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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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f38afcd0 7External:
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f38afcd0 9* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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11* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
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13Janitorial Clean-ups:
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15* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
16
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17* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
18 semantics, like we do for device.c now
19
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20Features:
21
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22* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
23 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
24 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
25 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
26 anything like that.
27
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28* add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
29 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
30 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
31
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32* move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
33 these days
34
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35* nspawn: support time namespaces
36
37* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
38
39* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
40
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41* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
42 when it exits
43
44* make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
45 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
46 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
47
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48* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
49 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, firstboot, tmpfiles,
50 sysusers, systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl.
51
52* per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
53 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
54 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
55 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
56 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
57 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
58 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
59 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
60
61* homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
62 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
63
64* homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
65 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
66
67* homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
68 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
69 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
70
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71* homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
72 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
73 signature
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75* homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
76 and insert a local signature instead.
77
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78* homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
79 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
80 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
15dd4515 81 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
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82 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
83
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84* homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
85
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86* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
87 exists and responds.
88
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89* homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
90 easily?
91
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92* when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
93 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
94 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
95 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
96 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
97
97cd52c1 98* cryptsetup/homed: also support FIDO2 HMAC password logic for unlocking
70e9d9a5 99 devices. (see: https://github.com/mjec/fido2-hmac-secret)
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101* systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
102 creates
103
86b52a39 104* homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
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105 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
106 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
107 hence we can make them quicker to work.
108
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109* bootctl:
110 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
111 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
112 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
113
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114* by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
115 allow so that systemd survives
116
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117* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
118 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
119
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120* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
121 systemd-makefs.service instead.
122
91fc013f 123* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 124 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
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126* unify on openssl:
127 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
128 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
129 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
130 - port importd over from libgcrypt
131 - when that's done: kill khash.c
132 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
133
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134* kill zenata, all hail weblate?
135
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136* when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
137
138* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
139 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
140
141* hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
142 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
143 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
144 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
145 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
146
492f91d8 147* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
86b52a39 148 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
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149 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
150 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
151
86b52a39 152* systemd-repart: optionally, allow specifying a path to initialize new
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153 partitions from, i.e. an fs image file or a source device node. This would
154 then turn systemd-repart into a simple installer: with a few .repart files
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155 you could replicate the host system on another device. a full installer would
156 then be: "systemd-repart /dev/sda && bootctl install /dev/sda &&
157 systemd-firstboot --image= …"
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159* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
160 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
161 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
162 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
163 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
164 automatically.
165
166* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
167 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
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169* systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
170 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
171
172* systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
173
174* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
175 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
176
177* systemd-repart: add specifier expansion, add especifier that refers to root
178 device node of current system, /usr device node, and matching verity, so that
179 an installer can be made a "copy" installer of the booted OS
180
2a4be3c5 181* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
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182 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
183
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184* systemd-repart: allow config of partition uuid
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186* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
187 realname substr searches in varlink API
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189* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
190
2a4be3c5 191* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 192
f1eb0ccd 193* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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195* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
196 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
197 initrd had set.
198
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199* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
200 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
201 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
202 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
203 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
204 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
205
206* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
207 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
208 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
209
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210* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
211 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
212 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
213 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
214 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
215 source.
216
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217* figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
218 with immutable /usr
219
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220* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
221 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
222 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
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224* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
225
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226* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
227 the hibernation
228
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229* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
230 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
231 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
232 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
233 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
234 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
235 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
236 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
237 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
238 hibernation mode. (see
239 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
240 section 10.2.2.8 and
241 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
242 at the end).
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244* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
245 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
246 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
247 output for them.
248
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249* systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
250 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
251
252* systemd-firstboot: add --force mode that replaces existing configuration.
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254* We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
255 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
256 constant vendor data.
257
c6526b8d 258* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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260* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
261 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
262
263* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
264 fallback in "machinectl shell"
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266* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
267 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
268 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
269
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270* homed:
271 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
272 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
273 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
274 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
275 - resize on login?
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276 - shrink fs on logout?
277 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
278 - create on activate?
279 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
280 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
281 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
282 systemd --user is shut down.
283 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
284 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk images (think: time machine)
86b52a39 285 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
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286 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
287 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
288 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
289 - description field for groups
290 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
291 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
292 - query password from kernel keyring first
293 - update even if record is "absent"
294 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
295 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
296 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
297 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
298 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
299 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
300
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301* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
302 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
303 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
304 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
305 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
306 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
307 exec().
308
309* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
310
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311* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
312 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
313
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314* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
315
316* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
317 gnome-bluetooth and friends
318
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319* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
320 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
321 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
322 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
323 cgroup.
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325* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
326 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
327 root.
328
329* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
330 is issued.
331
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332* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
333
334* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
335
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336* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
337 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
338 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 339
d238709c 340* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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341 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
342 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
343
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344* add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
345 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
346 ConfigurationDirectory=.
347
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348* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
349
d3584ec4 350* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
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352* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
353 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
354
06898123 355* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 356 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 357 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
06898123 358
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359* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
360
361* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
362 patching around
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364* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
365 log.c and sd-journal-send
366
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367* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
368
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369* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
370
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371* sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
372 can add in file system drivers and such
373
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374* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
375 non-zero "tries done" count
376
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377* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
378 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
379 it should skip the variant type string though.
380
381* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
382 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
383 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
384 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
385 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
386 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
387 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
388 CODE_FILE.
389
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390* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
391 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
392 some explanatory text online.
393
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394* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
395
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396* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
397 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
398 the slices, and the units attached to them.
399
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400* the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
401 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
bc130b68 402 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
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403 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
404 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
405 way)
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407* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
408 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
409 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
410
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411* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
412 original defaults before calling parse_config()
413
72d711ef 414* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
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416* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
417 Specifically:
418
419 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
420 properly)
e83419d0 421 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 422 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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424* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
425 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
426
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427* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
428 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
429 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
430 files and suchlike we operate on.
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432* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
433
434* add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
435
436* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
437 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
438
5da19043 439* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
5238e957 440 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
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441 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
442 numbers.
443
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444* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
445 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
446 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
447 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
448 unlinked from any dir.
449
bd1b3f75 450* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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452* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
453
454* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
455
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456* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
457 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
458 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
459 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
460 should reflink the image file itself.
461
462 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
463 specific paths only like this.
464
53c70a27 465* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 466 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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467 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
468 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
469 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
470
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471* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
472
473* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
474
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475* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
476 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
477
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478* teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
479 project quota
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481* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
482 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
483 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
484 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
485 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
486 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
487 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
488 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
489
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490* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
491 for root, but only then.
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493* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
494
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495* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
496 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
497
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498* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
499 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
500
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501* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
502 host-side interface pointing to the container.
503
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504* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
505 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
506 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
507 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
508 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
509
cb77e122 510* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 511
899feb72 512* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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514* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
515 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
516 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
517
5f7ecd61 518* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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520* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
521 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
522
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523* blog about fd store and restartable services
524
525* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
526
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527* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
528 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
529
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530* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
531 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
532 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
533 ID is available.
534
535* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
536 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
537 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
538
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539* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
540 parameters
541
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542* maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
543 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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544 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
545 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
546 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
547 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
548 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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550* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
551 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
552
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553* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
554 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
555 wait to retrieve their exit data.
556
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557* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
558 about it in the resource log message
559
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560* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
561 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
562
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563* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
564 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
565 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
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567* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
568 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
569
570 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
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572* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
573 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
574 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
575 logging.
576
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577* hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
578 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
579 "convertible" form factor
580
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581* Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
582 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
583 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
584 as MAINPID.
585
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586* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
587 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
588 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
589
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590* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
591 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
592
593* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
594 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
595 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
596 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
597 natural habitat.
598
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599* gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
600 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
601 /usr is mounted into.
602
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603* 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
604
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605* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
606
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607* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
608 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
609 relative to the configured default value.
610
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611* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
612
613* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
614
04397464 615* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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617* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
618
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619* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
620
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621* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
622
04397464 623* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 624
04397464 625* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 626
04397464 627* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 628
8ce9b83a 629* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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631* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
632 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
633 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
634
e40a326c 635* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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637* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
638
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639* mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
640 partitions
641
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642* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
643 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
644 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
645 mapping to work.
646
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647* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
648
649* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
650
651* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
652
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653* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
654 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
655
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656* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
657 reload the unit file anyway
658
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659* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
660 from the SIGBUS handler
661
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662* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
663
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664* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
665 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
666
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667* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
668
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669* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
670 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
671
f9bf1b8f 672* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 673 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 674 specifications.
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676* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
677
5ebbb45b 678* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
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680* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
681
a2088fd0 682* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 683 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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684 prefixed with /sys generally special.
685 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
686
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687* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
688
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689* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
690
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691* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
692 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
693 state.
694 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
695
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696* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
697 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
698 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
699 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
700 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
701
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702* networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
703 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
704
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705* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
706
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707* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
708 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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710* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
711 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
712 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
713 do, for example)
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716 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
717
e031c227 718* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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719 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
720
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721* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
722
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723* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
724 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
725 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
726 returning from the "systemctl stop".
727
b568ef14 728* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
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730* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
731
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732* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
733 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
734
25e773ee 735* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 736
279f0366 737* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 738
5238e957 739* systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
b42de08a 740 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
202aea45 741
720652b3 742* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 743
720652b3 744* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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746* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
747
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748* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
749 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
750
9d6db739 751* resolved:
9d6db739 752 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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754 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 755 - avahi compat
9d6db739 756 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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757 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
758 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
759 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 760 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 761 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 762
e25b5a8d 763* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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765* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
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767* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
768
a01647e5 769* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 770 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
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772* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
773
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774* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
775
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776* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
777
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778* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
779 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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781* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
782
6a3f892a 783* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 784 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 785 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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787* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
788 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
789 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 790
f9bf1b8f 791* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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793* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
794 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
795 for ReusePort=
796
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797* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
798 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
799 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
800 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
801 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
802 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
803
f38afcd0 804* cgroups:
f38afcd0 805 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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806 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
807 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
808 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
809 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
810 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 811
f38afcd0 812* transient units:
f38afcd0 813 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
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815* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
816
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817* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
818
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819* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
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821* 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
822
7f79cd71 823* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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825* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
826 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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828
04397464 829* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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831* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
832
833* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
834
6bb648a1 835* sd-bus:
0d43ffef 836 - EBADSLT handling
fa607802 837 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
7212c608 838 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
57f2a947 839 - see if we can introduce a new sd_bus_get_owner_machine_id() call to retrieve the machine ID of the machine of the bus itself
f38afcd0 840 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 841 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
ab9716c2 842 - longer term: priority inheritance
df98a87b 843 - dbus spec updates:
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845 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 846 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 847 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
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849* sd-event
12179984 850 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 851 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
e25b5a8d 852 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
eb01ba5d 853
69af4503 854* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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856* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
857 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
858
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859* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
860
861* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
862
fff87a35 863* test/:
20d52ab6 864 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 865
b5c03638 866* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 867 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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868 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
869 destination.
870
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871* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
872 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
873
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874* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
875
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876* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
877 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
878 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
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881 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
882 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
883 is installed.
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885* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
886 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
887 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
888 that automatically.
889
e5ec62c5 890* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 891
ccddd104 892* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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894* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
895
356ce991 896* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 897
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900 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 901 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 902* bootctl
631427d6 903 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 904
c0fe5db5 905* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 906
b44be3ec 907* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 908
b44be3ec 909* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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912 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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914 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
915 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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917 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
918 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
919 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
920 needs setuid().
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922 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
923 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
924 complete.
925 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
926 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
927 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
279f0366 928 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
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930 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
931 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
932 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
933 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
934 relogins
77b19caf 935 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 936
b44be3ec 937* journal:
57f2a947 938 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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939 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
940 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
941 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 942 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 943 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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944 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
945 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
946 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 947 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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948 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
949 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 950 - 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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951 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
952 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
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953 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
954 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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955 - 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.
956 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
957 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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958 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
959 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
960 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
961 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 962 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 963 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 964 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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965 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
966 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
967 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
968 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
969 to syslog when it works again.
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970 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
971 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
972 journals in.
973 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
974 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
975 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
976 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
977 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 978 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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979 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
980 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
981 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
982 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
983 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
984 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
985 operation.
986 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
987 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
988 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
989 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 990 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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991 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
992 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
993 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
994 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
b44be3ec 995
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997 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
998 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
999 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1000
b44be3ec 1001* document:
8b8f2591 1002 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1003 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1004 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1005 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1006 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1007 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1008 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1009 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1010 - man: add more examples to man pages
1011 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1012 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1013
1014* systemctl:
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1015 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1016 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1017 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1018 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1019 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1020 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1021 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1022 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1023 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1024 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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1026* unit install:
1027 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1028 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
8b04b925 1029
b44be3ec 1030* timer units:
b44be3ec 1031 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
b44be3ec 1032 o DST changes
90e071d1 1033 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 1034
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1035* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1036
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1037* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1038
b44be3ec 1039* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 1040
f59d1da8 1041* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
dcfc4b2e 1042
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1043* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1044
d28315e4 1045* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 1046
b44be3ec 1047* nspawn:
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1048 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1049 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1050 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1051 from the kernel's logs.
1052 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1053 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1054 interface be missing
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1055 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1056 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1057 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1058 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1059 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1060 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1061 PID 1...
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1062 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1063 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1064
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1065* dissect
1066 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1067 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1068
e25b5a8d 1069* machined:
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1070 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1071 removed or added to an existing machine
1072 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1073 difference host, via ssh
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1074 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1075 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1076 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1077 question
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1078 - "machinectl history"
1079 - "machinectl diff"
1080 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1081 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1082
b44be3ec 1083* cryptsetup:
b44be3ec 1084 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
5f1dac6b 1085 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 1086
424a19f8 1087* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 1088 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
424a19f8 1089
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1090* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1091
68f16003 1092* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 1093
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1094* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1095
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1096* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1097
abd55b16 1098* udev:
abd55b16 1099 - move to LGPL
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1100 - kill scsi_id
1101 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1102 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1103
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1104* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1105
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1106* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1107
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1108* coredump:
1109 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1110 - 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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1111
1112* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1113
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1114* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1115 needs to be auto-respawned?
1116
f38afcd0 1117* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1118 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1119 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1120 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1121 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1122 calls follow symlinks.
1258097c 1123
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1124* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1125
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1126* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1127 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1128 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1129
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1130* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1131 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1132
71092d70 1133* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 1134
68c7d001 1135* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 1136 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
68c7d001 1137 - enabling dbus services
7a2a0b90 1138 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 1139 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 1140 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 1141 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 1142 - auto-restart
e707c494 1143 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 1144 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 1145 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 1146 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 1147 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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1148 - calendar time events
1149 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1150 - how to create your own target
1151 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1152 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 1153
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1154* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1155
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1156* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1157
e25b5a8d 1158* pid1:
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1159 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1160 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1161 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1162 that are not supported...
1163 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1164 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1165 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1166 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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1167 - move PAM code into its own binary
1168 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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1169 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1170 - Support --test based on current system state
1171 - 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().
1172 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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1173 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1174 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1175 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1176 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1177 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1178 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1179 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1180 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1181
1182* unit files:
1183 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1184 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1185 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1186 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1187 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1188 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1189 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1190 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
e25b5a8d 1191 - introduce Type=pid-file
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1192 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1193 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
e25b5a8d 1194 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
e5171296 1195 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
e25b5a8d 1196
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1197* udev-link-config:
1198 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1199 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1200 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1201
88e4d1d7 1202* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1203 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1204 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1205
0a4b9a07 1206* networkd:
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1207 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1208 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 1209 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 1210 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1211 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 1212 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1213 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1214 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1215 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 1216 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 1217 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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1218 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1219 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1220 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1221 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1222 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1223 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1224 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
e25b5a8d 1225 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1226
ac976532 1227* dhcp:
424a8732 1228 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1229
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1230* dhcp6:
1231 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1232 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1233 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1234 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1235 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1236 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1237 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1238 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1239 or interface down
1240 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1241 this behavior
4a77c53d 1242 - RouteTable= ?
37d8b536 1243
2f8cd170 1244External:
74fe1fe3 1245
cc9784c6 1246* dbus:
3377af3e 1247 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 1248 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 1249
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1250* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1251
71092d70 1252* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
14bd37fe 1253
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1254* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1255
d2bbca68 1256* 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=
8973790e 1257
8973790e 1258* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 1259
4641a16b 1260* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
19aa7c4f 1261
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1262* register catalog database signature as file magic
1263
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1264* zsh shell completion:
1265 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 1266 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1cf3c30c 1267
90137b62 1268* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
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1269* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1270 after being started.
2c12a402 1271
129126f3 1272Regularly:
874aa2cc 1273
129126f3 1274* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 1275
129126f3 1276* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
5b6319dc 1277
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1278* pahole
1279
d28315e4 1280* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 1281
4db17f29 1282* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
88fae6e0 1283
d05c556b 1284* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
62353f69 1285String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment