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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'
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7* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
8 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
9 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
10
a40593a0 11* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
20ffc4c4 12
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13* shorten the message to sane length:
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15 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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17* systemctl --root=container/ set-default ... is totally borked.
18
f38afcd0 19External:
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f38afcd0 21* Fedora: when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
466784c8 22 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
55d32caf 23
f38afcd0 24* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
bafb15ba 25
f38afcd0 26* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
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eb124a97 28Features:
154ff088 29
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30* "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
31 /proc/$PID/exe
32
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33* systemctl (and possibly related tools): support a new switch that
34 allows enumerating units in local containers recursively. "systemctl
35 list-units -R" or so should not only lists on the host, but also the
36 services in all containers in a pretty way, to give an overview of
37 the entire system. Also, maybe add "systemctl list-machines" which
38 works like "machinectl list" but includes information about the
39 health status of each registered machine. For that we should
40 probably implement something that encodes the system health status
41 in a single enum state, i.e. something like a system-wide state
42 starting → running → failed → stopping, that is based on the current
43 job queue and a check for failed services. Maybe then change
44 "systemctl status" without args to output this state along with a
45 selection of other data, such as the uptime or so.
46
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47* doc: remove documentation for .include, drop-in snippets are the
48 better replacement.
49
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50* Add a seccomp-based filter for socket() calls to limit services to
51 specific address families (for example: AF_UNIX), inspired by
52 Android's sandboxing
53
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54* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
55 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
56 for ReusePort=
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58* add a timelimit to generator invocation
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60* socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
61 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
62 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
63 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
64 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
65
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66* New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
67
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68* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
69 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
70 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
71 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
72 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
73 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
74
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75* completions:
76 - busctl zsh completion is outdated
77 - systemd-nspawn -Z/-L/-q is missing for zsh
78 - systemd-nspawn completion is missing for bash
79 - manager property enumeration was broken when systemd moved to /usr/lib/
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81* cgroups:
82 - implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?)
83 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
84 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
85 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
86 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
87 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
88 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
89 the hierarchies of child processes
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91* transient units:
92 - allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
93 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
94 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
ebcf1f97 95
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96* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
97
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98* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
99
f38afcd0 100* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
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102* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
103
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104* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
105
94676f3e 106* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
6fd4d020 107
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108* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
109
af1082b0 110* socket-proxyd: Use sd-resolve to resolve the server address
41644622 111
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112* 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
113
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114* move config_parse_path_strv() out of conf-parser.c
115
7f79cd71 116* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 117
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118* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
119 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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120 path anyway.
121
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122* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
123
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124* given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
125 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
e10e429f 126 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
e1b7e7ec 127
6aaa8c2f 128* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 129
e1b7e7ec 130* make sure gdm doesn't use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
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132* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
133
134* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
135
9444b1f2 136* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 137 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 138 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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139 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
140 check for that and suppress event handling.
9444b1f2 141
19aadacf 142* something pulls in pcre as shared object dependency into our daemons such as hostnamed.
1f263d4d 143
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144* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
145 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
146
6bb648a1 147* sd-bus:
eb01ba5d 148 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
86312ab8 149 - implement monitor logic
f38afcd0 150 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 151 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
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152 - systemd-bus-proxyd needs to enforce good old XML policy
153 - upload minimal kdbus policy into the kernel at boot
80caea6c 154 - kdbus: matches against source or destination pids for an "strace -p"-like feel. Problem: The PID info needs to be available in userspace too...
ab9716c2 155 - longer term: priority inheritance
452de75e 156 - check sender of response messages
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157 - dbus spec updates:
158 - kdbus mapping
159 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
160 - GVariant
bee7e928 161 - "const" properties (posted)
00586799 162 - port exit-on-idle logic to byebye ioctl
6a8b5fa4 163 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
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164 - allow updating attach flags during runtime
165 - pid1: peek into activating message when activating a service
69727e6d 166 - test bloom filter generation indexes
2fcb3af6 167 - introduce sd_bus_emit_object_added()/sd_bus_emit_object_removed() that automatically includes the build-in interfaces in the list
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168 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
169 - constructors for bus messages should probably not be OK with a NULL bus pointer
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171* sd-event
12179984 172 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
eb01ba5d 173
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174* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
175 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
176 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
177
69af4503 178* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
e8a7a315 179
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180* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
181 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
182
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183* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
184
185* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
186
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187* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
188
189* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
190
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191* timedatectl: print a nicer message when enabling ntp fails because ntpd/chrony are not installed
192
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193* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
194
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195* test/:
196 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
197 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
b8b4d3dd 198
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199* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
200
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201* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
202 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
203 file.
204
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205* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
206 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
207 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
208 destination.
209
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210* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
211 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
212
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213* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
214
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215* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
216 need manual exponential loops after all
217
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218* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
219 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
220 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
221 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
222
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223* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
224 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
225 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
226 that automatically.
227
e5ec62c5 228* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 229
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230* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
231
54c31a79 232* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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234* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
235
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236* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
237
238* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
239
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240* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
241
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242* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
243
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244* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
245 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
246 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
247 will be activated.
248
356ce991 249* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 250
81d112a8 251* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 252
b44be3ec 253* EFI:
b44be3ec 254 - write man page for efi boot generator
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255 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
256 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 257 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 258
c0fe5db5 259* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 260
b44be3ec 261* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
e9fd44b7 262
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263* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
264 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 266* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 267
b44be3ec 268* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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270* logind:
271 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
272 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
273 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
274 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
275 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
b44be3ec 276 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
e5ec62c5 277 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
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278 - when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects
279 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
280 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
281 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
282 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
283 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
284 needs setuid().
e673ad04 285
b44be3ec 286* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 287
b44be3ec 288* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
e673ad04 289
b44be3ec 290* journal:
c06bf414 291 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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292 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
293 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
294 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
295 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
296 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
297 - journal: reuse XZ context
298 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
299 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
300 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
301 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
302 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
303 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
304 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 305 - 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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306 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
307 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
b44be3ec 308 - 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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309 - 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.
310 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
311 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 312 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 313 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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314 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
315 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
316 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
317 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
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318 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
319 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 320 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 321 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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322 - tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal, also do this for the journal fails contained in it
323 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
324 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
325 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
326 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
327 to syslog when it works again.
328 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
329 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
330 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
331 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
332 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
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334* document:
8b8f2591 335 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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336 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
337 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 338 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 339 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 340 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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341 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
342 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
343 - man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf
344 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
345 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
346 - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
347 - man: add more examples to man pages
348 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
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350* systemctl:
351 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
352 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
353 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
354 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
355 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
356 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
357 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
358 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
359 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
360 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
361 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
362 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
363 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
f38afcd0 364 - rework wait filter to not require match callback
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365 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
366 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
8b8f2591 367 - in systemctl list-timers show time triggering units ran last
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369* unit install:
370 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
371 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
372 - "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, but should
373 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
374 unit however should remove them all).
375 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
376 - systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
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378* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
379
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380* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
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382* timer units:
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383 - timer events with system resume
384 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
385 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
386 o DST changes
eb124a97 387 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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388 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
389 - 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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390 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
391 - anacron-like feature
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393* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
394
395* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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396 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
397 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 398 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 399 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 400 user did not request anything like it.
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402* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
403 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
404 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
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406* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
407 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
408 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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409 we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in
410 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
411 better supported alternative.
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413* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
414
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415* 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().
416
417* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
418* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
419* fedup: generator
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f38afcd0 421* timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
6d0274f1 422
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423* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
424
b44be3ec 425* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 426
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427* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
428 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
429 - superset of tmpfiles model
430 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
431 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
432 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
433
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434* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
435 waiting for the timeout
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439* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
440
b44be3ec 441* nspawn:
86d0d519 442 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with /usr/bin/getent, so that NSS resolving works correctly
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443 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
444 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
445 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
446 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
3679d112 447 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
9cb74bcb 448 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
a56b63f4 449 - support taking a btrfs snapshot at startup and dropping it afterwards
af1082b0 450 - maybe: hookup nspawn and PrivateNetwork=yes with "ip netns"
af1082b0 451 - allow booting disk images with a GPT signature using the bootloaderspec partition uuids
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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)
8556879e 468
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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
68f16003 481* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 482
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483* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
484
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485* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
486 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
487 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
488 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 489 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 490 but much rather a disconnect on success.
0790b9fe 491
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492* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
493
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494* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
495
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496* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
497
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498* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
499
88a6c589 500* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
8351ceae 501
bcd02123 502* syscall filter: optionally don't enforce no new privs?
c66d36e5 503
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504* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
505 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
506
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507* introduce Type=pid-file
508
59cea26a 509* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 510
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511* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
512
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513* automount: implement expire:
514 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
515 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
516 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
517 - blocking, needs a thread
518 - run until -EAGAIN
519 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
520 - call umount
521 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
522 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
465349c0 523
e01a15b7 524* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 525
abd55b16 526* udev:
3f60bcb5 527 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
abd55b16 528 - move to LGPL
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530 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
b8217b7b 531
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532* when a service has the same env var set twice we actually store it twice and return that in systemctl show -p... We should only show the last setting
533
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534* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
535
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536* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
537
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538* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
539
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540* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
541
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542* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
543
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544* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
545
546* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
547
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548* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
549
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550* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
551 needs to be auto-respawned?
552
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553* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
554
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555* tmpfiles:
556 - check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
557 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
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b44be3ec 559* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
14e639ae 560
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562
d3c7d7dd 563* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
72b9ed82 564
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565* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
566 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
567
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570* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
571 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
572
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573* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
574
7c697168 575* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 576
71092d70 577* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
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580 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
581 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
582
f38afcd0 583* support User= and Group= attributes for AF_UNIX sockets. (difficult, requires NSS from PID 1?)
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586 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
587
71092d70 588* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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591 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
592 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
593 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
594 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
595 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
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597* add support for /bin/mount -s
598
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599* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
600
68c7d001 601* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 602 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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603 - enabling dbus services
604 - status update
7a2a0b90 605 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 606 - remote access
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607 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
608 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 609 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 610 - auto-restart
e707c494 611 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 612 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 613 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 614 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 615 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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617 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
618 - how to create your own target
619 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
620 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
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44143309 622* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 623
71092d70 624* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 625
260abb78 626* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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628* Support --test based on current system state
629
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630* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
631
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632* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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634* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
635
71092d70 636* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
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50f2a90d 638* io priority during initialization
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641
7ba97195 642* systemd-python:
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644 works with ^C
b04c8c83 645 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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648 - plot per-process IO utilization
649 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
650 - document initcall_debug
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651 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
652
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654 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
655 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
656 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 657
88e4d1d7 658* sd-rtnl:
32216660 659 - add support for exiting containers without reading them fully first
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661
0a4b9a07 662* networkd:
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664 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
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666
2f8cd170 667External:
74fe1fe3 668
cc9784c6 669* dbus:
3377af3e 670 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 671 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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673* fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
674
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675* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
676
9096ad36 677* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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679* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
680 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
681 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
682 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
683 the RTC to sync up.
684
71092d70 685* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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688
689* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
690
691* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
692
693* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
694
695* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
696
d2bbca68 697* 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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699* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
700
701* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 702
4641a16b 703* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
19aa7c4f 704
129126f3 705Regularly:
874aa2cc 706
129126f3 707* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 708
129126f3 709* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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711* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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71092d70 715* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 716
4db17f29 717* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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9e5f3dbb 721Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 723* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)