Documentation/TODO

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   2  Note that items with (!) have high priority.
   3
   4 all
   5 ---
   6
   7  - use gettext() for column names on output in libsmartcols based tools and
   8    accept trantated as well as original names on command line (lsblk -o NAME,SIZE).
   9    https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues/1291
  10
  11 tests
  12 -----
  13   - add MacOS to GitHub Actions (.github/workflows/cibuild.yml). Note, we have used
  14     Mac in Travis-CI (see .travis.yml).
  15
  16   - add Coverity to GitHub Actions (see for example .github/workflows/coverity.yml
  17     in systemd repo).
  18
  19 fstrim
  20 ------
  21   - "fstrim --fstab" uses root= from /proc/cmdline to get root FS when it's missing
  22     in fstab file. This is fragile (due to missing root= or the root FS is not
  23     accessible). The best seems to parse mountinfo and use mnt_table_get_root_fs()
  24     as a fallback solution.  https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues/1266.
  25
  26 script (lib/pty-session.c)
  27 --------------------------
  28   - (!) add #ifdefs and optional code for non-signalfd() systems
  29
  30 docs
  31 ----
  32   - use terminal hyperlinks (for example for --help)
  33     try on terminal: printf 'For more details see \e]8;;man:fdisk(8)\e\\fdisk(8)\e]8;;\e\\.\n'
  34     https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda
  35
  36 rev
  37 ---
  38   - support huge input lines (for example read input by small fixed buffer
  39     rather than try allocate all buffer for a whole line)
  40     see: https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues/972
  41
  42 col
  43 ---
  44   - use unsigned sizes for columns and lines
  45   - check for limits to avoid segfaults
  46   - make it more robust
  47   https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues/749
  48
  49 cal
  50 ---
  51    - support another --reforms, see for example freebsd version
  52      https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/usr.bin/ncal/ncal.c#L72
  53
  54 lscpu
  55 -----
  56   - add "Boost/Turbo: true|false" based on /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo and
  57     /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/boost
  58
  59   - add --freq output to visualise CPU use, see https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues/1314
  60
  61   - read cpuid and uname information from file if --sysroot is specified, then
  62     we can prepare regression tests completely independent on hw and architecture.
  63
  64 nsenter(1)
  65 ----------
  66  - read the default UID and GID from the target process.
  67    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/9553/focus=9585
  68
  69 hwclock
  70 ------
  71  - use /var/lib/hwclock/drift to store hw-clock drift numbers.
  72  - use /etc/adjtime as read-only for UTC/LOCAL information only
  73  - the /var/lib/hwclock/drift should be implemented backwardly compatible,
  74    it means use the file only if exists, otherwise follow /etc/adjtime
  75  - see topic/hwclock-drift-file branch
  76
  77 bash completion
  78 ---------------
  79 - Optional argument handling requires user to press backspace to get
  80   argument completion.
  81 - Comma separated value, e.g., --output 'value1,value2', are not
  82   completed for users.
  83
  84 libmount (mount/umount)
  85 -----------------------
  86
  87  - mnt_context_get_excode() does not return error messages from /sbin/[u]mount.<type>
  88    external helpers. It is disadvantages in same cases (non-terminal programs).
  89    The solution is to use pipe(), keep output from helper in memory and return it later
  90    by mnt_context_get_excode() (or mnt_context_get_helper_output(), etc.). This feature
  91    should be optional and disabled by default.
  92    see: https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues/1208
  93
  94  - add --onlyonce to force mount(8) to check if mountpoint is already used. Now
  95    "already mounted" detection is used for --all only. The problem is if you
  96    call "mount <mountpoint>" more than once for in fstab defined tmpfs (or network
  97    filesystem etc.). In this case kernel does not return EBUSY, but a new instance
  98    of the FS is created. https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues/448
  99    (... just idea, maybe wrong idea)
 100
 101 partx
 102 -----
 103
 104  - support mapping by device-mapper if argv[0] is "kpartx" or --dm option is used.
 105
 106
 107 getopt
 108 ------
 109   It would be great if getopt could optionally ignore unknown options.
 110   Currently, it outputs -- for every option it doesn't recognize but leaving the
 111   option as it is could beneficial wrapper scripts which could then pass the
 112   options they don't recognize as they are to the command they are wrapping.
 113   https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues/701
 114
 115 docs
 116 ----
 117
 118  - (!) use something better than gtk-doc for libmount and libblkid (doxygen?)
 119
 120  - (!) add API documentation to libuuid
 121
 122  - Improve line breaks in man pages and review markup
 123
 124
 125 login-utils:
 126 -----------
 127
 128   - consolidate newgrp(1)
 129     * we have "su --group/--supp-group" to switch between groups, newgrp(1) in
 130       util-linux and shadow-utils (and sg(1) alias in shadow-utils)
 131     * the unique functionality provided by newgpr(1) is support for group
 132       passwords [/etc/gshadow] -- do we really need this functionality?
 133     * maybe we can mark group-passwords as deprecated, and replace sg(1) and
 134       newgpr(1) with su(1) code. The another way is to ask for group password in
 135       su --group too.
 136     * note that shadow-utils newgpr(1) provides support for syslog and audit log.
 137
 138
 139 libsmartcols / column -t
 140 ------------------------
 141   - add column --table-header-color
 142   - add support for border of table
 143     * extend 'struct libscols_symbols', use box-drawing chars UTF8/ASCII
 144     * add scols_table_enable_border()
 145
 146 libblkid
 147 --------
 148
 149  - extend ZFS proper to scan for more uberblocks if BLKID_SUBLKS_MAGIC flag is set.
 150    This solution will make wipefs(8) more usable as ZFS is extremely variable with
 151    additional root blocks locations. See  https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues/1228
 152
 153  - (!) add support for BitLocker Drive Encryption
 154    https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues/617
 155    https://github.com/libyal/libbde/blob/master/documentation/BitLocker%20Drive%20Encryption%20(BDE)%20format.asciidoc
 156
 157  - (!) add support for dasd PT (used for example on s390)
 158
 159 libfdisk
 160 --------
 161
 162  - add support for Apple Partition Map (see libblkid/src/partitions/mac.c)
 163    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Partition_Map
 164
 165  - add support for nested PT (e.g. hybrid MBR) to scripts
 166    * add "nested-label:" block to sfdisk --dump
 167    * add "nested-partitiontable" to sfdisk --JSON
 168    * support nested labels parsing from dump
 169    see https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues/850
 170
 171 sfdisk
 172 ------
 173
 174  - don't backup PT in interactive mode before write to the devices is requested,
 175    see https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues/852
 176
 177 misc
 178 ----
 179
 180  - add mllockall() and SCHED_FIFO to hwclock,
 181    see http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/12/132
 182
 183
 184 ---------------
 185 exotic requests
 186 ---------------
 187
 188  - add SELinux security contexts support to the 'ipcs' utility
 189    http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=225342
 190
 191    Would be great to list the current system IPC Objects with their respective
 192    security labels (where allowed) with something like 'ipcs -Z' - following the
 193    way other tools reports those.
 194
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