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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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f38afcd0 7External:
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f38afcd0 9* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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11Janitorial Clean-ups:
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13* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
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15* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
16 semantics, like we do for device.c now
17
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18Features:
19
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20* nss-systemd: also synthesize shadow records for users/groups
21
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22* nspawn: move "incoming mount" directory to /run/host, move "inaccessible"
23 nodes to /run/host, move notify socket (for sd_notify() between payload and
24 container manager)
25
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26* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
27
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28* cryptsetup: if keyfile specified in crypttab is AF_UNIX socket, connect to it
29 and read from it (like we do elsewhere with READ_FULL_FILE_CONNECT_SOCKET)
30
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31* when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
32 so, freeze the payload too.
33
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34* repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
35
36* add /etc/integritytab, to support dm-integrity setups. In particular those
37 with HMAC as hash function, so that we can have a protected /home without
38 encryption (leaving encryption to the individual dirs/homed).
39
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40* complement root=, rootflags=, rootfstype= with rootsubdir= which allows
41 mounting a subdir of the root fs as actual root. This can be used as
42 fstype-agnostic version of btrfs' rootflags=subvol=foobar.
43
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44* Support ProtectProc= or so, using: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11310197/
45
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46* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
47
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48* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
49 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
50
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51* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
52 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
53 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
54 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
55 anything like that.
56
5c0102f8 57* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
cb713f16 58 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
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59 user's journal stream down but not the others.
60
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61* add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
62 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
63 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
64
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65* move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
66 these days
67
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68* nspawn: support time namespaces
69
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70* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
71 reading/writing files
72
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73* add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
74
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75* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
76 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
77
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78* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
79
80* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
81
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82* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
83 when it exits
84
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85* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
86 o turn into dlopen() deps:
4d89db12 87 - libidn2 (always)
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88 - elfutils (always)
89 - p11-kit-trust (always)
90 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
91 - cryptsetup-libs (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not in systemd-cryptsetup)
92 - similar: libblkid
93 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
94 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
95 since they are so basic and our defaults)
96 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
97 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
98
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99* seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
100 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
101 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
102
103* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
104 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
105 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
106
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107* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
108 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
109
a6e1018d 110* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
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111 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, systemctl,
112 coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
113 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
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115* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
116
117* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
118 specific service
119
120* seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
121
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122* credentials system:
123 - maybe add AcquireCredential= for querying a cred via ask-password
124 - maybe try to acquire creds via keyring?
125 - maybe try to pass creds via keyring?
126 - maybe optionally pass creds via memfd
127 - maybe add support for decrypting creds via TPM
128 - maybe add support for decrypting/importing creds via pkcs11
129 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
130 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
131 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
132 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
133 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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135* homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
136 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
137 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
138
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139* homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
140 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
141 signature
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142
143* homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
144 and insert a local signature instead.
145
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146* homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
147 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
148 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
15dd4515 149 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
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150 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
151
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152* homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
153
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154* homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
155 easily?
156
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157* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
158 exists and responds.
159
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160* when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
161 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
162 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
163 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
164 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
165
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166* cryptsetup: support FIDO2 tokens for deriving keys (i.e. do what homed can do
167 also in plain cryptsetup)
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169* systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
170 creates
171
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172* bootctl:
173 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
174 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
175 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
176
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177* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
178 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
179 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
180
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181* by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
182 allow so that systemd survives
183
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184* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
185 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
186
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187* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
188 systemd-makefs.service instead.
189
91fc013f 190* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 191 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
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193* unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
194 confusion is gone)
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195 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
196 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
197 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
198 - port importd over from libgcrypt
199 - when that's done: kill khash.c
200 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
201
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202* kill zenata, all hail weblate?
203
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204* when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
205
206* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
207 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
208
209* hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
210 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
211 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
212 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
213 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
214
492f91d8 215* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
86b52a39 216 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
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217 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
218 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
219
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220* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
221 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
222 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
223 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
224 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
225 automatically.
226
227* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
228 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
229
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230* systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
231
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232* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
233 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
234 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
235 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
236 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
237 fails to apply use the latter.
238
239* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
240 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
241
242* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
243 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
244
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245* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
246 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
247
2a4be3c5 248* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
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249 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
250
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251* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
252 realname substr searches in varlink API
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254* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
255
2a4be3c5 256* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 257
f1eb0ccd 258* pid1: activation by journal search expression
006c44c1 259
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260* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
261 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
262 initrd had set.
263
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264* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
265 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
266 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
267 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
268 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
269 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
270
271* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
272 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
273 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
274
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275* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
276 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
277 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
278 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
279 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
280 source.
281
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282* figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
283 with immutable /usr
284
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285* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
286 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
287 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
288
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289* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
290
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291* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
292 the hibernation
293
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294* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
295 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
296 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
297 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
298 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
299 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
300 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
301 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
302 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
303 hibernation mode. (see
304 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
305 section 10.2.2.8 and
306 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
307 at the end).
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309* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
310 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
311 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
312 output for them.
313
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314* We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
315 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
316 constant vendor data.
317
c6526b8d 318* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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320* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
321 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
322
323* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
324 fallback in "machinectl shell"
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326* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
327 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
328 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
329
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330* homed:
331 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
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332 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
333 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
334 - resize on login?
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335 - shrink fs on logout?
336 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
337 - create on activate?
338 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
339 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
340 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
341 systemd --user is shut down.
342 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
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343 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
344 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
86b52a39 345 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
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346 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
347 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
348 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
c809ed78 349 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
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350 - query password from kernel keyring first
351 - update even if record is "absent"
352 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
353 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
354 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
355 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
356 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
357 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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358 - introduce API for "making room", that grows/shrinks home directory
359 according to elastic parameters, discards blocks, and removes additional snapshots. Call it
360 either from UI when disk space gets low
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362* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
363 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
364 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
365 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
366 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
367 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
368 exec().
369
370* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
371
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372* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
373 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
374
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375* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
376
377* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
378 gnome-bluetooth and friends
379
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380* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
381 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
382 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
383 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
384 cgroup.
385
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386* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
387 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
388 root.
389
390* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
391 is issued.
392
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393* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
394
395* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
396
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397* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
398 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
399 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
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d238709c 401* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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402 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
403 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
404
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405* add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
406 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
407 ConfigurationDirectory=.
408
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409* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
410
d3584ec4 411* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
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413* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
414 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
415
06898123 416* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 417 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 418 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
06898123 419
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420* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
421
422* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
423 patching around
424
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425* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
426 log.c and sd-journal-send
427
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428* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
429
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430* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
431
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432* sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
433 can add in file system drivers and such
434
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435* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
436 non-zero "tries done" count
437
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438* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
439 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
440 it should skip the variant type string though.
441
442* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
443 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
444 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
445 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
446 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
447 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
448 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
449 CODE_FILE.
450
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451* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
452 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
453 some explanatory text online.
454
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455* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
456
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457* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
458 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
459 the slices, and the units attached to them.
460
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461* the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
462 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
bc130b68 463 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
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464 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
465 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
466 way)
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468* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
469 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
470 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
471
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472* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
473 original defaults before calling parse_config()
474
72d711ef 475* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
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477* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
478 Specifically:
479
480 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
481 properly)
e83419d0 482 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 483 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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485* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
486 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
487
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488* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
489 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
490 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
491 files and suchlike we operate on.
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493* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
494
495* add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
496
497* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
498 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
499
5da19043 500* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
5238e957 501 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
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502 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
503 numbers.
504
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505* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
506 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
507 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
508 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
509 unlinked from any dir.
510
bd1b3f75 511* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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514
515* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
516
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517* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
518 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
519 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
520 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
521 should reflink the image file itself.
522
523 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
524 specific paths only like this.
525
53c70a27 526* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 527 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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528 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
529 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 530 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
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532* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
533
534* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
535
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536* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
537 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
538
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539* teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
540 project quota
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542* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
543 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
544 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
545 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
546 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
547 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
548 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
549 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
550
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551* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
552 for root, but only then.
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554* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
555
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556* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
557 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
558
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559* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
560 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
561
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562* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
563 host-side interface pointing to the container.
564
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565* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
566 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
567 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
568 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
569 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
570
cb77e122 571* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 572
899feb72 573* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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575* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
576 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
577 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
578
5f7ecd61 579* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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581* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
582 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
583
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584* blog about fd store and restartable services
585
586* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
587
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588* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
589 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
590
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591* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
592 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
593 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
594 ID is available.
595
596* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
597 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
598 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
599
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600* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
601 parameters
602
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603* maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
604 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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605 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
606 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
607 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
608 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
609 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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611* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
612 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
613
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614* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
615 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
616 wait to retrieve their exit data.
617
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618* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
619 about it in the resource log message
620
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621* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
622 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
623
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624* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
625 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
626 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
627
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629 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
630
631 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
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634 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
635 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
636 logging.
637
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638* hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
639 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
640 "convertible" form factor
641
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642* Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
643 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
644 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
645 as MAINPID.
646
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647* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
648 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
649 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
650
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651* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
652 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
653
654* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
655 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
656 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
657 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
658 natural habitat.
659
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661 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
662 /usr is mounted into.
663
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664* 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
665
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666* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
667
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668* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
669 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
670 relative to the configured default value.
671
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672* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
673
674* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
675
04397464 676* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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678* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
679
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680* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
681
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682* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
683
04397464 684* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 685
04397464 686* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 687
04397464 688* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 689
8ce9b83a 690* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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692* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
693 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
694 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
695
e40a326c 696* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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698* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
699
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700* mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
701 partitions
702
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703* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
704 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
705 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
706 mapping to work.
707
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708* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
709
710* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
711
712* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
713
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714* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
715 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
716
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717* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
718 reload the unit file anyway
719
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720* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
721 from the SIGBUS handler
722
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724
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725* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
726 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
727
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728* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
729
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730* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
731 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
732
f9bf1b8f 733* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 734 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 735 specifications.
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737* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
738
5ebbb45b 739* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
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741* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
742
a2088fd0 743* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 744 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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746 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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748* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
749
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750* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
751
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752* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
753 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
754 state.
755 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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757* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
758 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
759 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
760 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
761 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
762
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763* networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
764 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
765
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766* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
767
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768* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
769 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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771* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
772 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
773 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
774 do, for example)
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776* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
777 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
778
e031c227 779* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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780 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
781
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782* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
783
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784* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
785 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
786 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
787 returning from the "systemctl stop".
788
b568ef14 789* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
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791* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
792
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793* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
794 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
795
25e773ee 796* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 797
279f0366 798* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 799
5238e957 800* systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
b42de08a 801 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
202aea45 802
720652b3 803* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 804
720652b3 805* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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807* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
808
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809* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
810 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
811
9d6db739 812* resolved:
9d6db739 813 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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815 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 816 - avahi compat
9d6db739 817 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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818 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
819 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
820 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 821 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 822 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 823
e25b5a8d 824* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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826* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
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828* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
829
a01647e5 830* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 831 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
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833* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
834
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835* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
836
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837* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
838
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839* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
840 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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842* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
843
6a3f892a 844* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 845 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 846 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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848* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
849 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
850 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 851
f9bf1b8f 852* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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854* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
855 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
856 for ReusePort=
857
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858* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
859 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
860 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
861 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
862 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
863 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
864
f38afcd0 865* cgroups:
f38afcd0 866 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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867 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
868 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
869 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
870 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
871 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 872
f38afcd0 873* transient units:
f38afcd0 874 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
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876* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
877
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878* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
879
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880* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
881
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882* 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
883
7f79cd71 884* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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886* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
887 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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888 path anyway.
889
04397464 890* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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892* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
893
894* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
895
6bb648a1 896* sd-bus:
0d43ffef 897 - EBADSLT handling
fa607802 898 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
7212c608 899 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
57f2a947 900 - see if we can introduce a new sd_bus_get_owner_machine_id() call to retrieve the machine ID of the machine of the bus itself
f38afcd0 901 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 902 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
ab9716c2 903 - longer term: priority inheritance
df98a87b 904 - dbus spec updates:
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906 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 907 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 908 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
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910* sd-event
12179984 911 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 912 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
e25b5a8d 913 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
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914 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
915 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
916 here:
917 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
eb01ba5d 918
69af4503 919* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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921* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
922 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
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924* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
925
926* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
927
fff87a35 928* test/:
20d52ab6 929 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 930
b5c03638 931* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 932 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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934 destination.
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936* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
937 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
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940
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941* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
942 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
943 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
944
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945* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
946 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
947 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
948 is installed.
795607b2 949
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950* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
951 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
952 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
953 that automatically.
954
e5ec62c5 955* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 956
ccddd104 957* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 958
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959* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
960
356ce991 961* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 962
b44be3ec 963* EFI:
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964 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
965 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 966 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 967* bootctl
631427d6 968 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 969
c0fe5db5 970* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 971
b44be3ec 972* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 973
b44be3ec 974* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
e6c6e7af 975
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976* logind:
977 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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978 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
979 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
980 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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981 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
982 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
983 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
984 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
985 needs setuid().
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986 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
987 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
988 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
989 complete.
990 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
991 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
992 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
279f0366 993 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
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994 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
995 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
996 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
997 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
998 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
999 relogins
77b19caf 1000 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 1001
b44be3ec 1002* journal:
57f2a947 1003 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1004 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1005 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1006 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1007 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1008 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1009 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1010 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1011 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1012 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1013 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1014 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1015 - 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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1016 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1017 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1018 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1019 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1020 - 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.
1021 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1022 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1023 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1024 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1025 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1026 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1027 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1028 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1029 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1030 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1031 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1032 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1033 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1034 to syslog when it works again.
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1035 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1036 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1037 journals in.
1038 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1039 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1040 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1041 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1042 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1043 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1044 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1045 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1046 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1047 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1048 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1049 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1050 operation.
1051 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1052 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1053 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1054 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1055 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1056 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1057 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1058 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1059 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1060 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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1063 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1064 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1065 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1066
b44be3ec 1067* document:
8b8f2591 1068 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1069 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1070 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1071 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1072 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1073 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1074 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1075 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1076 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1077 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 1078 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1079 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1080
1081* systemctl:
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1082 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1083 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1084 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1085 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1086 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1087 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1088 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1089 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1090 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1091 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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1092
1093* unit install:
1094 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1095 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
8b04b925 1096
b44be3ec 1097* timer units:
b44be3ec 1098 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
b44be3ec 1099 o DST changes
90e071d1 1100 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 1101
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1102* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1103
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1104* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1105
b44be3ec 1106* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 1107
f59d1da8 1108* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
dcfc4b2e 1109
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1110* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1111
d28315e4 1112* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 1113
b44be3ec 1114* nspawn:
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1115 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1116 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1117 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1118 from the kernel's logs.
1119 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1120 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1121 interface be missing
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1122 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1123 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1124 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1125 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1126 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1127 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1128 PID 1...
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1129 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1130 running, remove them when shut down.
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1131
1132* machined:
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1133 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1134 removed or added to an existing machine
1135 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1136 difference host, via ssh
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1137 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1138 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1139 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1140 question
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1141 - "machinectl history"
1142 - "machinectl diff"
1143 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1144 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1145
b44be3ec 1146* cryptsetup:
b44be3ec 1147 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
5f1dac6b 1148 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 1149
424a19f8 1150* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 1151 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
424a19f8 1152
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1153* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1154
68f16003 1155* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 1156
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1157* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1158
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1159* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1160
abd55b16 1161* udev:
abd55b16 1162 - move to LGPL
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1163 - kill scsi_id
1164 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1165 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1166
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1167* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1168
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1169* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1170
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1171* coredump:
1172 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1173 - 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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1174
1175* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1176
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1177* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1178 needs to be auto-respawned?
1179
f38afcd0 1180* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1181 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1182 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1183 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1184 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1185 calls follow symlinks.
1258097c 1186
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1187* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1188
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1189* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1190 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1191 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1192
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1193* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1194 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1195
71092d70 1196* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 1197
68c7d001 1198* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 1199 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
68c7d001 1200 - enabling dbus services
7a2a0b90 1201 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 1202 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 1203 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 1204 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 1205 - auto-restart
e707c494 1206 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 1207 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 1208 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 1209 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 1210 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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1211 - calendar time events
1212 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1213 - how to create your own target
1214 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1215 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 1216
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1217* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1218
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1219* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1220
e25b5a8d 1221* pid1:
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1222 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1223 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1224 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1225 that are not supported...
1226 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1227 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1228 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1229 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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1230 - move PAM code into its own binary
1231 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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1232 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1233 - Support --test based on current system state
1234 - 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().
1235 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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1236 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1237 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1238 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1239 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1240 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1241 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1242 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1243 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1244
1245* unit files:
1246 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1247 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1248 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1249 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1250 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1251 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1252 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1253 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
e25b5a8d 1254 - introduce Type=pid-file
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1255 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1256 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
e25b5a8d 1257 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
e5171296 1258 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
e25b5a8d 1259
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1260* udev-link-config:
1261 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1262 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1263 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1264
88e4d1d7 1265* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1266 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1267 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1268
0a4b9a07 1269* networkd:
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1270 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1271 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 1272 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 1273 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1274 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 1275 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1276 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1277 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1278 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 1279 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 1280 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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1281 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1282 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1283 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1284 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1285 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1286 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1287 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
e25b5a8d 1288 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1289
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1290* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1291
ac976532 1292* dhcp:
424a8732 1293 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1294
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1295* dhcp6:
1296 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1297 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1298 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1299 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1300 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1301 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1302 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1303 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1304 or interface down
1305 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1306 this behavior
4a77c53d 1307 - RouteTable= ?
37d8b536 1308
2f8cd170 1309External:
74fe1fe3 1310
cc9784c6 1311* dbus:
3377af3e 1312 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 1313 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 1314
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1315* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1316
71092d70 1317* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
14bd37fe 1318
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1319* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1320
d2bbca68 1321* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
8973790e 1322
8973790e 1323* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 1324
4641a16b 1325* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
19aa7c4f 1326
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1327* register catalog database signature as file magic
1328
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1329* zsh shell completion:
1330 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 1331 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1cf3c30c 1332
90137b62 1333* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
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1334* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1335 after being started.
2c12a402 1336
129126f3 1337Regularly:
874aa2cc 1338
129126f3 1339* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 1340
129126f3 1341* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
5b6319dc 1342
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1343* pahole
1344
d28315e4 1345* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 1346
4db17f29 1347* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
88fae6e0 1348
d05c556b 1349* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
62353f69 1350String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment