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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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f38afcd0 7External:
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f38afcd0 9* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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11Janitorial Clean-ups:
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13* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
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15* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
16 semantics, like we do for device.c now
17
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18Features:
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20* make use of the new statx mountid and rootmount fields in path_get_mnt_id()
21 and fd_is_mount_point()
22
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23* nspawn: move "incoming mount" directory to /run/host, move "inaccessible"
24 nodes to /run/host, move notify socket (for sd_notify() between payload and
25 container manager)
26
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27* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
28
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29* cryptsetup: if keyfile specified in crypttab is AF_UNIX socket, connect to it
30 and read from it (like we do elsewhere with READ_FULL_FILE_CONNECT_SOCKET)
31
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32* when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
33 so, freeze the payload too.
34
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35* repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
36
37* add /etc/integritytab, to support dm-integrity setups. In particular those
38 with HMAC as hash function, so that we can have a protected /home without
39 encryption (leaving encryption to the individual dirs/homed).
40
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41* complement root=, rootflags=, rootfstype= with rootsubdir= which allows
42 mounting a subdir of the root fs as actual root. This can be used as
43 fstype-agnostic version of btrfs' rootflags=subvol=foobar.
44
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45* Support ProtectProc= or so, using: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11310197/
46
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47* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
48
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49* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
50 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
51
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52* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
53 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
54 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
55 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
56 anything like that.
57
5c0102f8 58* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
cb713f16 59 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
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60 user's journal stream down but not the others.
61
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62* add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
63 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
64 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
65
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66* move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
67 these days
68
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69* nspawn: support time namespaces
70
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71* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
72 reading/writing files
73
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74* add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
75
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76* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
77 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
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79* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
80
81* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
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83* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
84 when it exits
85
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86* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
87 o turn into dlopen() deps:
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88 - libpwquality (always) - only relevant for homed, and maybe soon
89 firstboot
90 - elfutils (always)
91 - p11-kit-trust (always)
92 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
93 - cryptsetup-libs (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not in systemd-cryptsetup)
94 - similar: libblkid
95 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
96 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
97 since they are so basic and our defaults)
98 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
99 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
100
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101* seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
102 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
103 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
104
105* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
106 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
107 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
108
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109* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
110 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
111
a6e1018d 112* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
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113 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, systemctl,
114 coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
115 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
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117* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
118
119* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
120 specific service
121
122* seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
123
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124* per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
125 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
126 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
127 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
128 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
129 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
130 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
131 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
132
133* homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
134 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
135
136* homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
137 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
138
139* homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
140 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
141 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
142
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143* homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
144 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
145 signature
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147* homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
148 and insert a local signature instead.
149
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150* homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
151 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
152 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
15dd4515 153 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
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154 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
155
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156* homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
157
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158* homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
159 easily?
160
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161* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
162 exists and responds.
163
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164* when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
165 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
166 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
167 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
168 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
169
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170* cryptsetup: support FIDO2 tokens for deriving keys (i.e. do what homed can do
171 also in plain cryptsetup)
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173* systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
174 creates
175
86b52a39 176* homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
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177 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
178 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
179 hence we can make them quicker to work.
180
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181* bootctl:
182 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
183 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
184 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
185
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186* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
187 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
188 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
189
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190* by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
191 allow so that systemd survives
192
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193* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
194 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
195
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196* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
197 systemd-makefs.service instead.
198
91fc013f 199* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 200 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
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202* unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
203 confusion is gone)
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204 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
205 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
206 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
207 - port importd over from libgcrypt
208 - when that's done: kill khash.c
209 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
210
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211* kill zenata, all hail weblate?
212
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213* when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
214
215* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
216 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
217
218* hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
219 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
220 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
221 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
222 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
223
492f91d8 224* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
86b52a39 225 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
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226 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
227 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
228
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229* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
230 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
231 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
232 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
233 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
234 automatically.
235
236* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
237 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
238
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239* systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
240 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
241
242* systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
243
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244* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
245 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
246 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
247 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
248 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
249 fails to apply use the latter.
250
251* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
252 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
253
254* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
255 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
256
257* systemd-repart: add --size=auto for generating/resizing images of minimal
258 size, i.e. where the image file is sized exactly as large as necessary taking
259 SizeMin= into account, but not a single byte larger.
260
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261* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
262 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
263
2a4be3c5 264* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
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265 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
266
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267* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
268 realname substr searches in varlink API
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270* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
271
2a4be3c5 272* userdb: allow existence checks
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f1eb0ccd 274* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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276* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
277 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
278 initrd had set.
279
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280* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
281 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
282 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
283 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
284 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
285 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
286
287* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
288 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
289 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
290
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291* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
292 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
293 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
294 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
295 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
296 source.
297
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298* figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
299 with immutable /usr
300
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301* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
302 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
303 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
304
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305* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
306
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307* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
308 the hibernation
309
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310* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
311 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
312 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
313 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
314 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
315 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
316 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
317 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
318 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
319 hibernation mode. (see
320 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
321 section 10.2.2.8 and
322 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
323 at the end).
324
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325* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
326 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
327 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
328 output for them.
329
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330* We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
331 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
332 constant vendor data.
333
c6526b8d 334* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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336* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
337 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
338
339* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
340 fallback in "machinectl shell"
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342* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
343 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
344 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
345
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346* homed:
347 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
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348 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
349 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
350 - resize on login?
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351 - shrink fs on logout?
352 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
353 - create on activate?
354 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
355 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
356 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
357 systemd --user is shut down.
358 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
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359 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
360 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
86b52a39 361 - 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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362 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
363 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
364 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
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365 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
366 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
367 - query password from kernel keyring first
368 - update even if record is "absent"
369 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
370 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
371 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
372 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
373 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
374 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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375 - introduce API for "making room", that grows/shrinks home directory
376 according to elastic parameters, discards blocks, and removes additional snapshots. Call it
377 either from UI when disk space gets low
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379* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
380 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
381 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
382 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
383 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
384 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
385 exec().
386
387* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
388
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389* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
390 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
391
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392* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
393
394* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
395 gnome-bluetooth and friends
396
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397* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
398 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
399 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
400 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
401 cgroup.
402
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403* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
404 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
405 root.
406
407* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
408 is issued.
409
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410* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
411
412* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
413
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414* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
415 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
416 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
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d238709c 418* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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419 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
420 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
421
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422* add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
423 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
424 ConfigurationDirectory=.
425
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426* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
427
d3584ec4 428* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
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430* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
431 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
432
06898123 433* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 434 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 435 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
06898123 436
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437* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
438
439* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
440 patching around
441
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442* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
443 log.c and sd-journal-send
444
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445* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
446
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447* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
448
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449* sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
450 can add in file system drivers and such
451
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452* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
453 non-zero "tries done" count
454
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455* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
456 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
457 it should skip the variant type string though.
458
459* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
460 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
461 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
462 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
463 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
464 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
465 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
466 CODE_FILE.
467
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468* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
469 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
470 some explanatory text online.
471
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472* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
473
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474* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
475 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
476 the slices, and the units attached to them.
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478* the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
479 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
bc130b68 480 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
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481 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
482 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
483 way)
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485* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
486 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
487 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
488
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489* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
490 original defaults before calling parse_config()
491
72d711ef 492* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
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495 Specifically:
496
497 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
498 properly)
e83419d0 499 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 500 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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502* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
503 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
504
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505* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
506 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
507 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
508 files and suchlike we operate on.
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511
512* add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
513
514* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
515 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
516
5da19043 517* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
5238e957 518 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
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519 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
520 numbers.
521
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522* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
523 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
524 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
525 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
526 unlinked from any dir.
527
bd1b3f75 528* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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531
532* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
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534* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
535 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
536 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
537 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
538 should reflink the image file itself.
539
540 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
541 specific paths only like this.
542
53c70a27 543* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 544 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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546 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
547 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
548
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549* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
550
551* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
552
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553* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
554 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
555
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556* teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
557 project quota
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559* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
560 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
561 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
562 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
563 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
564 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
565 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
566 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
567
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568* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
569 for root, but only then.
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571* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
572
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573* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
574 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
575
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576* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
577 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
578
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579* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
580 host-side interface pointing to the container.
581
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582* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
583 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
584 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
585 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
586 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
587
cb77e122 588* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 589
899feb72 590* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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592* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
593 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
594 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
595
5f7ecd61 596* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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598* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
599 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
600
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601* blog about fd store and restartable services
602
603* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
604
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605* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
606 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
607
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608* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
609 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
610 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
611 ID is available.
612
613* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
614 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
615 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
616
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617* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
618 parameters
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620* maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
621 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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622 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
623 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
624 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
625 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
626 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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629 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
630
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632 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
633 wait to retrieve their exit data.
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636 about it in the resource log message
637
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638* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
639 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
640
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641* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
642 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
643 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
644
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646 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
647
648 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
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651 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
652 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
653 logging.
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656 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
657 "convertible" form factor
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660 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
661 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
662 as MAINPID.
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665 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
666 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
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668* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
669 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
670
671* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
672 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
673 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
674 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
675 natural habitat.
676
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678 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
679 /usr is mounted into.
680
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681* 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
682
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683* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
684
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685* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
686 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
687 relative to the configured default value.
688
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689* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
690
691* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
692
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695* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
696
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697* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
698
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699* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
700
04397464 701* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 702
04397464 703* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 704
04397464 705* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 706
8ce9b83a 707* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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709* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
710 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
711 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
712
e40a326c 713* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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715* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
716
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717* mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
718 partitions
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720* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
721 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
722 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
723 mapping to work.
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726
727* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
728
729* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
730
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731* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
732 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
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734* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
735 reload the unit file anyway
736
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737* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
738 from the SIGBUS handler
739
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740* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
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742* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
743 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
744
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745* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
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747* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
748 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
749
f9bf1b8f 750* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 751 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 752 specifications.
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755
5ebbb45b 756* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
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758* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
759
a2088fd0 760* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 761 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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762 prefixed with /sys generally special.
763 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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765* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
766
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767* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
768
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769* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
770 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
771 state.
772 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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774* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
775 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
776 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
777 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
778 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
779
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780* networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
781 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
782
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783* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
784
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785* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
786 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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788* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
789 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
790 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
791 do, for example)
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794 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
795
e031c227 796* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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799* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
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801* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
802 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
803 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
804 returning from the "systemctl stop".
805
b568ef14 806* 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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808* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
809
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810* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
811 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
812
25e773ee 813* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 814
279f0366 815* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 816
5238e957 817* systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
b42de08a 818 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
202aea45 819
720652b3 820* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 821
720652b3 822* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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825
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826* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
827 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
828
9d6db739 829* resolved:
9d6db739 830 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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832 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 833 - avahi compat
9d6db739 834 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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835 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
836 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
837 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 838 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 839 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 840
e25b5a8d 841* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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843* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
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845* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
846
a01647e5 847* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 848 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
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850* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
851
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852* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
853
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854* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
855
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856* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
857 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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859* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
860
6a3f892a 861* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 862 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 863 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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865* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
866 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
867 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 868
f9bf1b8f 869* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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871* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
872 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
873 for ReusePort=
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875* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
876 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
877 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
878 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
879 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
880 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
881
f38afcd0 882* cgroups:
f38afcd0 883 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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884 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
885 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
886 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
887 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
888 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 889
f38afcd0 890* transient units:
f38afcd0 891 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
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893* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
894
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895* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
896
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897* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
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899* 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
900
7f79cd71 901* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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903* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
904 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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906
04397464 907* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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909* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
910
911* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
912
6bb648a1 913* sd-bus:
0d43ffef 914 - EBADSLT handling
fa607802 915 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
7212c608 916 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
57f2a947 917 - 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 918 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 919 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
ab9716c2 920 - longer term: priority inheritance
df98a87b 921 - dbus spec updates:
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923 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 924 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 925 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
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927* sd-event
12179984 928 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 929 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
e25b5a8d 930 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
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932 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
933 here:
934 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
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69af4503 936* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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939 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
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941* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
942
943* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
944
fff87a35 945* test/:
20d52ab6 946 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 947
b5c03638 948* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 949 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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950 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
951 destination.
952
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953* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
954 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
955
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956* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
957
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958* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
959 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
960 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
961
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962* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
963 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
964 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
965 is installed.
795607b2 966
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967* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
968 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
969 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
970 that automatically.
971
e5ec62c5 972* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 973
ccddd104 974* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 975
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976* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
977
356ce991 978* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 979
b44be3ec 980* EFI:
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981 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
982 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 983 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 984* bootctl
631427d6 985 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 986
c0fe5db5 987* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 988
b44be3ec 989* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 990
b44be3ec 991* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
e6c6e7af 992
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994 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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995 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
996 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
997 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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998 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
999 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1000 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1001 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1002 needs setuid().
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1003 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1004 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1005 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1006 complete.
1007 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1008 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1009 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
279f0366 1010 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
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1011 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1012 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1013 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1014 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1015 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1016 relogins
77b19caf 1017 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 1018
b44be3ec 1019* journal:
57f2a947 1020 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1021 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1022 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1023 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 1024 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1025 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1026 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1027 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1028 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1029 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1030 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1031 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1032 - 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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1033 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1034 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1035 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1036 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1037 - 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.
1038 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1039 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1040 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1041 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1042 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1043 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1044 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1045 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1046 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1047 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1048 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1049 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1050 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1051 to syslog when it works again.
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1052 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1053 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1054 journals in.
1055 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1056 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1057 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1058 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1059 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1060 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1061 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1062 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1063 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1064 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1065 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1066 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1067 operation.
1068 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1069 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1070 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1071 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1072 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1073 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1074 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1075 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1076 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1077 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
b44be3ec 1078
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1080 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1081 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1082 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1083
b44be3ec 1084* document:
8b8f2591 1085 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1086 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1087 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1088 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1089 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1090 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1091 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1092 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1093 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1094 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 1095 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1096 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1097
1098* systemctl:
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1099 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1100 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1101 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1102 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1103 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1104 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1105 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1106 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1107 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1108 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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1110* unit install:
1111 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1112 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
8b04b925 1113
b44be3ec 1114* timer units:
b44be3ec 1115 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
b44be3ec 1116 o DST changes
90e071d1 1117 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 1118
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1119* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1120
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1121* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1122
b44be3ec 1123* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 1124
f59d1da8 1125* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
dcfc4b2e 1126
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1127* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1128
d28315e4 1129* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 1130
b44be3ec 1131* nspawn:
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1132 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1133 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1134 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1135 from the kernel's logs.
1136 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1137 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1138 interface be missing
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1139 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1140 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1141 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1142 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1143 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1144 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1145 PID 1...
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1146 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1147 running, remove them when shut down.
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1148
1149* machined:
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1150 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1151 removed or added to an existing machine
1152 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1153 difference host, via ssh
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1154 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1155 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1156 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1157 question
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1158 - "machinectl history"
1159 - "machinectl diff"
1160 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1161 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1162
b44be3ec 1163* cryptsetup:
b44be3ec 1164 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
5f1dac6b 1165 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 1166
424a19f8 1167* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 1168 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
424a19f8 1169
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1170* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1171
68f16003 1172* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 1173
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1174* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1175
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1176* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1177
abd55b16 1178* udev:
abd55b16 1179 - move to LGPL
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1180 - kill scsi_id
1181 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1182 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1183
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1184* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1185
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1186* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1187
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1188* coredump:
1189 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1190 - 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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1191
1192* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1193
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1194* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1195 needs to be auto-respawned?
1196
f38afcd0 1197* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1198 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1199 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1200 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1201 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1202 calls follow symlinks.
1258097c 1203
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1204* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1205
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1206* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1207 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1208 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1209
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1210* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1211 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1212
71092d70 1213* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 1214
68c7d001 1215* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 1216 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
68c7d001 1217 - enabling dbus services
7a2a0b90 1218 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 1219 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 1220 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 1221 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 1222 - auto-restart
e707c494 1223 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 1224 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 1225 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 1226 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 1227 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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1228 - calendar time events
1229 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1230 - how to create your own target
1231 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1232 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 1233
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1234* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1235
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1236* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1237
e25b5a8d 1238* pid1:
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1239 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1240 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1241 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1242 that are not supported...
1243 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1244 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1245 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1246 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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1247 - move PAM code into its own binary
1248 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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1249 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1250 - Support --test based on current system state
1251 - 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().
1252 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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1253 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1254 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1255 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1256 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1257 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1258 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1259 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1260 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1261
1262* unit files:
1263 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1264 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1265 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1266 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1267 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1268 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1269 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1270 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
e25b5a8d 1271 - introduce Type=pid-file
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1272 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1273 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
e25b5a8d 1274 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
e5171296 1275 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
e25b5a8d 1276
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1277* udev-link-config:
1278 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1279 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1280 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1281
88e4d1d7 1282* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1283 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1284 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1285
0a4b9a07 1286* networkd:
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1287 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1288 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 1289 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 1290 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1291 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 1292 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1293 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1294 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1295 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 1296 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 1297 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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1298 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1299 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1300 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1301 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1302 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1303 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1304 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
e25b5a8d 1305 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1306
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1308
ac976532 1309* dhcp:
424a8732 1310 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1311
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1312* dhcp6:
1313 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1314 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1315 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1316 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1317 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1318 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1319 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1320 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1321 or interface down
1322 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1323 this behavior
4a77c53d 1324 - RouteTable= ?
37d8b536 1325
2f8cd170 1326External:
74fe1fe3 1327
cc9784c6 1328* dbus:
3377af3e 1329 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 1330 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 1331
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1332* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1333
71092d70 1334* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
14bd37fe 1335
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1336* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1337
d2bbca68 1338* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
8973790e 1339
8973790e 1340* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 1341
4641a16b 1342* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
19aa7c4f 1343
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1344* register catalog database signature as file magic
1345
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1346* zsh shell completion:
1347 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 1348 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1cf3c30c 1349
90137b62 1350* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
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1351* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1352 after being started.
2c12a402 1353
129126f3 1354Regularly:
874aa2cc 1355
129126f3 1356* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 1357
129126f3 1358* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
5b6319dc 1359
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d28315e4 1362* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 1363
4db17f29 1364* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
88fae6e0 1365
d05c556b 1366* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
62353f69 1367String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment