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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* add --copy-from and --copy-to command to systemd-dissect which copies stuff
21 in and out of a disk image
22
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23* add systemd.random_seed= on the kernel cmdline, taking some hex or base64
24 encoded data. During earliest boot, credit it to entropy. This is not useful
25 for general purpose systems, but certainly for testing environments in VMs
26 and such, as it allows us to boot up instantly with fully initialized entropy
27 pool even if RNG pass-thru is not available.
28
29* Support ProtectProc= or so, using: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11310197/
30
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31* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
32
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33* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
34 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
35
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36* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
37 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
38 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
39 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
40 anything like that.
41
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42* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
43 client UID, so tht synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
44 user's journal stream down but not the others.
45
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46* add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
47 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
48 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
49
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50* move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
51 these days
52
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53* nspawn: support time namespaces
54
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55* add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
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57* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
58 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
59
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60* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
61
62* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
63
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64* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
65 when it exits
66
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67* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
68 o turn into dlopen() deps:
69 - pcre2 (always) — irrelevant on Fedora, since dep by
70 libselinux, but should benefit Debian
71 - libpwquality (always) - only relevant for homed, and maybe soon
72 firstboot
73 - elfutils (always)
74 - p11-kit-trust (always)
75 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
76 - cryptsetup-libs (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not in systemd-cryptsetup)
77 - similar: libblkid
78 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
79 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
80 since they are so basic and our defaults)
81 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
82 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
83
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84* seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
85 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
86 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
87
88* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
89 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
90 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
91
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92* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
93 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
94
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95* make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
96 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
97 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
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99* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
100 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, firstboot, tmpfiles,
101 sysusers, systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl.
102
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103* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
104
105* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
106 specific service
107
108* seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
109
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110* per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
111 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
112 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
113 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
114 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
115 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
116 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
117 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
118
119* homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
120 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
121
122* homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
123 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
124
125* homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
126 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
127 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
128
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129* homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
130 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
131 signature
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133* homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
134 and insert a local signature instead.
135
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136* homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
137 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
138 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
15dd4515 139 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
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140 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
141
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142* homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
143
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144* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
145 exists and responds.
146
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147* homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
148 easily?
149
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150* when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
151 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
152 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
153 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
154 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
155
97cd52c1 156* cryptsetup/homed: also support FIDO2 HMAC password logic for unlocking
70e9d9a5 157 devices. (see: https://github.com/mjec/fido2-hmac-secret)
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159* systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
160 creates
161
86b52a39 162* homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
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163 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
164 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
165 hence we can make them quicker to work.
166
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167* bootctl:
168 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
169 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
170 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
171
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172* by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
173 allow so that systemd survives
174
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175* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
176 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
177
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178* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
179 systemd-makefs.service instead.
180
91fc013f 181* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 182 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
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184* unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
185 confusion is gone)
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186 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
187 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
188 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
189 - port importd over from libgcrypt
190 - when that's done: kill khash.c
191 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
192
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193* kill zenata, all hail weblate?
194
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195* when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
196
197* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
198 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
199
200* hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
201 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
202 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
203 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
204 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
205
492f91d8 206* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
86b52a39 207 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
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208 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
209 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
210
86b52a39 211* systemd-repart: optionally, allow specifying a path to initialize new
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212 partitions from, i.e. an fs image file or a source device node. This would
213 then turn systemd-repart into a simple installer: with a few .repart files
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214 you could replicate the host system on another device. a full installer would
215 then be: "systemd-repart /dev/sda && bootctl install /dev/sda &&
216 systemd-firstboot --image= …"
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218* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
219 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
220 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
221 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
222 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
223 automatically.
224
225* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
226 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
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228* systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
229 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
230
231* systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
232
233* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
234 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
235
236* systemd-repart: add specifier expansion, add especifier that refers to root
237 device node of current system, /usr device node, and matching verity, so that
238 an installer can be made a "copy" installer of the booted OS
239
2a4be3c5 240* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
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241 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
242
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243* systemd-repart: allow config of partition uuid
244
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245* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
246 realname substr searches in varlink API
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248* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
249
2a4be3c5 250* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 251
f1eb0ccd 252* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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254* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
255 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
256 initrd had set.
257
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258* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
259 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
260 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
261 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
262 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
263 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
264
265* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
266 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
267 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
268
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269* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
270 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
271 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
272 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
273 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
274 source.
275
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276* figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
277 with immutable /usr
278
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279* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
280 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
281 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
282
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283* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
284
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285* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
286 the hibernation
287
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288* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
289 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
290 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
291 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
292 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
293 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
294 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
295 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
296 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
297 hibernation mode. (see
298 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
299 section 10.2.2.8 and
300 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
301 at the end).
302
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303* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
304 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
305 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
306 output for them.
307
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308* systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
309 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
310
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311* We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
312 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
313 constant vendor data.
314
c6526b8d 315* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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317* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
318 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
319
320* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
321 fallback in "machinectl shell"
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323* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
324 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
325 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
326
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327* homed:
328 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
329 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
330 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
331 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
332 - resize on login?
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333 - shrink fs on logout?
334 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
335 - create on activate?
336 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
337 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
338 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
339 systemd --user is shut down.
340 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
341 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk images (think: time machine)
86b52a39 342 - 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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343 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
344 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
345 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
346 - description field for groups
347 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
348 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
349 - query password from kernel keyring first
350 - update even if record is "absent"
351 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
352 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
353 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
354 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
355 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
356 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
357
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358* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
359 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
360 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
361 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
362 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
363 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
364 exec().
365
366* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
367
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368* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
369 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
370
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371* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
372
373* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
374 gnome-bluetooth and friends
375
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376* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
377 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
378 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
379 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
380 cgroup.
381
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382* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
383 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
384 root.
385
386* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
387 is issued.
388
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389* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
390
391* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
392
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393* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
394 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
395 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 396
d238709c 397* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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398 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
399 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
400
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401* add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
402 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
403 ConfigurationDirectory=.
404
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405* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
406
d3584ec4 407* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
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409* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
410 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
411
06898123 412* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 413 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 414 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
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416* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
417
418* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
419 patching around
420
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421* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
422 log.c and sd-journal-send
423
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424* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
425
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426* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
427
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428* sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
429 can add in file system drivers and such
430
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431* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
432 non-zero "tries done" count
433
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434* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
435 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
436 it should skip the variant type string though.
437
438* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
439 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
440 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
441 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
442 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
443 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
444 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
445 CODE_FILE.
446
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447* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
448 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
449 some explanatory text online.
450
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451* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
452
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453* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
454 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
455 the slices, and the units attached to them.
456
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457* the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
458 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
bc130b68 459 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
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460 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
461 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
462 way)
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464* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
465 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
466 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
467
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468* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
469 original defaults before calling parse_config()
470
72d711ef 471* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
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473* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
474 Specifically:
475
476 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
477 properly)
e83419d0 478 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 479 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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481* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
482 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
483
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484* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
485 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
486 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
487 files and suchlike we operate on.
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489* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
490
491* add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
492
493* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
494 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
495
5da19043 496* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
5238e957 497 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
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499 numbers.
500
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501* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
502 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
503 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
504 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
505 unlinked from any dir.
506
bd1b3f75 507* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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510
511* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
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513* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
514 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
515 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
516 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
517 should reflink the image file itself.
518
519 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
520 specific paths only like this.
521
53c70a27 522* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 523 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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525 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
526 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
527
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528* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
529
530* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
531
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532* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
533 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
534
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535* teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
536 project quota
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538* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
539 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
540 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
541 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
542 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
543 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
544 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
545 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
546
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547* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
548 for root, but only then.
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550* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
551
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552* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
553 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
554
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555* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
556 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
557
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558* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
559 host-side interface pointing to the container.
560
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561* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
562 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
563 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
564 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
565 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
566
cb77e122 567* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 568
899feb72 569* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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572 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
573 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
574
5f7ecd61 575* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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577* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
578 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
579
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580* blog about fd store and restartable services
581
582* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
583
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584* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
585 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
586
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587* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
588 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
589 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
590 ID is available.
591
592* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
593 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
594 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
595
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596* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
597 parameters
598
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599* maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
600 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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602 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
603 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
604 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
605 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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608 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
609
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610* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
611 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
612 wait to retrieve their exit data.
613
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614* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
615 about it in the resource log message
616
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617* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
618 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
619
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620* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
621 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
622 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
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625 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
626
627 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
628
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630 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
631 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
632 logging.
633
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635 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
636 "convertible" form factor
637
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638* Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
639 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
640 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
641 as MAINPID.
642
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643* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
644 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
645 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
646
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647* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
648 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
649
650* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
651 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
652 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
653 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
654 natural habitat.
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657 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
658 /usr is mounted into.
659
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660* 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
661
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662* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
663
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664* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
665 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
666 relative to the configured default value.
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669
670* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
671
04397464 672* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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674* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
675
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676* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
677
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678* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
679
04397464 680* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 681
04397464 682* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 683
04397464 684* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 685
8ce9b83a 686* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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688* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
689 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
690 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
691
e40a326c 692* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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694* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
695
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696* mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
697 partitions
698
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699* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
700 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
701 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
702 mapping to work.
703
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704* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
705
706* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
707
708* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
709
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710* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
711 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
712
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713* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
714 reload the unit file anyway
715
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716* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
717 from the SIGBUS handler
718
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719* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
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721* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
722 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
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725
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726* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
727 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
728
f9bf1b8f 729* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 730 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 731 specifications.
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734
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737* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
738
a2088fd0 739* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 740 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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742 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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744* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
745
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746* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
747
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748* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
749 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
750 state.
751 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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753* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
754 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
755 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
756 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
757 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
758
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759* networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
760 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
761
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762* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
763
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764* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
765 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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767* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
768 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
769 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
770 do, for example)
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772* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
773 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
774
e031c227 775* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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776 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
777
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778* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
779
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780* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
781 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
782 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
783 returning from the "systemctl stop".
784
b568ef14 785* 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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787* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
788
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789* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
790 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
791
25e773ee 792* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 793
279f0366 794* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 795
5238e957 796* systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
b42de08a 797 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
202aea45 798
720652b3 799* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 800
720652b3 801* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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803* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
804
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805* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
806 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
807
9d6db739 808* resolved:
9d6db739 809 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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811 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 812 - avahi compat
9d6db739 813 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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814 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
815 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
816 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 817 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 818 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 819
e25b5a8d 820* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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824* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
825
a01647e5 826* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 827 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
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829* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
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831* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
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833* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
834
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835* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
836 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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838* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
839
6a3f892a 840* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 841 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 842 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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844* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
845 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
846 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 847
f9bf1b8f 848* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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850* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
851 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
852 for ReusePort=
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854* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
855 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
856 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
857 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
858 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
859 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
860
f38afcd0 861* cgroups:
f38afcd0 862 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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863 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
864 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
865 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
866 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
867 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 868
f38afcd0 869* transient units:
f38afcd0 870 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
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872* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
873
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874* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
875
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876* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
877
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878* 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
879
7f79cd71 880* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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882* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
883 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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884 path anyway.
885
04397464 886* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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888* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
889
890* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
891
6bb648a1 892* sd-bus:
0d43ffef 893 - EBADSLT handling
fa607802 894 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
7212c608 895 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
57f2a947 896 - 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 897 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 898 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
ab9716c2 899 - longer term: priority inheritance
df98a87b 900 - dbus spec updates:
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902 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 903 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 904 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
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906* sd-event
12179984 907 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 908 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
e25b5a8d 909 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
eb01ba5d 910
69af4503 911* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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914 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
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917
918* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
919
fff87a35 920* test/:
20d52ab6 921 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 922
b5c03638 923* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 924 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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926 destination.
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929 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
930
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933* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
934 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
935 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
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938 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
939 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
940 is installed.
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943 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
944 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
945 that automatically.
946
e5ec62c5 947* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 948
ccddd104 949* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 950
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951* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
952
356ce991 953* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 954
b44be3ec 955* EFI:
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956 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
957 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 958 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 959* bootctl
631427d6 960 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 961
c0fe5db5 962* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 963
b44be3ec 964* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 965
b44be3ec 966* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
e6c6e7af 967
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968* logind:
969 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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970 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
971 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
972 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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973 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
974 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
975 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
976 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
977 needs setuid().
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978 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
979 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
980 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
981 complete.
982 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
983 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
984 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
279f0366 985 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
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986 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
987 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
988 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
989 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
990 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
991 relogins
77b19caf 992 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 993
b44be3ec 994* journal:
57f2a947 995 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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996 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
997 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
998 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 999 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1000 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1001 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1002 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1003 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1004 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1005 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1006 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1007 - 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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1008 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1009 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
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1010 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
1011 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1012 - 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.
1013 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1014 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1015 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1016 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1017 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1018 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1019 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1020 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1021 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1022 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1023 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1024 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1025 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1026 to syslog when it works again.
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1027 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1028 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1029 journals in.
1030 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1031 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1032 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1033 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1034 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1035 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1036 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1037 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1038 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1039 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1040 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1041 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1042 operation.
1043 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1044 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1045 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1046 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1047 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1048 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1049 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1050 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1051 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
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1054 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1055 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1056 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1057
b44be3ec 1058* document:
8b8f2591 1059 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1060 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1061 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1062 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1063 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1064 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1065 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1066 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1067 - man: add more examples to man pages
1068 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1069 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1070
1071* systemctl:
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1072 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1073 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1074 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1075 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1076 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1077 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1078 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1079 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1080 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1081 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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1082
1083* unit install:
1084 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1085 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
8b04b925 1086
b44be3ec 1087* timer units:
b44be3ec 1088 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
b44be3ec 1089 o DST changes
90e071d1 1090 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 1091
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1092* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1093
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1094* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1095
b44be3ec 1096* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 1097
f59d1da8 1098* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
dcfc4b2e 1099
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1100* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1101
d28315e4 1102* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 1103
b44be3ec 1104* nspawn:
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1105 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1106 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1107 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1108 from the kernel's logs.
1109 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1110 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1111 interface be missing
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1112 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1113 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1114 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1115 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1116 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1117 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1118 PID 1...
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1119 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1120 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1121
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1122* dissect
1123 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1124 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1125
e25b5a8d 1126* machined:
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1127 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1128 removed or added to an existing machine
1129 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1130 difference host, via ssh
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1131 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1132 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1133 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1134 question
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1135 - "machinectl history"
1136 - "machinectl diff"
1137 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1138 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1139
b44be3ec 1140* cryptsetup:
b44be3ec 1141 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
5f1dac6b 1142 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 1143
424a19f8 1144* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 1145 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
424a19f8 1146
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1147* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1148
68f16003 1149* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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1151* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1152
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1153* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1154
abd55b16 1155* udev:
abd55b16 1156 - move to LGPL
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1157 - kill scsi_id
1158 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1159 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1160
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1161* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1162
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1163* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1164
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1165* coredump:
1166 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1167 - 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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1168
1169* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1170
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1171* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1172 needs to be auto-respawned?
1173
f38afcd0 1174* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1175 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1176 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1177 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1178 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1179 calls follow symlinks.
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1181* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1182
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1183* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1184 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1185 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1186
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1187* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1188 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1189
71092d70 1190* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 1191
68c7d001 1192* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 1193 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
68c7d001 1194 - enabling dbus services
7a2a0b90 1195 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 1196 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 1197 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 1198 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 1199 - auto-restart
e707c494 1200 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 1201 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 1202 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 1203 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 1204 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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1205 - calendar time events
1206 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1207 - how to create your own target
1208 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1209 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 1210
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1211* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1212
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1213* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1214
e25b5a8d 1215* pid1:
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1216 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1217 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1218 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1219 that are not supported...
1220 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1221 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1222 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1223 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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1224 - move PAM code into its own binary
1225 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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1226 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1227 - Support --test based on current system state
1228 - 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().
1229 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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1230 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1231 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1232 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1233 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1234 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1235 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1236 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1237 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1238
1239* unit files:
1240 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1241 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1242 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1243 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1244 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1245 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1246 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1247 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
e25b5a8d 1248 - introduce Type=pid-file
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1249 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1250 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
e25b5a8d 1251 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
e5171296 1252 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
e25b5a8d 1253
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1254* udev-link-config:
1255 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1256 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1257 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1258
88e4d1d7 1259* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1260 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1261 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1262
0a4b9a07 1263* networkd:
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1264 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1265 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 1266 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 1267 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1268 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 1269 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1270 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1271 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1272 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 1273 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 1274 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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1275 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1276 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1277 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1278 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1279 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1280 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1281 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
e25b5a8d 1282 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1283
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1284* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1285
ac976532 1286* dhcp:
424a8732 1287 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1288
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1289* dhcp6:
1290 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1291 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1292 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1293 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1294 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1295 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1296 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1297 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1298 or interface down
1299 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1300 this behavior
4a77c53d 1301 - RouteTable= ?
37d8b536 1302
2f8cd170 1303External:
74fe1fe3 1304
cc9784c6 1305* dbus:
3377af3e 1306 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 1307 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 1308
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1309* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1310
71092d70 1311* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
14bd37fe 1312
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1313* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1314
d2bbca68 1315* 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 1316
8973790e 1317* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 1318
4641a16b 1319* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
19aa7c4f 1320
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1321* register catalog database signature as file magic
1322
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1323* zsh shell completion:
1324 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 1325 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1cf3c30c 1326
90137b62 1327* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
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1328* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1329 after being started.
2c12a402 1330
129126f3 1331Regularly:
874aa2cc 1332
129126f3 1333* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 1334
129126f3 1335* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
5b6319dc 1336
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1337* pahole
1338
d28315e4 1339* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 1340
4db17f29 1341* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
88fae6e0 1342
d05c556b 1343* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
62353f69 1344String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment