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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* busctl prints errors to stdout:
8 busctl tree org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1
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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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14* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
15
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16Janitorial Clean-ups:
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18* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
19
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20* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
21 semantics, like we do for device.c now
22
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23Features:
24
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25* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
26 exists and responds.
27
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28* homed: add homed.conf setting DefaultStorage= or so
29
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30* homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
31 easily?
32
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33* journalctl --image= which is like --root= but operates on disk images
34
35* when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
36 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
37 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
38 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
39 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
40
97cd52c1 41* cryptsetup/homed: also support FIDO2 HMAC password logic for unlocking
70e9d9a5 42 devices. (see: https://github.com/mjec/fido2-hmac-secret)
97cd52c1 43
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44* systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
45 creates
46
86b52a39 47* homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
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48 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
49 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
50 hence we can make them quicker to work.
51
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52* bootctl:
53 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
54 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
55 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
56
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57* by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
58 allow so that systemd survives
59
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60* honour specifiers in unit files that resolve to some very basic
61 /etc/os-release data, such as ID, VERSION_ID, BUILD_ID, VARIANT_ID.
62
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63* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
64 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
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66* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
67 systemd-makefs.service instead.
68
91fc013f 69* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 70 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 71
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72* unify on openssl:
73 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
74 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
75 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
76 - port importd over from libgcrypt
77 - when that's done: kill khash.c
78 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
79
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80* kill zenata, all hail weblate?
81
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82* when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
83
84* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
85 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
86
87* hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
88 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
89 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
90 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
91 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
92
492f91d8 93* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
86b52a39 94 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
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95 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
96 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
97
86b52a39 98* systemd-repart: optionally, allow specifying a path to initialize new
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99 partitions from, i.e. an fs image file or a source device node. This would
100 then turn systemd-repart into a simple installer: with a few .repart files
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101 you could replicate the host system on another device. a full installer would
102 then be: "systemd-repart /dev/sda && bootctl install /dev/sda &&
103 systemd-firstboot --image= …"
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105* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
106 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
107 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
108 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
109 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
110 automatically.
111
112* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
113 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
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115* systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
116 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
117
118* systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
119
120* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
121 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
122
123* systemd-repart: add specifier expansion, add especifier that refers to root
124 device node of current system, /usr device node, and matching verity, so that
125 an installer can be made a "copy" installer of the booted OS
126
2a4be3c5 127* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
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128 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
129
130* systemd-repart: when no configuration is found, exit early do not check
131 partition table, so that it is safe to run in the initrd on any system
132
133* systemd-repart: allow config of partition uuid
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135* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
136 realname substr searches in varlink API
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138* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
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2a4be3c5 140* userdb: allow existence checks
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142* pid: activation by journal search expression
143
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144* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
145 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
146 initrd had set.
147
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148* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
149 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
150 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
151 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
152 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
153 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
154
155* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
156 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
157 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
158
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159* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
160 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
161 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
162 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
163 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
164 source.
165
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166* figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
167 with immutable /usr
168
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169* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
170 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
171 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
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173* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
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175* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
176 the hibernation
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178* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
179 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
180 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
181 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
182 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
183 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
184 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
185 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
186 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
187 hibernation mode. (see
188 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
189 section 10.2.2.8 and
190 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
191 at the end).
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193* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
194 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
195 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
196 output for them.
197
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198* systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
199 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
200
201* systemd-firstboot: add --force mode that replaces existing configuration.
202
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203* We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
204 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
205 constant vendor data.
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207* maybe add kernel cmdline params: 1) to force first-boot mode + 2) to force
208 random seed crediting
209
210* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
211 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
212
213* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
214 fallback in "machinectl shell"
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216* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
217 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
218 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
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220* homed:
221 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
222 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
223 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
224 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
225 - resize on login?
226 - fstrim on logout?
227 - shrink fs on logout?
228 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
229 - create on activate?
230 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
231 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
232 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
233 systemd --user is shut down.
234 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
235 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk images (think: time machine)
86b52a39 236 - 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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237 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
238 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
239 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
240 - description field for groups
241 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
242 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
243 - query password from kernel keyring first
244 - update even if record is "absent"
245 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
246 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
247 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
248 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
249 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
250 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
251
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252* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
253 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
254 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
255 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
256 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
257 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
258 exec().
259
260* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
261
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262* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
263 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
264
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265* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
266
267* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
268 gnome-bluetooth and friends
269
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270* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
271 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
272 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
273 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
274 cgroup.
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276* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
277 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
278 root.
279
280* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
281 is issued.
282
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283* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
284
285* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
286
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287* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
288 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
289 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 290
d238709c 291* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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292 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
293 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
294
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295* add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
296 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
297 ConfigurationDirectory=.
298
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299* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
300
d3584ec4 301* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
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303* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
304 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
305
06898123 306* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 307 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 308 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
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310* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
311
312* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
313 patching around
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315* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
316 log.c and sd-journal-send
317
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318* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
319
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320* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
321
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322* sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
323 can add in file system drivers and such
324
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325* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
326 non-zero "tries done" count
327
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328* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
329 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
330 it should skip the variant type string though.
331
332* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
333 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
334 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
335 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
336 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
337 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
338 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
339 CODE_FILE.
340
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341* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
342 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
343 some explanatory text online.
344
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345* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
346
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347* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
348 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
349 the slices, and the units attached to them.
350
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351* the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
352 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
bc130b68 353 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
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354 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
355 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
356 way)
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358* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
359 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
360 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
361
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362* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
363 original defaults before calling parse_config()
364
72d711ef 365* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
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367* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
368 Specifically:
369
370 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
371 properly)
e83419d0 372 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 373 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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375* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
376 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
377
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378* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
379 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
380 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
381 files and suchlike we operate on.
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383* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
384
385* add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
386
387* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
388 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
389
5da19043 390* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
5238e957 391 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
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392 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
393 numbers.
394
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395* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
396 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
397 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
398 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
399 unlinked from any dir.
400
bd1b3f75 401* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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403* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
404
405* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
406
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407* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
408 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
409 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
410 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
411 should reflink the image file itself.
412
413 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
414 specific paths only like this.
415
53c70a27 416* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 417 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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418 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
419 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
420 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
421
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422* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
423
424* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
425
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426* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
427 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
428
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429* teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
430 project quota
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432* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
433 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
434 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
435 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
436 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
437 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
438 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
439 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
440
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441* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
442 for root, but only then.
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444* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
445
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446* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
447 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
448
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449* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
450 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
451
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452* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
453 host-side interface pointing to the container.
454
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455* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
456 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
457 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
458 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
459 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
460
cb77e122 461* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 462
899feb72 463* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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465* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
466 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
467 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
468
5f7ecd61 469* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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471* maybe use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (i.e. the env var the reproducible builds folks
472 introduced) as the RTC epoch, instead of the mtime of NEWS.
473
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474* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
475 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
476
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477* blog about fd store and restartable services
478
479* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
480
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481* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
482 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
483
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484* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
485 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
486 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
487 ID is available.
488
489* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
490 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
491 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
492
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493* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
494 parameters
495
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496* maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
497 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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498 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
499 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
500 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
501 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
502 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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504* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
505 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
506
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507* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
508 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
509 wait to retrieve their exit data.
510
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511* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
512 about it in the resource log message
513
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514* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
515 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
516
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517* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
518 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
519 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
520
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521* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
522 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
523
524 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
525
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526* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
527 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
528 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
529 logging.
530
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531* hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
532 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
533 "convertible" form factor
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535* Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
536 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
537 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
538 as MAINPID.
539
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540* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
541 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
542 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
543
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544* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
545 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
546
547* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
548 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
549 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
550 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
551 natural habitat.
552
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554 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
555 /usr is mounted into.
556
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557* 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
558
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559* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
560
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561* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
562 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
563 relative to the configured default value.
564
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565* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
566
567* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
568
04397464 569* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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571* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
572
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573* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
574
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575* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
576
04397464 577* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 578
04397464 579* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 580
04397464 581* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 582
8ce9b83a 583* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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585* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
586 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
587 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
588
e40a326c 589* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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591* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
592
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593* mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
594 partitions
595
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596* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
597 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
598 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
599 mapping to work.
600
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601* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
602
603* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
604
605* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
606
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607* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
608 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
609
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610* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
611 reload the unit file anyway
612
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613* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
614 from the SIGBUS handler
615
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616* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
617
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618* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
619 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
620
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622
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624 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
625
f9bf1b8f 626* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 627 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 628 specifications.
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631
5ebbb45b 632* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
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634* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
635
a2088fd0 636* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 637 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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638 prefixed with /sys generally special.
639 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
640
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641* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
642
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643* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
644
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645* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
646 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
647 state.
648 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
649
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650* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
651 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
652 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
653 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
654 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
655
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656* networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
657 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
658
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659* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
660
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661* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
662 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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664* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
665 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
666 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
667 do, for example)
668
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670 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
671
e031c227 672* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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673 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
674
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675* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
676
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677* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
678 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
679 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
680 returning from the "systemctl stop".
681
b568ef14 682* 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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684* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
685
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686* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
687 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
688
25e773ee 689* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 690
279f0366 691* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 692
5238e957 693* systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
b42de08a 694 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
202aea45 695
720652b3 696* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 697
720652b3 698* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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700* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
701
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702* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
703 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
704
9d6db739 705* resolved:
9d6db739 706 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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708 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 709 - avahi compat
9d6db739 710 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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711 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
712 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
713 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 714 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 715 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 716
e25b5a8d 717* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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721* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
722
a01647e5 723* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 724 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
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726* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
727
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728* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
729
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730* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
731
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732* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
733 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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735* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
736
6a3f892a 737* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 738 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 739 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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741* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
742 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
743 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 744
f9bf1b8f 745* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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747* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
748 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
749 for ReusePort=
750
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751* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
752 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
753 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
754 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
755 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
756 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
757
f38afcd0 758* cgroups:
f38afcd0 759 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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760 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
761 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
762 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
763 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
764 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 765
f38afcd0 766* transient units:
f38afcd0 767 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
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769* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
770
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771* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
772
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773* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
774
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775* 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
776
7f79cd71 777* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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779* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
780 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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781 path anyway.
782
04397464 783* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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785* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
786
787* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
788
6bb648a1 789* sd-bus:
0d43ffef 790 - EBADSLT handling
fa607802 791 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
7212c608 792 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
57f2a947 793 - 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 794 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 795 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
ab9716c2 796 - longer term: priority inheritance
df98a87b 797 - dbus spec updates:
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799 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 800 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 801 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
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803* sd-event
12179984 804 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 805 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
e25b5a8d 806 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
eb01ba5d 807
69af4503 808* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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810* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
811 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
812
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813* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
814
815* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
816
fff87a35 817* test/:
20d52ab6 818 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 819
b5c03638 820* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 821 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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822 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
823 destination.
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825* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
826 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
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828* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
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830* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
831 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
832 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
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834* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
835 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
836 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
837 is installed.
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840 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
841 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
842 that automatically.
843
e5ec62c5 844* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 845
ccddd104 846* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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849
356ce991 850* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 851
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854 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 855 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 856* bootctl
631427d6 857 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 858
c0fe5db5 859* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 860
b44be3ec 861* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 862
b44be3ec 863* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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866 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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867 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
868 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
869 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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870 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
871 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
872 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
873 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
874 needs setuid().
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876 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
877 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
878 complete.
879 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
880 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
881 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
279f0366 882 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
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883 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
884 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
885 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
886 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
887 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
888 relogins
77b19caf 889 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 890
b44be3ec 891* journal:
57f2a947 892 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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894 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
895 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 896 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 897 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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899 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
900 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 901 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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903 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 904 - 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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905 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
906 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
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907 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
908 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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909 - 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.
910 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
911 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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912 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
913 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
914 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
915 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 916 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 917 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 918 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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920 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
921 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
922 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
923 to syslog when it works again.
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924 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
925 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
926 journals in.
927 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
928 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
929 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
930 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
931 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 932 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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933 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
934 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
935 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
936 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
937 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
938 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
939 operation.
940 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
941 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
942 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
943 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 944 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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945 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
946 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
947 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
948 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
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951 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
952 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
953 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
954
b44be3ec 955* document:
8b8f2591 956 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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957 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
958 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 959 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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960 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
961 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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962 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
963 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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964 - man: add more examples to man pages
965 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 966 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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968* systemctl:
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969 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
970 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
971 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
972 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
973 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
974 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
975 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 976 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 977 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 978 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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980* unit install:
981 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
982 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
8b04b925 983
b44be3ec 984* timer units:
b44be3ec 985 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
b44be3ec 986 o DST changes
90e071d1 987 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 988
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989* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
990
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991* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
992
b44be3ec 993* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 994
f59d1da8 995* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
dcfc4b2e 996
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998
d28315e4 999* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
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b44be3ec 1001* nspawn:
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1002 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1003 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1004 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1005 from the kernel's logs.
1006 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1007 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1008 interface be missing
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1009 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1010 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1011 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1012 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1013 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1014 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1015 PID 1...
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1016 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1017 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1018
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1020 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1021 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1022
e25b5a8d 1023* machined:
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1024 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1025 removed or added to an existing machine
1026 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1027 difference host, via ssh
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1028 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1029 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1030 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1031 question
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1032 - "machinectl history"
1033 - "machinectl diff"
1034 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1035 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1036
b44be3ec 1037* cryptsetup:
b44be3ec 1038 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
5f1dac6b 1039 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 1040
424a19f8 1041* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 1042 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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1044* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1045
68f16003 1046* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 1047
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1048* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1049
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1050* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1051
abd55b16 1052* udev:
abd55b16 1053 - move to LGPL
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1054 - kill scsi_id
1055 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1056 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1057
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1058* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1059
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1060* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1061
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1062* coredump:
1063 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1064 - 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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1066* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1067
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1068* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1069 needs to be auto-respawned?
1070
f38afcd0 1071* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1072 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1073 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1074 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1075 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1076 calls follow symlinks.
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1078* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1079
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1080* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1081 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1082 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1083
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1084* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1085 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1086
71092d70 1087* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 1088
68c7d001 1089* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 1090 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
68c7d001 1091 - enabling dbus services
7a2a0b90 1092 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 1093 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 1094 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 1095 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 1096 - auto-restart
e707c494 1097 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 1098 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 1099 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 1100 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 1101 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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1102 - calendar time events
1103 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1104 - how to create your own target
1105 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1106 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 1107
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1108* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1109
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1110* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1111
e25b5a8d 1112* pid1:
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1113 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1114 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1115 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1116 that are not supported...
1117 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1118 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1119 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1120 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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1121 - move PAM code into its own binary
1122 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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1123 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1124 - Support --test based on current system state
1125 - 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().
1126 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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1127 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1128 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1129 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1130 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1131 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1132 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1133 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1134 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1135
1136* unit files:
1137 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1138 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1139 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1140 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1141 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1142 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1143 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1144 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
e25b5a8d 1145 - introduce Type=pid-file
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1146 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1147 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
e25b5a8d 1148 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
e5171296 1149 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
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1151* udev-link-config:
1152 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1153 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1154 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1155
88e4d1d7 1156* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1157 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1158 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1159
0a4b9a07 1160* networkd:
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1161 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1162 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 1163 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 1164 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
5c1d3fc9 1165 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
798e174a 1166 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1167 - work with non-Ethernet devices
c9fa3670 1168 - add support for more bond options
e25b5a8d 1169 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1170 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1171 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1172 - expose in the API the following bits:
1173 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
38b38500 1174 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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1175 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1176 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1177 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1178 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1179 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1180 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1181 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1182 - allow DUID/IAID to be customized, see issue #394.
e25b5a8d 1183 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1184
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1185* networkd-wait-online:
1186 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
8f5675cc 1187
ac976532 1188* dhcp:
424a8732 1189 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1190
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1191* dhcp6:
1192 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1193 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1194 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1195 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1196 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1197 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1198 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1199 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1200 or interface down
1201 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1202 this behavior
4a77c53d 1203 - RouteTable= ?
37d8b536 1204
2f8cd170 1205External:
74fe1fe3 1206
cc9784c6 1207* dbus:
3377af3e 1208 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 1209 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 1210
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1211* fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
1212
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1213* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1214
9096ad36 1215* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
06ae4bfe 1216
71092d70 1217* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
14bd37fe 1218
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1219* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1220
d2bbca68 1221* 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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1223* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
1224
1225* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 1226
4641a16b 1227* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
19aa7c4f 1228
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1229* register catalog database signature as file magic
1230
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1231* zsh shell completion:
1232 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 1233 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1cf3c30c 1234
90137b62 1235* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
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1236* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1237 after being started.
2c12a402 1238
129126f3 1239Regularly:
874aa2cc 1240
129126f3 1241* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 1242
129126f3 1243* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
5b6319dc 1244
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1246
d28315e4 1247* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 1248
4db17f29 1249* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
88fae6e0 1250
d05c556b 1251* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
62353f69 1252String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment