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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.
6
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7* userdbctl: "Password OK: yes" is shown even when there are no passwords
8 or the password is locked.
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f38afcd0 10External:
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f38afcd0 12* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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14Janitorial Clean-ups:
15
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16* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
17
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18* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
19 semantics, like we do for device.c now
20
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21Features:
22
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23* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
24 entered, and we are on AC power (or so), power off machine again
25
26* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
27 it happens to be set up alright already.
28
29* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
30
31* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
32 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
33 default.
34
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35* homed: try to unmount in regular intervals when home dir was busy when we
36 tried because idle.
37
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38* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
39 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
40 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
41 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
42 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
43
377a9545 44* teach LoadCredential= the ability to load all files from a specified dir as
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45 individual creds
46
08d33656 47* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
d775d8e6 48
08d33656 49* port selinux code from mallinfo() to mallinfo2() once added to glibc
d775d8e6 50
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51* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
52 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
53
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54* export action of device object on sd-device, so that monitor becomes useful
55
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56* add root=tmpfs that mounts a tmpfs to /sysroot (to be used in combination
57 with usr=…, for a similar effect as systemd.volatile=yes but without the
58 "hide-out" effect). Also, add root=gpt-auto-late support or so, that is like
59 root=gpt-auto but initially mounts a tmpfs to /sysroot, and then revisits
60 later after systemd-repart ran. Usecase: let's ship images with only /usr
61 partition, then on first boot create the root partition. In this case we want
62 to read the repart data from /usr before the root partition exists. Add
63 usr=gpt-auto that automatically finds a /usr partition.
64
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65* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
66 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
67 temporary dir.
68
69* special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
70 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
71
1817be80 72* homed: keep an fd to the homedir open at all times, to keep the fs pinned
377a9545 73 (autofs and such) while user is logged in.
bb970e57 74
1817be80 75* nss-systemd: also synthesize shadow records for users/groups
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77* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
78
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79* when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
80 so, freeze the payload too.
81
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82* repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
83
84* add /etc/integritytab, to support dm-integrity setups. In particular those
85 with HMAC as hash function, so that we can have a protected /home without
86 encryption (leaving encryption to the individual dirs/homed).
87
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88* complement root=, rootflags=, rootfstype= with rootsubdir= which allows
89 mounting a subdir of the root fs as actual root. This can be used as
90 fstype-agnostic version of btrfs' rootflags=subvol=foobar.
91
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92* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
93
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94* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
95 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
96
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97* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
98 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
99 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
100 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
101 anything like that.
102
5c0102f8 103* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
cb713f16 104 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
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105 user's journal stream down but not the others.
106
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107* add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
108 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
109 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
110
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111* nspawn: support time namespaces
112
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113* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
114 reading/writing files
115
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116* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
117 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
118
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119* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
120
121* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
122
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123* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
124 when it exits
125
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126* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
127 o turn into dlopen() deps:
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128 - elfutils (always)
129 - p11-kit-trust (always)
130 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 131 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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132 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
133 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
134 since they are so basic and our defaults)
135 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
136 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
137
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138* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
139 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
140 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
141
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142* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
143 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
144
a6e1018d 145* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
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146 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, systemctl,
147 coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
148 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
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150* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
151
152* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
153 specific service
154
155* seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
156
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157* credentials system:
158 - maybe add AcquireCredential= for querying a cred via ask-password
159 - maybe try to acquire creds via keyring?
160 - maybe try to pass creds via keyring?
161 - maybe optionally pass creds via memfd
162 - maybe add support for decrypting creds via TPM
163 - maybe add support for decrypting/importing creds via pkcs11
164 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
165 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
166 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
167 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
168 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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170* homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
171 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
172 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
173
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174* homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
175 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
176 signature
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177
178* homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
179 and insert a local signature instead.
180
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181* homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
182 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
183 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
15dd4515 184 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
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185 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
186
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187* homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
188
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189* homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
190 easily?
191
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192* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
193 exists and responds.
194
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195* when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
196 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
197 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
198 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
199 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
200
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201* cryptsetup: support FIDO2 tokens for deriving keys (i.e. do what homed can do
202 also in plain cryptsetup)
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204* systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
205 creates
206
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207* bootctl:
208 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
209 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
210 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
211
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212* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
213 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
214 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
215
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216* by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
217 allow so that systemd survives
218
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219* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
220 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
221
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222* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
223 systemd-makefs.service instead.
224
91fc013f 225* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 226 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
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228* unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
229 confusion is gone)
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230 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
231 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
232 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
233 - port importd over from libgcrypt
234 - when that's done: kill khash.c
235 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
236
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237* when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
238
239* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
240 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
241
242* hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
243 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
244 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
245 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
246 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
247
492f91d8 248* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
86b52a39 249 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
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250 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
251 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
252
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253* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
254 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
255 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
256 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
257 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
258 automatically.
259
260* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
261 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
262
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263* systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
264
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265* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
266 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
267 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
268 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
269 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
270 fails to apply use the latter.
271
272* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
273 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
274
275* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
276 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
277
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278* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
279 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
280
2a4be3c5 281* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
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282 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
283
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284* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
285 realname substr searches in varlink API
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287* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
288
2a4be3c5 289* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 290
f1eb0ccd 291* pid1: activation by journal search expression
006c44c1 292
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293* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
294 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
295 initrd had set.
296
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297* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
298 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
299 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
300 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
301 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
302 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
303
304* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
305 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
306 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
307
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308* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
309 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
310 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
311 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
312 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
313 source.
314
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315* figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
316 with immutable /usr
317
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318* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
319 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
320 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
321
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322* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
323
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324* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
325 the hibernation
326
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327* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
328 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
329 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
330 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
331 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
332 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
333 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
334 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
335 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
336 hibernation mode. (see
337 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
338 section 10.2.2.8 and
339 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
340 at the end).
341
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342* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
343 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
344 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
345 output for them.
346
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347* We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
348 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
349 constant vendor data.
350
c6526b8d 351* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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353* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
354 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
355
356* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
357 fallback in "machinectl shell"
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359* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
360 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
361 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
362
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363* homed:
364 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
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365 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
366 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
367 - resize on login?
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368 - shrink fs on logout?
369 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
370 - create on activate?
371 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
372 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
373 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
374 systemd --user is shut down.
375 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
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376 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
377 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
86b52a39 378 - 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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379 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
380 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
381 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
c809ed78 382 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
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383 - query password from kernel keyring first
384 - update even if record is "absent"
385 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
386 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
387 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
388 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
389 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
390 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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391 - introduce API for "making room", that grows/shrinks home directory
392 according to elastic parameters, discards blocks, and removes additional snapshots. Call it
393 either from UI when disk space gets low
c809ed78 394
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395* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
396 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
397 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
398 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
399 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
400 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
401 exec().
402
403* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
404
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405* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
406 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
407
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408* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
409
410* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
411 gnome-bluetooth and friends
412
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413* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
414 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
415 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
416 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
417 cgroup.
418
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419* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
420 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
421 root.
422
423* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
424 is issued.
425
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426* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
427
428* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
429
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430* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
431 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
432 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 433
d238709c 434* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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435 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
436 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
437
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438* add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
439 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
440 ConfigurationDirectory=.
441
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442* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
443
d3584ec4 444* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
fe1bff15 445
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446* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
447 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
448
06898123 449* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 450 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 451 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
06898123 452
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453* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
454
455* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
456 patching around
457
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458* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
459 log.c and sd-journal-send
460
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461* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
462
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463* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
464
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465* sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
466 can add in file system drivers and such
467
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468* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
469 non-zero "tries done" count
470
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471* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
472 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
473 it should skip the variant type string though.
474
475* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
476 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
477 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
478 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
479 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
480 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
481 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
482 CODE_FILE.
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485 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
486 some explanatory text online.
487
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489
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490* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
491 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
492 the slices, and the units attached to them.
493
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494* the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
495 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
bc130b68 496 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
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497 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
498 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
499 way)
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501* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
502 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
503 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
504
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505* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
506 original defaults before calling parse_config()
507
72d711ef 508* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
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511 Specifically:
512
513 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
514 properly)
e83419d0 515 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 516 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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518* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
519 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
520
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521* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
522 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
523 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
524 files and suchlike we operate on.
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527
528* add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
529
530* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
531 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
532
5da19043 533* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
5238e957 534 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
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535 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
536 numbers.
537
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538* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
539 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
540 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
541 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
542 unlinked from any dir.
543
bd1b3f75 544* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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547
548* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
549
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550* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
551 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
552 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
553 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
554 should reflink the image file itself.
555
556 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
557 specific paths only like this.
558
53c70a27 559* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 560 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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561 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
562 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 563 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
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565* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
566
567* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
568
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569* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
570 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
571
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572* teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
573 project quota
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575* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
576 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
577 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
578 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
579 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
580 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
581 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
582 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
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584* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
585 for root, but only then.
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587* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
588
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589* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
590 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
591
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592* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
593 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
594
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595* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
596 only when used. Add unit tests.
597
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598* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
599 host-side interface pointing to the container.
600
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601* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
602 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
603 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
604 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
605 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
606
cb77e122 607* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 608
899feb72 609* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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611* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
612 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
613 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
614
5f7ecd61 615* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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617* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
618 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
619
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620* blog about fd store and restartable services
621
622* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
623
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624* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
625 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
626
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627* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
628 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
629 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
630 ID is available.
631
632* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
633 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
634 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
635
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636* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
637 parameters
638
6fc373ee 639* maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 640 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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641 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
642 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
643 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
644 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
645 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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647* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
648 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
649
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650* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
651 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
652 wait to retrieve their exit data.
653
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654* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
655 about it in the resource log message
656
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657* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
658 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
659
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660* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
661 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
662 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
663
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665 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
666
667 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
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670 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
671 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
672 logging.
673
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675 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
676 "convertible" form factor
677
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678* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
679 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
680 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
681
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682* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
683 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
684
685* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
686 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
687 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
688 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
689 natural habitat.
690
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691* gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
692 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
693 /usr is mounted into.
694
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695* 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
696
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697* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
698
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699* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
700 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
701 relative to the configured default value.
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703* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
704
705* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
706
04397464 707* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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709* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
710
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711* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
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713* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
714
04397464 715* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
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04397464 717* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 718
04397464 719* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 720
8ce9b83a 721* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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723* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
724 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
725 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
726
e40a326c 727* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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729* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
730
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731* mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
732 partitions
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734* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
735 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
736 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
737 mapping to work.
738
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739* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
740
741* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
742
743* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
744
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745* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
746 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
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748* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
749 reload the unit file anyway
750
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751* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
752 from the SIGBUS handler
753
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754* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
755
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756* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
757 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
758
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759* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
760
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761* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
762 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
763
f9bf1b8f 764* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 765 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 766 specifications.
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769
5ebbb45b 770* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
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772* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
773
a2088fd0 774* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 775 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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776 prefixed with /sys generally special.
777 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
778
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779* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
780
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781* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
782
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783* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
784 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
785 state.
786 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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788* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
789 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
790 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
791 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
792 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
793
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794* networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
795 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
796
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797* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
798
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799* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
800 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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802* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
803 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
804 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
805 do, for example)
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807* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
808 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
809
e031c227 810* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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811 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
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813* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
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815* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
816 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
817 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
818 returning from the "systemctl stop".
819
b568ef14 820* 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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822* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
823
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824* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
825 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
826
25e773ee 827* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 828
279f0366 829* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 830
720652b3 831* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 832
720652b3 833* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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835* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
836
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837* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
838 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
839
9d6db739 840* resolved:
9d6db739 841 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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843 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 844 - avahi compat
9d6db739 845 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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846 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
847 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
848 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 849 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 850 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 851
e25b5a8d 852* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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854* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
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856* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
857
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858* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
859
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860* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
861
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862* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
863
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864* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
865 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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868
6a3f892a 869* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 870 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 871 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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873* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
874 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
875 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 876
f9bf1b8f 877* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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879* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
880 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
881 for ReusePort=
882
f38afcd0 883* cgroups:
f38afcd0 884 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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885 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
886 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
887 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
888 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
889 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 890
f38afcd0 891* transient units:
f38afcd0 892 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
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894* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
895
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896* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
897
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898* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
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900* 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
901
7f79cd71 902* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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904* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
905 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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906 path anyway.
907
04397464 908* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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910* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
911
912* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
913
6bb648a1 914* sd-bus:
0d43ffef 915 - EBADSLT handling
fa607802 916 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
7212c608 917 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
57f2a947 918 - 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 919 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 920 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
ab9716c2 921 - longer term: priority inheritance
df98a87b 922 - dbus spec updates:
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924 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 925 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 926 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
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928* sd-event
12179984 929 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 930 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
e25b5a8d 931 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
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933 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
934 here:
935 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
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69af4503 937* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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940 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
941
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942* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
943
944* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
945
fff87a35 946* test/:
20d52ab6 947 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 948
b5c03638 949* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 950 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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951 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
952 destination.
953
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954* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
955 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
956
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957* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
958
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959* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
960 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
961 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
962
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963* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
964 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
965 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
966 is installed.
795607b2 967
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968* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
969 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
970 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
971 that automatically.
972
e5ec62c5 973* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 974
ccddd104 975* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 976
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977* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
978
356ce991 979* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 980
b44be3ec 981* EFI:
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982 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
983 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 984 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 985* bootctl
631427d6 986 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 987
c0fe5db5 988* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 989
b44be3ec 990* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 991
b44be3ec 992* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
e6c6e7af 993
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995 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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996 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
997 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
998 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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999 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1000 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1001 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1002 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1003 needs setuid().
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1004 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1005 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1006 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1007 complete.
1008 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1009 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1010 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
279f0366 1011 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
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1012 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1013 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1014 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1015 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1016 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1017 relogins
77b19caf 1018 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 1019
b44be3ec 1020* journal:
57f2a947 1021 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1022 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1023 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1024 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1025 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1026 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1027 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1028 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1029 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1030 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1031 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1032 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1033 - 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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1034 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1035 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1036 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1037 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1038 - 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.
1039 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1040 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1041 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1042 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1043 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1044 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1045 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1046 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1047 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1048 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1049 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1050 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1051 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1052 to syslog when it works again.
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1053 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1054 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1055 journals in.
1056 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1057 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1058 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1059 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1060 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1061 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1062 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1063 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1064 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1065 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1066 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1067 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1068 operation.
1069 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1070 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1071 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1072 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1073 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1074 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1075 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1076 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1077 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1078 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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1080* add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1081 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1082 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1083 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1084
b44be3ec 1085* document:
8b8f2591 1086 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1087 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1088 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1089 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1090 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1091 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1092 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1093 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1094 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1095 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 1096 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1097 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1098
1099* systemctl:
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1100 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1101 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1102 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1103 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1104 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1105 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1106 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1107 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1108 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1109 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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1111* unit install:
1112 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1113 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
8b04b925 1114
b44be3ec 1115* timer units:
b44be3ec 1116 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
b44be3ec 1117 o DST changes
90e071d1 1118 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 1119
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1120* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1121
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1122* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1123
b44be3ec 1124* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 1125
f59d1da8 1126* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
dcfc4b2e 1127
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1128* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1129
d28315e4 1130* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 1131
b44be3ec 1132* nspawn:
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1133 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1134 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1135 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1136 from the kernel's logs.
1137 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1138 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1139 interface be missing
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1140 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1141 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1142 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1143 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1144 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1145 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1146 PID 1...
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1147 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1148 running, remove them when shut down.
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1149
1150* machined:
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1151 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1152 removed or added to an existing machine
1153 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1154 difference host, via ssh
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1155 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1156 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1157 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1158 question
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1159 - "machinectl history"
1160 - "machinectl diff"
1161 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1162 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1163
b44be3ec 1164* cryptsetup:
b44be3ec 1165 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
5f1dac6b 1166 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 1167
424a19f8 1168* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 1169 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
424a19f8 1170
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1171* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1172
68f16003 1173* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 1174
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1175* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1176
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1177* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1178
abd55b16 1179* udev:
abd55b16 1180 - move to LGPL
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1181 - kill scsi_id
1182 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1183 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1184
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1185* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1186
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1187* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1188
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1189* coredump:
1190 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1191 - 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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1192
1193* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1194
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1195* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1196 needs to be auto-respawned?
1197
f38afcd0 1198* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1199 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1200 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1201 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1202 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1203 calls follow symlinks.
1258097c 1204
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1205* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1206
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1207* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1208 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1209 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1210
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1211* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1212 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1213
71092d70 1214* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 1215
68c7d001 1216* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 1217 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
68c7d001 1218 - enabling dbus services
7a2a0b90 1219 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 1220 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 1221 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 1222 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 1223 - auto-restart
e707c494 1224 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 1225 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 1226 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 1227 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 1228 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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1229 - calendar time events
1230 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1231 - how to create your own target
1232 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1233 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 1234
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1235* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1236
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1237* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1238
e25b5a8d 1239* pid1:
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1240 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1241 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1242 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1243 that are not supported...
1244 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1245 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1246 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1247 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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1248 - move PAM code into its own binary
1249 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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1250 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1251 - Support --test based on current system state
1252 - 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().
1253 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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1254 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1255 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1256 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1257 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1258 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1259 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1260 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1261 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1262
1263* unit files:
1264 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1265 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1266 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1267 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1268 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1269 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1270 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1271 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
e25b5a8d 1272 - introduce Type=pid-file
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1273 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1274 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
e25b5a8d 1275 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
e5171296 1276 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
e25b5a8d 1277
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1278* udev-link-config:
1279 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1280 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1281 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1282
88e4d1d7 1283* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1284 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1285 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1286
0a4b9a07 1287* networkd:
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1288 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1289 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 1290 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 1291 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1292 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 1293 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1294 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1295 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1296 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 1297 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 1298 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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1299 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1300 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1301 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1302 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1303 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1304 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1305 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
e25b5a8d 1306 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1307
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1309
ac976532 1310* dhcp:
424a8732 1311 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1312
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1313* dhcp6:
1314 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1315 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1316 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1317 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1318 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1319 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1320 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1321 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1322 or interface down
1323 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1324 this behavior
4a77c53d 1325 - RouteTable= ?
37d8b536 1326
2f8cd170 1327External:
74fe1fe3 1328
cc9784c6 1329* dbus:
3377af3e 1330 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 1331 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 1332
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1333* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1334
71092d70 1335* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
14bd37fe 1336
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1337* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1338
d2bbca68 1339* 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 1340
8973790e 1341* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 1342
4641a16b 1343* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
19aa7c4f 1344
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1345* register catalog database signature as file magic
1346
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1347* zsh shell completion:
1348 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 1349 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1cf3c30c 1350
90137b62 1351* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
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1352* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1353 after being started.
2c12a402 1354
129126f3 1355Regularly:
874aa2cc 1356
129126f3 1357* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 1358
129126f3 1359* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
5b6319dc 1360
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1361* pahole
1362
d28315e4 1363* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 1364
4db17f29 1365* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
88fae6e0 1366
d05c556b 1367* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
62353f69 1368String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment