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ee9c9500 1Bugfixes:
19aadacf 2* enabling an instance unit creates a pointless link, and
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3 the unit will be started with getty@getty.service:
4 $ systemctl enable getty@.service
5 ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service' '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@.service'
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7* check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
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9* swap units that are activated by one name but shown in the kernel under another are semi-broken
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11* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
12 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
13 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
14
a40593a0 15* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
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19aadacf 17* When we detect invalid UTF-8, we cannot use it in an error message:
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18 log...("Path is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment: %s", rvalue);
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20* shorten the message to sane length:
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22 Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status display-manager.service' for details.
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466784c8 24Fedora 20:
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dc7adf20 26* external: ps should gain colums for slice and machine
7b4da18c 27
81d112a8 28* localed:
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29 - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps
30
55d32caf 31* when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
466784c8 32 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
55d32caf 33
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34CGroup Rework Completion:
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36* implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?)
37
38* implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
39
40* handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
41
049b4474 42* introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
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eb124a97 44Features:
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46* sd-bus: synthesized messages should get serial number (uint32_t) -1
47
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48* sd-event: allow multiple signal handlers per signal
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50* timer: expose accuracy as unit setting
51
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52* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
53
54* move libasyncns into systemd as libsystemd-asyncns
55
56* calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
57
58* pid1 porting:
59 - restore selinux access control on properties
60
61* sd-bus: when triggering property change events, allow a NULL strv indicate that all properties listed as such are send out as changed
62
63* sd-bus: enforce signatures on response messages
64
65* sd-bus: make message handlers take an sd_bus_error and generate error replies automatically if they are set
66
67* sd-bus: when replying to a bus message we should not need to specify the bus again
68
69* sd-bus: see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
70
71* sd-bus: introduce sd_bus_creds object and attach it to messages as well as allow querying it for names
72
73* sd-bus: support "const" properties as flag
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75* sd-event: when a handler returns an error, just turn off its event
76 source, but do not return anything up to the event loop
77 caller. Instead add parameter to sd_event_request_quit() to take
78 retval. This way errors rippling upwards are the option, not the
79 default
80
81* sd-event: child pid handling: first invoke waitid(WNOHANG) and call event handler, only afterwards reap the process
82
83* sd-event: native support for watchdog stuff
84
85* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH call over the bus
86
87* sd-bus: SD_BUS_COMMENT() macro for inclusion in vtables, syntax inspired by gdbus
88
89* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
90
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91* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
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93* check :no-sender logic after PID 1 conversion
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95* increase journal files by a few MB each time, instead of piecemeal
96
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97* add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
98
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99* systemctl: rework wait filter to not require match callback
100
101* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
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103* bus: access policy as vtable flag
104
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105* journalctl: support -M to read journal of containers and determine journal directory from root directory of container
106
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107* tmpfiles: to make sure we don't delete unpacked tarballs with old timestamps right-away never delete stuff that is inside a directory with a new mtime
108
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109* "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
110 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
111
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112* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
113
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114* remove NSS usage from PID 1 (notably the specifiers)
115
a427c13d 116* socket-proxyd:
fd201fda 117 - Support multiple inherited sockets mapped to different remote hosts
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118 - Use a nonblocking alternative to getaddrinfo
119 - Until we can start daemons directly, find a less ugly, less racy alternative than shell scripts for the second man page example.
120 - Support starting daemons directly without requiring a shell script; update man pages
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122* optimize the cgroup propagation bits, especially unit_get_members_mask(), cgroup_context_get_mask()
123
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124* "systemctl cat" or "systemctl view" command or or so, that cats the backing unit file of a service, plus its drop-ins and shows them in a pager
125
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126* 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
127
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128* Add a new Distribute=$NUMBER key to socket units that makes use of SO_REUSEPORT to distribute network traffic on $NUMBER instances
129
19aadacf 130* tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal, also do this for the journal fails contained in it
7f79cd71 131
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132* we probably should replace the left-over uses of strv_append() and replace them by strv_push() or strv_extend()
133
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134* move config_parse_path_strv() out of conf-parser.c
135
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136* libdsystemd-bus should expose utf8 validation calls
137
7f79cd71 138* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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140* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
141 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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142 path anyway.
143
19aadacf 144* When a Type=forking service fails and needed another service, that
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145 service is not cleaned up again when it has StopWhenUnneeded=yes
146 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-July/012141.html
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148* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
149
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150* ensure scope units may be started only a single time
151
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152* better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
153
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154* systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
155
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156* for transient units, instead of writing out drop-ins for all properties consider serializing them in the normal serialization stream
157
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158* logind: when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects
159
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160* session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
161
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162* add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
163
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164* journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
165
19aadacf 166* given that logind/machined now let PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
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167 probably reduce the capability set they retain substantially.
168
6aaa8c2f 169* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 170
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171* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
172
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173* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
174
e1b7e7ec 175* make sure gdm doesn't use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
18d4e7c2 176
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177* when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we won't support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200
178
19aadacf 179* when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
fa7deadb 180
19aadacf 181* "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, but should
69af4503 182 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
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183 unit however should remove them all).
184
185* journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
186
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187* systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
188
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189* journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
190 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
191 to syslog when it works again.
192
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193* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
194
195* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
196
19aadacf 197* service_coldplug() appears to reinstall the wrong stop timeout watch.
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199* transient units: allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
200
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201* how to reset dynamically changed attributes sanely?
202
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203* when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
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4ad49000 205* journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
3d3ee759 206
9444b1f2 207* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 208 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 209 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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210 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
211 check for that and suppress event handling.
9444b1f2 212
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213* when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
214 the hierarchies of child processes
215
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216* document logic of auto/noauto and fail/nofail in fstab in systemd.mount or systemd-fstab-generator man page
217
19aadacf 218* something pulls in pcre as shared object dependency into our daemons such as hostnamed.
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220* document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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a65f06bb 222* change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
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223 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
224 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
225 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
226
227* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
228 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
229
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230* libsystemd-bus:
231 - default policy (allow uid == 0 and our own uid)
232 - enforce alignment of pointers passed in
eb01ba5d 233 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
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234 - implement translator service
235 - port systemd to new library
236 - implement busname unit type in systemd
237 - move to gvariant
eb01ba5d 238 - merge busctl into systemctl or so?
e4ee6e5c 239 - synthesize sd_bus_message objects from kernel messages
c7819669 240 - properly implement name registry ioctls for kdbus
86312ab8 241 - implement monitor logic
07459db6 242 - properly map matches with well-known names against messages with unique names
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243 - longer term:
244 * priority queues
86312ab8 245 * priority inheritance
eb01ba5d 246
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247* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
248 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
249 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
250
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251* add an option to nspawn that uses seccomp to make socket(AF_NETLINK,
252 SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_AUDIT) fail the the appropriate error code that
253 makes the audit userspace to think auditing is not available in the
254 kernel.
255
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256* Introduce a way how we can kill the main process of a service with KillSignal, but all processes with SIGKILL later on
257 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952634
258
69af4503 259* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses where the access mode of unit files is nonsensical.
19aa7c4f 260
69af4503 261* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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263* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
264 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
265
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266* if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
267 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
268 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
269 needs setuid().
270
271* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
272
273* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
274
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275* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
276
277* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
278
4a449ed7 279* logind: add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
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281* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
282
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283* test/:
284 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
285 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
889a9042 286 - qemu wrapper script: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg72389.html
b8b4d3dd 287
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288* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
289
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290* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
291 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
292 file.
293
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294* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
295 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
296 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
297 destination.
298
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299* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
300 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
301
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302* add ConditionArchitecture= or so
303
304* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
305
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306* Support SO_REUSEPORT with socket activation:
307 - Let systemd maintain a pool of servers.
308 - Use for seamless upgrades, by running the new server before stopping the
309 old.
310
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311* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
312 need manual exponential loops after all
313
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314* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
315 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
316 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
317 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
318
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319* man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf
320
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321* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
322 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
323 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
324 that automatically.
325
69af4503 326* rework specifier logic so that we can distinguish OOM errors from other errors
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e5ec62c5 328* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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330* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
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54c31a79 332* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 333
8973790e 334* documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
3679d112 335
69af4503 336* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapse and the time the units ran last
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338* man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
339
340* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
341
69af4503 342* man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
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344* systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
345
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346* man: add more examples to man pages
347
348* man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
349
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350* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
351
352* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
353
354* msgcatalog determine default language of entries from the catalog
355 file name. i.e. foobar.de_DE.catalog would set the default entry
356 name for the entries to de_DE if they aren't explicitly suffixed
357 individually.
358
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359* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
360
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361* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
362
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363* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
364 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
365 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
366 will be activated.
367
356ce991 368* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 369
81d112a8 370* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 371
b44be3ec 372* EFI:
b44be3ec 373 - write man page for efi boot generator
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374 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
375 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 376 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 377
c0fe5db5 378* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 379
b44be3ec 380* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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382* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
383 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 385* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 386
b44be3ec 387* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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389* logind:
390 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
391 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
392 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
393 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
394 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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395 - logind: non-local X11 server handling
396 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
b44be3ec 397 - pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree
e5ec62c5 398 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
e673ad04 399
b44be3ec 400* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 401
b44be3ec 402* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
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b44be3ec 404* journal:
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405 - do not use magic msync() in src/journal/journal-file.c, just call fsync()
406 <alxchk> poettering: looks like msync just calls vfs_fsync
407 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/mm/msync.c#n18
c06bf414 408 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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409 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
410 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
411 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
412 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
413 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
414 - journal: reuse XZ context
415 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
416 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
417 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
418 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
419 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
420 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
421 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 422 - 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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423 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
424 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
425 - journal: when rotating, copy over old acls/access mode
b44be3ec 426 - journal: send out marker messages every now and then, and immediately sync with fdatasync() afterwards, in order to have hourly guaranteed syncs.
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427 - 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.
428 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
429 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 430 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 431 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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432 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
433 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
434 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
435 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
77a9e8de 436 - journalctl: expand tabs
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437 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
438 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
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439 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
440 - Port upower to use the journal for historical power information used in future calculations
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442* document:
443 - document unit_name_mangle()
444 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in
445 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
446 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
447 - Document word splitting syntax for ExecStart= and friends
448 - document that units from /etc override those from /usr and /run
449 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 450 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 451 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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453* systemctl:
454 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
455 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
456 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
457 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
458 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
459 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
460 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
461 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
462 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
463 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
464 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
465 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
466 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
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468* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
469
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470* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
471
472* timer units:
473 - configurable jitter for timer events
90e071d1 474 - Adjust timers to be triggered at the same time as sd-event timers
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475 - timer events with system resume
476 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
477 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
478 o DST changes
eb124a97 479 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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480 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
481 - anacron-like feature
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483* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
484
485* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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486 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
487 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 488 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 489 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 490 user did not request anything like it.
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492* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
493 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
494 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
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496* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
497 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
498 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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500 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
501 better supported alternative.
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503* figure out relation of --all and --full in the various tools
504
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505* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
506
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507* 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().
508
509* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
510* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
511* fedup: generator
603cd8fe 512
b44be3ec 513* timedated:
b44be3ec 514 - timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
6d0274f1 515
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516* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
517
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518* introduce generic AUGMENT_PID=, AUGMENT_DEVICE= fields
519
b44be3ec 520* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
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522* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
523 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
524 - superset of tmpfiles model
525 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
526 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
527 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
528
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529* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
530 waiting for the timeout
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532* high level net_prio setting in execution context
533
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534* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
535
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536* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
537
15abdb9a 538* refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful (or set taint?)
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541 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly
542 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
543 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
544 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
545 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
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547 lxc.network.type=phys mode, and pass through entire network
548 interfaces to the container
549 - nspawn: maybe add a way to drop additional caps, in addition to add additional caps
550 - nspawn: maybe explicitly reset loginuid?
3679d112 551 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
9cb74bcb 552 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
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554* cryptsetup:
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555 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
556 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
557 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 558 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 559
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560* move debug shell to tty6 and make sure this doesn't break the gettys on tty6
561
424a19f8 562* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 563 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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565* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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568
8556879e 569* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 570 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
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572* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
573
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574* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
575
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576* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
577
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578* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
579
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580* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
581
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582* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
583
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584* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container
585
68f16003 586* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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588* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
589
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590* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
591 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
592 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
593 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 594 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 595 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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597* use opterr = 0 for all getopt tools
598
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599* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
600
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601* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
602
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603* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
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605* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
606
88a6c589 607* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
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610 - syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls
611 - syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs?
612 - syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS?
613 - syscall filter: port to libseccomp
614 - system-wide seccomp filter
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616* .device aliases need to be implemented with the "following" logic, probably.
617
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618* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
619 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
620
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622
59cea26a 623* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
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625* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
626
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627* automount: implement expire:
628 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
629 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
630 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
631 - blocking, needs a thread
632 - run until -EAGAIN
633 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
634 - call umount
635 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
636 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
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639
e01a15b7 640* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 641
abd55b16 642* udev:
3f60bcb5 643 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
abd55b16 644 - move to LGPL
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646 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
b8217b7b 647
18b754d3 648* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording
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650* when a service has the same env var set twice we actually store it twice and return that in systemctl show -p... We should only show the last setting
651
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652* support container_ttys=
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654* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
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656* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
657
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658* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
659
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660* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
661
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662* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
663
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664* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
665
666* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
667
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668* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
669
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670* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
671 needs to be auto-respawned?
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673* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
674
de6c78f8 675* tmpfiles: apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 676
b44be3ec 677* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
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680
d3c7d7dd 681* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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683* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
684 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
685
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686* move PAM code into its own binary
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689 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
690
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691* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
692
7c697168 693* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 694
71092d70 695* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
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698 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
699 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
700
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702
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703* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
704 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
705
71092d70 706* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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709 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
710 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
711 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
712 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
713 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
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715* add support for /bin/mount -s
716
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717* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
718
68c7d001 719* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 720 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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722 - status update
7a2a0b90 723 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 724 - remote access
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725 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
726 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 727 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 728 - auto-restart
e707c494 729 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 730 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 731 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 732 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 733 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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735 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
736 - how to create your own target
737 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
738 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 739
44143309 740* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 741
71092d70 742* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 743
260abb78 744* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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746* Support --test based on current system state
747
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748* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
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752* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
753
129126f3 754* port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID:
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755 - rpcbind (/var/run/rpcbind.sock!) HAVEPATCH
756 - cups HAVEPATCH
a625ac1a 757 - postfix, saslauthd
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758 - apache/samba
759 - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro)
760 - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!)
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762
71092d70 763* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
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50f2a90d 765* io priority during initialization
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768
7ba97195 769* systemd-python:
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771 works with ^C
b04c8c83 772 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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775 - plot per-process IO utilization
776 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
777 - document initcall_debug
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779
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781 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
782 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
783 on Path= matching
784 - NamePolicy= replace the current naming rules
785 - MACPolicy= support 'firmware', 'synthetic' and 'random'
786 - Check if Driver= is broken, or just my driver (bcma)
787
2f8cd170 788External:
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cc9784c6 790* dbus:
cc9784c6 791 - dbus --user
3377af3e 792 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
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794 - allow disabling of fd passing when connecting a AF_UNIX connection
3377af3e 795 - allow disabling of UID passing for AUTH EXTERNAL
b69d29ce 796 - always pass cred data along each message
b44be3ec 797 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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802
9096ad36 803* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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805* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
806 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
807 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
808 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
809 the RTC to sync up.
810
71092d70 811* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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815* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
816
817* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
818
819* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
820
821* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
822
d2bbca68 823* 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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825* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
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827* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
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4641a16b 829* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
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129126f3 831Regularly:
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129126f3 833* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
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129126f3 835* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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837* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
8c6db833 838
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841* pahole
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71092d70 843* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 844
4db17f29 845* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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9e5f3dbb 849Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 851* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)