2 Note that items with (!) have high priority.
4 script (lib/pty-session.c)
5 --------------------------
6 - (!) add #ifdefs and optional code for non-signalfd() systems
10 - add tool to list and monitor IRQs from /proc/interrupts
11 - libsmartcols is expected
12 - initial work is done by zhenwei pi, see https://github.com/pacepi/irqtop
16 - use unsigned sizes for columns and lines
17 - check for limits to avoid segfaults
19 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/749
23 - add option to print calendar in vertical way
24 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/604
25 - support another --reforms, see for example freebsd version
26 https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/usr.bin/ncal/ncal.c#L72
30 - read cpuid and uname information from file if --sysroot is specified, then
31 we can prepare regression tests completely independent on hw and architecture.
35 - currently it does not show mountpoint for all devices in btrfs RAID. It's because
36 /proc/#/mountinfo contains reference to the one device only. Maybe we can add some
37 btrfs specific code to provide a better output for FS based stacks. Not sure.
38 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1084453
42 - read the default UID and GID from the target process.
43 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/9553/focus=9585
47 - use /var/lib/hwclock/drift to store hw-clock drift numbers.
48 - use /etc/adjtime as read-only for UTC/LOCAL information only
49 - the /var/lib/hwclock/drift should be implemented backwardly compatible,
50 it means use the file only if exists, otherwise follow /etc/adjtime
54 - Optional argument handling requires user to press backspace to get
56 - Comma separated value, e.g., --output 'value1,value2', are not
59 libmount (mount/umount)
60 -----------------------
62 - add --onlyonce to force mount(8) to check if mountpoint is already used. Now
63 "already mounted" detection is used for --all only. The problem is if you
64 call "mount <mountpoint>" more than once for in fstab defined tmpfs (or network
65 filesystem etc.). In this case kernel does not return EBUSY, but a new instance
66 of the FS is created. https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/448
67 (... just idea, maybe wrong idea)
69 - support CAP_SYS_ADMIN; for mount(2) syscall the CAP_SYS_ADMIN is good
70 enough. Unfortunately, mount(8) does more things like check for filesystem
71 type (but it's usually done by udev, so root perms are unnecessary), create
72 loop devices, write to /run/mount/utab or /etc/mtab, etc.
74 It would be nice to improve libmount to check for CAP_SYS_ADMIN if suid not
75 set and allow to use it for simple tasks where no another operation is
81 - support mapping by device-mapper if argv[0] is "kpartx" or --dm option is used.
86 It would be great if getopt could optionally ignore unknown options.
87 Currently, it outputs -- for every option it doesn't recognize but leaving the
88 option as it is could beneficial wrapper scripts which could then pass the
89 options they don't recognize as they are to the command they are wrapping.
90 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/701
95 - (!) use something better than gtk-doc for libmount and libblkid (doxyden?)
97 - (!) add API documentation to libuuid
103 - consolidate newgrp(1)
104 * we have "su --group/--supp-group" to switch between groups, newgrp(1) in
105 util-linux and shadow-utils (and sg(1) alias in shadow-utils)
106 * the unique functionality provided by newgpr(1) is support for group
107 passwords [/etc/gshadow] -- do we really need this functionality?
108 * maybe we can mark group-passwords as deprecated, and replace sg(1) and
109 newgpr(1) with su(1) code. The another way is to ask for group password in
111 * note that shadow-utils newgpr(1) provides support for syslog and audit log.
117 - (!) add support for BitLocker Drive Encryption
118 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/617
119 https://github.com/libyal/libbde/blob/master/documentation/BitLocker%20Drive%20Encryption%20(BDE)%20format.asciidoc
121 - (!) add support for dasd PT (used for example on s390)
126 - add support for Apple Partition Map (see libblkid/src/partitions/mac.c)
127 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Partition_Map
129 - add support for nested PT (e.g. hybrid MBR) to scripts
130 * add "nested-label:" block to sfdisk --dump
131 * add "nested-partitiontable" to sfdisk --JSON
132 * support nested labels parsing from dump
133 see https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/850
138 - don't backup PT in interactive mode before write to the devices is requested,
139 see https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/852
144 - add mllockall() and SCHED_FIFO to hwclock,
145 see http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/12/132
152 - add SELinux security contexts support to the 'ipcs' utility
153 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=225342
155 Would be great to list the current system IPC Objects with their respective
156 security labels (where allowed) with something like 'ipcs -Z' - following the
157 way other tools reports those.