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1Bugfixes:
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19aadacf 3* enabling an instance unit creates a pointless link, and
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4 the unit will be started with getty@getty.service:
5 $ systemctl enable getty@.service
6 ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service' '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@.service'
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8* check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
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10* swap units that are activated by one name but shown in the kernel under another are semi-broken
11
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12* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
13 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
14 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
15
a40593a0 16* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
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19aadacf 18* When we detect invalid UTF-8, we cannot use it in an error message:
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19 log...("Path is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment: %s", rvalue);
20
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21* shorten the message to sane length:
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23 Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status display-manager.service' for details.
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466784c8 25Fedora 20:
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dc7adf20 27* external: ps should gain colums for slice and machine
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81d112a8 29* localed:
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30 - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps
31
55d32caf 32* when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
466784c8 33 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
55d32caf 34
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35CGroup Rework Completion:
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94bbc991 37* introduce "mainpid" for scopes (or maybe not?)
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39* implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?)
40
41* implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
42
43* handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
44
049b4474 45* introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
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eb124a97 47Features:
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49* add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
50
51* direct connections to PID 1/XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, wait filter, reboot() filter unification, unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends, convert all to bus_log_create_error()
52
53* bus: access policy as vtable flag
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55* journalctl: support -M to read journal of containers and determine journal directory from root directory of container
56
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57* tmpfiles: to make sure we don't delete unpacked tarballs with old timestamps right-away never delete stuff that is inside a directory with a new mtime
58
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59* "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
60 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
61
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62* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
63
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64* remove NSS usage from PID 1 (notably the specifiers)
65
a427c13d 66* socket-proxyd:
fd201fda 67 - Support multiple inherited sockets mapped to different remote hosts
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68 - Use a nonblocking alternative to getaddrinfo
69 - Until we can start daemons directly, find a less ugly, less racy alternative than shell scripts for the second man page example.
70 - Support starting daemons directly without requiring a shell script; update man pages
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72* optimize the cgroup propagation bits, especially unit_get_members_mask(), cgroup_context_get_mask()
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74* "systemctl cat" or "systemctl view" command or or so, that cats the backing unit file of a service, plus its drop-ins and shows them in a pager
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76* 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
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78* Add a new Distribute=$NUMBER key to socket units that makes use of SO_REUSEPORT to distribute network traffic on $NUMBER instances
79
19aadacf 80* tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal, also do this for the journal fails contained in it
7f79cd71 81
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82* we probably should replace the left-over uses of strv_append() and replace them by strv_push() or strv_extend()
83
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84* move config_parse_path_strv() out of conf-parser.c
85
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86* libdsystemd-bus should expose utf8 validation calls
87
7f79cd71 88* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 89
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90* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
91 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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92 path anyway.
93
19aadacf 94* When a Type=forking service fails and needed another service, that
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95 service is not cleaned up again when it has StopWhenUnneeded=yes
96 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-July/012141.html
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98* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
99
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100* ensure scope units may be started only a single time
101
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102* better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
103
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104* systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
105
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106* for transient units, instead of writing out drop-ins for all properties consider serializing them in the normal serialization stream
107
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108* logind: when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects
109
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110* session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
111
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112* add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
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114* journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
115
19aadacf 116* given that logind/machined now let PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
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117 probably reduce the capability set they retain substantially.
118
6aaa8c2f 119* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
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121* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
122
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123* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
124
e1b7e7ec 125* make sure gdm doesn't use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
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127* when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we won't support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200
128
19aadacf 129* when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
fa7deadb 130
19aadacf 131* "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, but should
69af4503 132 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
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133 unit however should remove them all).
134
135* journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
136
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137* systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
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139* journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
140 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
141 to syslog when it works again.
142
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143* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
144
145* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
146
19aadacf 147* service_coldplug() appears to reinstall the wrong stop timeout watch.
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149* transient units: allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
150
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151* how to reset dynamically changed attributes sanely?
152
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153* when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
154
4ad49000 155* journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
3d3ee759 156
9444b1f2 157* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 158 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 159 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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160 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
161 check for that and suppress event handling.
9444b1f2 162
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163* when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
164 the hierarchies of child processes
165
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166* document logic of auto/noauto and fail/nofail in fstab in systemd.mount or systemd-fstab-generator man page
167
19aadacf 168* something pulls in pcre as shared object dependency into our daemons such as hostnamed.
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170* document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
171
a65f06bb 172* change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
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173 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
174 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
175 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
176
177* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
178 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
179
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180* libsystemd-bus:
181 - default policy (allow uid == 0 and our own uid)
182 - enforce alignment of pointers passed in
eb01ba5d 183 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
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184 - implement translator service
185 - port systemd to new library
186 - implement busname unit type in systemd
187 - move to gvariant
eb01ba5d 188 - merge busctl into systemctl or so?
e4ee6e5c 189 - synthesize sd_bus_message objects from kernel messages
c7819669 190 - properly implement name registry ioctls for kdbus
86312ab8 191 - implement monitor logic
07459db6 192 - properly map matches with well-known names against messages with unique names
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193 - longer term:
194 * priority queues
86312ab8 195 * priority inheritance
eb01ba5d 196
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197* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
198 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
199 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
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201* add an option to nspawn that uses seccomp to make socket(AF_NETLINK,
202 SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_AUDIT) fail the the appropriate error code that
203 makes the audit userspace to think auditing is not available in the
204 kernel.
205
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206* Introduce a way how we can kill the main process of a service with KillSignal, but all processes with SIGKILL later on
207 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952634
208
69af4503 209* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses where the access mode of unit files is nonsensical.
19aa7c4f 210
69af4503 211* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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213* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
214 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
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216* if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
217 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
218 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
219 needs setuid().
220
221* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
222
223* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
224
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225* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
226
227* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
228
4a449ed7 229* logind: add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
75512303 230
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231* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
232
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233* test/:
234 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
235 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
889a9042 236 - qemu wrapper script: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg72389.html
b8b4d3dd 237
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238* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
239
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240* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
241 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
242 file.
243
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244* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
245 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
246 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
247 destination.
248
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249* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
250 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
251
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252* add ConditionArchitecture= or so
253
254* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
255
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256* Support SO_REUSEPORT with socket activation:
257 - Let systemd maintain a pool of servers.
258 - Use for seamless upgrades, by running the new server before stopping the
259 old.
260
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261* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
262 need manual exponential loops after all
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264* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
265 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
266 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
267 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
268
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269* man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf
270
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271* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
272 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
273 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
274 that automatically.
275
69af4503 276* rework specifier logic so that we can distinguish OOM errors from other errors
487060c2 277
e5ec62c5 278* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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280* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
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54c31a79 282* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 283
8973790e 284* documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
3679d112 285
69af4503 286* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapse and the time the units ran last
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288* man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
289
290* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
291
69af4503 292* man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
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294* systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
295
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296* man: add more examples to man pages
297
298* man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
299
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300* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
301
302* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
303
304* msgcatalog determine default language of entries from the catalog
305 file name. i.e. foobar.de_DE.catalog would set the default entry
306 name for the entries to de_DE if they aren't explicitly suffixed
307 individually.
308
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309* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
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311* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
312
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313* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
314 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
315 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
316 will be activated.
317
356ce991 318* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 319
81d112a8 320* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 321
b44be3ec 322* EFI:
b44be3ec 323 - write man page for efi boot generator
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324 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
325 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 326 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 327
c0fe5db5 328* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 329
b44be3ec 330* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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332* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
333 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 335* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 336
b44be3ec 337* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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339* logind:
340 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
341 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
342 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
343 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
344 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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345 - logind: non-local X11 server handling
346 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
b44be3ec 347 - pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree
e5ec62c5 348 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
e673ad04 349
b44be3ec 350* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
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b44be3ec 352* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
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b44be3ec 354* journal:
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355 - do not use magic msync() in src/journal/journal-file.c, just call fsync()
356 <alxchk> poettering: looks like msync just calls vfs_fsync
357 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/mm/msync.c#n18
c06bf414 358 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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359 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
360 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
361 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
362 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
363 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
364 - journal: reuse XZ context
365 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
366 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
367 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
368 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
369 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
370 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
371 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 372 - 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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373 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
374 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
375 - journal: when rotating, copy over old acls/access mode
b44be3ec 376 - journal: send out marker messages every now and then, and immediately sync with fdatasync() afterwards, in order to have hourly guaranteed syncs.
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377 - 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.
378 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
379 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 380 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 381 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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382 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
383 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
384 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
385 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
77a9e8de 386 - journalctl: expand tabs
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387 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
388 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
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389 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
390 - Port upower to use the journal for historical power information used in future calculations
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392* document:
393 - document unit_name_mangle()
394 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in
395 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
396 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
397 - Document word splitting syntax for ExecStart= and friends
398 - document that units from /etc override those from /usr and /run
399 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 400 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 401 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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403* systemctl:
404 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
405 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
406 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
407 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
408 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
409 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
410 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
411 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
412 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
413 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
414 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
415 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
416 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
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418* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
419
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420* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
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422* timer units:
423 - configurable jitter for timer events
90e071d1 424 - Adjust timers to be triggered at the same time as sd-event timers
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425 - timer events with system resume
426 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
427 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
428 o DST changes
eb124a97 429 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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430 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
431 - anacron-like feature
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433* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
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435* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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436 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
437 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 438 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 439 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 440 user did not request anything like it.
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442* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
443 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
444 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
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446* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
447 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
448 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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450 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
451 better supported alternative.
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454
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455* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
456
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457* 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().
458
459* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
460* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
461* fedup: generator
603cd8fe 462
b44be3ec 463* timedated:
b44be3ec 464 - timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
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466* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
467
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468* introduce generic AUGMENT_PID=, AUGMENT_DEVICE= fields
469
b44be3ec 470* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
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472* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
473 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
474 - superset of tmpfiles model
475 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
476 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
477 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
478
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479* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
480 waiting for the timeout
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482* high level net_prio setting in execution context
483
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484* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
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486* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
487
15abdb9a 488* refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful (or set taint?)
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491 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly
492 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
493 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
494 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
495 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
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496 - nspawn: investigate whether we can support the same as LXC's
497 lxc.network.type=phys mode, and pass through entire network
498 interfaces to the container
499 - nspawn: maybe add a way to drop additional caps, in addition to add additional caps
500 - nspawn: maybe explicitly reset loginuid?
3679d112 501 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
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503* cryptsetup:
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504 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
505 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
506 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 507 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
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509* move debug shell to tty6 and make sure this doesn't break the gettys on tty6
510
424a19f8 511* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 512 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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514* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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516* make timer units go away after they elapsed
517
8556879e 518* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 519 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
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522
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523* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
524
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525* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
526
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527* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
528
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529* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
530
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531* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
532
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533* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container
534
68f16003 535* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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537* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
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539* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
540 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
541 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
542 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 543 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 544 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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548* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
549
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550* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
551
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552* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
553
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554* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
555
88a6c589 556* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
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559 - syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls
560 - syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs?
561 - syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS?
562 - syscall filter: port to libseccomp
563 - system-wide seccomp filter
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565* .device aliases need to be implemented with the "following" logic, probably.
566
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567* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
568 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
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570* introduce Type=pid-file
571
59cea26a 572* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
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574* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
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576* automount: implement expire:
577 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
578 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
579 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
580 - blocking, needs a thread
581 - run until -EAGAIN
582 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
583 - call umount
584 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
585 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
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588
e01a15b7 589* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 590
abd55b16 591* udev:
3f60bcb5 592 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
abd55b16 593 - move to LGPL
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595 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
b8217b7b 596
18b754d3 597* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording
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599* when a service has the same env var set twice we actually store it twice and return that in systemctl show -p... We should only show the last setting
600
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601* support container_ttys=
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603* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
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605* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
606
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607* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
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609* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
610
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611* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
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613* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
614
615* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
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619* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
620 needs to be auto-respawned?
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623
de6c78f8 624* tmpfiles: apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 625
b44be3ec 626* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
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d3c7d7dd 630* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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632* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
633 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
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638 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
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640* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
641
7c697168 642* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 643
71092d70 644* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
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647 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
648 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
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652* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
653 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
654
71092d70 655* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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658 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
659 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
660 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
661 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
662 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
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665
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666* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
667
68c7d001 668* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 669 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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670 - enabling dbus services
671 - status update
7a2a0b90 672 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 673 - remote access
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675 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 676 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 677 - auto-restart
e707c494 678 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 679 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 680 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 681 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 682 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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684 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
685 - how to create your own target
686 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
687 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
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44143309 689* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 690
71092d70 691* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 692
260abb78 693* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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695* Support --test based on current system state
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697* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
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701* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
702
129126f3 703* port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID:
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704 - rpcbind (/var/run/rpcbind.sock!) HAVEPATCH
705 - cups HAVEPATCH
a625ac1a 706 - postfix, saslauthd
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708 - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro)
709 - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!)
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71092d70 712* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
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50f2a90d 714* io priority during initialization
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7ba97195 718* systemd-python:
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720 works with ^C
b04c8c83 721 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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724 - plot per-process IO utilization
725 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
726 - document initcall_debug
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730 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
731 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
732 on Path= matching
733 - NamePolicy= replace the current naming rules
734 - MACPolicy= support 'firmware', 'synthetic' and 'random'
735 - Check if Driver= is broken, or just my driver (bcma)
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2f8cd170 737External:
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cc9784c6 739* dbus:
cc9784c6 740 - dbus --user
3377af3e 741 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
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743 - allow disabling of fd passing when connecting a AF_UNIX connection
3377af3e 744 - allow disabling of UID passing for AUTH EXTERNAL
b69d29ce 745 - always pass cred data along each message
b44be3ec 746 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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751
9096ad36 752* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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754* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
755 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
756 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
757 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
758 the RTC to sync up.
759
71092d70 760* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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764* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
765
766* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
767
768* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
769
770* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
771
d2bbca68 772* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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774* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
775
776* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 777
4641a16b 778* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
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129126f3 780Regularly:
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129126f3 782* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 783
129126f3 784* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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786* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
8c6db833 787
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790* pahole
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71092d70 792* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 793
4db17f29 794* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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9e5f3dbb 798Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 800* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)