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71092d70 1Bugfixes:
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2* check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
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4* swap units that are activated by one name but shown in the kernel under another are semi-broken
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6* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
7 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
8 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
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10* make polkit checks async
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a40593a0 12* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
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14* stop importing kernel exported env variables. The utterly broken logic in
15 the kernel exports every kernel command line option which is not recognized
16 as a built-in module option as an env variable. Systemd should not pass-on
17 that nonsense, a kernel command line option is a command line option not an
18 env variable:
19 $ cat /proc/252/environ
20 initrd=\6a9857a393724b7a981ebb5b8495b9ea\3.10.0-2.fc20.x86_64\initrd
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2d19f95c 22Fedora 19:
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24* external: maybe it is time to patch procps so that "ps" links to
25 libsystemd-logind to print a pretty service name, seat name, session
26 name in its output. Currently it only shows cgroup membership, but
0028da22 27 that's sometimes kinda hard to parse for a human.
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7e2c2bcf 29* cgroup attrs:
f0c15f28 30 - update dbus interface docs in wiki
7b4da18c 31
81d112a8 32* localed:
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33 - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps
34
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35* when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
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eb124a97 37Features:
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39* when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop we should ratelimit that too.
40
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41* journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
42 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
43 to syslog when it works again.
44
45* prohibit Restart= set with Type=oneshot
46
47* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
48
49* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
50
51* user@.service and session-*.scope should get posession of their own cgroups
52
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53* move systemctl set-log-level to systemd-analyze?
54
374ec6ab 55* fix killing spree logic in systemd-user-sessions
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57* logind: implement session kill exceptions
58
59* fix machine regstration to forward property array
60
61* fix loginctl cgroup enumeration
62
63* move "systemctl dump" to systemd-analyze
64
65* introduce "mainpid" for scopes
66
67* add a fixed dbus path for "my own unit", "my own session", ... to PID1, logind, ...
68
69* add implicit slice for instantiated services
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71* service_coldplug() appears to reinstall the wrong stop timeout watch?
72
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73* transient units: allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
74
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75* make BlockIODeviceWeight=, BlockIODeviceBandwidth= runtime settable
76
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77* split up BlockIOWeight= and BlockIODeviceWeight=
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79* introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swapiness
80
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81* how to reset dynamically changed attributes sanely?
82
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83* when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
84
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85* implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?)
86
87* implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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89* handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
90
4ad49000 91* journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
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93* move systemctl dump to systemd-analyze
94
95* libsystemd-logind: sd_session_is_active() and friends: verify
96 validity of session name before appending it to a path
97
98* logind: when a PAM client calls ReleaseSession() start a timeout and
99 kill the session entirely after that is reached.
100
101* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
102 maybe we should stop doing auto-activiation of this after boot
103 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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105* when a service changes state make reflect that in the
106 RUNNING/LISTENING states of its socket
107
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108* when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
109 the hierarchies of child processes
110
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111* document logic of auto/noauto and fail/nofail in fstab in systemd.mount or systemd-fstab-generator man page
112
9444b1f2 113* we should properly escape ssh hostnames we add into dbus server strings
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114
115* something pulls in pcre as so dep into our daemons such as hostnamed.
116
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117* cgroup-agent: downgrade error messages
118
119* document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
120
121* chane systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
122 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
123 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
124 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
125
126* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
127 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
128
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129* libsystemd-journal:
130 - return ECHILD as soon as somebody tries to reuse a journal object across a fork()
131
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132* libsystemd-bus:
133 - default policy (allow uid == 0 and our own uid)
134 - enforce alignment of pointers passed in
eb01ba5d 135 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
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136 - implement translator service
137 - port systemd to new library
138 - implement busname unit type in systemd
139 - move to gvariant
eb01ba5d 140 - merge busctl into systemctl or so?
e4ee6e5c 141 - synthesize sd_bus_message objects from kernel messages
c7819669 142 - properly implement name registry ioctls for kdbus
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143 - get rid of object hash table, use decision tree everyhwere instead?
144 - implement monitor logic
145 - object vtable logic
146 - longer term:
147 * priority queues
86312ab8 148 * priority inheritance
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150* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
151 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
152 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
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154* add an option to nspawn that uses seccomp to make socket(AF_NETLINK,
155 SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_AUDIT) fail the the appropriate error code that
156 makes the audit userspace to think auditing is not available in the
157 kernel.
158
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159* Introduce a way how we can kill the main process of a service with KillSignal, but all processes with SIGKILL later on
160 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952634
161
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162* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses whern the acces mode of unit files is non-sensical.
163
aa96c6cb 164* investigate endianess issues of UUID vs. GUID
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166* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
167 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
168
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169* if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
170 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
171 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
172 needs setuid().
173
174* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
175
176* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
177
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178* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
179
180* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
181
4a449ed7 182* 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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184* we need dynamic units
185
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186* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
187
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188* test/:
189 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
190 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
191 - remove all the duplicated code in test/
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193* suppress log output on shutdown when "quiet" is used
194
195* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
196
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197* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
198 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
199 file.
200
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201* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
202 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
203 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
204 destination.
205
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206* remove duplicate default deps logic from fstab-generator vs. mount.c
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208* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
209 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
210
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211* teach udev + logind's uaccess to somehow handle the "dead" device nodes from:
212 /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.devname
213 and apply ACLs to them if they have TAG=="uaccess" in udev rules.
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215* add ConditionArchitecture= or so
216
217* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
218
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219* we should log capabilities too
220
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221* Support SO_REUSEPORT with socket activation:
222 - Let systemd maintain a pool of servers.
223 - Use for seamless upgrades, by running the new server before stopping the
224 old.
225
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226* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
227 need manual exponential loops after all
228
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229* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
230 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
231 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
232 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
233
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234* man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf
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236* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
237 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
238 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
239 that automatically.
240
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241* rework specifier logic so that we can distuingish OOM errors from other errors
242
e5ec62c5 243* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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245* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
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54c31a79 247* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 248
8973790e 249* documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
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251* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapstion and the time the units ran last
252
253* man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
254
255* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
256
257* man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
258
259* systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
260
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261* man: add more examples to man pages
262
263* man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
264
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265* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
266
267* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
268
269* msgcatalog determine default language of entries from the catalog
270 file name. i.e. foobar.de_DE.catalog would set the default entry
271 name for the entries to de_DE if they aren't explicitly suffixed
272 individually.
273
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274* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
275
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276* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
277
990ffbe5 278* Honour "-" prefix for InaccessibleDirectories= and ReadOnlyDirectories= to
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279 suppress errors of the specified path doesn't exist
280
281* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
282 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
283 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
284 will be activated.
285
356ce991 286* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 287
81d112a8 288* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 289
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290* EFI:
291 - fsck hookup for the ESP mount is missing
292 - write man page for efi boot generator
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293 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
294 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
295 - introduce bootctl (backed by systemd-bootd) to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 296
c0fe5db5 297* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 298
b44be3ec 299* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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301* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
302 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 304* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 305
b44be3ec 306* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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308* logind:
309 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
310 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
311 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
312 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
313 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
314 - logind: spawn user@..service on login
315 - logind: non-local X11 server handling
316 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
b44be3ec 317 - pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree
eb124a97 318 - logind: GetSessionByPID() should accept 0 as PID value
e5ec62c5 319 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
e673ad04 320
b44be3ec 321* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 322
b44be3ec 323* DeviceAllow/DeviceDeny: disallow everything by default, but whitelist /dev/zero, /dev/null and friends
e673ad04 324
b44be3ec 325* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
e673ad04 326
b44be3ec 327* journal:
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328 - do not use magic msync() in src/journal/journal-file.c, just call fsync()
329 <alxchk> poettering: looks like msync just calls vfs_fsync
330 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/mm/msync.c#n18
c06bf414 331 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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332 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
333 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
334 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
335 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
336 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
337 - journal: reuse XZ context
338 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
339 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
340 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
341 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
342 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
343 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
344 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 345 - 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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346 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
347 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
348 - journal: when rotating, copy over old acls/access mode
b44be3ec 349 - 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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350 - 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.
351 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
352 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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353 - Introduce journalctl -b <nr> to show journal messages of a previous boot
354 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 355 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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356 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
357 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
358 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
359 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
360 - journalctl: show multiline log messages sanely, expand tabs, and show all valid utf8 messages
361 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
362 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
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363 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
364 - Port upower to use the journal for historical power information used in future calculations
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366* document:
367 - document unit_name_mangle()
368 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in
369 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
370 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
371 - Document word splitting syntax for ExecStart= and friends
372 - document that units from /etc override those from /usr and /run
373 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 374 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 375 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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377* systemctl:
378 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
379 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
380 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
381 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
382 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
383 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
384 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
385 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
386 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
387 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
388 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
389 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
390 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
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392* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
393
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394* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
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396* timer units:
397 - configurable jitter for timer events
398 - timer events with system resume
399 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
400 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
401 o DST changes
eb124a97 402 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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404* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
405
406* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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407 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
408 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 409 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 410 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 411 user did not request anything like it.
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413* hwdb:
414 - implement conditional properties (dmi matches)
415 - hwdb --filter=ID_DRIVE_*
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417* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
418 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
419 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
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421* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
422 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
423 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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424 we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in
425 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
426 better supported alternative.
e707c494 427
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428* figure out relation of --all and --full in the various tools
429
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430* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
431
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432* 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().
433
434* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
435* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
436* fedup: generator
603cd8fe 437
b44be3ec 438* timedated:
b44be3ec 439 - timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
6d0274f1 440
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441* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
442
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443* introduce generic AUGMENT_PID=, AUGMENT_DEVICE= fields
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b44be3ec 445* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 446
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447* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
448 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
449 - superset of tmpfiles model
450 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
451 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
452 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
453
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454* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
455 waiting for the timeout
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457* high level net_prio setting in execution context
458
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459* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
460
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461* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
462
15abdb9a 463* refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful (or set taint?)
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465* nspawn:
466 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly
467 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
468 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
469 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
470 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
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471 - nspawn: investigate whether we can support the same as LXC's
472 lxc.network.type=phys mode, and pass through entire network
473 interfaces to the container
474 - nspawn: maybe add a way to drop additional caps, in addition to add additional caps
475 - nspawn: maybe explicitly reset loginuid?
3679d112 476 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
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478* cryptsetup:
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479 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
480 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
481 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 482 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
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485
424a19f8 486* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 487 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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489* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
490
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491* make timer units go away after they elapsed
492
8556879e 493* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 494 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
8556879e 495
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496* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
497
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498* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
499
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500* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
501
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502* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
503
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504* system.conf should have controls for cgroups
505
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506* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
507
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508* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
509
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510* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container
511
68f16003 512* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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514* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
515
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516* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
517 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
518 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
519 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 520 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 521 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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523* remember which condition failed for services, not just the fact that something failed
524
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525* use opterr = 0 for all getopt tools
526
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527* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
528
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529* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
530
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531* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
532
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533* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
534
88a6c589 535* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
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537* syscall filter:
538 - syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls
539 - syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs?
540 - syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS?
541 - syscall filter: port to libseccomp
542 - system-wide seccomp filter
c66d36e5 543
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544* .device aliases need to be implemented with the "following" logic, probably.
545
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546* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
547 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
548
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549* introduce Type=pid-file
550
59cea26a 551* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 552
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553* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
554
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555* move passno parsing to fstab generator
556
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557* automount: implement expire:
558 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
559 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
560 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
561 - blocking, needs a thread
562 - run until -EAGAIN
563 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
564 - call umount
565 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
566 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
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569
e01a15b7 570* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 571
abd55b16 572* udev:
3f60bcb5 573 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
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574 - move to LGPL
575 - unify utf8 validator code with shared/
576 - kill scsi_id
577 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
b8217b7b 578
18b754d3 579* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording
068665b6 580
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581* 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
582
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583* support container_ttys=
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585* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
586
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587* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
588
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589* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
590
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591* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
592
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593* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
594
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595* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
596
597* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
598
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599* clean up session cgroups that remain after logout (think sshd), but eventually run empty
600
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601* when an instanced service exits, remove its parent cgroup too if possible.
602
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603* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
604
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605* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
606 needs to be auto-respawned?
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608* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
609
de6c78f8 610* tmpfiles: apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 611
b44be3ec 612* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
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615
d3c7d7dd 616* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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618* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
619 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
620
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623* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
624 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
625
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626* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
627
7c697168 628* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 629
71092d70 630* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
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632* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
633 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
634 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
635
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636* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
637 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
638
71092d70 639* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 640
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641* readahead:
642 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
643 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
644 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
645 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
646 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
b23de6af 647
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648* add support for /bin/mount -s
649
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650* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
651
68c7d001 652* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 653 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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654 - enabling dbus services
655 - status update
7a2a0b90 656 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 657 - remote access
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658 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
659 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 660 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 661 - auto-restart
e707c494 662 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 663 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 664 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 665 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 666 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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668 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
669 - how to create your own target
670 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
671 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
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44143309 673* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 674
71092d70 675* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 676
260abb78 677* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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679* Support --test based on current system state
680
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681* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
682
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683* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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685* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
686
129126f3 687* port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID:
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688 - rpcbind (/var/run/rpcbind.sock!) HAVEPATCH
689 - cups HAVEPATCH
a625ac1a 690 - postfix, saslauthd
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691 - apache/samba
692 - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro)
693 - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!)
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694 - distccd
695
71092d70 696* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
246756ca 697
50f2a90d 698* io priority during initialization
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701
7ba97195 702* systemd-python:
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704 works with ^C
b04c8c83 705 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
7ba97195 706
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707* bootchart:
708 - plot per-process IO utilization
709 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
710 - document initcall_debug
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712
2f8cd170 713External:
74fe1fe3 714
cc9784c6 715* dbus:
cc9784c6 716 - dbus --user
3377af3e 717 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
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719 - allow disabling of fd passing when connecting a AF_UNIX connection
3377af3e 720 - allow disabling of UID passing for AUTH EXTERNAL
b69d29ce 721 - always pass cred data along each message
b44be3ec 722 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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725
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726* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
727
9096ad36 728* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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730* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
731 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
732 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
733 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
734 the RTC to sync up.
735
71092d70 736* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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739
740* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
741
742* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
743
744* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
745
746* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
747
d2bbca68 748* 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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750* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
751
752* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 753
4641a16b 754* 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 756Regularly:
874aa2cc 757
129126f3 758* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 759
129126f3 760* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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762* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
8c6db833 763
14212119 764* %m in printf() instead of strerror(errno);
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766* pahole
767
71092d70 768* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 769
4db17f29 770* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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773
9e5f3dbb 774Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 776* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)