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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* busctl prints errors to stdout:
8 busctl tree org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1
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f38afcd0 10External:
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f38afcd0 12* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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14* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
15
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16Janitorial Clean-ups:
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18* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
19
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20* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
21 semantics, like we do for device.c now
22
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23Features:
24
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25* nspawn: support time namespaces
26
27* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
28
29* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
30
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31* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
32 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, firstboot, tmpfiles,
33 sysusers, systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl.
34
35* per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
36 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
37 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
38 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
39 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
40 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
41 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
42 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
43
44* homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
45 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
46
47* homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
48 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
49
50* homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
51 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
52 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
53
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54* homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
55 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
56 signature
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58* homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
59 and insert a local signature instead.
60
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61* Maybe expose path_is_encrypted() as a new ConditionPathIsEncrypted=?
62
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63* homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
64 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
65 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
66 though: if noone is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
67 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
68
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69* homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
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71* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
72 exists and responds.
73
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74* homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
75 easily?
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77* when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
78 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
79 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
80 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
81 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
82
97cd52c1 83* cryptsetup/homed: also support FIDO2 HMAC password logic for unlocking
70e9d9a5 84 devices. (see: https://github.com/mjec/fido2-hmac-secret)
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86* systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
87 creates
88
86b52a39 89* homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
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90 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
91 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
92 hence we can make them quicker to work.
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94* bootctl:
95 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
96 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
97 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
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99* by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
100 allow so that systemd survives
101
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102* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
103 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
104
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105* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
106 systemd-makefs.service instead.
107
91fc013f 108* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 109 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
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111* unify on openssl:
112 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
113 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
114 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
115 - port importd over from libgcrypt
116 - when that's done: kill khash.c
117 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
118
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119* kill zenata, all hail weblate?
120
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121* when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
122
123* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
124 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
125
126* hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
127 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
128 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
129 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
130 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
131
492f91d8 132* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
86b52a39 133 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
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134 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
135 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
136
86b52a39 137* systemd-repart: optionally, allow specifying a path to initialize new
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138 partitions from, i.e. an fs image file or a source device node. This would
139 then turn systemd-repart into a simple installer: with a few .repart files
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140 you could replicate the host system on another device. a full installer would
141 then be: "systemd-repart /dev/sda && bootctl install /dev/sda &&
142 systemd-firstboot --image= …"
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144* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
145 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
146 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
147 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
148 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
149 automatically.
150
151* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
152 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
153
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154* systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
155 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
156
157* systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
158
159* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
160 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
161
162* systemd-repart: add specifier expansion, add especifier that refers to root
163 device node of current system, /usr device node, and matching verity, so that
164 an installer can be made a "copy" installer of the booted OS
165
2a4be3c5 166* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
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167 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
168
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169* systemd-repart: allow config of partition uuid
170
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171* systemd-repart: add --make= switch for fallocating a new file of the
172 specified size first.
173
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174* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
175 realname substr searches in varlink API
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177* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
178
2a4be3c5 179* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 180
f1eb0ccd 181* pid1: activation by journal search expression
006c44c1 182
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183* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
184 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
185 initrd had set.
186
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187* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
188 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
189 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
190 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
191 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
192 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
193
194* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
195 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
196 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
197
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198* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
199 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
200 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
201 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
202 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
203 source.
204
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205* figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
206 with immutable /usr
207
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208* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
209 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
210 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
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212* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
213
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214* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
215 the hibernation
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217* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
218 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
219 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
220 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
221 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
222 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
223 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
224 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
225 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
226 hibernation mode. (see
227 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
228 section 10.2.2.8 and
229 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
230 at the end).
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232* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
233 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
234 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
235 output for them.
236
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237* systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
238 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
239
240* systemd-firstboot: add --force mode that replaces existing configuration.
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242* We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
243 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
244 constant vendor data.
245
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246* maybe add kernel cmdline params: 1) to force first-boot mode + 2) to force
247 random seed crediting
248
249* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
250 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
251
252* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
253 fallback in "machinectl shell"
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255* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
256 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
257 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
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259* homed:
260 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
261 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
262 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
263 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
264 - resize on login?
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265 - shrink fs on logout?
266 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
267 - create on activate?
268 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
269 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
270 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
271 systemd --user is shut down.
272 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
273 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk images (think: time machine)
86b52a39 274 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
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275 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
276 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
277 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
278 - description field for groups
279 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
280 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
281 - query password from kernel keyring first
282 - update even if record is "absent"
283 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
284 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
285 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
286 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
287 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
288 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
289
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290* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
291 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
292 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
293 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
294 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
295 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
296 exec().
297
298* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
299
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300* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
301 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
302
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303* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
304
305* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
306 gnome-bluetooth and friends
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308* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
309 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
310 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
311 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
312 cgroup.
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314* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
315 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
316 root.
317
318* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
319 is issued.
320
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321* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
322
323* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
324
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325* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
326 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
327 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 328
d238709c 329* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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330 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
331 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
332
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333* add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
334 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
335 ConfigurationDirectory=.
336
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337* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
338
d3584ec4 339* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
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341* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
342 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
343
06898123 344* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 345 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 346 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
06898123 347
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348* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
349
350* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
351 patching around
352
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353* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
354 log.c and sd-journal-send
355
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356* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
357
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358* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
359
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360* sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
361 can add in file system drivers and such
362
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363* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
364 non-zero "tries done" count
365
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366* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
367 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
368 it should skip the variant type string though.
369
370* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
371 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
372 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
373 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
374 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
375 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
376 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
377 CODE_FILE.
378
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379* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
380 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
381 some explanatory text online.
382
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383* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
384
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385* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
386 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
387 the slices, and the units attached to them.
388
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389* the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
390 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
bc130b68 391 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
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392 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
393 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
394 way)
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396* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
397 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
398 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
399
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400* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
401 original defaults before calling parse_config()
402
72d711ef 403* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
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405* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
406 Specifically:
407
408 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
409 properly)
e83419d0 410 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 411 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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413* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
414 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
415
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416* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
417 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
418 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
419 files and suchlike we operate on.
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421* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
422
423* add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
424
425* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
426 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
427
5da19043 428* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
5238e957 429 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
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430 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
431 numbers.
432
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433* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
434 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
435 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
436 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
437 unlinked from any dir.
438
bd1b3f75 439* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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441* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
442
443* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
444
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445* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
446 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
447 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
448 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
449 should reflink the image file itself.
450
451 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
452 specific paths only like this.
453
53c70a27 454* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 455 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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456 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
457 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
458 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
459
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460* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
461
462* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
463
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464* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
465 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
466
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467* teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
468 project quota
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470* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
471 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
472 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
473 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
474 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
475 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
476 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
477 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
478
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479* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
480 for root, but only then.
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482* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
483
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484* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
485 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
486
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487* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
488 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
489
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490* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
491 host-side interface pointing to the container.
492
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493* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
494 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
495 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
496 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
497 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
498
cb77e122 499* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 500
899feb72 501* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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504 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
505 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
506
5f7ecd61 507* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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509* maybe use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (i.e. the env var the reproducible builds folks
510 introduced) as the RTC epoch, instead of the mtime of NEWS.
511
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512* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
513 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
514
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515* blog about fd store and restartable services
516
517* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
518
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519* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
520 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
521
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522* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
523 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
524 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
525 ID is available.
526
527* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
528 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
529 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
530
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532 parameters
533
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534* maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
535 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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536 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
537 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
538 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
539 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
540 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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542* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
543 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
544
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545* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
546 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
547 wait to retrieve their exit data.
548
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550 about it in the resource log message
551
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552* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
553 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
554
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555* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
556 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
557 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
558
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560 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
561
562 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
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565 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
566 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
567 logging.
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570 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
571 "convertible" form factor
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573* Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
574 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
575 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
576 as MAINPID.
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578* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
579 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
580 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
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583 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
584
585* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
586 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
587 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
588 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
589 natural habitat.
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592 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
593 /usr is mounted into.
594
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595* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
596
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597* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
598
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599* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
600 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
601 relative to the configured default value.
602
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603* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
604
605* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
606
04397464 607* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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609* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
610
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611* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
612
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613* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
614
04397464 615* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 616
04397464 617* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 618
04397464 619* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 620
8ce9b83a 621* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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623* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
624 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
625 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
626
e40a326c 627* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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629* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
630
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631* mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
632 partitions
633
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634* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
635 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
636 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
637 mapping to work.
638
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639* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
640
641* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
642
643* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
644
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645* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
646 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
647
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648* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
649 reload the unit file anyway
650
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651* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
652 from the SIGBUS handler
653
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654* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
655
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656* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
657 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
658
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659* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
660
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661* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
662 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
663
f9bf1b8f 664* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 665 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 666 specifications.
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669
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672* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
673
a2088fd0 674* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 675 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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676 prefixed with /sys generally special.
677 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
678
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679* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
680
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681* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
682
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683* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
684 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
685 state.
686 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
687
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688* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
689 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
690 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
691 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
692 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
693
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695 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
696
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697* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
698
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699* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
700 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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702* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
703 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
704 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
705 do, for example)
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707* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
708 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
709
e031c227 710* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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711 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
712
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713* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
714
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715* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
716 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
717 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
718 returning from the "systemctl stop".
719
b568ef14 720* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
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722* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
723
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724* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
725 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
726
25e773ee 727* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 728
279f0366 729* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 730
5238e957 731* systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
b42de08a 732 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
202aea45 733
720652b3 734* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 735
720652b3 736* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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738* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
739
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740* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
741 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
742
9d6db739 743* resolved:
9d6db739 744 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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746 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 747 - avahi compat
9d6db739 748 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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749 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
750 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
751 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 752 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 753 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 754
e25b5a8d 755* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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757* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
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759* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
760
a01647e5 761* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 762 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
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764* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
765
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766* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
767
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768* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
769
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770* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
771 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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773* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
774
6a3f892a 775* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 776 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 777 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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779* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
780 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
781 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 782
f9bf1b8f 783* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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785* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
786 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
787 for ReusePort=
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789* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
790 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
791 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
792 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
793 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
794 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
795
f38afcd0 796* cgroups:
f38afcd0 797 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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798 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
799 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
800 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
801 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
802 the hierarchies of child processes
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f38afcd0 804* transient units:
f38afcd0 805 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
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807* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
808
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809* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
810
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811* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
812
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813* 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
814
7f79cd71 815* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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817* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
818 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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820
04397464 821* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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823* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
824
825* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
826
6bb648a1 827* sd-bus:
0d43ffef 828 - EBADSLT handling
fa607802 829 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
7212c608 830 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
57f2a947 831 - see if we can introduce a new sd_bus_get_owner_machine_id() call to retrieve the machine ID of the machine of the bus itself
f38afcd0 832 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 833 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
ab9716c2 834 - longer term: priority inheritance
df98a87b 835 - dbus spec updates:
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837 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 838 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 839 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
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841* sd-event
12179984 842 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 843 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
e25b5a8d 844 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
eb01ba5d 845
69af4503 846* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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848* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
849 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
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851* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
852
853* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
854
fff87a35 855* test/:
20d52ab6 856 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 857
b5c03638 858* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 859 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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860 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
861 destination.
862
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863* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
864 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
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866* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
867
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868* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
869 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
870 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
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873 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
874 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
875 is installed.
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878 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
879 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
880 that automatically.
881
e5ec62c5 882* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 883
ccddd104 884* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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886* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
887
356ce991 888* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
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892 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 893 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 894* bootctl
631427d6 895 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 896
c0fe5db5 897* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 898
b44be3ec 899* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 900
b44be3ec 901* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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904 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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905 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
906 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
907 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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908 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
909 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
910 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
911 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
912 needs setuid().
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914 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
915 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
916 complete.
917 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
918 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
919 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
279f0366 920 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
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922 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
923 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
924 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
925 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
926 relogins
77b19caf 927 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 928
b44be3ec 929* journal:
57f2a947 930 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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932 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
933 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 934 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 935 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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937 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
938 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 939 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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940 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
941 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 942 - 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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943 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
944 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
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945 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
946 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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947 - 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.
948 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
949 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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950 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
951 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
952 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
953 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 954 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 955 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 956 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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957 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
958 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
959 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
960 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
961 to syslog when it works again.
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962 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
963 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
964 journals in.
965 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
966 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
967 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
968 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
969 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 970 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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971 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
972 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
973 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
974 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
975 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
976 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
977 operation.
978 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
979 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
980 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
981 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 982 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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983 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
984 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
985 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
986 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
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988* add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
989 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
990 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
991 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
992
b44be3ec 993* document:
8b8f2591 994 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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995 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
996 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 997 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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998 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
999 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1000 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1001 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1002 - man: add more examples to man pages
1003 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1004 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1006* systemctl:
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1007 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1008 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1009 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1010 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1011 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1012 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1013 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1014 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1015 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1016 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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1017
1018* unit install:
1019 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1020 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
8b04b925 1021
b44be3ec 1022* timer units:
b44be3ec 1023 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
b44be3ec 1024 o DST changes
90e071d1 1025 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 1026
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1027* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1028
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1029* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1030
b44be3ec 1031* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 1032
f59d1da8 1033* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
dcfc4b2e 1034
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1035* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1036
d28315e4 1037* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 1038
b44be3ec 1039* nspawn:
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1040 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1041 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1042 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1043 from the kernel's logs.
1044 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1045 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1046 interface be missing
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1047 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1048 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1049 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1050 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1051 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1052 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1053 PID 1...
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1054 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1055 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1056
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1057* dissect
1058 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1059 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1060
e25b5a8d 1061* machined:
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1062 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1063 removed or added to an existing machine
1064 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1065 difference host, via ssh
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1066 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1067 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1068 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1069 question
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1070 - "machinectl history"
1071 - "machinectl diff"
1072 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1073 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1074
b44be3ec 1075* cryptsetup:
b44be3ec 1076 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
5f1dac6b 1077 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 1078
424a19f8 1079* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 1080 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
424a19f8 1081
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1082* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1083
68f16003 1084* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 1085
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1086* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1087
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1088* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1089
abd55b16 1090* udev:
abd55b16 1091 - move to LGPL
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1092 - kill scsi_id
1093 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1094 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1095
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1096* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1097
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1098* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1099
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1100* coredump:
1101 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1102 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
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1103
1104* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1105
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1106* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1107 needs to be auto-respawned?
1108
f38afcd0 1109* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1110 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1111 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1112 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1113 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1114 calls follow symlinks.
1258097c 1115
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1116* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1117
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1118* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1119 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1120 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1121
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1122* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1123 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1124
71092d70 1125* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 1126
68c7d001 1127* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 1128 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
68c7d001 1129 - enabling dbus services
7a2a0b90 1130 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 1131 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 1132 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 1133 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 1134 - auto-restart
e707c494 1135 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 1136 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 1137 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 1138 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 1139 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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1140 - calendar time events
1141 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1142 - how to create your own target
1143 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1144 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 1145
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1146* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1147
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1148* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1149
e25b5a8d 1150* pid1:
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1151 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1152 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1153 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1154 that are not supported...
1155 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1156 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1157 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1158 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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1159 - move PAM code into its own binary
1160 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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1161 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1162 - Support --test based on current system state
1163 - 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().
1164 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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1165 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1166 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1167 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1168 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1169 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1170 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1171 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1172 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1173
1174* unit files:
1175 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1176 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1177 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1178 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1179 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1180 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1181 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1182 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
e25b5a8d 1183 - introduce Type=pid-file
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1184 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1185 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
e25b5a8d 1186 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
e5171296 1187 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
e25b5a8d 1188
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1189* udev-link-config:
1190 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1191 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1192 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1193
88e4d1d7 1194* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1195 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1196 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1197
0a4b9a07 1198* networkd:
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1199 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1200 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 1201 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 1202 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
5c1d3fc9 1203 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
798e174a 1204 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1205 - work with non-Ethernet devices
c9fa3670 1206 - add support for more bond options
e25b5a8d 1207 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1208 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1209 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1210 - expose in the API the following bits:
1211 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
38b38500 1212 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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1213 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1214 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1215 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1216 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1217 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1218 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1219 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1220 - allow DUID/IAID to be customized, see issue #394.
e25b5a8d 1221 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1222
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1223* networkd-wait-online:
1224 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
8f5675cc 1225
ac976532 1226* dhcp:
424a8732 1227 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1228
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1229* dhcp6:
1230 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1231 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1232 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1233 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1234 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1235 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1236 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1237 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1238 or interface down
1239 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1240 this behavior
4a77c53d 1241 - RouteTable= ?
37d8b536 1242
2f8cd170 1243External:
74fe1fe3 1244
cc9784c6 1245* dbus:
3377af3e 1246 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 1247 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 1248
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1249* fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
1250
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1251* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1252
9096ad36 1253* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
06ae4bfe 1254
71092d70 1255* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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1257* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1258
d2bbca68 1259* 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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1260
1261* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
1262
1263* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 1264
4641a16b 1265* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
19aa7c4f 1266
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1267* register catalog database signature as file magic
1268
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1269* zsh shell completion:
1270 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 1271 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1cf3c30c 1272
90137b62 1273* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
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1274* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1275 after being started.
2c12a402 1276
129126f3 1277Regularly:
874aa2cc 1278
129126f3 1279* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 1280
129126f3 1281* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
5b6319dc 1282
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1283* pahole
1284
d28315e4 1285* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 1286
4db17f29 1287* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
88fae6e0 1288
d05c556b 1289* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
62353f69 1290String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment