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1 Bugfixes:
2
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.
6
7 External:
8
9 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
10
11 Janitorial Clean-ups:
12
13 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
14
15 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
16 semantics, like we do for device.c now
17
18 Features:
19
20 * nss-systemd: also synthesize shadow records for users/groups
21
22 * make use of the new statx mountid and rootmount fields in path_get_mnt_id()
23 and fd_is_mount_point()
24
25 * nspawn: move "incoming mount" directory to /run/host, move "inaccessible"
26 nodes to /run/host, move notify socket (for sd_notify() between payload and
27 container manager)
28
29 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
30
31 * cryptsetup: if keyfile specified in crypttab is AF_UNIX socket, connect to it
32 and read from it (like we do elsewhere with READ_FULL_FILE_CONNECT_SOCKET)
33
34 * when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
35 so, freeze the payload too.
36
37 * repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
38
39 * add /etc/integritytab, to support dm-integrity setups. In particular those
40 with HMAC as hash function, so that we can have a protected /home without
41 encryption (leaving encryption to the individual dirs/homed).
42
43 * complement root=, rootflags=, rootfstype= with rootsubdir= which allows
44 mounting a subdir of the root fs as actual root. This can be used as
45 fstype-agnostic version of btrfs' rootflags=subvol=foobar.
46
47 * Support ProtectProc= or so, using: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11310197/
48
49 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
50
51 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
52 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
53
54 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
55 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
56 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
57 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
58 anything like that.
59
60 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
61 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
62 user's journal stream down but not the others.
63
64 * add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
65 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
66 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
67
68 * move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
69 these days
70
71 * nspawn: support time namespaces
72
73 * systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
74 reading/writing files
75
76 * add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
77
78 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
79 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
80
81 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
82
83 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
84
85 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
86 when it exits
87
88 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
89 o turn into dlopen() deps:
90 - libpwquality (always) - only relevant for homed, and maybe soon
91 firstboot
92 - elfutils (always)
93 - p11-kit-trust (always)
94 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
95 - cryptsetup-libs (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not in systemd-cryptsetup)
96 - similar: libblkid
97 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
98 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
99 since they are so basic and our defaults)
100 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
101 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
102
103 * seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
104 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
105 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
106
107 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
108 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
109 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
110
111 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
112 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
113
114 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
115 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, systemctl,
116 coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
117 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
118
119 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
120
121 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
122 specific service
123
124 * seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
125
126 * per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
127 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
128 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
129 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
130 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
131 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
132 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
133 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
134
135 * homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
136 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
137
138 * homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
139 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
140
141 * homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
142 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
143 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
144
145 * homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
146 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
147 signature
148
149 * homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
150 and insert a local signature instead.
151
152 * homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
153 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
154 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
155 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
156 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
157
158 * homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
159
160 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
161 easily?
162
163 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
164 exists and responds.
165
166 * when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
167 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
168 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
169 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
170 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
171
172 * cryptsetup: support FIDO2 tokens for deriving keys (i.e. do what homed can do
173 also in plain cryptsetup)
174
175 * systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
176 creates
177
178 * homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
179 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
180 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
181 hence we can make them quicker to work.
182
183 * bootctl:
184 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
185 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
186 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
187
188 * Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
189 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
190 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
191
192 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
193 allow so that systemd survives
194
195 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
196 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
197
198 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
199 systemd-makefs.service instead.
200
201 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
202 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
203
204 * unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
205 confusion is gone)
206 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
207 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
208 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
209 - port importd over from libgcrypt
210 - when that's done: kill khash.c
211 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
212
213 * kill zenata, all hail weblate?
214
215 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
216
217 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
218 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
219
220 * hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
221 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
222 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
223 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
224 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
225
226 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
227 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
228 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
229 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
230
231 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
232 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
233 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
234 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
235 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
236 automatically.
237
238 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
239 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
240
241 * systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
242 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
243
244 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
245
246 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
247 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
248 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
249 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
250 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
251 fails to apply use the latter.
252
253 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
254 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
255
256 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
257 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
258
259 * systemd-repart: add --size=auto for generating/resizing images of minimal
260 size, i.e. where the image file is sized exactly as large as necessary taking
261 SizeMin= into account, but not a single byte larger.
262
263 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
264 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
265
266 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
267 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
268
269 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
270 realname substr searches in varlink API
271
272 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
273
274 * userdb: allow existence checks
275
276 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
277
278 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
279 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
280 initrd had set.
281
282 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
283 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
284 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
285 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
286 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
287 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
288
289 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
290 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
291 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
292
293 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
294 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
295 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
296 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
297 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
298 source.
299
300 * figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
301 with immutable /usr
302
303 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
304 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
305 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
306
307 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
308
309 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
310 the hibernation
311
312 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
313 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
314 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
315 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
316 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
317 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
318 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
319 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
320 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
321 hibernation mode. (see
322 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
323 section 10.2.2.8 and
324 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
325 at the end).
326
327 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
328 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
329 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
330 output for them.
331
332 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
333 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
334 constant vendor data.
335
336 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
337
338 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
339 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
340
341 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
342 fallback in "machinectl shell"
343
344 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
345 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
346 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
347
348 * homed:
349 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
350 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
351 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
352 - resize on login?
353 - shrink fs on logout?
354 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
355 - create on activate?
356 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
357 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
358 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
359 systemd --user is shut down.
360 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
361 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
362 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
363 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
364 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
365 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
366 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
367 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
368 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
369 - query password from kernel keyring first
370 - update even if record is "absent"
371 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
372 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
373 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
374 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
375 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
376 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
377 - introduce API for "making room", that grows/shrinks home directory
378 according to elastic parameters, discards blocks, and removes additional snapshots. Call it
379 either from UI when disk space gets low
380
381 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
382 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
383 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
384 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
385 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
386 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
387 exec().
388
389 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
390
391 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
392 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
393
394 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
395
396 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
397 gnome-bluetooth and friends
398
399 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
400 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
401 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
402 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
403 cgroup.
404
405 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
406 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
407 root.
408
409 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
410 is issued.
411
412 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
413
414 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
415
416 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
417 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
418 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
419
420 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
421 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
422 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
423
424 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
425 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
426 ConfigurationDirectory=.
427
428 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
429
430 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
431
432 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
433 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
434
435 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
436 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
437 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
438
439 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
440
441 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
442 patching around
443
444 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
445 log.c and sd-journal-send
446
447 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
448
449 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
450
451 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
452 can add in file system drivers and such
453
454 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
455 non-zero "tries done" count
456
457 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
458 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
459 it should skip the variant type string though.
460
461 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
462 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
463 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
464 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
465 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
466 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
467 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
468 CODE_FILE.
469
470 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
471 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
472 some explanatory text online.
473
474 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
475
476 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
477 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
478 the slices, and the units attached to them.
479
480 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
481 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
482 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
483 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
484 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
485 way)
486
487 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
488 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
489 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
490
491 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
492 original defaults before calling parse_config()
493
494 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
495
496 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
497 Specifically:
498
499 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
500 properly)
501 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
502 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
503
504 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
505 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
506
507 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
508 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
509 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
510 files and suchlike we operate on.
511
512 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
513
514 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
515
516 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
517 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
518
519 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
520 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
521 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
522 numbers.
523
524 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
525 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
526 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
527 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
528 unlinked from any dir.
529
530 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
531
532 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
533
534 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
535
536 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
537 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
538 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
539 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
540 should reflink the image file itself.
541
542 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
543 specific paths only like this.
544
545 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
546 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
547 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
548 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
549 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
550
551 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
552
553 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
554
555 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
556 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
557
558 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
559 project quota
560
561 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
562 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
563 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
564 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
565 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
566 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
567 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
568 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
569
570 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
571 for root, but only then.
572
573 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
574
575 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
576 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
577
578 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
579 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
580
581 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
582 host-side interface pointing to the container.
583
584 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
585 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
586 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
587 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
588 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
589
590 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
591
592 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
593
594 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
595 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
596 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
597
598 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
599
600 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
601 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
602
603 * blog about fd store and restartable services
604
605 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
606
607 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
608 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
609
610 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
611 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
612 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
613 ID is available.
614
615 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
616 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
617 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
618
619 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
620 parameters
621
622 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
623 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
624 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
625 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
626 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
627 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
628 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
629
630 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
631 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
632
633 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
634 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
635 wait to retrieve their exit data.
636
637 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
638 about it in the resource log message
639
640 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
641 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
642
643 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
644 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
645 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
646
647 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
648 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
649
650 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
651
652 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
653 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
654 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
655 logging.
656
657 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
658 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
659 "convertible" form factor
660
661 * Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
662 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
663 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
664 as MAINPID.
665
666 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
667 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
668 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
669
670 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
671 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
672
673 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
674 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
675 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
676 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
677 natural habitat.
678
679 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
680 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
681 /usr is mounted into.
682
683 * 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
684
685 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
686
687 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
688 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
689 relative to the configured default value.
690
691 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
692
693 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
694
695 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
696
697 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
698
699 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
700
701 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
702
703 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
704
705 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
706
707 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
708
709 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
710
711 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
712 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
713 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
714
715 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
716
717 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
718
719 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
720 partitions
721
722 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
723 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
724 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
725 mapping to work.
726
727 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
728
729 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
730
731 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
732
733 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
734 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
735
736 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
737 reload the unit file anyway
738
739 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
740 from the SIGBUS handler
741
742 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
743
744 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
745 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
746
747 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
748
749 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
750 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
751
752 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
753 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
754 specifications.
755
756 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
757
758 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
759
760 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
761
762 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
763 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
764 prefixed with /sys generally special.
765 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
766
767 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
768
769 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
770
771 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
772 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
773 state.
774 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
775
776 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
777 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
778 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
779 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
780 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
781
782 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
783 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
784
785 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
786
787 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
788 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
789
790 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
791 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
792 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
793 do, for example)
794
795 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
796 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
797
798 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
799 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
800
801 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
802
803 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
804 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
805 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
806 returning from the "systemctl stop".
807
808 * 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
809
810 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
811
812 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
813 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
814
815 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
816
817 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
818
819 * systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
820 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
821
822 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
823
824 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
825
826 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
827
828 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
829 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
830
831 * resolved:
832 - mDNS/DNS-SD
833 - service registration
834 - service/domain/types browsing
835 - avahi compat
836 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
837 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
838 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
839 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
840 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
841 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
842
843 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
844
845 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
846
847 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
848
849 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
850 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
851
852 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
853
854 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
855
856 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
857
858 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
859 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
860
861 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
862
863 * gpt-auto-generator:
864 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
865 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
866
867 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
868 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
869 when it is otherwise off
870
871 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
872
873 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
874 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
875 for ReusePort=
876
877 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
878 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
879 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
880 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
881 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
882 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
883
884 * cgroups:
885 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
886 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
887 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
888 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
889 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
890 the hierarchies of child processes
891
892 * transient units:
893 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
894
895 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
896
897 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
898
899 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
900
901 * 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
902
903 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
904
905 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
906 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
907 path anyway.
908
909 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
910
911 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
912
913 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
914
915 * sd-bus:
916 - EBADSLT handling
917 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
918 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
919 - 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
920 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
921 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
922 - longer term: priority inheritance
923 - dbus spec updates:
924 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
925 - GVariant
926 - path escaping
927 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
928
929 * sd-event
930 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
931 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
932 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
933 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
934 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
935 here:
936 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
937
938 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
939
940 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
941 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
942
943 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
944
945 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
946
947 * test/:
948 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
949
950 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
951 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
952 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
953 destination.
954
955 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
956 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
957
958 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
959
960 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
961 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
962 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
963
964 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
965 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
966 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
967 is installed.
968
969 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
970 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
971 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
972 that automatically.
973
974 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
975
976 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
977
978 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
979
980 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
981
982 * EFI:
983 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
984 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
985 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
986 * bootctl
987 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
988
989 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
990
991 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
992
993 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
994
995 * logind:
996 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
997 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
998 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
999 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
1000 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1001 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1002 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1003 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1004 needs setuid().
1005 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1006 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1007 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1008 complete.
1009 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1010 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1011 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
1012 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
1013 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1014 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1015 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1016 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1017 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1018 relogins
1019 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
1020
1021 * journal:
1022 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1023 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1024 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1025 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1026 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1027 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1028 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1029 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1030 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1031 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1032 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1033 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1034 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1035 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1036 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1037 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
1038 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1039 - 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.
1040 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1041 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1042 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1043 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1044 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1045 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1046 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1047 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1048 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1049 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1050 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1051 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1052 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1053 to syslog when it works again.
1054 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1055 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1056 journals in.
1057 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1058 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1059 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1060 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1061 the most common operations.
1062 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1063 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1064 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1065 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1066 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1067 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1068 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1069 operation.
1070 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1071 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1072 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1073 binary logs data
1074 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1075 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1076 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1077 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1078 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1079 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
1080
1081 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1082 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1083 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1084 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1085
1086 * document:
1087 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1088 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1089 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1090 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1091 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1092 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1093 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1094 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1095 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1096 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
1097 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1098 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1099
1100 * systemctl:
1101 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1102 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1103 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1104 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1105 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1106 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1107 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1108 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1109 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1110 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1111
1112 * unit install:
1113 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1114 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1115
1116 * timer units:
1117 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1118 o DST changes
1119 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1120
1121 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1122
1123 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1124
1125 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1126
1127 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1128
1129 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1130
1131 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1132
1133 * nspawn:
1134 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1135 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1136 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1137 from the kernel's logs.
1138 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1139 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1140 interface be missing
1141 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1142 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1143 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1144 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1145 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1146 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1147 PID 1...
1148 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1149 running, remove them when shut down.
1150
1151 * machined:
1152 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1153 removed or added to an existing machine
1154 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1155 difference host, via ssh
1156 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1157 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1158 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1159 question
1160 - "machinectl history"
1161 - "machinectl diff"
1162 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1163 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1164
1165 * cryptsetup:
1166 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1167 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1168
1169 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1170 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1171
1172 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1173
1174 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1175
1176 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1177
1178 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1179
1180 * udev:
1181 - move to LGPL
1182 - kill scsi_id
1183 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1184 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1185
1186 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1187
1188 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1189
1190 * coredump:
1191 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1192 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1193
1194 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1195
1196 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1197 needs to be auto-respawned?
1198
1199 * tmpfiles:
1200 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1201 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1202 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1203 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1204 calls follow symlinks.
1205
1206 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1207
1208 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1209 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1210 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1211
1212 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1213 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1214
1215 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1216
1217 * write blog stories about:
1218 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1219 - enabling dbus services
1220 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1221 - remote access
1222 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1223 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1224 - auto-restart
1225 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1226 - the journal HTTP iface
1227 - non-cgroup resource management
1228 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1229 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1230 - calendar time events
1231 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1232 - how to create your own target
1233 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1234 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1235
1236 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1237
1238 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1239
1240 * pid1:
1241 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1242 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1243 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1244 that are not supported...
1245 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1246 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1247 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1248 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1249 - move PAM code into its own binary
1250 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1251 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1252 - Support --test based on current system state
1253 - 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().
1254 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1255 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1256 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1257 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1258 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1259 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1260 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1261 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1262 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1263
1264 * unit files:
1265 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1266 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1267 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1268 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1269 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1270 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1271 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1272 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1273 - introduce Type=pid-file
1274 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1275 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1276 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1277 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1278
1279 * udev-link-config:
1280 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1281 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1282 on Path= matching
1283
1284 * sd-rtnl:
1285 - add support for more attribute types
1286 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1287
1288 * networkd:
1289 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1290 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1291 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1292 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1293 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1294 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1295 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1296 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1297 - expose in the API the following bits:
1298 - option 15, domain name
1299 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1300 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1301 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1302 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1303 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1304 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1305 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1306 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1307 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1308
1309 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1310
1311 * dhcp:
1312 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1313
1314 * dhcp6:
1315 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1316 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1317 - write more test cases
1318 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1319 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1320 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1321 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1322 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1323 or interface down
1324 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1325 this behavior
1326 - RouteTable= ?
1327
1328 External:
1329
1330 * dbus:
1331 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1332 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1333
1334 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1335
1336 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1337
1338 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1339
1340 * 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=
1341
1342 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1343
1344 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1345
1346 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1347
1348 * zsh shell completion:
1349 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1350 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1351
1352 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1353 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1354 after being started.
1355
1356 Regularly:
1357
1358 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1359
1360 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1361
1362 * pahole
1363
1364 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1365
1366 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1367
1368 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
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