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1Bugfixes:
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19aadacf 3* enabling an instance unit creates a pointless link, and
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4 the unit will be started with getty@getty.service:
5 $ systemctl enable getty@.service
6 ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service' '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@.service'
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8* check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
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10* swap units that are activated by one name but shown in the kernel under another are semi-broken
11
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12* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
13 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
14 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
15
a40593a0 16* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
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19aadacf 18* When we detect invalid UTF-8, we cannot use it in an error message:
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19 log...("Path is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment: %s", rvalue);
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21* shorten the message to sane length:
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23 Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status display-manager.service' for details.
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466784c8 25Fedora 20:
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dc7adf20 27* external: ps should gain colums for slice and machine
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81d112a8 29* localed:
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30 - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps
31
55d32caf 32* when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
466784c8 33 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
55d32caf 34
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35CGroup Rework Completion:
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94bbc991 37* introduce "mainpid" for scopes (or maybe not?)
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39* implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?)
40
41* implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
42
43* handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
44
049b4474 45* introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
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eb124a97 47Features:
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49* "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
50 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
51
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52* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
53
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54* remove NSS usage from PID 1 (notably the specifiers)
55
a427c13d 56* socket-proxyd:
fd201fda 57 - Support multiple inherited sockets mapped to different remote hosts
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58 - Use a nonblocking alternative to getaddrinfo
59 - Until we can start daemons directly, find a less ugly, less racy alternative than shell scripts for the second man page example.
60 - Support starting daemons directly without requiring a shell script; update man pages
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62* optimize the cgroup propagation bits, especially unit_get_members_mask(), cgroup_context_get_mask()
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64* "systemctl cat" or "systemctl view" command or or so, that cats the backing unit file of a service, plus its drop-ins and shows them in a pager
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66* 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
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68* Add a new Distribute=$NUMBER key to socket units that makes use of SO_REUSEPORT to distribute network traffic on $NUMBER instances
69
19aadacf 70* tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal, also do this for the journal fails contained in it
7f79cd71 71
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72* we probably should replace the left-over uses of strv_append() and replace them by strv_push() or strv_extend()
73
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74* move config_parse_path_strv() out of conf-parser.c
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76* libdsystemd-bus should expose utf8 validation calls
77
7f79cd71 78* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 79
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80* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
81 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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82 path anyway.
83
19aadacf 84* When a Type=forking service fails and needed another service, that
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85 service is not cleaned up again when it has StopWhenUnneeded=yes
86 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-July/012141.html
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88* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
89
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90* ensure scope units may be started only a single time
91
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92* better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
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94* systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
95
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96* for transient units, instead of writing out drop-ins for all properties consider serializing them in the normal serialization stream
97
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98* logind: when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects
99
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100* session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
101
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102* add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
103
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104* journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
105
19aadacf 106* given that logind/machined now let PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
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107 probably reduce the capability set they retain substantially.
108
6aaa8c2f 109* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
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111* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
112
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113* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
114
e1b7e7ec 115* make sure gdm doesn't use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
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117* when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we won't support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200
118
19aadacf 119* when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
fa7deadb 120
19aadacf 121* "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, but should
69af4503 122 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
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123 unit however should remove them all).
124
125* journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
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127* systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
128
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129* journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
130 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
131 to syslog when it works again.
132
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133* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
134
135* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
136
19aadacf 137* service_coldplug() appears to reinstall the wrong stop timeout watch.
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139* transient units: allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
140
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141* how to reset dynamically changed attributes sanely?
142
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143* when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
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4ad49000 145* journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
3d3ee759 146
9444b1f2 147* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 148 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 149 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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150 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
151 check for that and suppress event handling.
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153* when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
154 the hierarchies of child processes
155
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156* document logic of auto/noauto and fail/nofail in fstab in systemd.mount or systemd-fstab-generator man page
157
19aadacf 158* something pulls in pcre as shared object dependency into our daemons such as hostnamed.
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160* document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
161
a65f06bb 162* change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
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163 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
164 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
165 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
166
167* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
168 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
169
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170* libsystemd-bus:
171 - default policy (allow uid == 0 and our own uid)
172 - enforce alignment of pointers passed in
eb01ba5d 173 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
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174 - implement translator service
175 - port systemd to new library
176 - implement busname unit type in systemd
177 - move to gvariant
eb01ba5d 178 - merge busctl into systemctl or so?
e4ee6e5c 179 - synthesize sd_bus_message objects from kernel messages
c7819669 180 - properly implement name registry ioctls for kdbus
86312ab8 181 - implement monitor logic
07459db6 182 - properly map matches with well-known names against messages with unique names
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183 - longer term:
184 * priority queues
86312ab8 185 * priority inheritance
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187* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
188 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
189 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
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191* add an option to nspawn that uses seccomp to make socket(AF_NETLINK,
192 SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_AUDIT) fail the the appropriate error code that
193 makes the audit userspace to think auditing is not available in the
194 kernel.
195
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196* Introduce a way how we can kill the main process of a service with KillSignal, but all processes with SIGKILL later on
197 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952634
198
69af4503 199* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses where the access mode of unit files is nonsensical.
19aa7c4f 200
69af4503 201* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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203* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
204 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
205
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206* if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
207 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
208 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
209 needs setuid().
210
211* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
212
213* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
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215* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
216
217* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
218
4a449ed7 219* logind: add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
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221* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
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223* test/:
224 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
225 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
226 - remove all the duplicated code in test/
b8b4d3dd 227
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228* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
229
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230* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
231 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
232 file.
233
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234* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
235 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
236 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
237 destination.
238
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239* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
240 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
241
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242* add ConditionArchitecture= or so
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244* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
245
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246* Support SO_REUSEPORT with socket activation:
247 - Let systemd maintain a pool of servers.
248 - Use for seamless upgrades, by running the new server before stopping the
249 old.
250
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251* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
252 need manual exponential loops after all
253
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254* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
255 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
256 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
257 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
258
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259* man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf
260
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261* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
262 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
263 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
264 that automatically.
265
69af4503 266* rework specifier logic so that we can distinguish OOM errors from other errors
487060c2 267
e5ec62c5 268* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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270* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
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54c31a79 272* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 273
8973790e 274* documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
3679d112 275
69af4503 276* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapse and the time the units ran last
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278* man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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280* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
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69af4503 282* man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
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284* systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
285
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286* man: add more examples to man pages
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288* man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
289
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290* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
291
292* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
293
294* msgcatalog determine default language of entries from the catalog
295 file name. i.e. foobar.de_DE.catalog would set the default entry
296 name for the entries to de_DE if they aren't explicitly suffixed
297 individually.
298
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299* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
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301* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
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303* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
304 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
305 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
306 will be activated.
307
356ce991 308* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 309
81d112a8 310* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 311
b44be3ec 312* EFI:
b44be3ec 313 - write man page for efi boot generator
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314 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
315 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 316 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 317
c0fe5db5 318* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 319
b44be3ec 320* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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322* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
323 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 325* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 326
b44be3ec 327* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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329* logind:
330 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
331 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
332 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
333 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
334 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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335 - logind: non-local X11 server handling
336 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
b44be3ec 337 - pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree
e5ec62c5 338 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
e673ad04 339
b44be3ec 340* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
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b44be3ec 342* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
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b44be3ec 344* journal:
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345 - do not use magic msync() in src/journal/journal-file.c, just call fsync()
346 <alxchk> poettering: looks like msync just calls vfs_fsync
347 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/mm/msync.c#n18
c06bf414 348 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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349 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
350 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
351 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
352 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
353 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
354 - journal: reuse XZ context
355 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
356 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
357 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
358 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
359 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
360 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
361 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 362 - 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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363 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
364 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
365 - journal: when rotating, copy over old acls/access mode
b44be3ec 366 - journal: send out marker messages every now and then, and immediately sync with fdatasync() afterwards, in order to have hourly guaranteed syncs.
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367 - 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.
368 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
369 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 370 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 371 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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372 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
373 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
374 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
375 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
77a9e8de 376 - journalctl: expand tabs
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377 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
378 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
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379 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
380 - Port upower to use the journal for historical power information used in future calculations
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382* document:
383 - document unit_name_mangle()
384 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in
385 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
386 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
387 - Document word splitting syntax for ExecStart= and friends
388 - document that units from /etc override those from /usr and /run
389 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 390 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 391 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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393* systemctl:
394 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
395 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
396 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
397 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
398 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
399 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
400 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
401 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
402 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
403 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
404 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
405 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
406 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
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408* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
409
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410* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
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412* timer units:
413 - configurable jitter for timer events
90e071d1 414 - Adjust timers to be triggered at the same time as sd-event timers
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415 - timer events with system resume
416 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
417 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
418 o DST changes
eb124a97 419 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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420 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
421 - anacron-like feature
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423* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
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425* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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426 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
427 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 428 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 429 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 430 user did not request anything like it.
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432* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
433 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
434 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
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436* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
437 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
438 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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439 we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in
440 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
441 better supported alternative.
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443* figure out relation of --all and --full in the various tools
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445* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
446
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447* 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().
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449* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
450* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
451* fedup: generator
603cd8fe 452
b44be3ec 453* timedated:
b44be3ec 454 - timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
6d0274f1 455
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456* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
457
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458* introduce generic AUGMENT_PID=, AUGMENT_DEVICE= fields
459
b44be3ec 460* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 461
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462* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
463 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
464 - superset of tmpfiles model
465 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
466 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
467 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
468
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469* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
470 waiting for the timeout
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472* high level net_prio setting in execution context
473
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474* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
475
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476* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
477
15abdb9a 478* refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful (or set taint?)
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480* nspawn:
481 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly
482 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
483 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
484 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
485 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
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486 - nspawn: investigate whether we can support the same as LXC's
487 lxc.network.type=phys mode, and pass through entire network
488 interfaces to the container
489 - nspawn: maybe add a way to drop additional caps, in addition to add additional caps
490 - nspawn: maybe explicitly reset loginuid?
3679d112 491 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
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493* cryptsetup:
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494 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
495 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
496 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 497 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
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499* move debug shell to tty6 and make sure this doesn't break the gettys on tty6
500
424a19f8 501* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 502 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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504* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
505
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506* make timer units go away after they elapsed
507
8556879e 508* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 509 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
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511* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
512
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513* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
514
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515* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
516
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517* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
518
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519* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
520
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521* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
522
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523* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container
524
68f16003 525* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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527* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
528
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529* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
530 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
531 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
532 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 533 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 534 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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536* use opterr = 0 for all getopt tools
537
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538* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
539
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540* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
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542* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
543
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544* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
545
88a6c589 546* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
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549 - syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls
550 - syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs?
551 - syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS?
552 - syscall filter: port to libseccomp
553 - system-wide seccomp filter
c66d36e5 554
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555* .device aliases need to be implemented with the "following" logic, probably.
556
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557* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
558 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
559
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560* introduce Type=pid-file
561
59cea26a 562* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
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564* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
565
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566* automount: implement expire:
567 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
568 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
569 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
570 - blocking, needs a thread
571 - run until -EAGAIN
572 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
573 - call umount
574 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
575 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
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577* services which create their own subcgroups break cgroup-empty notification (needs to be fixed in the kernel)
578
e01a15b7 579* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 580
abd55b16 581* udev:
3f60bcb5 582 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
abd55b16 583 - move to LGPL
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585 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
b8217b7b 586
18b754d3 587* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording
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589* when a service has the same env var set twice we actually store it twice and return that in systemctl show -p... We should only show the last setting
590
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591* support container_ttys=
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593* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
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595* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
596
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597* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
598
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599* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
600
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601* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
602
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603* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
604
605* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
606
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607* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
608
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609* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
610 needs to be auto-respawned?
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612* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
613
de6c78f8 614* tmpfiles: apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 615
b44be3ec 616* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
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d3c7d7dd 620* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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622* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
623 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
624
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626
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627* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
628 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
629
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630* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
631
7c697168 632* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 633
71092d70 634* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
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636* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
637 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
638 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
639
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640* support User= and Group= attributes for AF_UNIX sockets.
641
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642* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
643 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
644
71092d70 645* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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648 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
649 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
650 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
651 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
652 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
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654* add support for /bin/mount -s
655
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656* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
657
68c7d001 658* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 659 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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660 - enabling dbus services
661 - status update
7a2a0b90 662 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 663 - remote access
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664 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
665 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 666 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 667 - auto-restart
e707c494 668 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 669 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 670 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 671 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 672 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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674 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
675 - how to create your own target
676 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
677 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
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44143309 679* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 680
71092d70 681* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 682
260abb78 683* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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685* Support --test based on current system state
686
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687* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
688
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689* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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691* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
692
129126f3 693* port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID:
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694 - rpcbind (/var/run/rpcbind.sock!) HAVEPATCH
695 - cups HAVEPATCH
a625ac1a 696 - postfix, saslauthd
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697 - apache/samba
698 - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro)
699 - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!)
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700 - distccd
701
71092d70 702* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
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50f2a90d 704* io priority during initialization
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707
7ba97195 708* systemd-python:
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710 works with ^C
b04c8c83 711 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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714 - plot per-process IO utilization
715 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
716 - document initcall_debug
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717 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
718
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720 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
721 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
722 on Path= matching
723 - NamePolicy= replace the current naming rules
724 - MACPolicy= support 'firmware', 'synthetic' and 'random'
725 - Check if Driver= is broken, or just my driver (bcma)
726
2f8cd170 727External:
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cc9784c6 729* dbus:
cc9784c6 730 - dbus --user
3377af3e 731 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
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733 - allow disabling of fd passing when connecting a AF_UNIX connection
3377af3e 734 - allow disabling of UID passing for AUTH EXTERNAL
b69d29ce 735 - always pass cred data along each message
b44be3ec 736 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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741
9096ad36 742* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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744* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
745 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
746 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
747 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
748 the RTC to sync up.
749
71092d70 750* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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753
754* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
755
756* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
757
758* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
759
760* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
761
d2bbca68 762* 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=
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764* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
765
766* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 767
4641a16b 768* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
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129126f3 770Regularly:
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129126f3 772* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 773
129126f3 774* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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776* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
8c6db833 777
14212119 778* %m in printf() instead of strerror(errno);
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780* pahole
781
71092d70 782* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 783
4db17f29 784* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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787
9e5f3dbb 788Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 790* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)