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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* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 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 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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25* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
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29* register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31* zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
34
35* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
36* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
37 after being started.
38
39* write blog stories about:
40 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
41 - enabling dbus services
42 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
43 - remote access
44 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
45 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
46 - auto-restart
47 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
48 - the journal HTTP iface
49 - non-cgroup resource management
50 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
51 - refreshed, longer missions statement
52 - calendar time events
53 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
54 - how to create your own target
55 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
56 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
57
58Regularly:
59
60* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
61
62* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
63
64* pahole
65
66* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
67
68* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
69
70* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
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72Janitorial Clean-ups:
73
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74* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
75
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76* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
77 semantics, like we do for device.c now
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79Features:
80
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81* systemd creds hookup with qemu fw_cfg. (Quite possibly might not need any
82 code at all, given the fw_cfg stuff are just files, but we should then
83 document how to use it). Goal: provide symmetric ways to pass creds to nspawn
84 containers and qemu VMs. (maybe also pick up env vars from fw_cfg?)
85
86* beef up sd_notify() to support AV_VSOCK in $NOTIFY_SOCKET, so that VM
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87 managers can get ready notifications from VMs, just like container managers
88 from their payload. Also pick up address from qemu/fw_cfg if set there.
89 (which has benefits, given SecureBoot and kernel cmdline are not necessarily
90 friends.)
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92* maybe write a tool that binds an AF_VFSOCK socket, then invokes qemu,
93 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using fw_cfg to
94 configure socket address.
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96* sd-boot: rework random seed handling following recent kernel changes: always
97 pass seed to kernel, but credit only if secure boot is used
98
99* sd-boot: hash data from GetNextHighMonotonicCount() into updated random seed,
100 so that we might even open up up the random seed logic to non-SecureBoot
101 systems?
102
103* sd-boot: add menu item for shutdown? or hotkey?
104
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105* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
106 no api to query the device id
107
108* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
109 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
110 also be queried.
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112* udevadm: a new "tree" verb that shows tree of devices as syspath hierarchy,
113 along with their properties. uninitialized devices should be greyed out.
114
115* bootctl: show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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117* dissect: rework how we access partitions: instead of letting the kernel probe
118 partition tables asynchronously, just pass the stuff we parsed in userspace
119 to the kernel via BLKPG_ADD_PARTITION. Benefit: we don't have to wait for
120 kernel/netlink/udev, but can run this synchronously without chance of losing
121 events or similar.
122
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123* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
124 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
125 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
126 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
127
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128* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
129 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
130 latter).
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132* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
133
134* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
135
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136* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
137 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
138 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
139 generated by GNU sha256sums.
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141* initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
142 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
143 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
144
145* in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
146 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
147 pre-built kernels.
148
149* sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
150
151* maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
152 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
153 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
154 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
155 comprehensively.
156
157* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
158 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
159 words: show partition labels).
160
161* systemd-nspawn: make boot assessment do something sensible in a
162 container. i.e send an sd_notify() from payload to container manager once
163 boot-up is completed successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with
164 boot counting, implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
165
166* maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
167 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
168 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
b17a681b 169 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
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170 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
171 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
172 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
173
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174* improve scope units to support creation by pidfd instead of by PID
175
e4f92a62 176* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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178* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
179
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180* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
181 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
182 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
183 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
184 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
185 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
186 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
187 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
188 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
189 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
190
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191* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
192 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
193 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
194 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
195 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
196 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
197 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
198 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
199 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
200 an NTP sync is acquired.
201
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202* kernel-install:
203 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
204 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
205 call it at the end only
206
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207* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
208 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
209
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210* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
211 jobs, units
212
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213* bootspec: remove tries counter from boot entry ids
214
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215* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
216 sync, i.e. parse out tries in both
217
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218* automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
219
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220* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
221 json package metadata, and use that when logging
222
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223* systemd-dissect: show GPT disk UUID in output
224
225* Enable RestricFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
226 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
227
228* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
229 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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231* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
232 internal clock.
233
1ccfb792 234* nspawn: optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP
f08e143c 235 traffic on port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
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237* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
238 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
239
240* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
241 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
242 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
243 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
244
245* sysext: ensure one can build a sysext that can safely apply to *any* system
246 (because it contains only static go binaries in /opt/ or so)
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248* userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
249 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
250 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
251
252* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
253 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
254 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
255 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
256 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
257 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
258 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
259 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
260 thread:
261 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
262 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
263 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
264 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
265 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
266 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
267
268* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
269 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
270 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
271
272* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
273 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
274 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
275 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
276 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
277 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
278 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
279 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
280 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
281 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
282 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
283 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
284 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
285 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
286 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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288* add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
289 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
290 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
291 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
292 for debugging purposes.
293
294* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
295 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us drop drop libcap
296 dep in the base OS image)
297
298* sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
299 sysext pickup logic.
300
301* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
302 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
303 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
304 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
305 on-disk storage.
306
307* sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP and synthesize initrd from
308 it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as microcode does that on its
309 own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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311* userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
312 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
313 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
314 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
315 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
316
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317* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
318 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
319 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
320 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
321 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
322 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
323 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
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325* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
326 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
327 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
328 externally and provide to us on demand only.
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330* add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
331 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
332 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
333 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
334 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
335 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
336 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
337 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
338
339* nspawn: maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so
340 that such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as
341 one.
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343* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
344 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option tpm2-measure=8 or so to measure it
345 into PCR 8)
346
347* add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
348 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
349 authentication.
350
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351* in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCRs are being used, store that
352 in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify that
353 the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
354
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355* rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
356
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359* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
360 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
361 that images cannot be misused.
362
aca8ecc3 363* New udev block device symlink names:
178d3ff2 364 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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365 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
366 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
367 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
368
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369* sysupdate:
370 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
371 - support casync as download mechanism
372 - direct TPM2 PCR change handling, possible renrolling LUKS2 media if needed.
373 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
374 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
375 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
376 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
377 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
378 override the host's update files.)
379 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
380 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
381 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
382 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
383
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384* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
385
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386* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
387 make dirs appear under right UID.
388
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389* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
390 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
391
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392* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
393 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
394 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
395 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
396 for doing that.
397
398* pass systemd-detect-virt result to generators as env var. Modifying behaviour
399 based on whether we are virtualized or not is a pretty common thing, hence
400 maybe just pass that info along for free in an env var. We cache the result
401 anyway, so it's basically free.
402
24063ba1 403* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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404 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
405 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
406 already have it.
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408* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
409 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
410
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411* add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
412 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
413 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
414 socket: connect() to it.
415
416* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
417 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
418 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
419
420* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
421 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
422
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423* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
424 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
425
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426* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
427 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
428 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
429 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
430 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
431
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432* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
433
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434* make LoadCredential= automatically find credentials in /etc/creds,
435 /run/creds, … and so on, if path component is unqualified
436
437* teach LoadCredential=/LoadCredentialEncrypted= to load credentials from
438 kernel cmdline, maybe: LoadCredentialEncrypted=foobar:proc-cmdline:foobar
439
440* credentials system:
441 - acquire from kernel command line
442 - acquire from EFI variable?
443 - acquire via via ask-password?
444 - acquire creds via keyring?
445 - pass creds via keyring?
446 - pass creds via memfd?
447 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
448 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
449 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
450 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
451 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
452 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
453
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454* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
455 firmware indicates there is one.
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457* Add concept for upgrading TPM2 enrollments, maybe a new switch
458 --pcrs=4:<hash> or so, i.e. select a PCR to include in the hash, and then
459 override its hash
460
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461* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
462 and such
463
464* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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466* cryptsetup: if only recovery keys are registered and no regular passphrases,
467 ask user for "recovery key", not "passphrase"
468
469* cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
470
7d7c75f1 471* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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472 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
473
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474* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
475 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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477* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
478
479* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
480 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
481
482* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
483 systemd-makefs.service instead.
484
485* cryptsetup:
486 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
487 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
488
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489* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
490 it happens to be set up alright already.
491
492* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
493
494* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
495 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
496 default.
497
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498* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
499 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
500 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
501 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
502 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
503
08d33656 504* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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506* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
507 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
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509* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
510 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
511 temporary dir.
512
513* special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
514 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
515
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516* add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
517 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
518
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519* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
520
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521* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
522
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523* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
524 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
525
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526* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
527
528* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
529
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530* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
531 when it exits
532
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533* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
534 o turn into dlopen() deps:
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535 - p11-kit-trust (always)
536 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 537 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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538 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
539 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
540 since they are so basic and our defaults)
541 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
542 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
543
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544* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
545 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
546 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
547
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548* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
549 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
550
a6e1018d 551* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
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552 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, systemctl,
553 coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
554 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
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556* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
557
558* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
559 specific service
560
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561* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
562 exists and responds.
563
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564* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
565 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
566 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
567
91fc013f 568* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 569 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 570
7e8facb3 571* unify on openssl:
492f91d8 572 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
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573 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
574
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575* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
576 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
577
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578* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
579 realname substr searches in varlink API
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581* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
582
2a4be3c5 583* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 584
f1eb0ccd 585* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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587* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
588 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
589 initrd had set.
590
173c7873 591* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 592 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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593 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
594 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
595 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
596 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
597
598* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
599 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
600 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
601
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602* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
603 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
604 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
605 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
606 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
607 source.
608
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609* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
610 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
611 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
612
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613* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
614
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615* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
616 the hibernation
617
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618* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
619 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
620 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
621 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
622 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
623 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
624 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
625 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
626 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
627 hibernation mode. (see
628 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
629 section 10.2.2.8 and
630 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
631 at the end).
632
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634 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
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c6526b8d 636* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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638* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
639 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
640 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
641 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
642 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
643 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
644 exec().
645
646* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
647
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648* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
649 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
650
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651* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
652 gnome-bluetooth and friends
653
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654* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
655 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
656 root.
657
658* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
659 is issued.
660
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661* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
662
663* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
664
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665* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
666 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
667 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 668
d238709c 669* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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670 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
671 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
672
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673* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
674
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675* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
676 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
677
06898123 678* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 679 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 680 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 681 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
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683* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
684
685* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
686 patching around
687
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688* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
689 log.c and sd-journal-send
690
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691* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
692
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693* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
694
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695* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
696 non-zero "tries done" count
697
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698* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
699 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
700 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
701 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
702 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
703 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
704 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
705 CODE_FILE.
706
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707* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
708 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
709 some explanatory text online.
710
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711* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
712
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713* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
714 original defaults before calling parse_config()
715
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716* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
717 Specifically:
718
719 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
720 properly)
e83419d0 721 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 722 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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724* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
725 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
726
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727* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
728 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
729 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
730 files and suchlike we operate on.
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732* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
733
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734* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
735
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736* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
737 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
738
5da19043 739* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 740 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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742* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
743 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
744 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
745 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
746 unlinked from any dir.
747
bd1b3f75 748* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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750* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
751
752* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
753
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754* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
755 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
756 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
757 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
758 should reflink the image file itself.
759
760 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
761 specific paths only like this.
762
53c70a27 763* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 764 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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766 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 767 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
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769* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
770
771* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
772
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773* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
774 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
775
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776* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
777 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
778 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
779 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
780 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
781 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
782 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
783 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
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785* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
786 for root, but only then.
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788* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
789
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790* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
791 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
792
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793* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
794 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
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796* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
797 only when used. Add unit tests.
798
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799* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
800 host-side interface pointing to the container.
801
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802* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
803 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
804 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
805 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
806 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
807
899feb72 808* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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810* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
811 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
812 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
813
5f7ecd61 814* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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816* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
817 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
818
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819* blog about fd store and restartable services
820
821* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
822
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823* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
824 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
825
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826* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
827 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
828 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
829 ID is available.
830
831* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
832 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
833 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
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835* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
836 parameters
837
63a185dc 838* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 839 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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840 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
841 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
842 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
843 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
844 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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846* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
847 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
848
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849* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
850 about it in the resource log message
851
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852* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
853 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
854 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
855
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856* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
857 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
858
859 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
860
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861* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
862 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
863 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
864
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865* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
866 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
867
868* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
869 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
870 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
871 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
872 natural habitat.
873
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874* 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
875
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876* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
877 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
878 relative to the configured default value.
879
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880* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
881
04397464 882* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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884* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
885
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886* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
887
04397464 888* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
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04397464 890* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 891
04397464 892* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
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8ce9b83a 894* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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896* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
897 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
898 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
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900* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
901 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
902
e40a326c 903* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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905* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
906 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
907 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
908 mapping to work.
909
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910* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
911
912* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
913
914* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
915
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916* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
917 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
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919* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
920 reload the unit file anyway
921
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922* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
923
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924* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
925
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926* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
927 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
928
f9bf1b8f 929* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 930 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 931 specifications.
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933* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
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935* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
936
a2088fd0 937* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 938 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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939 prefixed with /sys generally special.
940 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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942* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
943
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944* initrd-parse-etc.service: can we skip daemon-reload if /sysroot/etc/fstab is missing?
945 Note that we start initrd-fs.target and initrd-cleanup.target there, so a straightforward
946 ConditionPathExists= is not enough.
947
931bc195 948* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
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950* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
951 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
952 state.
953 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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955* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
956 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
957 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
958 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
959 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
960
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961* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
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963* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
964 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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966* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
967 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
968
e031c227 969* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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970 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
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972* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
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974* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
975 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
976
25e773ee 977* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 978
720652b3 979* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 980
720652b3 981* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 982
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983* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
984
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985* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
986 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
987
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988* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
989
9d6db739 990* resolved:
9d6db739 991 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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992 - service registration
993 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 994 - avahi compat
9d6db739 995 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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996 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
997 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
998 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 999 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1000 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1001
e25b5a8d 1002* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1003
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1004* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1005
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1006* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1007
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1008* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1009
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1010* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1011
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1012* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1013 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1014
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1015* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1016
6a3f892a 1017* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1018 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1019 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1020
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1021* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1022 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1023 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1024
f9bf1b8f 1025* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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1027* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1028 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1029 for ReusePort=
1030
f38afcd0 1031* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1032 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1033 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1034 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1035 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1036 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1037 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 1038
f38afcd0 1039* transient units:
f38afcd0 1040 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1041
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1042* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1043
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1044* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1045
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1046* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1047
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1048* 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
1049
7f79cd71 1050* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1051
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1052* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1053 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1054 path anyway.
1055
04397464 1056* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1057
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1058* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1059
1060* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1061
07eabc2b 1062* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1063
07eabc2b 1064* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1065
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1066* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1067
1068* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1069 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1070 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1071
1072* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1073 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1074
1075* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1076
1077* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1078
1079* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1080
1081* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1082 needs to be auto-respawned?
1083
1084* pid1:
1085 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1086 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1087 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1088 that are not supported...
1089 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1090 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1091 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1092 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1093 - move PAM code into its own binary
1094 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1095 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1096 - Support --test based on current system state
1097 - 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().
1098 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1099 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1100 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1101 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1102 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1103 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1104 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1105 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1106 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1107 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1108 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1109 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1110
1111* unit files:
1112 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1113 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1114 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1115 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1116 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1117 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1118 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1119 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1120 - introduce Type=pid-file
1121 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1122 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1123 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1124
1125* timer units:
63a185dc 1126 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1127 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1128
1129* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1130
1131* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1132
1133* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1134
1135* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1136
07eabc2b 1137* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1138
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1139* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1140
1141* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1142
fff87a35 1143* test/:
20d52ab6 1144 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1145
b5c03638 1146* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1147 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1148 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1149 destination.
1150
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1151* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1152 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1153
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1154* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1155
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1156* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1157 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1158 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1159
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1160* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1161 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1162
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1163* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1164 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1165 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1166 that automatically.
1167
e5ec62c5 1168* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1169
ccddd104 1170* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1171
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1172* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1173
356ce991 1174* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1175
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1176* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1177
1178* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1179
1180* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1181
1182* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1183
1184* sd-bus:
1185 - EBADSLT handling
1186 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1187 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1188 - 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
1189 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1190 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1191 - longer term: priority inheritance
1192 - dbus spec updates:
1193 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
1194 - GVariant
1195 - path escaping
1196 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1197
1198* sd-event
1199 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1200 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1201 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1202 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1203 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1204 here:
1205 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1206
1207* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1208 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1209
1210* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1211
1212* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1213
1214* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1215
1216* firstboot: allow provisioning of /etc/hosts entries, so that we can via the
1217 credentials logic insert host name to resolve into containers/hosts. Usecase:
1218 fork a container, and make it ping some specific address which is defined by
1219 the host on invocation
1220
1221* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1222 reading/writing files
1223
1224* 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
1225
1226* sd-boot: define a drop-in dir in the ESP that may contain X.509
1227 certificates. If the firmware is detected to be in setup mode, automatically
1228 enroll them as PK/KEK/db, turn off setup mode and proceed. Optionally,
1229 instead of auto-enrolling them add them to the sd-boot menu, giving the user
1230 the option to manually enroll them, after selecting the menu entry. This way,
1231 installer images can just drop the certfiicates in the ESP, and on first boot
1232 can easily enroll the keys without ever booting up.
1233
1234* efi stub: optionally, load initrd from disk as a separate file, HMAC check it
1235 with key from TPM, bound to PCR, refusing if failing. This would then allow
1236 traditional distros that generate initrds locally to secure them with TPM:
1237 after generating the initrd, do the HMAC calculation, put result in initrd
1238 filename, done. This would then bind the validity of the initrd to the local
1239 host, and used kernel, and means people cannot change initrd or kernel
1240 without booting the kernel + initrd.
1241
b44be3ec 1242* EFI:
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1243 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1244 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1245 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1246* bootctl
631427d6 1247 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1248
07eabc2b 1249* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1250
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1251* bootctl:
1252 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1253 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
1254 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
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1255 - bootspec: properly support boot attempt counters when parsing entry file names
1256
1257* kernel-install:
1258 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
e6c6e7af 1259
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1260* logind:
1261 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1262 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1263 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1264 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1265 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1266 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1267 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1268 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1269 needs setuid().
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1270 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1271 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1272 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1273 complete.
1274 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1275 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1276 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1277 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1278 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1279 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1280 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1281 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1282 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1283 relogins
77b19caf 1284 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 1285
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1286* move logind udev rules to top-level rule.d/ directory
1287
1288* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1289
1290* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1291 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1292 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1293
1294* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1295 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1296
b44be3ec 1297* journal:
57f2a947 1298 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1299 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1300 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1301 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1302 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1303 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1304 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1305 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1306 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1307 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1308 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1309 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1310 - 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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1311 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1312 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1313 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1314 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1315 - 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.
1316 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1317 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1318 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1319 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1320 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1321 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1322 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1323 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1324 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1325 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1326 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1327 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1328 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1329 to syslog when it works again.
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1330 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1331 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1332 journals in.
1333 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1334 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1335 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1336 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1337 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1338 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1339 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1340 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1341 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1342 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1343 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1344 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1345 operation.
1346 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1347 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1348 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1349 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1350 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1351 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1352 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1353 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1354 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1355 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
b44be3ec 1356
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1357* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
1358 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
1359
1360* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
1361 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
1362 validated via TPM.
1363
1364* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
1365 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
1366
1367* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
1368 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
1369 user's journal stream down but not the others.
1370
1371* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
1372 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
1373 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
1374 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
1375 cgroup.
1376
1377* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
1378 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
1379 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
1380 logging.
1381
1382* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
1383
1384* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
1385 from the SIGBUS handler
1386
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1387* add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1388 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1389 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1390 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1391
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1392* homed:
1393 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
1394 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
1395 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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1396 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
1397 - create on activate?
1398 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
1399 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
1400 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
1401 systemd --user is shut down.
1402 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
1403 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
1404 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
1405 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
1406 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
1407 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
1408 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
1409 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
1410 - query password from kernel keyring first
1411 - update even if record is "absent"
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1412 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
1413 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
1414 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
1415 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
1416 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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1417 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
1418 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
1419 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 1420 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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1421 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
1422 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
1423 signature
1424 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
1425 and insert a local signature instead.
1426 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
1427 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
1428 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
1429 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
1430 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
1431 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
1432 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
1433 easily?
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1434 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
1435 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
1436 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
1437 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
1438 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
1439 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
1440 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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1441 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
1442 can easily set overall quota for all users
1443 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
1444 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 1445 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 1446 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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1447 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
1448 large.
07eabc2b 1449
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1450* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
1451 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
1452 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
1453
1454* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_PATH
1455
1456* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
1457 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
1458 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
1459 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
1460
1461* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
1462
1463* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
1464 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
1465 something goes wrong on the way.
1466
1467* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
1468
1469* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
1470 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
1471 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
1472 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
1473
1474* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
1475 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
1476 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
1477 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
1478 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
1479 automatically.
1480
1481* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
1482 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
1483
1484* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
1485 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
1486 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
1487 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
1488 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
1489 fails to apply use the latter.
1490
1491* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
1492 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
1493
1494* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
1495 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
1496
1497* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
1498 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
1499
1500* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
1501 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
1502
b44be3ec 1503* document:
8b8f2591 1504 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1505 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1506 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1507 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1508 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1509 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1510 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1511 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1512 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1513 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 1514 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1515 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1516
1517* systemctl:
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1518 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1519 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1520 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1521 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1522 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1523 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1524 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1525 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1526 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1527 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 1528
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1529* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
1530 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
1531 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 1532
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1533* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
1534 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
1535 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
1536 output for them.
d2e83c23 1537
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1538* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
1539 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
1540 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 1541
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1542* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
1543 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
1544 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 1545
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1546* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
1547 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 1548
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1549* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
1550 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
1551 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
1552 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 1553
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1554* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
1555 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
1556 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
1557 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 1558
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1559* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
1560
1561* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
1562
1563* unit install:
1564 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1565 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 1566
b44be3ec 1567* nspawn:
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1568 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1569 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1570 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1571 from the kernel's logs.
1572 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1573 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1574 interface be missing
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1575 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1576 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1577 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1578 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1579 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1580 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1581 PID 1...
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1582 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1583 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1584
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1585* nspawn: add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension=
1586 switch that takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already
1587 during startup.
1588
1589* when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
1590 so, freeze the payload too.
1591
1592* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
1593 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
1594 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
1595 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
1596 anything like that.
1597
1598* nspawn: support time namespaces
1599
1600* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
1601 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
1602
1603* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
1604 fallback in "machinectl shell"
1605
1606* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
1607 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
1608 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
1609
1610* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
1611
1612* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
1613
e25b5a8d 1614* machined:
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1615 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1616 removed or added to an existing machine
1617 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1618 difference host, via ssh
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1619 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1620 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1621 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1622 question
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1623 - "machinectl history"
1624 - "machinectl diff"
1625 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1626 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1627
abd55b16 1628* udev:
abd55b16 1629 - move to LGPL
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1630 - kill scsi_id
1631 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1632 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1633
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1634* coredump:
1635 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1636 - 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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1637
1638* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1639
f38afcd0 1640* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1641 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1642 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1643 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1644 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1645 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 1646 - add --test mode
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1647 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
1648 project quota
1258097c 1649
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1650* udev-link-config:
1651 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1652 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1653 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1654
88e4d1d7 1655* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1656 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1657 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1658
0a4b9a07 1659* networkd:
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1660 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1661 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 1662 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 1663 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1664 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 1665 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1666 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1667 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1668 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 1669 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 1670 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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1671 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1672 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1673 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1674 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1675 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1676 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 1677 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1678
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1679* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
1680
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1681* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1682
ac976532 1683* dhcp:
424a8732 1684 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1685
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1686* dhcp6:
1687 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1688 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1689 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1690 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1691 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1692 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1693 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1694 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1695 or interface down
1696 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1697 this behavior
4a77c53d 1698 - RouteTable= ?