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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* always set memory.user_hierarchy for all cgroups we create
62
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63* Get rid of MemorySoftLimit=
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65* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition
66
67* mounts: do not test each mount unit against each other mount unit to
68 determine prefixes. Instead generated list of all prefixes and
69 interate through that to bring down complexity from O(n^2) to O(n)
70 when loading units
71
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72* Move backlight and random-seed into /var/lib/systemd
73
d2e2c03d 74* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink generate a clean
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75 error. Currently we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
76 path anyway.
77
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78* When a Type=forking service fails and needed another service that
79 service is not cleaned up again when it has StopWhenUnneeded=yes
80 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-July/012141.html
81
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82* backlight: properly handle multiple backlight devices for the same
83 hardware: at shutdown we should only save the backlight setting for
84 the "best" way to access the backlight. Strategy should be: at
85 shutdown, ignore all backlights that are connected to a non-eDP or
86 non-LVDS port, and then prefer the firmware device over platform
87 device over raw device per-PCI card. Delete all old data. At boot
88 simply apply whatever data we find. Also see
89 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libbacklight/tree/libbacklight.c#n194
90
91* rfkill: save/restore soft rfkill status across reboots
92
93* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
94
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95* ensure scope units may be started only a single time
96
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97* document that in instead of FsckPassNo= people should just add a manual dep to systemd-fsck@.service to their mount units.
98
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99* better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
100
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101* systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
102
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103* for transient units, instead of writing out drop-ins for all properties consider serializing them in the normal serialization stream
104
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105* logind: when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects
106
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107* session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
108
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109* add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
110
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111* journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
112
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113* given that logind/machined now let PID 1 do all nasty work we can
114 probably reduce the capability set they retain substantially.
115
6aaa8c2f 116* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 117
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118* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
119
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120* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
121
e1b7e7ec 122* 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 123
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124* 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
125
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126* when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop we should ratelimit that too.
127
c5757cc8 128* "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, should
69af4503 129 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
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130 unit however should remove them all).
131
132* journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
133
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134* systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
135
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136* journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
137 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
138 to syslog when it works again.
139
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140* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
141
142* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
143
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144* add a fixed dbus path for "my own unit", "my own session", ... to PID1, logind, ...
145
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146* service_coldplug() appears to reinstall the wrong stop timeout watch?
147
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148* transient units: allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
149
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150* how to reset dynamically changed attributes sanely?
151
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152* when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
153
4ad49000 154* journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
3d3ee759 155
9444b1f2 156* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 157 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 158 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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159 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
160 check for that and suppress event handling.
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162* when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
163 the hierarchies of child processes
164
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165* document logic of auto/noauto and fail/nofail in fstab in systemd.mount or systemd-fstab-generator man page
166
9444b1f2 167* we should properly escape ssh hostnames we add into dbus server strings
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169* something pulls in pcre as so dep into our daemons such as hostnamed.
170
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171* document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
172
a65f06bb 173* change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
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174 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
175 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
176 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
177
178* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
179 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
180
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181* libsystemd-bus:
182 - default policy (allow uid == 0 and our own uid)
183 - enforce alignment of pointers passed in
eb01ba5d 184 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
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185 - implement translator service
186 - port systemd to new library
187 - implement busname unit type in systemd
188 - move to gvariant
eb01ba5d 189 - merge busctl into systemctl or so?
e4ee6e5c 190 - synthesize sd_bus_message objects from kernel messages
c7819669 191 - properly implement name registry ioctls for kdbus
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192 - get rid of object hash table, use decision tree everyhwere instead?
193 - implement monitor logic
194 - object vtable logic
195 - longer term:
196 * priority queues
86312ab8 197 * priority inheritance
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199* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
200 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
201 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
202
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203* add an option to nspawn that uses seccomp to make socket(AF_NETLINK,
204 SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_AUDIT) fail the the appropriate error code that
205 makes the audit userspace to think auditing is not available in the
206 kernel.
207
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208* Introduce a way how we can kill the main process of a service with KillSignal, but all processes with SIGKILL later on
209 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952634
210
69af4503 211* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses where the access mode of unit files is nonsensical.
19aa7c4f 212
69af4503 213* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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215* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
216 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
217
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218* if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
219 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
220 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
221 needs setuid().
222
223* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
224
225* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
226
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227* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
228
229* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
230
4a449ed7 231* 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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233* we need dynamic units
234
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235* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
236
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237* test/:
238 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
239 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
240 - remove all the duplicated code in test/
b8b4d3dd 241
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242* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
243
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244* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
245 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
246 file.
247
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248* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
249 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
250 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
251 destination.
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253* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
254 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
255
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256* add ConditionArchitecture= or so
257
258* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
259
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260* Support SO_REUSEPORT with socket activation:
261 - Let systemd maintain a pool of servers.
262 - Use for seamless upgrades, by running the new server before stopping the
263 old.
264
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265* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
266 need manual exponential loops after all
267
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268* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
269 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
270 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
271 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
272
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273* man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf
274
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275* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
276 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
277 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
278 that automatically.
279
69af4503 280* rework specifier logic so that we can distinguish OOM errors from other errors
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e5ec62c5 282* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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284* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
285
54c31a79 286* 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 288* documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
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69af4503 290* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapse and the time the units ran last
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292* man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
293
294* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
295
69af4503 296* 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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298* systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
299
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300* man: add more examples to man pages
301
302* man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
303
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304* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
305
306* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
307
308* msgcatalog determine default language of entries from the catalog
309 file name. i.e. foobar.de_DE.catalog would set the default entry
310 name for the entries to de_DE if they aren't explicitly suffixed
311 individually.
312
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313* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
314
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315* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
316
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317* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
318 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
319 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
320 will be activated.
321
356ce991 322* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 323
81d112a8 324* introduce ExecCondition= in services
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326* EFI:
327 - fsck hookup for the ESP mount is missing
328 - write man page for efi boot generator
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329 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
330 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 331 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 332
c0fe5db5 333* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 334
b44be3ec 335* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
e9fd44b7 336
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337* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
338 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 340* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 341
b44be3ec 342* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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344* logind:
345 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
346 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
347 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
348 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
349 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
350 - logind: spawn user@..service on login
351 - logind: non-local X11 server handling
352 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
b44be3ec 353 - pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree
eb124a97 354 - logind: GetSessionByPID() should accept 0 as PID value
e5ec62c5 355 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
e673ad04 356
b44be3ec 357* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 358
b44be3ec 359* DeviceAllow/DeviceDeny: disallow everything by default, but whitelist /dev/zero, /dev/null and friends
e673ad04 360
b44be3ec 361* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
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b44be3ec 363* journal:
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364 - do not use magic msync() in src/journal/journal-file.c, just call fsync()
365 <alxchk> poettering: looks like msync just calls vfs_fsync
366 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/mm/msync.c#n18
c06bf414 367 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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368 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
369 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
370 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
371 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
372 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
373 - journal: reuse XZ context
374 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
375 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
376 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
377 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
378 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
379 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
380 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 381 - 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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382 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
383 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
384 - journal: when rotating, copy over old acls/access mode
b44be3ec 385 - 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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386 - 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.
387 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
388 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 389 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 390 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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391 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
392 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
393 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
394 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
77a9e8de 395 - journalctl: expand tabs
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396 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
397 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
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398 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
399 - Port upower to use the journal for historical power information used in future calculations
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401* document:
402 - document unit_name_mangle()
403 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in
404 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
405 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
406 - Document word splitting syntax for ExecStart= and friends
407 - document that units from /etc override those from /usr and /run
408 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 409 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 410 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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412* systemctl:
413 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
414 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
415 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
416 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
417 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
418 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
419 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
420 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
421 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
422 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
423 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
424 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
425 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
8b04b925 426
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427* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
428
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429* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
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431* timer units:
432 - configurable jitter for timer events
433 - timer events with system resume
434 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
435 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
436 o DST changes
eb124a97 437 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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439* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
440
441* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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442 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
443 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 444 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 445 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 446 user did not request anything like it.
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448* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
449 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
450 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
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452* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
453 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
454 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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455 we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in
456 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
457 better supported alternative.
e707c494 458
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459* figure out relation of --all and --full in the various tools
460
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461* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
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463* 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().
464
465* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
466* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
467* fedup: generator
603cd8fe 468
b44be3ec 469* timedated:
b44be3ec 470 - timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
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472* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
473
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474* introduce generic AUGMENT_PID=, AUGMENT_DEVICE= fields
475
b44be3ec 476* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
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478* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
479 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
480 - superset of tmpfiles model
481 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
482 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
483 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
484
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485* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
486 waiting for the timeout
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488* high level net_prio setting in execution context
489
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490* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
491
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492* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
493
15abdb9a 494* refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful (or set taint?)
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496* nspawn:
497 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly
498 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
499 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
500 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
501 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
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502 - nspawn: investigate whether we can support the same as LXC's
503 lxc.network.type=phys mode, and pass through entire network
504 interfaces to the container
505 - nspawn: maybe add a way to drop additional caps, in addition to add additional caps
506 - nspawn: maybe explicitly reset loginuid?
3679d112 507 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
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509* cryptsetup:
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510 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
511 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
512 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 513 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 514
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515* move debug shell to tty6 and make sure this doesn't break the gettys on tty6
516
424a19f8 517* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 518 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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520* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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522* make timer units go away after they elapsed
523
8556879e 524* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 525 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
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527* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
528
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529* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
530
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531* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
532
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533* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
534
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535* system.conf should have controls for cgroups
536
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537* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
538
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539* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
540
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541* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container
542
68f16003 543* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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545* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
546
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547* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
548 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
549 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
550 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 551 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 552 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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554* use opterr = 0 for all getopt tools
555
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556* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
557
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558* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
559
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560* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
561
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562* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
563
88a6c589 564* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
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567 - syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls
568 - syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs?
569 - syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS?
570 - syscall filter: port to libseccomp
571 - system-wide seccomp filter
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573* .device aliases need to be implemented with the "following" logic, probably.
574
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575* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
576 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
577
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578* introduce Type=pid-file
579
59cea26a 580* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
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582* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
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584* move passno parsing to fstab generator
585
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586* automount: implement expire:
587 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
588 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
589 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
590 - blocking, needs a thread
591 - run until -EAGAIN
592 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
593 - call umount
594 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
595 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
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597* services which create their own subcgroups break cgroup-empty notification (needs to be fixed in the kernel)
598
e01a15b7 599* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 600
abd55b16 601* udev:
3f60bcb5 602 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
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603 - move to LGPL
604 - unify utf8 validator code with shared/
605 - kill scsi_id
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)
627
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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
633
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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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643* hide PAM/TCPWrap options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
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
649
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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.
654
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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
784
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)