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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* userdbctl: "Password OK: yes" is shown even when there are no passwords
8 or the password is locked.
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10* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
11 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
12 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 14External:
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f38afcd0 16* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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18* dbus:
19 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
20 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
21
22* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
23
24* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
25
26* 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=
27
28* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
29
30* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
31
32* register catalog database signature as file magic
33
34* zsh shell completion:
35 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
36 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
37
38* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
39* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
40 after being started.
41
42* write blog stories about:
43 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
44 - enabling dbus services
45 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
46 - remote access
47 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
48 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
49 - auto-restart
50 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
51 - the journal HTTP iface
52 - non-cgroup resource management
53 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
54 - refreshed, longer missions statement
55 - calendar time events
56 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
57 - how to create your own target
58 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
59 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
60
61Regularly:
62
63* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
64
65* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
66
67* pahole
68
69* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
70
71* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
72
73* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
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75Janitorial Clean-ups:
76
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77* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
78
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79* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
80 semantics, like we do for device.c now
81
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82Features:
83
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84* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
85 json package metadata, and use that when logging
86
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87* systemd-dissect: show GPT disk UUID in output
88
89* Enable RestricFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
90 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
91
92* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
93 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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95* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
96 internal clock.
97
1ccfb792 98* nspawn: optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP
f08e143c 99 traffic on port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
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101* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
102 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
103
104* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
105 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
106 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
107 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
108
109* sysext: ensure one can build a sysext that can safely apply to *any* system
110 (because it contains only static go binaries in /opt/ or so)
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112* userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
113 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
114 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
115
116* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
117 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
118 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
119 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
120 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
121 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
122 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
123 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
124 thread:
125 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
126 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
127 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
128 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
129 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
130 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
131
132* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
133 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
134 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
135
136* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
137 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
138 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
139 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
140 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
141 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
142 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
143 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
144 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
145 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
146 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
147 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
148 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
149 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
150 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
151
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152* add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
153 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
154 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
155 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
156 for debugging purposes.
157
158* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
159 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us drop drop libcap
160 dep in the base OS image)
161
162* sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
163 sysext pickup logic.
164
165* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
166 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
167 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
168 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
169 on-disk storage.
170
171* sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP and synthesize initrd from
172 it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as microcode does that on its
173 own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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175* userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
176 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
177 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
178 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
179 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
180
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181* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
182 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
183 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
184 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
185 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
186 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
187 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
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189* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
190 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
191 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
192 externally and provide to us on demand only.
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194* add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
195 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
196 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
197 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
198 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
199 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
200 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
201 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
202
203* nspawn: maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so
204 that such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as
205 one.
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207* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
208 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option tpm2-measure=8 or so to measure it
209 into PCR 8)
210
211* add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
212 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
213 authentication.
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215* in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCRs are being used, store that
216 in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify that
217 the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
218
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219* rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
220
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221* PAM: pick auf one authentication token from credentials
222
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223* tpm2: figure out if we need to do anything for TPM2 parameter encryption? And
224 if so, what precisely?
225
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226* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
227 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
228 that images cannot be misused.
229
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230* New udev block device symlink names:
231 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>/<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
232 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
233 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
234 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
235
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236* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
237
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238* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
239 make dirs appear under right UID.
240
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241* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
242 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
243
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244* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
245 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
246 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
247 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
248 for doing that.
249
250* pass systemd-detect-virt result to generators as env var. Modifying behaviour
251 based on whether we are virtualized or not is a pretty common thing, hence
252 maybe just pass that info along for free in an env var. We cache the result
253 anyway, so it's basically free.
254
24063ba1 255* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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256 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
257 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
258 already have it.
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260* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
261 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
262
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263* add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
264 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
265 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
266 socket: connect() to it.
267
268* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
269 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
270 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
271
272* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
273 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
274
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275* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
276 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
277
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278* sysext: optionally, if the merged trees allow it use bind mounts instead of
279 overlayfs
280
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281* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
282 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
283 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
284 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
285 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
286
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287* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
288
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289* make LoadCredential= automatically find credentials in /etc/creds,
290 /run/creds, … and so on, if path component is unqualified
291
292* teach LoadCredential=/LoadCredentialEncrypted= to load credentials from
293 kernel cmdline, maybe: LoadCredentialEncrypted=foobar:proc-cmdline:foobar
294
295* credentials system:
296 - acquire from kernel command line
297 - acquire from EFI variable?
298 - acquire via via ask-password?
299 - acquire creds via keyring?
300 - pass creds via keyring?
301 - pass creds via memfd?
302 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
303 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
304 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
305 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
306 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
307 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
308
309* teach LoadCredential= the ability to load all files from a specified dir as
310 individual creds
311
312* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
313 firmware indicates there is one.
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315* tpm2: support a PIN policy, i.e. allowing windows-style short authentication
316 passwords by using the TPM2 to enforce ratelimiting and such, use for
317 cryptsetup and homed
318
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319* Add concept for upgrading TPM2 enrollments, maybe a new switch
320 --pcrs=4:<hash> or so, i.e. select a PCR to include in the hash, and then
321 override its hash
322
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323* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
324 and such
325
326* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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328* cryptsetup: if only recovery keys are registered and no regular passphrases,
329 ask user for "recovery key", not "passphrase"
330
331* cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
332
7d7c75f1 333* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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334 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
335
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336* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
337 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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339* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
340
341* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
342 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
343
344* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
345 systemd-makefs.service instead.
346
347* cryptsetup:
348 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
349 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
350
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351* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
352 it happens to be set up alright already.
353
354* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
355
356* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
357 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
358 default.
359
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360* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
361 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
362 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
363 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
364 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
365
08d33656 366* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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368* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
369 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
370
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371* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
372 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
373 temporary dir.
374
375* special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
376 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
377
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378* add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
379 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
380
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381* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
382
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383* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
384
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385* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
386 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
387
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388* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
389
390* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
391
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392* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
393 when it exits
394
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395* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
396 o turn into dlopen() deps:
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397 - elfutils (always)
398 - p11-kit-trust (always)
399 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 400 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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401 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
402 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
403 since they are so basic and our defaults)
404 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
405 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
406
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407* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
408 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
409 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
410
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411* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
412 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
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a6e1018d 414* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
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415 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, systemctl,
416 coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
417 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
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419* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
420
421* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
422 specific service
423
424* seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
425
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426* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
427 exists and responds.
428
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429* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
430 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
431 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
432
91fc013f 433* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 434 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
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436* unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
437 confusion is gone)
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438 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
439 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
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440 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
441
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442* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
443 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
444
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445* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
446 realname substr searches in varlink API
006c44c1 447
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448* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
449
2a4be3c5 450* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 451
f1eb0ccd 452* pid1: activation by journal search expression
006c44c1 453
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454* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
455 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
456 initrd had set.
457
173c7873 458* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 459 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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460 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
461 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
462 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
463 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
464
465* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
466 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
467 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
468
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469* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
470 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
471 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
472 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
473 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
474 source.
475
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476* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
477 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
478 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
479
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480* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
481
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482* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
483 the hibernation
484
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485* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
486 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
487 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
488 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
489 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
490 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
491 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
492 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
493 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
494 hibernation mode. (see
495 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
496 section 10.2.2.8 and
497 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
498 at the end).
499
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500* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
501 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
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c6526b8d 503* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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505* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
506 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
507 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
508 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
509 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
510 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
511 exec().
512
513* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
514
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515* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
516 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
517
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518* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
519 gnome-bluetooth and friends
520
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521* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
522 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
523 root.
524
525* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
526 is issued.
527
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528* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
529
530* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
531
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532* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
533 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
534 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 535
d238709c 536* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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537 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
538 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
539
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540* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
541
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542* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
543 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
544
06898123 545* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 546 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 547 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 548 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
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550* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
551
552* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
553 patching around
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555* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
556 log.c and sd-journal-send
557
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558* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
559
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560* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
561
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562* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
563 non-zero "tries done" count
564
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565* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
566 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
567 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
568 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
569 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
570 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
571 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
572 CODE_FILE.
573
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574* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
575 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
576 some explanatory text online.
577
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578* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
579
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580* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
581 original defaults before calling parse_config()
582
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583* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
584 Specifically:
585
586 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
587 properly)
e83419d0 588 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 589 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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591* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
592 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
593
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594* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
595 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
596 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
597 files and suchlike we operate on.
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599* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
600
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601* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
602
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603* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
604 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
605
5da19043 606* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
5238e957 607 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
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608 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
609 numbers.
610
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611* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
612 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
613 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
614 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
615 unlinked from any dir.
616
bd1b3f75 617* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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620
621* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
622
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623* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
624 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
625 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
626 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
627 should reflink the image file itself.
628
629 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
630 specific paths only like this.
631
53c70a27 632* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 633 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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634 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
635 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 636 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
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638* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
639
640* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
641
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642* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
643 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
644
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645* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
646 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
647 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
648 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
649 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
650 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
651 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
652 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
653
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654* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
655 for root, but only then.
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657* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
658
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659* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
660 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
661
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662* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
663 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
664
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665* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
666 only when used. Add unit tests.
667
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668* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
669 host-side interface pointing to the container.
670
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671* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
672 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
673 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
674 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
675 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
676
cb77e122 677* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 678
899feb72 679* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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681* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
682 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
683 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
684
5f7ecd61 685* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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687* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
688 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
689
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690* blog about fd store and restartable services
691
692* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
693
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694* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
695 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
696
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697* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
698 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
699 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
700 ID is available.
701
702* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
703 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
704 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
705
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706* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
707 parameters
708
6fc373ee 709* maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 710 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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712 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
713 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
714 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
715 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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717* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
718 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
719
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720* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
721 about it in the resource log message
722
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723* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
724 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
725 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
726
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727* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
728 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
729
730 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
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732* hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
733 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
734 "convertible" form factor
735
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736* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
737 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
738 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
739
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740* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
741 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
742
743* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
744 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
745 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
746 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
747 natural habitat.
748
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749* 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
750
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751* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
752 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
753 relative to the configured default value.
754
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755* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
756
04397464 757* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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759* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
760
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761* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
762
04397464 763* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
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04397464 765* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 766
04397464 767* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 768
8ce9b83a 769* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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771* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
772 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
773 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
774
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775* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
776 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
777
e40a326c 778* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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780* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
781 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
782 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
783 mapping to work.
784
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785* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
786
787* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
788
789* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
790
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791* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
792 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
793
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794* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
795 reload the unit file anyway
796
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797* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
798
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799* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
800
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801* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
802 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
803
f9bf1b8f 804* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 805 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 806 specifications.
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808* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
809
5ebbb45b 810* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
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812* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
813
a2088fd0 814* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 815 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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816 prefixed with /sys generally special.
817 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
818
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819* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
820
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821* initrd-parse-etc.service: can we skip daemon-reload if /sysroot/etc/fstab is missing?
822 Note that we start initrd-fs.target and initrd-cleanup.target there, so a straightforward
823 ConditionPathExists= is not enough.
824
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825* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
826
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827* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
828 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
829 state.
830 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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832* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
833 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
834 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
835 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
836 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
837
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838* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
839
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840* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
841 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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843* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
844 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
845
e031c227 846* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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847 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
848
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849* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
850
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851* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
852 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
853
25e773ee 854* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 855
720652b3 856* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 857
720652b3 858* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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860* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
861
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862* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
863 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
864
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865* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
866
9d6db739 867* resolved:
9d6db739 868 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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870 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 871 - avahi compat
9d6db739 872 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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873 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
874 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
875 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 876 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 877 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 878
e25b5a8d 879* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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881* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
882
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883* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
884
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885* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
886
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887* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
888
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889* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
890 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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892* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
893
6a3f892a 894* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 895 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 896 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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898* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
899 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
900 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 901
f9bf1b8f 902* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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905 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
906 for ReusePort=
907
f38afcd0 908* cgroups:
f38afcd0 909 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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910 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
911 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
912 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
913 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
914 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 915
f38afcd0 916* transient units:
f38afcd0 917 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
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919* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
920
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921* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
922
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923* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
924
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925* 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
926
7f79cd71 927* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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929* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
930 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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932
04397464 933* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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935* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
936
937* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
938
07eabc2b 939* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 940
07eabc2b 941* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
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943* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
944
945* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
946 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
947 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
948
949* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
950 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
951
952* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
953
954* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
955
956* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
957
958* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
959 needs to be auto-respawned?
960
961* pid1:
962 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
963 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
964 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
965 that are not supported...
966 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
967 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
968 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
969 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
970 - move PAM code into its own binary
971 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
972 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
973 - Support --test based on current system state
974 - 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().
975 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
976 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
977 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
978 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
979 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
980 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
981 but much rather a disconnect on success.
982 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
983 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
984 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
985 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
986 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
987
988* unit files:
989 - allow port=0 in .socket units
990 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
991 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
992 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
993 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
994 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
995 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
996 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
997 - introduce Type=pid-file
998 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
999 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1000 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1001
1002* timer units:
1003 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1004 o DST changes
1005 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1006
1007* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1008
1009* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1010
1011* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1012
1013* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1014
1015* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1016
1017* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
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1019* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1020
1021* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1022
fff87a35 1023* test/:
20d52ab6 1024 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1025
b5c03638 1026* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1027 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1028 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1029 destination.
1030
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1031* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1032 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1033
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1034* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1035
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1037 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1038 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1039
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1040* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1041 compliant boot loader is installed.
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1043* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1044 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1045 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1046 that automatically.
1047
e5ec62c5 1048* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1049
ccddd104 1050* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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1052* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1053
356ce991 1054* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
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1056* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1057
1058* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1059
1060* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1061
1062* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1063
1064* sd-bus:
1065 - EBADSLT handling
1066 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1067 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1068 - 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
1069 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1070 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1071 - longer term: priority inheritance
1072 - dbus spec updates:
1073 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
1074 - GVariant
1075 - path escaping
1076 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1077
1078* sd-event
1079 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1080 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1081 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1082 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1083 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1084 here:
1085 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1086
1087* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1088 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1089
1090* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1091
1092* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1093
1094* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1095
1096* firstboot: allow provisioning of /etc/hosts entries, so that we can via the
1097 credentials logic insert host name to resolve into containers/hosts. Usecase:
1098 fork a container, and make it ping some specific address which is defined by
1099 the host on invocation
1100
1101* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1102 reading/writing files
1103
1104* 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
1105
1106* sd-boot: define a drop-in dir in the ESP that may contain X.509
1107 certificates. If the firmware is detected to be in setup mode, automatically
1108 enroll them as PK/KEK/db, turn off setup mode and proceed. Optionally,
1109 instead of auto-enrolling them add them to the sd-boot menu, giving the user
1110 the option to manually enroll them, after selecting the menu entry. This way,
1111 installer images can just drop the certfiicates in the ESP, and on first boot
1112 can easily enroll the keys without ever booting up.
1113
1114* efi stub: optionally, load initrd from disk as a separate file, HMAC check it
1115 with key from TPM, bound to PCR, refusing if failing. This would then allow
1116 traditional distros that generate initrds locally to secure them with TPM:
1117 after generating the initrd, do the HMAC calculation, put result in initrd
1118 filename, done. This would then bind the validity of the initrd to the local
1119 host, and used kernel, and means people cannot change initrd or kernel
1120 without booting the kernel + initrd.
1121
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1123 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1124 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1125 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1126* bootctl
631427d6 1127 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1128
07eabc2b 1129* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1130
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1131* bootctl:
1132 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1133 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
1134 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
e6c6e7af 1135
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1137 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1139 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1140 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1141 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1142 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1143 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1144 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1145 needs setuid().
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1146 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1147 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1148 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1149 complete.
1150 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1151 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1152 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1153 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1155 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1156 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1157 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1158 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1159 relogins
77b19caf 1160 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 1161
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1162* move logind udev rules to top-level rule.d/ directory
1163
1164* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1165
1166* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1167 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1168 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1169
1170* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1171 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1172
b44be3ec 1173* journal:
57f2a947 1174 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1175 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1176 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1177 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1178 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1179 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1180 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1181 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1182 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1183 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1184 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1185 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1186 - 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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1187 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1188 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1189 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1190 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1191 - 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.
1192 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1193 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1194 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1195 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1196 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1197 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1198 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1199 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1200 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1201 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1202 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1203 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1204 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1205 to syslog when it works again.
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1206 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1207 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1208 journals in.
1209 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1210 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1211 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1212 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1213 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1214 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1215 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1216 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1217 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1218 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1219 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1220 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1221 operation.
1222 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1223 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1224 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1225 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1226 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1227 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1228 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1229 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1230 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1231 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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1233* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
1234 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
1235
1236* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
1237 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
1238 validated via TPM.
1239
1240* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
1241 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
1242
1243* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
1244 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
1245 user's journal stream down but not the others.
1246
1247* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
1248 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
1249 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
1250 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
1251 cgroup.
1252
1253* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
1254 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
1255 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
1256 logging.
1257
1258* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
1259
1260* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
1261 from the SIGBUS handler
1262
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1264 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1265 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1266 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1267
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1268* homed:
1269 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
1270 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
1271 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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1272 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
1273 - create on activate?
1274 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
1275 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
1276 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
1277 systemd --user is shut down.
1278 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
1279 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
1280 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
1281 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
1282 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
1283 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
1284 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
1285 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
1286 - query password from kernel keyring first
1287 - update even if record is "absent"
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1288 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
1289 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
1290 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
1291 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
1292 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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1293 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
1294 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
1295 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 1296 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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1297 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
1298 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
1299 signature
1300 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
1301 and insert a local signature instead.
1302 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
1303 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
1304 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
1305 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
1306 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
1307 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
1308 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
1309 easily?
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1310 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
1311 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
1312 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
1313 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
1314 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
1315 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
1316 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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1317 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
1318 can easily set overall quota for all users
1319 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
1320 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
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1322* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
1323 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
1324 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
1325
1326* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_PATH
1327
1328* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
1329 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
1330 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
1331 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
1332
1333* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
1334
1335* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
1336 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
1337 something goes wrong on the way.
1338
1339* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
1340
1341* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
1342 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
1343 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
1344 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
1345
1346* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
1347 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
1348 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
1349 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
1350 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
1351 automatically.
1352
1353* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
1354 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
1355
1356* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
1357 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
1358 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
1359 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
1360 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
1361 fails to apply use the latter.
1362
1363* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
1364 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
1365
1366* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
1367 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
1368
1369* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
1370 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
1371
1372* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
1373 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
1374
b44be3ec 1375* document:
8b8f2591 1376 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1377 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1378 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1379 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1380 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1381 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1382 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1383 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1384 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1385 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 1386 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1387 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1388
1389* systemctl:
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1390 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1391 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1392 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1393 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1394 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1395 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1396 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1397 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1398 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1399 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 1400
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1401* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
1402 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
1403 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 1404
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1405* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
1406 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
1407 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
1408 output for them.
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1410* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
1411 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
1412 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 1413
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1414* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
1415 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
1416 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 1417
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1418* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
1419 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
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1421* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
1422 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
1423 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
1424 do, for example)
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1426* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
1427 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
1428 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
1429 returning from the "systemctl stop".
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1431* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
1432
1433* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
1434
1435* unit install:
1436 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1437 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 1438
b44be3ec 1439* nspawn:
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1440 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1441 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1442 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1443 from the kernel's logs.
1444 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1445 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1446 interface be missing
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1447 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1448 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1449 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1450 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1451 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1452 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1453 PID 1...
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1454 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1455 running, remove them when shut down.
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1457* nspawn: add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension=
1458 switch that takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already
1459 during startup.
1460
1461* when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
1462 so, freeze the payload too.
1463
1464* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
1465 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
1466 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
1467 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
1468 anything like that.
1469
1470* nspawn: support time namespaces
1471
1472* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
1473 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
1474
1475* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
1476 fallback in "machinectl shell"
1477
1478* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
1479 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
1480 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
1481
1482* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
1483
1484* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
1485
e25b5a8d 1486* machined:
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1487 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1488 removed or added to an existing machine
1489 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1490 difference host, via ssh
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1491 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1492 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1493 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1494 question
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1495 - "machinectl history"
1496 - "machinectl diff"
1497 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1498 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1499
abd55b16 1500* udev:
abd55b16 1501 - move to LGPL
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1502 - kill scsi_id
1503 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1504 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1505
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1506* coredump:
1507 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1508 - 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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1510* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1511
f38afcd0 1512* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1513 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1514 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1515 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1516 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1517 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 1518 - add --test mode
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1519 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
1520 project quota
1258097c 1521
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1522* udev-link-config:
1523 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1524 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1525 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1526
88e4d1d7 1527* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1528 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1529 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1530
0a4b9a07 1531* networkd:
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1532 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1533 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 1534 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 1535 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1536 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 1537 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1538 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1539 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1540 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 1541 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 1542 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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1543 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1544 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1545 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1546 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1547 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1548 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 1549 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
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1551* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
1552
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1553* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1554
ac976532 1555* dhcp:
424a8732 1556 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
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1558* dhcp6:
1559 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1560 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1561 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1562 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1563 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1564 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1565 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1566 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1567 or interface down
1568 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1569 this behavior
4a77c53d 1570 - RouteTable= ?