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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Should systemctl status \* work on all unit types, not just .service?
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5* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
6 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
7 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
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afe3ab58 9* ExecStart with unicode characters fails in strv_split_quoted:
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11 [Service]
12 Environment=ONE='one' "TWO='two two' too" THREE=
13 ExecStart=/bin/python3 -c 'import sys;print(sys.argv)' $ONE $TWO $THREE
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3f85ef0f 15* MEMORY return code is overloaded for syntax errors in the command line.
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16 str_split_quoted() should return a real return code, so spawn_child can
17 report the failure properly.
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19* When systemctl --host is used, underlying ssh connection can remain open.
20 bus_close does not kill children?
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f38afcd0 22External:
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f38afcd0 24* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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81429136 26* Fedora: move kernel image to /usr/lib/modules/, kernel-install will take care of populating /boot
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28* Fedora: remove /etc/resolv.conf tmpfiles hack
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30* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
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32* When lz4 gets an API for lz4 command output, make use of it to
33 compress coredumps in a way compatible with /usr/bin/lz4.
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35Features:
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37* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
38 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
39 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
40 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
41 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
42
43* We should remove really old cruft from cdrom_id
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45* nspawn: emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
46 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
47 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
48 from the kernel's logs.
49
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50* networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
51 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
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53* When RLIMIT_NPROC is set from a unit file it currently always is set
54 for root, not for the user set in User=, which makes it
55 useless. After fixing this, set RLIMIT_NPROC for
56 systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our services that run under
57 their own user ids, and use User= (but only in a world where userns
58 is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot invoke those daemons on the
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59 host AND in a container anymore). Also, if LimitNPROC= is used
60 without User= we should warn and refuse operation.
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62* logind: maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
63
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64* Set NoNewPriviliges= on all of our own services, where that makes sense
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66* Rework systemctl's GetAll property parsing to use the generic bus_map_all_properties() API
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68* rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
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70* import-dkr: support tarsum checksum verification, if it becomes reality one day...
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72* import-dkr: convert json bits to nspawn configuration
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74* import: support import from local files, and export to local files
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76* core/cgroup: support net_cls modules, and support automatically allocating class ids, then add support for making firewall changes depending on it, to implement a per-service firewall
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78* introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
79
cc98b302 80* logind,machined: add generic catch-all polkit verbs for most privileged operations, similar to systemd itself
a47e6701 81
fa607802 82* "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in question
a47e6701 83
92ff080b 84* "machinectl list-images" should show os-release data, as well as machine-info data (including deployment level)
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86* nspawn: when start a container "foobar" look for its configuration in a file "foobar.nspawn" in /etc/systemd/nspawn/ as well as next to the actualy directory or image to boot
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88* Port various tools to make use of verbs.[ch], where applicable
89
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90* "machinectl history"
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92* "machinectl diff"
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94* "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
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96* "machinectl status" should show 10 most recent log lines of both the host logs of the unit of the machine, plus the logs generated in the machine
97
91f4347e 98* add transparent btrfs pool in a loopback file in /var if btrfs operations (such as systemd-import pull-dkr) are used and /var is not a btrfs file system
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100* systemd-nspawn -x should support ephemeral instances of gpt images
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102* move machinectl's mount and copy commands into machined
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104* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
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106* sysfs set api in libudev is not const
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108* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
109 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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111* port libmount hookup to use API's own inotify interface, as soon as that is table in libmount
112
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113* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
114 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
115 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
116 do, for example)
117
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118* resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
119 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
120 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
121
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122* systemd-journal-upload (or a new, related tool): allow pushing out
123 journal messages onto the network in BSD syslog protocol,
f131770b 124 continuously. Default to some link-local IP mcast group, to make this
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125 useful as a one-stop debugging tool.
126
127* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
128 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
129
130* as soon as we have kdbus, and sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
131 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
132
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133* set $REMOTE_IP (or $REMOTE_ADDR/$REMOTE_PORT) environment variable when doing per-connection socket activation. use format introduced by xinetd or CGI for this
134
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135* the install state probably shouldn't get confused by generated units, think dbus1/kdbus compat!
136
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137* in systemctl list-unit-files: show the install value the presets would suggest for a service in a third column
138
139* we should try harder to collapse start jobs for swaps that end up being the same:
140 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-November/025359.html
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142* timedated should compensate on SetTime for the time spent in polkit
143
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144* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
145
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146* sd-resolve: drop res_query wrapping, people should call via the bus to resolved instead
147
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148* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
149 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
150 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
151 returning from the "systemctl stop".
152
b568ef14 153* 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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155* timesyncd + resolved: add ugly bus calls to set NTP and DNS servers per-interface, for usage by NM
156
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157* add infrastructure to allocate dynamic/transient users and UID ranges, for use in user-namespaced containers, per-seat gdm login screens and gdm guest sessions
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159* machined: add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being removed or added to an existing machine
160
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161* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
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163* code cleanup: retire FOREACH_WORD_QUOTED, port to unquote_first_word() loops instead
164
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165* introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix?
166
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167* systemd --user should issue sd_notify() upon reaching basic.target, not on becoming idle
168
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169* consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions
170
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171* dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
172
173* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
174 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
175
25e773ee 176* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
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178* maybe provide an API to allow migration of foreign PIDs into existing scopes.
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180* maybe support a new very "soft" reboot mode, that simply kills all processes, disassembles everything, flushes /run and sysvipc, and then reexecs systemd again
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182* man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
183
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184* man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
185
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186* "machinectl list" should probably show columns for OS version and IP addresses
187
279f0366 188* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 189
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190* systemctl edit:
191- allow creation of units from scratch
192- use equvalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
193 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
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195* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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197* exponential backoff in timesyncd and resolved when we cannot reach a server
198
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199* tmpfiles: port to unquote_many_words(), similar to sysusers
200
201* unquote_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that
202 currently uses FOREACH_WORD and friends. For example, most conf
203 parsing callbacks should use it.
204
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205* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
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207* systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
208 units are shown.
209
b873d33e 210* networkd:
d61bb44a 211 - add LLDP client side support
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212 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
213 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
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214 - .network setting that allows overriding of the hostname to send to the dhcp server
215 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-July/021550.html
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216 - expose in the API the following bits:
217 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
218 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
219 - option 100, 101, timezone
220 - option 123, 144, geolocation
221 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
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222 - networkd's dhcp server should transparently pass on the DNS and
223 NTP server list it got from user configuration and its dhcp client
224 to clients. It should also pass on its own timezone information.
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225 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
226 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
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227 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
228 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
b873d33e 229
9d6db739 230* resolved:
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231 - put networkd events and rtnl events at a higher priority, so that
232 we always process them before we process client requests
9d6db739 233 - DNSSEC
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234 - use base64 for key presentation?
235 - add display of private key types (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4034#appendix-A.1.1)?
151226ab 236 - add nice formatting of DNS timestamps
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237 - DNS
238 - search paths
9d6db739 239 - mDNS/DNS-SD
0f47ed0a 240 - avahi compat
9d6db739 241 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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242 - edns0
243 - dname
b6b63571 244 - cname on PTR (?)
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245 - maybe randomize DNS UDP source ports
246 - maybe compare query section of DNS replies
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248* Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
249
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250* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
251
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252* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
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a01647e5 254* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 255 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
a940778f 256 - fstab-generator: support systemd.volatile=yes|no|state on the kernel cmdline, too, similar to nspawn's --volatile=
a01647e5 257
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258* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
259
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260* timer units: actually add extra delays to timer units with high AccuracySec values, don't start them already when we are awake...
261
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262* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
263
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264* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
265
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266* mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied
267
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268* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
269 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 270
f598ac3e 271* Run most system services with cgroupfs read-only and procfs with a more secure mode (doesn't work, since the hidepid= option is per-pid-namespace, not per-mount)
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273* sd-event: generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
274
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275* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
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277* consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
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279* sd-event: define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
280
6a3f892a 281* gpt-auto-generator:
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282 - Support LUKS for root devices
283 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 284 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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286* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
287 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
288 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 289
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290* MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
291
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292* "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
293 /proc/$PID/exe
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295* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
296 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
297 for ReusePort=
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299* socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
300 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
301 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
302 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
303 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
304
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305* New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
306
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307* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
308 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
309 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
310 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
311 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
312 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
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315 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
316 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
317 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
318 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
319 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
320 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
321 the hierarchies of child processes
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323* transient units:
324 - allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
325 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
326 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
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328* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
329
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330* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
331
f38afcd0 332* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
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334* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
335
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336* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
337
94676f3e 338* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
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340* 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
341
7f79cd71 342* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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344* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
345 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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346 path anyway.
347
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348* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
349
6aaa8c2f 350* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 351
d28315e4 352* make sure gdm does not use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
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354* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
355
356* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
357
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358* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
359 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
360
6bb648a1 361* sd-bus:
fa607802 362 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
d0928791 363 - kdbus: process fd=-1 for incoming msgs
7212c608 364 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1f140dd8 365 - kdbus: maybe add controlling tty metadata fields
57f2a947 366 - 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
d28315e4 367 - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
f38afcd0 368 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 369 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
dc17bcef 370 - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async?
80caea6c 371 - kdbus: matches against source or destination pids for an "strace -p"-like feel. Problem: The PID info needs to be available in userspace too...
ab9716c2 372 - longer term: priority inheritance
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373 - dbus spec updates:
374 - kdbus mapping
375 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
376 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 377 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 378 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
69727e6d 379 - test bloom filter generation indexes
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380 - bus-proxy: when passing messages from kdbus, make sure we properly
381 handle the case where a large number of fds is appended that we
382 cannot pass into sendmsg() of the AF_UNIX sokcet (which only accepts
383 253 messages)
b568ef14 384 - kdbus: introduce a concept of "send-only" connections
0ad68f87 385 - kdbus: add counter for refused unicast messages that is passed out via the RECV ioctl. SImilar to the counter for dropped multicast messages we already have.
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387* sd-event
12179984 388 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 389 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
eb01ba5d 390
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391* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
392 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
393 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
394
69af4503 395* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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397* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
398 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
399
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400* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
401
402* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
403
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404* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
405
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406* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
407
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408* test/:
409 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
410 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
b8b4d3dd 411
b5c03638 412* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 413 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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414 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
415 destination.
416
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417* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
418 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
419
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420* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
421
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422* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
423 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
424 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
425 is installed.
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427* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
428 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
429 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
430 that automatically.
431
e5ec62c5 432* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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434* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
435
d28315e4 436* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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438* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
439
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440* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
441
442* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
443
356ce991 444* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 445
81d112a8 446* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 447
b44be3ec 448* EFI:
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449 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
450 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 451 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 452
c0fe5db5 453* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 454
b44be3ec 455* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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457* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
458 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
3040728b 459
b44be3ec 460* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 461
b44be3ec 462* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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465 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
466 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
467 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
468 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
469 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
e5ec62c5 470 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
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471 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
472 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
473 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
474 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
475 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
476 needs setuid().
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477 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
478 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
479 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
480 complete.
481 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
482 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
483 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
484 - logind: allow users to kill or lock their own sessions
485 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
486 - given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
487 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
488 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
b568ef14 489 - expose orientation sensors and tablet mode through logind
e673ad04 490
b44be3ec 491* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 492
b44be3ec 493* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
e673ad04 494
b44be3ec 495* journal:
57f2a947 496 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
c06bf414 497 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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498 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
499 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
500 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 501 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
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502 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
503 - journal: reuse XZ context
504 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
505 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
506 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
507 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
508 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
509 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
510 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 511 - 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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512 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
513 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
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514 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
515 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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516 - 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.
517 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
518 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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519 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
520 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
521 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
522 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 523 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 524 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 525 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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526 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
527 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
528 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
529 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
530 to syslog when it works again.
531 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
532 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
533 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
d28315e4 534 so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
f38afcd0 535 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
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537 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
538 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
539 journals in.
540 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
541 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
542 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
543 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
544 the most common operations.
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546* document:
8b8f2591 547 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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548 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
549 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 550 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 551 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 552 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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553 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
554 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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555 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
556 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
557 - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
558 - man: add more examples to man pages
559 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
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561* systemctl:
562 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
563 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
564 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
565 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
566 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
567 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
568 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
569 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 570 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
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571 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
572 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
573 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
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574 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
575 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
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577* unit install:
578 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
579 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
f38afcd0 580 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
8b04b925 581
b44be3ec 582* timer units:
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584 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
585 o DST changes
eb124a97 586 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
f38afcd0 587 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
d28315e4 588 - when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we will not support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200
90e071d1 589 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 590
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591* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
592
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593* 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().
594
595* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
d28315e4 596* fedup: do not delete initrd on switch-root
1cb88f2c 597* fedup: generator
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599* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
600
b44be3ec 601* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 602
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603* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
604 waiting for the timeout
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606* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
607
d28315e4 608* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 609
b44be3ec 610* nspawn:
9cb74bcb 611 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
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613* cryptsetup:
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614 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
615 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
616 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 617 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 618
424a19f8 619* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 620 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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622* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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a1cccad1 624* make timer units go away after they elapsed
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626* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
627
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628* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
629
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630* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
631
68f16003 632* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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634* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
635 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
d28315e4 636 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
68f16003 637 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
d28315e4 638 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
68f16003 639 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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641* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
642
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643* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
644
88a6c589 645* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
8351ceae 646
9946996c 647* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
d28315e4 648 verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
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650* introduce Type=pid-file
651
59cea26a 652* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
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654* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
655
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656* automount: implement expire:
657 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
658 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
659 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
660 - blocking, needs a thread
661 - run until -EAGAIN
662 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
663 - call umount
664 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
665 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
465349c0 666
e01a15b7 667* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 668
abd55b16 669* udev:
abd55b16 670 - move to LGPL
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672 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 673 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
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675* 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
676
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677* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
678
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679* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
680
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681* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
682
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683* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
684
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685* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
686
687* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
688
70a44afe 689* default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
65c0cf71 690
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691* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
692 needs to be auto-respawned?
693
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694* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
695
f38afcd0 696* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 697 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
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699 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
7d441ddb 700
d28315e4 701* for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested
14e639ae 702
7f8aa671 703* hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
ff01d048 704
d3c7d7dd 705* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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707* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
708 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
709
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711
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712* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
713 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
714
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715* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
716
55cdcbac 717* add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
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720 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
721 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
722
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724 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
725
71092d70 726* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 727
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728* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
729
68c7d001 730* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 731 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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732 - enabling dbus services
733 - status update
7a2a0b90 734 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 735 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 736 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 737 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 738 - auto-restart
e707c494 739 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 740 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 741 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 742 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 743 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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745 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
746 - how to create your own target
747 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
748 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 749
44143309 750* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 751
260abb78 752* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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754* Support --test based on current system state
755
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756* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
757
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758* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
759
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760* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
761
71092d70 762* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
246756ca 763
7ba97195 764* systemd-python:
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766 works with ^C
b04c8c83 767 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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770 - plot per-process IO utilization
771 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
772 - document initcall_debug
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773 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
774
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775* udev-link-config:
776 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
777 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
778 on Path= matching
8faf88e5 779 - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
af6f0d42 780
88e4d1d7 781* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 782 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 783 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 784
0a4b9a07 785* networkd:
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786 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
787 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 788 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 789 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
5c1d3fc9 790 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
798e174a 791 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
8477107d 792 - add more attribute support for SIT tunnel
1a941ac4 793 - work with non-ethernet devices
c9fa3670 794 - add support for more bond options
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796* networkd-wait-online:
797 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
8f5675cc 798
ac976532 799* dhcp:
424a8732 800 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 801 - export timezone information
99f9dd8d 802 - support RFC4702 (pass FQDN)
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805 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
806 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
807 - write more test cases
808 - implement and do duplicate address detection, see rfc 4862, 5.4.
809 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 810 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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812 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
813 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
814 or interface down
815 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
816 this behavior
817
2f8cd170 818External:
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cc9784c6 820* dbus:
3377af3e 821 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 822 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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825
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827
9096ad36 828* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
06ae4bfe 829
71092d70 830* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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833
d28315e4 834* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and should not
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836* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
837
838* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
839
840* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
841
d2bbca68 842* 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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844* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
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846* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 847
4641a16b 848* 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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851
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853 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 854 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
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2c12a402 856
129126f3 857Regularly:
874aa2cc 858
129126f3 859* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 860
129126f3 861* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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863* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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d28315e4 867* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 868
4db17f29 869* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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872
9e5f3dbb 873Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 875* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)