar to nspawn's --volatile=
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202* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
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204* timer units: actually add extra delays to timer units with high AccuracySec values, don't start them already when we are awake...
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206* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
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208* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
209
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210* mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied
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212* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
213 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 214
f598ac3e 215* Run most system services with cgroupfs read-only and procfs with a more secure mode (doesn't work, since the hidepid= option is per-pid-namespace, not per-mount)
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217* sd-event: generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
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219* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
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221* consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
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223* sd-event: define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
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6a3f892a 225* gpt-auto-generator:
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226 - Support LUKS for root devices
227 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 228 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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230* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
231 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
232 when it is otherwise off
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234* MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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236* "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
237 /proc/$PID/exe
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239* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
240 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
241 for ReusePort=
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243* socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
244 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
245 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
246 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
247 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
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249* New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
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251* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
252 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
253 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
254 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
255 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
256 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
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ef417cfd 258* completions:
ef417cfd 259 - manager property enumeration was broken when systemd moved to /usr/lib/
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f38afcd0 261* cgroups:
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262 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
263 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
264 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
265 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
266 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
267 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
268 the hierarchies of child processes
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270* transient units:
271 - allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
272 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
273 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
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275* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
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277* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
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f38afcd0 279* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
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281* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
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283* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
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94676f3e 285* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
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287* 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
288
7f79cd71 289* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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291* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
292 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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293 path anyway.
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295* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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6aaa8c2f 297* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 298
d28315e4 299* make sure gdm does not use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
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301* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
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303* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
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305* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
306 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
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6bb648a1 308* sd-bus:
d0928791 309 - kdbus: process fd=-1 for incoming msgs
4a02e686 310 - make dsrt happy, and change userspace header for kdbus to yyyyuta{tv}v
f9e00a9f 311 - kdbus: remove NameOwnerChanged kernel messages for monitors
e7100587 312 - kdbus: PID/TID goes missing for method calls from outside the PID namespace?
bca3e263 313 - kdbus: the kernel should not allow messages to be delivered that have a reply serial != 0, reply-expect unset, but no appropriate window
e8bbb7c7 314 - kdbus: timestamps on kernel's NameOwnerChanged messages?
e8bbb7c7 315 - kdbus' busnames.target should get pulled in by basic.target
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316 - Ignore .busname units on classic D-Bus boots, systemd-resolved cannot be started on kdbus
317 without the active policy and should get a Wants=org.freedesktop.resolve1.busname to
318 pull-in the policy.
319 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
9398f650 320 - kdbus: maybe add controlling tty and ppid metadata fields
57f2a947 321 - 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
d28315e4 322 - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
7973ca19 323 - introduce sd_bus_emit_object_added()/sd_bus_emit_object_removed() that automatically includes the build-in interfaces in the list
f38afcd0 324 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 325 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
dc17bcef 326 - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async?
80caea6c 327 - kdbus: matches against source or destination pids for an "strace -p"-like feel. Problem: The PID info needs to be available in userspace too...
ab9716c2 328 - longer term: priority inheritance
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329 - dbus spec updates:
330 - kdbus mapping
331 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
332 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 333 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 334 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
69727e6d 335 - test bloom filter generation indexes
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336 - bus-proxy: when passing messages from kdbus, make sure we properly
337 handle the case where a large number of fds is appended that we
338 cannot pass into sendmsg() of the AF_UNIX sokcet (which only accepts
339 253 messages)
b568ef14 340 - kdbus: introduce a concept of "send-only" connections
0ad68f87 341 - kdbus: add counter for refused unicast messages that is passed out via the RECV ioctl. SImilar to the counter for dropped multicast messages we already have.
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343* sd-event
12179984 344 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 345 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
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347* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
348 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
349 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
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69af4503 351* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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353* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
354 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
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356* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
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358* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
359
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360* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
361
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362* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
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365 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
366 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
b8b4d3dd 367
b5c03638 368* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 369 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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370 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
371 destination.
372
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373* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
374 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
375
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376* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
377
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378* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
379 need manual exponential loops after all
380
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381* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
382 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
383 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
384 is installed.
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386* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
387 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
388 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
389 that automatically.
390
e5ec62c5 391* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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393* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
394
d28315e4 395* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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397* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
398
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399* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
400
401* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
402
356ce991 403* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 404
81d112a8 405* introduce ExecCondition= in services
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b44be3ec 407* EFI:
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408 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
409 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 410 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 411
c0fe5db5 412* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 413
b44be3ec 414* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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416* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
417 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 419* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 420
b44be3ec 421* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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424 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
425 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
426 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
427 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
428 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
e5ec62c5 429 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
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430 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
431 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
432 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
433 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
434 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
435 needs setuid().
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436 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
437 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
438 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
439 complete.
440 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
441 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
442 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
443 - logind: allow users to kill or lock their own sessions
444 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
445 - given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
446 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
447 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
b568ef14 448 - expose orientation sensors and tablet mode through logind
e673ad04 449
b44be3ec 450* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 451
b44be3ec 452* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
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b44be3ec 454* journal:
57f2a947 455 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
c06bf414 456 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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458 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
459 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 460 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
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461 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
462 - journal: reuse XZ context
463 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
464 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
465 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
466 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
467 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
468 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
469 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 470 - 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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471 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
472 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
b44be3ec 473 - 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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474 - 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.
475 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
476 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
f47ec8eb 477 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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478 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
479 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
480 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
481 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 482 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 483 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 484 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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485 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
486 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
487 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
488 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
489 to syslog when it works again.
490 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
491 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
492 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
d28315e4 493 so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
f38afcd0 494 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
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495 - optionally support running journald from the command line for testing purposes in external projects
496 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
497 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
498 journals in.
499 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
500 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
501 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
502 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
503 the most common operations.
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505* document:
8b8f2591 506 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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507 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
508 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 509 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 510 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 511 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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512 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
513 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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514 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
515 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
516 - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
517 - man: add more examples to man pages
518 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
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520* systemctl:
521 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
522 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
523 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
524 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
525 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
526 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
527 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
528 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 529 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
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530 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
531 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
532 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
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533 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
534 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
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536* unit install:
537 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
538 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
f38afcd0 539 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
8b04b925 540
b44be3ec 541* timer units:
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542 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
543 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
544 o DST changes
eb124a97 545 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
f38afcd0 546 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
d28315e4 547 - when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we will not support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200
90e071d1 548 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 549
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550* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
551
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552* 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().
553
554* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
d28315e4 555* fedup: do not delete initrd on switch-root
1cb88f2c 556* fedup: generator
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558* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
559
b44be3ec 560* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 561
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562* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
563 waiting for the timeout
dcfc4b2e 564
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565* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
566
d28315e4 567* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 568
b44be3ec 569* nspawn:
b44be3ec 570 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
9cb74bcb 571 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
a56b63f4 572 - support taking a btrfs snapshot at startup and dropping it afterwards
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573 - introduce machines.target to order after all nspawn instances
574 - systemd-nspawn@.service should fail if some nspawn arg is invalid, with Type=notify
575 - PID 1 doesn't apply nspawns devices cgroup policy
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577* cryptsetup:
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578 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
579 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
580 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 581 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 582
424a19f8 583* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 584 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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586* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
587
a1cccad1 588* make timer units go away after they elapsed
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590* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
591
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592* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
593
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594* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
595
68f16003 596* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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598* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
599 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
d28315e4 600 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
68f16003 601 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
d28315e4 602 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
68f16003 603 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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605* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
606
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607* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
608
88a6c589 609* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
8351ceae 610
9946996c 611* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
d28315e4 612 verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
9946996c 613
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614* introduce Type=pid-file
615
59cea26a 616* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 617
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618* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
619
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620* automount: implement expire:
621 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
622 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
623 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
624 - blocking, needs a thread
625 - run until -EAGAIN
626 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
627 - call umount
628 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
629 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
465349c0 630
e01a15b7 631* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 632
abd55b16 633* udev:
abd55b16 634 - move to LGPL
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636 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 637 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
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639* 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
640
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641* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
642
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643* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
644
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645* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
646
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647* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
648
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649* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
650
651* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
652
70a44afe 653* default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
65c0cf71 654
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655* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
656 needs to be auto-respawned?
657
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658* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
659
f38afcd0 660* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 661 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 662
d28315e4 663* for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested
14e639ae 664
7f8aa671 665* hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
ff01d048 666
d3c7d7dd 667* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
72b9ed82 668
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670 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
671
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672* move PAM code into its own binary
673
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674* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
675 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
676
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677* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
678
55cdcbac 679* add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
8d0e38a2 680
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681* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
682 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
683 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
684
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685* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
686 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
687
71092d70 688* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 689
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690* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
691
68c7d001 692* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 693 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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694 - enabling dbus services
695 - status update
7a2a0b90 696 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 697 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 698 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 699 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 700 - auto-restart
e707c494 701 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 702 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 703 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 704 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 705 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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706 - calendar time events
707 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
708 - how to create your own target
709 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
710 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 711
44143309 712* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 713
260abb78 714* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
2791a8f8 715
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716* Support --test based on current system state
717
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718* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
719
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720* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
721
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722* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
723
71092d70 724* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
246756ca 725
7ba97195 726* systemd-python:
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728 works with ^C
b04c8c83 729 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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732 - plot per-process IO utilization
733 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
734 - document initcall_debug
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736
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738 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
739 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
740 on Path= matching
8faf88e5 741 - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
af6f0d42 742
88e4d1d7 743* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 744 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 745 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 746
0a4b9a07 747* networkd:
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748 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
749 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 750 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 751 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
5c1d3fc9 752 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
798e174a 753 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
8477107d 754 - add more attribute support for SIT tunnel
1a941ac4 755 - work with non-ethernet devices
c9fa3670 756 - add support for more bond options
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758* networkd-wait-online:
759 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
8f5675cc 760
ac976532 761* dhcp:
424a8732 762 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 763 - export timezone information
99f9dd8d 764 - support RFC4702 (pass FQDN)
ac976532 765
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766* dhcp6:
767 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
768 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
769 - write more test cases
770 - implement and do duplicate address detection, see rfc 4862, 5.4.
771 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
772 - implement information request, see 1.2. and 18.1.5.
773 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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774 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
775 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
776 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
777 or interface down
778 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
779 this behavior
780
2f8cd170 781External:
74fe1fe3 782
cc9784c6 783* dbus:
3377af3e 784 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 785 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 786
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788
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789* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
790
9096ad36 791* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
06ae4bfe 792
71092d70 793* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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796
d28315e4 797* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and should not
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799* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
800
801* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
802
803* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
804
d2bbca68 805* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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807* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
808
809* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 810
4641a16b 811* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
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814
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816 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 817 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
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2c12a402 819
129126f3 820Regularly:
874aa2cc 821
129126f3 822* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 823
129126f3 824* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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826* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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829
d28315e4 830* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 831
4db17f29 832* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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9e5f3dbb 836Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 838* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)