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1Bugfixes:
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3* enabling an instance unit creates pointless link, and
4 the unit will be started with getty@getty.service:
5 $ systemctl enable getty@.service
6 ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service' '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@.service'
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8* check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
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10* swap units that are activated by one name but shown in the kernel under another are semi-broken
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12* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
13 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
14 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
15
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16* make polkit checks async
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a40593a0 18* 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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20* When we detect invalid UTF-8, we cant't use it in an error message:
21 log...("Path is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment: %s", rvalue);
22
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23* shorten the message to sane length:
24
25 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.
26
466784c8 27Fedora 20:
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dc7adf20 29* external: ps should gain colums for slice and machine
7b4da18c 30
81d112a8 31* localed:
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32 - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps
33
55d32caf 34* when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
466784c8 35 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
55d32caf 36
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37CGroup Rework Completion:
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94bbc991 39* introduce "mainpid" for scopes (or maybe not?)
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41* implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?)
42
43* implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
44
45* handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
46
049b4474 47* introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
bafb15ba 48
eb124a97 49Features:
154ff088 50
d1b38fac 51* saproxy: Support multiple inherited sockets mapped using different proxies
ae25936d 52
d1b38fac 53* saproxy: Use a nonblocking alternative to getaddrinfo
ae25936d 54
d1b38fac 55* saproxy: Until we can start daemons directly, find a less ugly, less racy alternative than shell scripts for the second man page example.
ae25936d 56
d1b38fac 57* saproxy: Support starting daemons directly without requiring a shell script; update man pages
ae25936d 58
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59* "systemctl cat" or "systemctl view" command or or so, that cats the backing unit file of a service, plus its drop-ins and shows them in a pager
60
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61* rfkill,backlight: we probably should run the load tools inside of the udev rules so that the state is properly initialized by the time other software sees it
62
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63* Add a new Distribute=$NUMBER key to socket units that makes use of SO_REUSEPORT to distribute network traffic on $NUMBER instances
64
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65* tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal also do this for the journal fails contained in it
66
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67* we probably should replace the left-over uses of strv_append() and replace them by strv_push() or strv_extend()
68
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69* move config_parse_path_strv() out of conf-parser.c
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71* libdsystemd-bus should expose utf8 validation calls
72
7f79cd71 73* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 74
d2e2c03d 75* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink generate a clean
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76 error. Currently we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
77 path anyway.
78
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79* When a Type=forking service fails and needed another service that
80 service is not cleaned up again when it has StopWhenUnneeded=yes
81 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-July/012141.html
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83* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
84
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85* ensure scope units may be started only a single time
86
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87* document that in instead of FsckPassNo= people should just add a manual dep to systemd-fsck@.service to their mount units.
88
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89* better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
90
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91* systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
92
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93* for transient units, instead of writing out drop-ins for all properties consider serializing them in the normal serialization stream
94
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95* logind: when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects
96
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97* session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
98
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99* add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
100
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101* journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
102
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103* given that logind/machined now let PID 1 do all nasty work we can
104 probably reduce the capability set they retain substantially.
105
6aaa8c2f 106* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
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108* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
109
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110* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
111
e1b7e7ec 112* 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 113
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114* 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
115
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116* when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop we should ratelimit that too.
117
c5757cc8 118* "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, should
69af4503 119 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
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120 unit however should remove them all).
121
122* journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
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124* systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
125
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126* journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
127 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
128 to syslog when it works again.
129
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130* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
131
132* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
133
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134* add a fixed dbus path for "my own unit", "my own session", ... to PID1, logind, ...
135
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136* service_coldplug() appears to reinstall the wrong stop timeout watch?
137
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138* transient units: allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
139
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140* how to reset dynamically changed attributes sanely?
141
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142* when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
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4ad49000 144* journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
3d3ee759 145
9444b1f2 146* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 147 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 148 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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149 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
150 check for that and suppress event handling.
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152* when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
153 the hierarchies of child processes
154
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155* document logic of auto/noauto and fail/nofail in fstab in systemd.mount or systemd-fstab-generator man page
156
9444b1f2 157* we should properly escape ssh hostnames we add into dbus server strings
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159* something pulls in pcre as so dep into our daemons such as hostnamed.
160
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161* document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
162
a65f06bb 163* change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
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164 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
165 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
166 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
167
168* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
169 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
170
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171* libsystemd-bus:
172 - default policy (allow uid == 0 and our own uid)
173 - enforce alignment of pointers passed in
eb01ba5d 174 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
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175 - implement translator service
176 - port systemd to new library
177 - implement busname unit type in systemd
178 - move to gvariant
eb01ba5d 179 - merge busctl into systemctl or so?
e4ee6e5c 180 - synthesize sd_bus_message objects from kernel messages
c7819669 181 - properly implement name registry ioctls for kdbus
86312ab8 182 - implement monitor logic
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183 - longer term:
184 * priority queues
86312ab8 185 * priority inheritance
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187* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
188 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
189 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
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191* add an option to nspawn that uses seccomp to make socket(AF_NETLINK,
192 SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_AUDIT) fail the the appropriate error code that
193 makes the audit userspace to think auditing is not available in the
194 kernel.
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196* Introduce a way how we can kill the main process of a service with KillSignal, but all processes with SIGKILL later on
197 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952634
198
69af4503 199* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses where the access mode of unit files is nonsensical.
19aa7c4f 200
69af4503 201* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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203* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
204 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
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206* if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
207 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
208 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
209 needs setuid().
210
211* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
212
213* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
214
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215* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
216
217* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
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4a449ed7 219* 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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221* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
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223* test/:
224 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
225 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
226 - remove all the duplicated code in test/
b8b4d3dd 227
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228* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
229
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230* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
231 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
232 file.
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234* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
235 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
236 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
237 destination.
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239* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
240 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
241
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242* add ConditionArchitecture= or so
243
244* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
245
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246* Support SO_REUSEPORT with socket activation:
247 - Let systemd maintain a pool of servers.
248 - Use for seamless upgrades, by running the new server before stopping the
249 old.
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251* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
252 need manual exponential loops after all
253
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254* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
255 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
256 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
257 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
258
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259* man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf
260
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261* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
262 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
263 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
264 that automatically.
265
69af4503 266* rework specifier logic so that we can distinguish OOM errors from other errors
487060c2 267
e5ec62c5 268* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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270* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
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54c31a79 272* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 273
8973790e 274* documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
3679d112 275
69af4503 276* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapse and the time the units ran last
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278* man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
279
280* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
281
69af4503 282* 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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284* systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
285
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286* man: add more examples to man pages
287
288* man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
289
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290* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
291
292* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
293
294* msgcatalog determine default language of entries from the catalog
295 file name. i.e. foobar.de_DE.catalog would set the default entry
296 name for the entries to de_DE if they aren't explicitly suffixed
297 individually.
298
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299* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
300
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301* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
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303* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
304 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
305 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
306 will be activated.
307
356ce991 308* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 309
81d112a8 310* introduce ExecCondition= in services
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312* EFI:
313 - fsck hookup for the ESP mount is missing
314 - write man page for efi boot generator
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315 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
316 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 317 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 318
c0fe5db5 319* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 320
b44be3ec 321* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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323* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
324 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 326* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 327
b44be3ec 328* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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330* logind:
331 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
332 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
333 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
334 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
335 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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336 - logind: non-local X11 server handling
337 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
b44be3ec 338 - pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree
eb124a97 339 - logind: GetSessionByPID() should accept 0 as PID value
e5ec62c5 340 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
e673ad04 341
b44be3ec 342* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 343
b44be3ec 344* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
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b44be3ec 346* journal:
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347 - do not use magic msync() in src/journal/journal-file.c, just call fsync()
348 <alxchk> poettering: looks like msync just calls vfs_fsync
349 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/mm/msync.c#n18
c06bf414 350 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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351 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
352 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
353 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
354 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
355 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
356 - journal: reuse XZ context
357 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
358 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
359 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
360 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
361 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
362 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
363 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 364 - 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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365 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
366 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
367 - journal: when rotating, copy over old acls/access mode
b44be3ec 368 - 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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369 - 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.
370 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
371 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 372 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 373 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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374 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
375 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
376 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
377 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
77a9e8de 378 - journalctl: expand tabs
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379 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
380 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
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381 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
382 - Port upower to use the journal for historical power information used in future calculations
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384* document:
385 - document unit_name_mangle()
386 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in
387 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
388 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
389 - Document word splitting syntax for ExecStart= and friends
390 - document that units from /etc override those from /usr and /run
391 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 392 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 393 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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395* systemctl:
396 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
397 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
398 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
399 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
400 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
401 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
402 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
403 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
404 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
405 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
406 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
407 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
408 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
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410* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
411
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412* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
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414* timer units:
415 - configurable jitter for timer events
416 - timer events with system resume
417 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
418 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
419 o DST changes
eb124a97 420 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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422* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
423
424* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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425 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
426 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 427 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 428 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 429 user did not request anything like it.
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431* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
432 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
433 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
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435* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
436 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
437 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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438 we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in
439 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
440 better supported alternative.
e707c494 441
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442* figure out relation of --all and --full in the various tools
443
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444* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
445
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446* 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().
447
448* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
449* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
450* fedup: generator
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b44be3ec 452* timedated:
b44be3ec 453 - timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
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455* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
456
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457* introduce generic AUGMENT_PID=, AUGMENT_DEVICE= fields
458
b44be3ec 459* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
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461* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
462 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
463 - superset of tmpfiles model
464 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
465 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
466 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
467
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468* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
469 waiting for the timeout
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471* high level net_prio setting in execution context
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473* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
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475* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
476
15abdb9a 477* refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful (or set taint?)
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480 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly
481 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
482 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
483 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
484 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
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485 - nspawn: investigate whether we can support the same as LXC's
486 lxc.network.type=phys mode, and pass through entire network
487 interfaces to the container
488 - nspawn: maybe add a way to drop additional caps, in addition to add additional caps
489 - nspawn: maybe explicitly reset loginuid?
3679d112 490 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
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492* cryptsetup:
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493 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
494 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
495 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 496 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
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498* move debug shell to tty6 and make sure this doesn't break the gettys on tty6
499
424a19f8 500* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 501 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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503* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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505* make timer units go away after they elapsed
506
8556879e 507* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 508 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
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510* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
511
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512* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
513
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514* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
515
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516* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
517
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518* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
519
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520* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
521
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522* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container
523
68f16003 524* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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526* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
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528* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
529 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
530 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
531 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 532 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 533 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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535* use opterr = 0 for all getopt tools
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537* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
538
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539* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
540
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541* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
542
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543* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
544
88a6c589 545* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
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548 - syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls
549 - syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs?
550 - syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS?
551 - syscall filter: port to libseccomp
552 - system-wide seccomp filter
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554* .device aliases need to be implemented with the "following" logic, probably.
555
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556* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
557 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
558
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559* introduce Type=pid-file
560
59cea26a 561* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 562
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563* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
564
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565* move passno parsing to fstab generator
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567* automount: implement expire:
568 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
569 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
570 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
571 - blocking, needs a thread
572 - run until -EAGAIN
573 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
574 - call umount
575 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
576 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
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579
e01a15b7 580* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 581
abd55b16 582* udev:
3f60bcb5 583 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
abd55b16 584 - move to LGPL
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586 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
b8217b7b 587
18b754d3 588* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording
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590* 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
591
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592* support container_ttys=
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594* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
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596* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
597
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598* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
599
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600* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
601
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602* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
603
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604* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
605
606* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
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608* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
609
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610* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
611 needs to be auto-respawned?
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613* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
614
de6c78f8 615* tmpfiles: apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 616
b44be3ec 617* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
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620
d3c7d7dd 621* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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624 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
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629 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
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631* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
632
7c697168 633* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 634
71092d70 635* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
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637* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
638 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
639 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
640
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644 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
645
71092d70 646* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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649 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
650 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
651 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
652 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
653 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
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655* add support for /bin/mount -s
656
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657* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
658
68c7d001 659* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 660 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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661 - enabling dbus services
662 - status update
7a2a0b90 663 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 664 - remote access
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665 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
666 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 667 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 668 - auto-restart
e707c494 669 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 670 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 671 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 672 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 673 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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675 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
676 - how to create your own target
677 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
678 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 679
44143309 680* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 681
71092d70 682* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 683
260abb78 684* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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686* Support --test based on current system state
687
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688* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
689
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690* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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692* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
693
129126f3 694* port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID:
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695 - rpcbind (/var/run/rpcbind.sock!) HAVEPATCH
696 - cups HAVEPATCH
a625ac1a 697 - postfix, saslauthd
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698 - apache/samba
699 - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro)
700 - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!)
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702
71092d70 703* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
246756ca 704
50f2a90d 705* io priority during initialization
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708
7ba97195 709* systemd-python:
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711 works with ^C
b04c8c83 712 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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714* bootchart:
715 - plot per-process IO utilization
716 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
717 - document initcall_debug
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719
64eed40c 720* systemd-run is missing zsh completion scripts
c9d954b2 721
2f8cd170 722External:
74fe1fe3 723
cc9784c6 724* dbus:
cc9784c6 725 - dbus --user
3377af3e 726 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
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728 - allow disabling of fd passing when connecting a AF_UNIX connection
3377af3e 729 - allow disabling of UID passing for AUTH EXTERNAL
b69d29ce 730 - always pass cred data along each message
b44be3ec 731 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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9096ad36 737* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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739* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
740 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
741 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
742 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
743 the RTC to sync up.
744
71092d70 745* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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748
749* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
750
751* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
752
753* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
754
755* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
756
d2bbca68 757* 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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759* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
760
761* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 762
4641a16b 763* 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 765Regularly:
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129126f3 767* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 768
129126f3 769* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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771* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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14212119 773* %m in printf() instead of strerror(errno);
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775* pahole
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71092d70 777* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 778
4db17f29 779* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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782
9e5f3dbb 783Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 785* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)