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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:
19
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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* add --copy-from and --copy-to command to systemd-dissect which copies stuff
46 in and out of a disk image
47
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48* Support ProtectProc= or so, using: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11310197/
49
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50* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
51
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52* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
53 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
54
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55* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
56 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
57 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
58 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
59 anything like that.
60
5c0102f8 61* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
cb713f16 62 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
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63 user's journal stream down but not the others.
64
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65* add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
66 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
67 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
68
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69* move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
70 these days
71
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72* nspawn: support time namespaces
73
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74* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
75 reading/writing files
76
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77* add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
78
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79* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
80 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
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82* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
83
84* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
85
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86* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
87 when it exits
88
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89* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
90 o turn into dlopen() deps:
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91 - libpwquality (always) - only relevant for homed, and maybe soon
92 firstboot
93 - elfutils (always)
94 - p11-kit-trust (always)
95 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
96 - cryptsetup-libs (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not in systemd-cryptsetup)
97 - similar: libblkid
98 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
99 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
100 since they are so basic and our defaults)
101 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
102 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
103
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104* seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
105 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
106 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
107
108* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
109 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
110 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
111
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112* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
113 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
114
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115* make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
116 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
117 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
118
a6e1018d 119* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
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120 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, systemctl,
121 coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
122 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
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124* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
125
126* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
127 specific service
128
129* seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
130
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131* per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
132 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
133 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
134 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
135 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
136 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
137 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
138 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
139
140* homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
141 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
142
143* homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
144 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
145
146* homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
147 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
148 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
149
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150* homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
151 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
152 signature
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154* homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
155 and insert a local signature instead.
156
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157* homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
158 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
159 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
15dd4515 160 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
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161 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
162
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163* homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
164
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165* homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
166 easily?
167
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168* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
169 exists and responds.
170
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171* when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
172 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
173 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
174 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
175 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
176
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177* cryptsetup: support FIDO2 tokens for deriving keys (i.e. do what homed can do
178 also in plain cryptsetup)
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180* systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
181 creates
182
86b52a39 183* homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
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184 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
185 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
186 hence we can make them quicker to work.
187
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188* bootctl:
189 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
190 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
191 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
192
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193* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
194 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
195 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
196
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197* by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
198 allow so that systemd survives
199
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200* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
201 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
202
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203* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
204 systemd-makefs.service instead.
205
91fc013f 206* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 207 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
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209* unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
210 confusion is gone)
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211 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
212 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
213 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
214 - port importd over from libgcrypt
215 - when that's done: kill khash.c
216 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
217
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218* kill zenata, all hail weblate?
219
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220* when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
221
222* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
223 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
224
225* hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
226 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
227 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
228 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
229 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
230
492f91d8 231* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
86b52a39 232 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
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233 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
234 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
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236* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
237 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
238 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
239 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
240 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
241 automatically.
242
243* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
244 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
245
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246* systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
247 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
248
249* systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
250
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251* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
252 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
253 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
254 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
255 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
256 fails to apply use the latter.
257
258* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
259 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
260
261* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
262 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
263
264* systemd-repart: add --size=auto for generating/resizing images of minimal
265 size, i.e. where the image file is sized exactly as large as necessary taking
266 SizeMin= into account, but not a single byte larger.
267
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268* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
269 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
270
2a4be3c5 271* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
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272 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
273
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274* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
275 realname substr searches in varlink API
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277* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
278
2a4be3c5 279* userdb: allow existence checks
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f1eb0ccd 281* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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283* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
284 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
285 initrd had set.
286
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287* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
288 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
289 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
290 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
291 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
292 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
293
294* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
295 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
296 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
297
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298* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
299 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
300 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
301 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
302 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
303 source.
304
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305* figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
306 with immutable /usr
307
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308* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
309 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
310 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
311
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312* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
313
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314* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
315 the hibernation
316
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317* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
318 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
319 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
320 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
321 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
322 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
323 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
324 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
325 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
326 hibernation mode. (see
327 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
328 section 10.2.2.8 and
329 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
330 at the end).
331
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332* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
333 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
334 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
335 output for them.
336
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337* We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
338 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
339 constant vendor data.
340
c6526b8d 341* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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343* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
344 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
345
346* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
347 fallback in "machinectl shell"
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349* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
350 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
351 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
352
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353* homed:
354 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
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355 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
356 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
357 - resize on login?
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358 - shrink fs on logout?
359 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
360 - create on activate?
361 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
362 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
363 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
364 systemd --user is shut down.
365 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
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366 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
367 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
86b52a39 368 - 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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369 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
370 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
371 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
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372 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
373 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
374 - query password from kernel keyring first
375 - update even if record is "absent"
376 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
377 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
378 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
379 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
380 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
381 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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382 - introduce API for "making room", that grows/shrinks home directory
383 according to elastic parameters, discards blocks, and removes additional snapshots. Call it
384 either from UI when disk space gets low
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386* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
387 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
388 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
389 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
390 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
391 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
392 exec().
393
394* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
395
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396* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
397 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
398
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399* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
400
401* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
402 gnome-bluetooth and friends
403
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404* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
405 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
406 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
407 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
408 cgroup.
409
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410* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
411 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
412 root.
413
414* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
415 is issued.
416
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417* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
418
419* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
420
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421* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
422 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
423 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
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d238709c 425* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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426 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
427 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
428
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429* add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
430 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
431 ConfigurationDirectory=.
432
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433* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
434
d3584ec4 435* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
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437* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
438 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
439
06898123 440* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 441 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 442 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
06898123 443
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444* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
445
446* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
447 patching around
448
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449* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
450 log.c and sd-journal-send
451
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452* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
453
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454* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
455
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456* sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
457 can add in file system drivers and such
458
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459* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
460 non-zero "tries done" count
461
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462* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
463 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
464 it should skip the variant type string though.
465
466* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
467 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
468 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
469 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
470 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
471 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
472 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
473 CODE_FILE.
474
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475* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
476 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
477 some explanatory text online.
478
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479* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
480
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481* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
482 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
483 the slices, and the units attached to them.
484
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485* the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
486 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
bc130b68 487 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
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488 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
489 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
490 way)
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492* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
493 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
494 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
495
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496* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
497 original defaults before calling parse_config()
498
72d711ef 499* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
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502 Specifically:
503
504 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
505 properly)
e83419d0 506 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 507 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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509* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
510 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
511
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512* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
513 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
514 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
515 files and suchlike we operate on.
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517* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
518
519* add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
520
521* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
522 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
523
5da19043 524* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
5238e957 525 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
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526 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
527 numbers.
528
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529* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
530 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
531 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
532 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
533 unlinked from any dir.
534
bd1b3f75 535* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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538
539* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
540
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541* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
542 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
543 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
544 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
545 should reflink the image file itself.
546
547 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
548 specific paths only like this.
549
53c70a27 550* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 551 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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552 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
553 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
554 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
555
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556* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
557
558* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
559
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560* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
561 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
562
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563* teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
564 project quota
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566* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
567 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
568 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
569 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
570 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
571 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
572 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
573 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
574
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575* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
576 for root, but only then.
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578* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
579
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580* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
581 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
582
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583* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
584 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
585
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586* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
587 host-side interface pointing to the container.
588
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589* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
590 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
591 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
592 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
593 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
594
cb77e122 595* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 596
899feb72 597* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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599* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
600 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
601 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
602
5f7ecd61 603* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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605* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
606 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
607
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608* blog about fd store and restartable services
609
610* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
611
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612* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
613 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
614
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615* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
616 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
617 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
618 ID is available.
619
620* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
621 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
622 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
623
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624* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
625 parameters
626
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627* maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
628 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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630 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
631 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
632 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
633 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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635* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
636 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
637
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638* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
639 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
640 wait to retrieve their exit data.
641
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642* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
643 about it in the resource log message
644
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645* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
646 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
647
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648* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
649 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
650 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
651
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652* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
653 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
654
655 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
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657* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
658 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
659 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
660 logging.
661
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662* hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
663 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
664 "convertible" form factor
665
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666* Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
667 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
668 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
669 as MAINPID.
670
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671* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
672 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
673 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
674
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675* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
676 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
677
678* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
679 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
680 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
681 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
682 natural habitat.
683
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684* gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
685 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
686 /usr is mounted into.
687
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688* 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
689
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690* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
691
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692* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
693 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
694 relative to the configured default value.
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696* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
697
698* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
699
04397464 700* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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702* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
703
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704* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
705
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706* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
707
04397464 708* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
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04397464 710* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 711
04397464 712* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 713
8ce9b83a 714* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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716* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
717 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
718 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
719
e40a326c 720* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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722* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
723
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724* mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
725 partitions
726
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727* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
728 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
729 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
730 mapping to work.
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733
734* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
735
736* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
737
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738* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
739 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
740
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741* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
742 reload the unit file anyway
743
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744* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
745 from the SIGBUS handler
746
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747* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
748
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749* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
750 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
751
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752* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
753
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754* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
755 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
756
f9bf1b8f 757* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 758 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 759 specifications.
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762
5ebbb45b 763* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
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765* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
766
a2088fd0 767* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 768 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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770 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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772* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
773
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774* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
775
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776* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
777 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
778 state.
779 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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781* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
782 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
783 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
784 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
785 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
786
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787* networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
788 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
789
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790* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
791
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792* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
793 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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795* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
796 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
797 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
798 do, for example)
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800* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
801 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
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e031c227 803* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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804 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
805
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806* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
807
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808* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
809 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
810 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
811 returning from the "systemctl stop".
812
b568ef14 813* 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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815* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
816
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817* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
818 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
819
25e773ee 820* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 821
279f0366 822* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 823
5238e957 824* systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
b42de08a 825 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
202aea45 826
720652b3 827* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 828
720652b3 829* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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831* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
832
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833* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
834 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
835
9d6db739 836* resolved:
9d6db739 837 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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839 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 840 - avahi compat
9d6db739 841 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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842 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
843 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
844 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 845 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 846 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 847
e25b5a8d 848* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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850* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
851
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852* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
853
a01647e5 854* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 855 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
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857* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
858
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859* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
860
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861* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
862
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863* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
864 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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866* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
867
6a3f892a 868* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 869 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 870 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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872* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
873 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
874 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 875
f9bf1b8f 876* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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878* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
879 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
880 for ReusePort=
881
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882* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
883 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
884 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
885 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
886 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
887 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
888
f38afcd0 889* cgroups:
f38afcd0 890 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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891 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
892 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
893 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
894 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
895 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 896
f38afcd0 897* transient units:
f38afcd0 898 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
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900* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
901
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902* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
903
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904* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
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906* 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
907
7f79cd71 908* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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910* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
911 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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913
04397464 914* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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917
918* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
919
6bb648a1 920* sd-bus:
0d43ffef 921 - EBADSLT handling
fa607802 922 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
7212c608 923 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
57f2a947 924 - 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 925 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 926 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
ab9716c2 927 - longer term: priority inheritance
df98a87b 928 - dbus spec updates:
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930 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 931 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 932 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
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934* sd-event
12179984 935 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 936 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
e25b5a8d 937 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
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939 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
940 here:
941 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
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69af4503 943* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
e8a7a315 944
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945* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
946 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
947
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948* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
949
950* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
951
fff87a35 952* test/:
20d52ab6 953 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 954
b5c03638 955* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 956 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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957 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
958 destination.
959
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960* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
961 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
962
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963* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
964
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965* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
966 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
967 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
968
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969* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
970 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
971 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
972 is installed.
795607b2 973
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974* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
975 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
976 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
977 that automatically.
978
e5ec62c5 979* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 980
ccddd104 981* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 982
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983* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
984
356ce991 985* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 986
b44be3ec 987* EFI:
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988 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
989 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 990 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 991* bootctl
631427d6 992 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 993
c0fe5db5 994* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 995
b44be3ec 996* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 997
b44be3ec 998* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
e6c6e7af 999
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1000* logind:
1001 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1002 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1003 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1004 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1005 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1006 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1007 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1008 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1009 needs setuid().
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1010 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1011 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1012 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1013 complete.
1014 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1015 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1016 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
279f0366 1017 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
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1018 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1019 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1020 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1021 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1022 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1023 relogins
77b19caf 1024 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 1025
b44be3ec 1026* journal:
57f2a947 1027 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1028 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1029 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1030 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 1031 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1032 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1033 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1034 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1035 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1036 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1037 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1038 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1039 - 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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1040 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1041 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1042 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1043 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1044 - 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.
1045 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1046 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1047 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1048 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1049 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1050 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1051 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1052 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1053 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1054 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1055 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1056 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1057 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1058 to syslog when it works again.
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1059 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1060 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1061 journals in.
1062 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1063 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1064 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1065 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1066 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1067 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1068 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1069 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1070 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1071 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1072 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1073 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1074 operation.
1075 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1076 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1077 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1078 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1079 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1080 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1081 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1082 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1083 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1084 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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1087 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1088 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1089 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1090
b44be3ec 1091* document:
8b8f2591 1092 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1093 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1094 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1095 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1096 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1097 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1098 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1099 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1100 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1101 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 1102 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1103 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1105* systemctl:
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1106 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1107 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1108 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1109 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1110 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1111 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1112 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1113 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1114 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1115 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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1117* unit install:
1118 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1119 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
8b04b925 1120
b44be3ec 1121* timer units:
b44be3ec 1122 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
b44be3ec 1123 o DST changes
90e071d1 1124 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 1125
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1126* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1127
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1128* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1129
b44be3ec 1130* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 1131
f59d1da8 1132* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
dcfc4b2e 1133
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1134* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1135
d28315e4 1136* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 1137
b44be3ec 1138* nspawn:
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1139 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1140 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1141 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1142 from the kernel's logs.
1143 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1144 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1145 interface be missing
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1146 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1147 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1148 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1149 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1150 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1151 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1152 PID 1...
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1153 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1154 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1155
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1156* dissect
1157 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1158 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1159
e25b5a8d 1160* machined:
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1161 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1162 removed or added to an existing machine
1163 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1164 difference host, via ssh
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1165 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1166 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1167 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1168 question
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1169 - "machinectl history"
1170 - "machinectl diff"
1171 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1172 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1173
b44be3ec 1174* cryptsetup:
b44be3ec 1175 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
5f1dac6b 1176 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 1177
424a19f8 1178* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 1179 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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1181* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1182
68f16003 1183* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 1184
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1185* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1186
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1187* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1188
abd55b16 1189* udev:
abd55b16 1190 - move to LGPL
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1191 - kill scsi_id
1192 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1193 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1194
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1195* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1196
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1197* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1198
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1199* coredump:
1200 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1201 - 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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1202
1203* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1204
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1205* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1206 needs to be auto-respawned?
1207
f38afcd0 1208* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1209 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1210 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1211 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1212 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1213 calls follow symlinks.
1258097c 1214
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1215* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1216
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1217* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1218 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1219 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1220
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1221* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1222 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1223
71092d70 1224* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 1225
68c7d001 1226* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 1227 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
68c7d001 1228 - enabling dbus services
7a2a0b90 1229 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 1230 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 1231 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 1232 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 1233 - auto-restart
e707c494 1234 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 1235 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 1236 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 1237 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 1238 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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1239 - calendar time events
1240 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1241 - how to create your own target
1242 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1243 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 1244
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1245* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1246
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1247* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1248
e25b5a8d 1249* pid1:
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1250 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1251 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1252 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1253 that are not supported...
1254 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1255 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1256 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1257 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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1258 - move PAM code into its own binary
1259 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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1260 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1261 - Support --test based on current system state
1262 - 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().
1263 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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1264 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1265 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1266 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1267 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1268 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1269 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1270 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1271 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1272
1273* unit files:
1274 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1275 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1276 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1277 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1278 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1279 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1280 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1281 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
e25b5a8d 1282 - introduce Type=pid-file
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1283 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1284 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
e25b5a8d 1285 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
e5171296 1286 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
e25b5a8d 1287
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1288* udev-link-config:
1289 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1290 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1291 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1292
88e4d1d7 1293* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1294 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1295 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1296
0a4b9a07 1297* networkd:
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1298 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1299 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 1300 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 1301 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1302 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 1303 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1304 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1305 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1306 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 1307 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 1308 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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1309 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1310 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1311 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1312 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1313 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1314 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1315 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
e25b5a8d 1316 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1317
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1318* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1319
ac976532 1320* dhcp:
424a8732 1321 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1322
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1323* dhcp6:
1324 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1325 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1326 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1327 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1328 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1329 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1330 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1331 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1332 or interface down
1333 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1334 this behavior
4a77c53d 1335 - RouteTable= ?
37d8b536 1336
2f8cd170 1337External:
74fe1fe3 1338
cc9784c6 1339* dbus:
3377af3e 1340 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 1341 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 1342
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1343* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1344
71092d70 1345* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
14bd37fe 1346
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1347* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1348
d2bbca68 1349* 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 1350
8973790e 1351* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 1352
4641a16b 1353* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
19aa7c4f 1354
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1355* register catalog database signature as file magic
1356
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1357* zsh shell completion:
1358 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 1359 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1cf3c30c 1360
90137b62 1361* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
90137b62
ZJS
1362* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1363 after being started.
2c12a402 1364
129126f3 1365Regularly:
874aa2cc 1366
129126f3 1367* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 1368
129126f3 1369* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
5b6319dc 1370
444a79d3
LP
1371* pahole
1372
d28315e4 1373* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 1374
4db17f29 1375* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
88fae6e0 1376
d05c556b 1377* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
62353f69 1378String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment