Note that items with (!) have high priority. tests ----- - add MacOS to GitHub Actions (.github/workflows/cibuild.yml). Note, we have used Mac in Travis-CI (see .travis.yml). - add Coverity to GitHub Actions (see for example .github/workflows/coverity.yml in systemd repo). script (lib/pty-session.c) -------------------------- - (!) add #ifdefs and optional code for non-signalfd() systems docs ---- - use terminal hyperlinks (for example for --help) try on terminal: printf 'For more details see \e]8;;man:fdisk(8)\e\\fdisk(8)\e]8;;\e\\.\n' https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda rev --- - support huge input lines (for example read input by small fixed buffer rather than try allocate all buffer for a whole line) see: https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/972 col --- - use unsigned sizes for columns and lines - check for limits to avoid segfaults - make it more robust https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/749 cal --- - support another --reforms, see for example freebsd version https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/usr.bin/ncal/ncal.c#L72 lscpu ----- - read cpuid and uname information from file if --sysroot is specified, then we can prepare regression tests completely independent on hw and architecture. lsblk ----- - currently it does not show mountpoint for all devices in btrfs RAID. It's because /proc/#/mountinfo contains reference to the one device only. Maybe we can add some btrfs specific code to provide a better output for FS based stacks. Not sure. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1084453 nsenter(1) ---------- - read the default UID and GID from the target process. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/9553/focus=9585 hwclock ------ - use /var/lib/hwclock/drift to store hw-clock drift numbers. - use /etc/adjtime as read-only for UTC/LOCAL information only - the /var/lib/hwclock/drift should be implemented backwardly compatible, it means use the file only if exists, otherwise follow /etc/adjtime bash completion --------------- - Optional argument handling requires user to press backspace to get argument completion. - Comma separated value, e.g., --output 'value1,value2', are not completed for users. libmount (mount/umount) ----------------------- - mnt_context_get_excode() does not return error messages from /sbin/[u]mount. external helpers. It is disadvantages in same cases (non-terminal progarms). The solution is to use pipe(), keep output from helper in memory and return it later by mnt_context_get_excode() (or mnt_context_get_helper_output(), etc.). This feature should be optional and disabled by default. see: https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/1208 - add --onlyonce to force mount(8) to check if mountpoint is already used. Now "already mounted" detection is used for --all only. The problem is if you call "mount " more than once for in fstab defined tmpfs (or network filesystem etc.). In this case kernel does not return EBUSY, but a new instance of the FS is created. https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/448 (... just idea, maybe wrong idea) partx ----- - support mapping by device-mapper if argv[0] is "kpartx" or --dm option is used. getopt ------ It would be great if getopt could optionally ignore unknown options. Currently, it outputs -- for every option it doesn't recognize but leaving the option as it is could beneficial wrapper scripts which could then pass the options they don't recognize as they are to the command they are wrapping. https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/701 docs ---- - (!) use something better than gtk-doc for libmount and libblkid (doxyden?) - (!) add API documentation to libuuid - (!) rewrite man pages to AsciiDoc and generate final man pages by Asciidoctor & Docbook login-utils: ----------- - consolidate newgrp(1) * we have "su --group/--supp-group" to switch between groups, newgrp(1) in util-linux and shadow-utils (and sg(1) alias in shadow-utils) * the unique functionality provided by newgpr(1) is support for group passwords [/etc/gshadow] -- do we really need this functionality? * maybe we can mark group-passwords as deprecated, and replace sg(1) and newgpr(1) with su(1) code. The another way is to ask for group password in su --group too. * note that shadow-utils newgpr(1) provides support for syslog and audit log. libblkid -------- - extend ZFS proper to scan for more uberblocks if BLKID_SUBLKS_MAGIC flag is set. This solution will make wipefs(8) more usable as ZFS is extremely variable with additional root blocks locations. See https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/1228 - (!) add support for BitLocker Drive Encryption https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/617 https://github.com/libyal/libbde/blob/master/documentation/BitLocker%20Drive%20Encryption%20(BDE)%20format.asciidoc - (!) add support for dasd PT (used for example on s390) libfdisk -------- - add support for Apple Partition Map (see libblkid/src/partitions/mac.c) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Partition_Map - add support for nested PT (e.g. hybrid MBR) to scripts * add "nested-label:" block to sfdisk --dump * add "nested-partitiontable" to sfdisk --JSON * support nested labels parsing from dump see https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/850 sfdisk ------ - don't backup PT in interactive mode before write to the devices is requested, see https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/852 misc ---- - add mllockall() and SCHED_FIFO to hwclock, see http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/12/132 --------------- exotic requests --------------- - add SELinux security contexts support to the 'ipcs' utility http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=225342 Would be great to list the current system IPC Objects with their respective security labels (where allowed) with something like 'ipcs -Z' - following the way other tools reports those.