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71092d70 1Bugfixes:
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2* enabling an instance unit creates pointless link, and
3 the unit will be started with getty@getty.service:
4 $ systemctl enable getty@.service
5 ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service' '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@.service'
6
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7* check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
8
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9* swap units that are activated by one name but shown in the kernel under another are semi-broken
10
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11* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
12 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
13 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
14
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15* make polkit checks async
16
a40593a0 17* 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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466784c8 19Fedora 20:
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dc7adf20 21* external: ps should gain colums for slice and machine
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81d112a8 23* localed:
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24 - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps
25
55d32caf 26* when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
466784c8 27 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
55d32caf 28
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29CGroup Rework Completion:
30
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31* introduce "mainpid" for scopes
32
33* implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?)
34
35* implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
36
37* handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
38
39* logind: implement session kill exceptions
40
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41* make BlockIODeviceWeight=, BlockIODeviceBandwidth= runtime settable
42
049b4474 43* introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
bafb15ba 44
431c72dc 45* wiki: document new bus APIs of PID 1 (transient units, Reloading signal)
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eb124a97 47Features:
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49* for transient units, instead of writing out drop-ins for all properties consider serializing them in the normal serialization stream
50
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51* logind: when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects
52
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53* session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
54
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55* add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
56
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57* journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
58
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59* given that logind/machined now let PID 1 do all nasty work we can
60 probably reduce the capability set they retain substantially.
61
6aaa8c2f 62* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
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64* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
65
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66* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
67
e1b7e7ec 68* make sure gdm doesn't use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
18d4e7c2 69
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70* 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
71
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72* when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop we should ratelimit that too.
73
c5757cc8 74* "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, should
69af4503 75 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
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76 unit however should remove them all).
77
78* journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
79
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80* systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
81
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82* do we really need both hasprefix() and startswith()?
83
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84* journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
85 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
86 to syslog when it works again.
87
88* prohibit Restart= set with Type=oneshot
89
90* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
91
92* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
93
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94* add a fixed dbus path for "my own unit", "my own session", ... to PID1, logind, ...
95
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96* service_coldplug() appears to reinstall the wrong stop timeout watch?
97
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98* transient units: allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
99
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100* how to reset dynamically changed attributes sanely?
101
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102* when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
103
4ad49000 104* journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
3d3ee759 105
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106* libsystemd-logind: sd_session_is_active() and friends: verify
107 validity of session name before appending it to a path
108
9444b1f2 109* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 110 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 111 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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112 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
113 check for that and suppress event handling.
9444b1f2 114
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115* when a service changes state make reflect that in the
116 RUNNING/LISTENING states of its socket
117
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118* when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
119 the hierarchies of child processes
120
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121* document logic of auto/noauto and fail/nofail in fstab in systemd.mount or systemd-fstab-generator man page
122
9444b1f2 123* we should properly escape ssh hostnames we add into dbus server strings
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125* something pulls in pcre as so dep into our daemons such as hostnamed.
126
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127* document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
128
a65f06bb 129* change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
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130 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
131 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
132 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
133
134* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
135 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
136
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137* libsystemd-bus:
138 - default policy (allow uid == 0 and our own uid)
139 - enforce alignment of pointers passed in
eb01ba5d 140 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
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141 - implement translator service
142 - port systemd to new library
143 - implement busname unit type in systemd
144 - move to gvariant
eb01ba5d 145 - merge busctl into systemctl or so?
e4ee6e5c 146 - synthesize sd_bus_message objects from kernel messages
c7819669 147 - properly implement name registry ioctls for kdbus
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148 - get rid of object hash table, use decision tree everyhwere instead?
149 - implement monitor logic
150 - object vtable logic
151 - longer term:
152 * priority queues
86312ab8 153 * priority inheritance
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155* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
156 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
157 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
158
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159* add an option to nspawn that uses seccomp to make socket(AF_NETLINK,
160 SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_AUDIT) fail the the appropriate error code that
161 makes the audit userspace to think auditing is not available in the
162 kernel.
163
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164* Introduce a way how we can kill the main process of a service with KillSignal, but all processes with SIGKILL later on
165 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952634
166
69af4503 167* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses where the access mode of unit files is nonsensical.
19aa7c4f 168
69af4503 169* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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171* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
172 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
173
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174* if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
175 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
176 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
177 needs setuid().
178
179* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
180
181* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
182
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183* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
184
185* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
186
4a449ed7 187* 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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189* we need dynamic units
190
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191* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
192
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193* test/:
194 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
195 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
196 - remove all the duplicated code in test/
b8b4d3dd 197
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198* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
199
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200* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
201 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
202 file.
203
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204* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
205 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
206 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
207 destination.
208
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209* remove duplicate default deps logic from fstab-generator vs. mount.c
210
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211* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
212 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
213
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214* add ConditionArchitecture= or so
215
216* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
217
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218* Support SO_REUSEPORT with socket activation:
219 - Let systemd maintain a pool of servers.
220 - Use for seamless upgrades, by running the new server before stopping the
221 old.
222
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223* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
224 need manual exponential loops after all
225
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226* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
227 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
228 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
229 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
230
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231* man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf
232
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233* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
234 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
235 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
236 that automatically.
237
69af4503 238* rework specifier logic so that we can distinguish OOM errors from other errors
487060c2 239
e5ec62c5 240* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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242* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
243
54c31a79 244* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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8973790e 246* documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
3679d112 247
69af4503 248* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapse and the time the units ran last
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250* man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
251
252* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
253
69af4503 254* 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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256* systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
257
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258* man: add more examples to man pages
259
260* man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
261
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262* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
263
264* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
265
266* msgcatalog determine default language of entries from the catalog
267 file name. i.e. foobar.de_DE.catalog would set the default entry
268 name for the entries to de_DE if they aren't explicitly suffixed
269 individually.
270
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271* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
272
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273* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
274
990ffbe5 275* Honour "-" prefix for InaccessibleDirectories= and ReadOnlyDirectories= to
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276 suppress errors of the specified path doesn't exist
277
278* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
279 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
280 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
281 will be activated.
282
356ce991 283* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 284
81d112a8 285* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 286
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287* EFI:
288 - fsck hookup for the ESP mount is missing
289 - write man page for efi boot generator
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290 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
291 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 292 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 293
c0fe5db5 294* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 295
b44be3ec 296* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
e9fd44b7 297
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298* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
299 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 301* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 302
b44be3ec 303* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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305* logind:
306 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
307 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
308 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
309 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
310 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
311 - logind: spawn user@..service on login
312 - logind: non-local X11 server handling
313 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
b44be3ec 314 - pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree
eb124a97 315 - logind: GetSessionByPID() should accept 0 as PID value
e5ec62c5 316 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
e673ad04 317
b44be3ec 318* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 319
b44be3ec 320* DeviceAllow/DeviceDeny: disallow everything by default, but whitelist /dev/zero, /dev/null and friends
e673ad04 321
b44be3ec 322* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
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b44be3ec 324* journal:
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325 - do not use magic msync() in src/journal/journal-file.c, just call fsync()
326 <alxchk> poettering: looks like msync just calls vfs_fsync
327 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/mm/msync.c#n18
c06bf414 328 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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329 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
330 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
331 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
332 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
333 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
334 - journal: reuse XZ context
335 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
336 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
337 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
338 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
339 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
340 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
341 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 342 - 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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343 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
344 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
345 - journal: when rotating, copy over old acls/access mode
b44be3ec 346 - 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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347 - 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.
348 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
349 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 350 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 351 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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352 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
353 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
354 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
355 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
77a9e8de 356 - journalctl: expand tabs
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357 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
358 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
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359 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
360 - Port upower to use the journal for historical power information used in future calculations
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362* document:
363 - document unit_name_mangle()
364 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in
365 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
366 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
367 - Document word splitting syntax for ExecStart= and friends
368 - document that units from /etc override those from /usr and /run
369 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 370 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 371 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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373* systemctl:
374 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
375 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
376 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
377 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
378 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
379 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
380 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
381 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
382 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
383 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
384 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
385 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
386 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
8b04b925 387
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388* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
389
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390* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
391
392* timer units:
393 - configurable jitter for timer events
394 - timer events with system resume
395 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
396 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
397 o DST changes
eb124a97 398 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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400* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
401
402* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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403 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
404 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 405 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 406 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 407 user did not request anything like it.
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409* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
410 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
411 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
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413* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
414 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
415 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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416 we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in
417 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
418 better supported alternative.
e707c494 419
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420* figure out relation of --all and --full in the various tools
421
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422* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
423
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424* 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().
425
426* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
427* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
428* fedup: generator
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b44be3ec 430* timedated:
b44be3ec 431 - timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
6d0274f1 432
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433* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
434
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435* introduce generic AUGMENT_PID=, AUGMENT_DEVICE= fields
436
b44be3ec 437* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 438
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439* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
440 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
441 - superset of tmpfiles model
442 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
443 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
444 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
445
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446* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
447 waiting for the timeout
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449* high level net_prio setting in execution context
450
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451* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
452
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453* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
454
15abdb9a 455* refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful (or set taint?)
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457* nspawn:
458 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly
459 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
460 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
461 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
462 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
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463 - nspawn: investigate whether we can support the same as LXC's
464 lxc.network.type=phys mode, and pass through entire network
465 interfaces to the container
466 - nspawn: maybe add a way to drop additional caps, in addition to add additional caps
467 - nspawn: maybe explicitly reset loginuid?
3679d112 468 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
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470* cryptsetup:
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471 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
472 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
473 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 474 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 475
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476* move debug shell to tty6 and make sure this doesn't break the gettys on tty6
477
424a19f8 478* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 479 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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481* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
482
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483* make timer units go away after they elapsed
484
8556879e 485* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 486 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
8556879e 487
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488* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
489
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490* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
491
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492* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
493
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494* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
495
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496* system.conf should have controls for cgroups
497
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498* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
499
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500* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
501
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502* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container
503
68f16003 504* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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506* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
507
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508* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
509 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
510 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
511 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 512 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 513 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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515* use opterr = 0 for all getopt tools
516
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517* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
518
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519* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
520
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521* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
522
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523* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
524
88a6c589 525* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
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528 - syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls
529 - syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs?
530 - syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS?
531 - syscall filter: port to libseccomp
532 - system-wide seccomp filter
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534* .device aliases need to be implemented with the "following" logic, probably.
535
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536* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
537 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
538
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539* introduce Type=pid-file
540
59cea26a 541* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 542
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543* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
544
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545* move passno parsing to fstab generator
546
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547* automount: implement expire:
548 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
549 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
550 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
551 - blocking, needs a thread
552 - run until -EAGAIN
553 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
554 - call umount
555 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
556 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
465349c0 557
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559
e01a15b7 560* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 561
abd55b16 562* udev:
3f60bcb5 563 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
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565 - unify utf8 validator code with shared/
566 - kill scsi_id
567 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
b8217b7b 568
18b754d3 569* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording
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571* 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
572
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573* support container_ttys=
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575* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
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577* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
578
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579* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
580
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581* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
582
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583* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
584
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585* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
586
587* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
588
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589* clean up session cgroups that remain after logout (think sshd), but eventually run empty
590
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591* when an instanced service exits, remove its parent cgroup too if possible.
592
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593* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
594
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595* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
596 needs to be auto-respawned?
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598* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
599
de6c78f8 600* tmpfiles: apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 601
b44be3ec 602* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
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d3c7d7dd 606* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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608* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
609 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
610
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611* move PAM code into its own binary
612
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613* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
614 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
615
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616* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
617
7c697168 618* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 619
71092d70 620* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
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622* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
623 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
624 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
625
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626* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
627 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
628
71092d70 629* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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632 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
633 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
634 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
635 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
636 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
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638* add support for /bin/mount -s
639
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640* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
641
68c7d001 642* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 643 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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644 - enabling dbus services
645 - status update
7a2a0b90 646 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 647 - remote access
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648 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
649 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 650 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 651 - auto-restart
e707c494 652 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 653 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 654 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 655 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 656 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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657 - calendar time events
658 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
659 - how to create your own target
660 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
661 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
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44143309 663* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 664
71092d70 665* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 666
260abb78 667* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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670
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671* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
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673* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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675* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
676
129126f3 677* port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID:
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678 - rpcbind (/var/run/rpcbind.sock!) HAVEPATCH
679 - cups HAVEPATCH
a625ac1a 680 - postfix, saslauthd
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681 - apache/samba
682 - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro)
683 - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!)
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684 - distccd
685
71092d70 686* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
246756ca 687
50f2a90d 688* io priority during initialization
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691
7ba97195 692* systemd-python:
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694 works with ^C
b04c8c83 695 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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697* bootchart:
698 - plot per-process IO utilization
699 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
700 - document initcall_debug
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702
2f8cd170 703External:
74fe1fe3 704
cc9784c6 705* dbus:
cc9784c6 706 - dbus --user
3377af3e 707 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
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709 - allow disabling of fd passing when connecting a AF_UNIX connection
3377af3e 710 - allow disabling of UID passing for AUTH EXTERNAL
b69d29ce 711 - always pass cred data along each message
b44be3ec 712 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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715
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716* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
717
9096ad36 718* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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720* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
721 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
722 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
723 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
724 the RTC to sync up.
725
71092d70 726* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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729
730* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
731
732* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
733
734* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
735
736* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
737
d2bbca68 738* 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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740* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
741
742* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 743
4641a16b 744* 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 746Regularly:
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129126f3 748* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 749
129126f3 750* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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752* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
8c6db833 753
14212119 754* %m in printf() instead of strerror(errno);
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756* pahole
757
71092d70 758* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 759
4db17f29 760* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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763
9e5f3dbb 764Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 766* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)