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ee9c9500 1Bugfixes:
19aadacf 2* enabling an instance unit creates a pointless link, and
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3 the unit will be started with getty@getty.service:
4 $ systemctl enable getty@.service
5 ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service' '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@.service'
6
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7* swap units that are activated by one name but shown in the kernel under another are semi-broken
8
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9* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
10 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
11 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
12
a40593a0 13* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
20ffc4c4 14
19aadacf 15* When we detect invalid UTF-8, we cannot use it in an error message:
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16 log...("Path is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment: %s", rvalue);
17
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18* shorten the message to sane length:
19
20 Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status display-manager.service' for details.
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f38afcd0 22External:
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f38afcd0 24* ps should gain colums for slice
81d112a8 25
f38afcd0 26* Fedora: when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
466784c8 27 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
55d32caf 28
f38afcd0 29* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
bafb15ba 30
f38afcd0 31* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
bafb15ba 32
eb124a97 33Features:
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35* cgroups:
36 - implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?)
37 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
38 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
39 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
40 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
41 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
42 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
43 the hierarchies of child processes
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45* transient units:
46 - allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
47 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
48 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
ebcf1f97 49
f38afcd0 50* switch to SipHash for hashmaps/sets?
2e41a51e 51
f38afcd0 52* general: get rid of readdir_r/dirent_storage stuff, it's unnecessary on Linux
718db961 53
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54* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
55
56* move libasyncns into systemd as libsystemd-asyncns
57
f38afcd0 58* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
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60* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
61
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62* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
63
94676f3e 64* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
6fd4d020 65
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66* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
67
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68* remove NSS usage from PID 1 (notably the specifiers)
69
f38afcd0 70* socket-proxyd:Use a nonblocking alternative to getaddrinfo
41644622 71
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72* 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
73
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74* Add a new Distribute=$NUMBER key to socket units that makes use of SO_REUSEPORT to distribute network traffic on $NUMBER instances
75
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76* we probably should replace the left-over uses of strv_append() and replace them by strv_push() or strv_extend()
77
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78* move config_parse_path_strv() out of conf-parser.c
79
7f79cd71 80* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 81
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82* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
83 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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84 path anyway.
85
19aadacf 86* When a Type=forking service fails and needed another service, that
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87 service is not cleaned up again when it has StopWhenUnneeded=yes
88 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-July/012141.html
89
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90* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
91
19aadacf 92* given that logind/machined now let PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
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93 probably reduce the capability set they retain substantially.
94
6aaa8c2f 95* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 96
e1b7e7ec 97* 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 98
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99* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
100
101* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
102
9444b1f2 103* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 104 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 105 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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106 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
107 check for that and suppress event handling.
9444b1f2 108
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109* document logic of auto/noauto and fail/nofail in fstab in systemd.mount or systemd-fstab-generator man page
110
19aadacf 111* something pulls in pcre as shared object dependency into our daemons such as hostnamed.
1f263d4d 112
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113* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
114 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
115
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116* libsystemd-bus:
117 - default policy (allow uid == 0 and our own uid)
f38afcd0 118 - access policy as vtable flag
eb01ba5d 119 - enforce alignment of pointers passed in
eb01ba5d 120 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
eb01ba5d 121 - implement translator service
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122 - implement busname unit type in systemd
123 - move to gvariant
86312ab8 124 - implement monitor logic
07459db6 125 - properly map matches with well-known names against messages with unique names
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126 - when triggering property change events, allow a NULL strv indicate that all properties listed as such are send out as changed
127 - enforce signatures on response messages
128 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
129 - support "const" properties as flag
130 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
131 - SD_BUS_COMMENT() macro for inclusion in vtables, syntax inspired by gdbus
626851be 132 - make sd_bus_open_system_container() kdbus aware
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133 - longer term:
134 * priority queues
135 * priority inheritance
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137* sd-event
138 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal
139 - when a handler returns an error, just turn off its event source,
140 but do not return anything up to the event loop caller. Instead
141 add parameter to sd_event_request_quit() to take retval. This way
142 errors rippling upwards are the option, not the default
143 - child pid handling: first invoke waitid(WNOHANG) and call event handler, only afterwards reap the process
144 - native support for watchdog stuff
eb01ba5d 145
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146* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
147 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
148 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
149
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151* Introduce a way how we can kill the main process of a service with KillSignal, but all processes with SIGKILL later on
152 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952634
153
69af4503 154* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses where the access mode of unit files is nonsensical.
19aa7c4f 155
69af4503 156* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
e8a7a315 157
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158* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
159 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
160
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161* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
162
163* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
164
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165* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
166
167* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
168
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169* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
170
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171* test/:
172 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
173 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
889a9042 174 - qemu wrapper script: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg72389.html
b8b4d3dd 175
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176* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
177
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178* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
179 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
180 file.
181
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182* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
183 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
184 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
185 destination.
186
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187* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
188 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
189
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190* add ConditionArchitecture= or so
191
192* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
193
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194* Support SO_REUSEPORT with socket activation:
195 - Let systemd maintain a pool of servers.
196 - Use for seamless upgrades, by running the new server before stopping the
197 old.
198
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199* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
200 need manual exponential loops after all
201
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202* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
203 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
204 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
205 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
206
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207* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
208 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
209 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
210 that automatically.
211
e5ec62c5 212* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 213
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214* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
215
54c31a79 216* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 217
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218* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
219
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220* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
221
222* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
223
224* msgcatalog determine default language of entries from the catalog
225 file name. i.e. foobar.de_DE.catalog would set the default entry
226 name for the entries to de_DE if they aren't explicitly suffixed
227 individually.
228
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229* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
230
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231* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
232
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233* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
234 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
235 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
236 will be activated.
237
356ce991 238* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 239
81d112a8 240* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 241
b44be3ec 242* EFI:
b44be3ec 243 - write man page for efi boot generator
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244 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
245 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 246 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 247
c0fe5db5 248* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 249
b44be3ec 250* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
e9fd44b7 251
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252* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
253 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 255* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 256
b44be3ec 257* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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259* logind:
260 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
261 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
262 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
263 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
264 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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265 - logind: non-local X11 server handling
266 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
b44be3ec 267 - pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree
e5ec62c5 268 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
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269 - when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects
270 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
271 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
272 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
273 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
274 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
275 needs setuid().
e673ad04 276
b44be3ec 277* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 278
b44be3ec 279* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
e673ad04 280
b44be3ec 281* journal:
c06bf414 282 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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283 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
284 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
285 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
286 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
287 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
288 - journal: reuse XZ context
289 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
290 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
291 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
292 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
293 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
294 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
295 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 296 - 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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297 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
298 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
b44be3ec 299 - 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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300 - 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.
301 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
302 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 303 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 304 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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305 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
306 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
307 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
308 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
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309 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
310 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 311 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
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312 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
313 - journalctl: support -M to read journal of containers and determine journal directory from root directory of container
314 - tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal, also do this for the journal fails contained in it
315 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
316 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
317 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
318 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
319 to syslog when it works again.
320 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
321 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
322 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
323 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
324 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
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326* document:
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327 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in
328 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
329 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
330 - Document word splitting syntax for ExecStart= and friends
331 - document that units from /etc override those from /usr and /run
332 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 333 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 334 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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335 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
336 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
337 - man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf
338 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
339 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
340 - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
341 - man: add more examples to man pages
342 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
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344* systemctl:
345 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
346 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
347 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
348 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
349 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
350 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
351 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
352 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
353 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
354 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
355 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
356 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
357 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
f38afcd0 358 - rework wait filter to not require match callback
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359 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
360 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
361 - in systemctl list-timers show time trggering units ran last
362
363* unit install:
364 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
365 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
366 - "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, but should
367 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
368 unit however should remove them all).
369 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
370 - systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
8b04b925 371
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372* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
373
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374* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
375
376* timer units:
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377 - timer events with system resume
378 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
379 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
380 o DST changes
eb124a97 381 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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382 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
383 - 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
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384 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
385 - anacron-like feature
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387* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
388
389* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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390 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
391 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 392 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 393 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 394 user did not request anything like it.
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396* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
397 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
398 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
9ec82de1 399
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400* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
401 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
402 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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403 we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in
404 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
405 better supported alternative.
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407* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
408
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409* 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().
410
411* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
412* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
413* fedup: generator
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f38afcd0 415* timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
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417* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
418
b44be3ec 419* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 420
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421* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
422 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
423 - superset of tmpfiles model
424 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
425 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
426 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
427
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428* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
429 waiting for the timeout
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431* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
432
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433* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
434
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435* nspawn:
436 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly
437 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
438 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
439 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
440 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
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441 - nspawn: investigate whether we can support the same as LXC's
442 lxc.network.type=phys mode, and pass through entire network
443 interfaces to the container
444 - nspawn: maybe add a way to drop additional caps, in addition to add additional caps
445 - nspawn: maybe explicitly reset loginuid?
3679d112 446 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
9cb74bcb 447 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
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448 - add an option to nspawn that uses seccomp to make socket(AF_NETLINK,
449 SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_AUDIT) fail the the appropriate error code that
450 makes the audit userspace to think auditing is not available in the
451 kernel.
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453* cryptsetup:
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454 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
455 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
456 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 457 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 458
424a19f8 459* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 460 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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462* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
463
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464* make timer units go away after they elapsed
465
8556879e 466* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 467 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
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469* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
470
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471* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
472
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473* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
474
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475* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
476
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477* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
478
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479* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
480
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481* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container
482
68f16003 483* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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485* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
486
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487* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
488 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
489 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
490 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 491 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 492 but much rather a disconnect on success.
0790b9fe 493
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494* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
495
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496* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
497
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498* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
499
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500* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
501
88a6c589 502* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
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504* syscall filter:
505 - syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls
506 - syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs?
507 - syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS?
508 - syscall filter: port to libseccomp
509 - system-wide seccomp filter
c66d36e5 510
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511* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
512 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
513
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514* introduce Type=pid-file
515
59cea26a 516* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 517
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518* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
519
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520* automount: implement expire:
521 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
522 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
523 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
524 - blocking, needs a thread
525 - run until -EAGAIN
526 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
527 - call umount
528 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
529 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
465349c0 530
e01a15b7 531* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 532
abd55b16 533* udev:
3f60bcb5 534 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
abd55b16 535 - move to LGPL
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537 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
b8217b7b 538
18b754d3 539* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording
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542
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543* support container_ttys=
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545* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
546
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547* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
548
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549* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
550
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551* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
552
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553* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
554
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555* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
556
557* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
558
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559* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
560
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561* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
562 needs to be auto-respawned?
563
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564* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
565
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567 - check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
568 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 569
b44be3ec 570* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
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573
d3c7d7dd 574* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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576* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
577 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
578
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581* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
582 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
583
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584* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
585
7c697168 586* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 587
71092d70 588* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
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590* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
591 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
592 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
593
f38afcd0 594* support User= and Group= attributes for AF_UNIX sockets. (difficult, requires NSS from PID 1?)
a012ab52 595
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596* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
597 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
598
71092d70 599* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 600
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601* readahead:
602 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
603 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
604 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
605 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
606 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
b23de6af 607
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608* add support for /bin/mount -s
609
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610* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
611
68c7d001 612* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 613 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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614 - enabling dbus services
615 - status update
7a2a0b90 616 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 617 - remote access
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618 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
619 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 620 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 621 - auto-restart
e707c494 622 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 623 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 624 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 625 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 626 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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628 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
629 - how to create your own target
630 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
631 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
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44143309 633* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 634
71092d70 635* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 636
260abb78 637* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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639* Support --test based on current system state
640
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641* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
642
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643* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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645* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
646
129126f3 647* port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID:
a625ac1a 648 - postfix, saslauthd
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649 - apache/samba
650 - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro)
651 - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!)
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71092d70 654* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
246756ca 655
50f2a90d 656* io priority during initialization
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7ba97195 660* systemd-python:
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662 works with ^C
b04c8c83 663 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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666 - plot per-process IO utilization
667 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
668 - document initcall_debug
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669 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
670
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671* udev-link-config:
672 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
673 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
674 on Path= matching
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675 - Check if Driver= is broken, or just my driver (bcma)
676
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677* sd-rtnl:
678 - replace sd_rtnl_message_append() by type-safe versions
679 - improve container support, and add support for entering containers when reading
680 - add support for more attribute types
681
2f8cd170 682External:
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cc9784c6 684* dbus:
3377af3e 685 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 686 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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688* fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
689
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690* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
691
9096ad36 692* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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694* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
695 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
696 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
697 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
698 the RTC to sync up.
699
71092d70 700* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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703
704* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
705
706* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
707
708* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
709
710* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
711
d2bbca68 712* 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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714* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
715
716* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 717
4641a16b 718* 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 720Regularly:
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129126f3 722* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
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129126f3 724* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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726* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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71092d70 730* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
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4db17f29 732* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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9e5f3dbb 736Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 738* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)