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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* busctl prints errors to stdout:
8 busctl tree org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1
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f38afcd0 10External:
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f38afcd0 12* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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14* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
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16Janitorial Clean-ups:
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18* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
19
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20* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
21 semantics, like we do for device.c now
22
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23Features:
24
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25* move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
26 these days
27
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28* nspawn: support time namespaces
29
30* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
31
32* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
33
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34* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
35 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, firstboot, tmpfiles,
36 sysusers, systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl.
37
38* per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
39 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
40 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
41 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
42 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
43 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
44 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
45 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
46
47* homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
48 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
49
50* homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
51 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
52
53* homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
54 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
55 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
56
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57* homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
58 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
59 signature
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61* homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
62 and insert a local signature instead.
63
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64* Maybe expose path_is_encrypted() as a new ConditionPathIsEncrypted=?
65
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66* homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
67 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
68 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
69 though: if noone is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
70 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
71
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72* homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
73
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74* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
75 exists and responds.
76
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77* homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
78 easily?
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80* when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
81 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
82 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
83 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
84 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
85
97cd52c1 86* cryptsetup/homed: also support FIDO2 HMAC password logic for unlocking
70e9d9a5 87 devices. (see: https://github.com/mjec/fido2-hmac-secret)
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89* systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
90 creates
91
86b52a39 92* homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
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93 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
94 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
95 hence we can make them quicker to work.
96
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97* bootctl:
98 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
99 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
100 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
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102* by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
103 allow so that systemd survives
104
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105* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
106 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
107
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108* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
109 systemd-makefs.service instead.
110
91fc013f 111* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 112 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 113
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114* unify on openssl:
115 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
116 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
117 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
118 - port importd over from libgcrypt
119 - when that's done: kill khash.c
120 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
121
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122* kill zenata, all hail weblate?
123
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124* when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
125
126* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
127 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
128
129* hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
130 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
131 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
132 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
133 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
134
492f91d8 135* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
86b52a39 136 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
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137 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
138 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
139
86b52a39 140* systemd-repart: optionally, allow specifying a path to initialize new
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141 partitions from, i.e. an fs image file or a source device node. This would
142 then turn systemd-repart into a simple installer: with a few .repart files
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143 you could replicate the host system on another device. a full installer would
144 then be: "systemd-repart /dev/sda && bootctl install /dev/sda &&
145 systemd-firstboot --image= …"
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147* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
148 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
149 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
150 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
151 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
152 automatically.
153
154* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
155 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
156
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157* systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
158 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
159
160* systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
161
162* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
163 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
164
165* systemd-repart: add specifier expansion, add especifier that refers to root
166 device node of current system, /usr device node, and matching verity, so that
167 an installer can be made a "copy" installer of the booted OS
168
2a4be3c5 169* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
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170 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
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172* systemd-repart: allow config of partition uuid
173
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174* systemd-repart: add --make= switch for fallocating a new file of the
175 specified size first.
176
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177* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
178 realname substr searches in varlink API
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180* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
181
2a4be3c5 182* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 183
f1eb0ccd 184* pid1: activation by journal search expression
006c44c1 185
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186* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
187 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
188 initrd had set.
189
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190* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
191 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
192 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
193 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
194 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
195 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
196
197* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
198 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
199 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
200
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201* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
202 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
203 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
204 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
205 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
206 source.
207
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208* figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
209 with immutable /usr
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211* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
212 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
213 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
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215* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
216
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217* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
218 the hibernation
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220* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
221 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
222 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
223 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
224 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
225 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
226 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
227 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
228 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
229 hibernation mode. (see
230 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
231 section 10.2.2.8 and
232 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
233 at the end).
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235* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
236 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
237 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
238 output for them.
239
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240* systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
241 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
242
243* systemd-firstboot: add --force mode that replaces existing configuration.
244
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245* We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
246 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
247 constant vendor data.
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249* maybe add kernel cmdline params: 1) to force first-boot mode + 2) to force
250 random seed crediting
251
252* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
253 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
254
255* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
256 fallback in "machinectl shell"
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258* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
259 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
260 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
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262* homed:
263 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
264 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
265 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
266 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
267 - resize on login?
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268 - shrink fs on logout?
269 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
270 - create on activate?
271 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
272 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
273 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
274 systemd --user is shut down.
275 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
276 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk images (think: time machine)
86b52a39 277 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
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278 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
279 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
280 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
281 - description field for groups
282 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
283 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
284 - query password from kernel keyring first
285 - update even if record is "absent"
286 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
287 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
288 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
289 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
290 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
291 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
292
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293* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
294 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
295 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
296 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
297 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
298 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
299 exec().
300
301* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
302
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303* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
304 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
305
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306* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
307
308* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
309 gnome-bluetooth and friends
310
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311* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
312 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
313 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
314 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
315 cgroup.
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317* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
318 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
319 root.
320
321* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
322 is issued.
323
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324* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
325
326* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
327
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328* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
329 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
330 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 331
d238709c 332* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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333 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
334 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
335
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336* add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
337 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
338 ConfigurationDirectory=.
339
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340* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
341
d3584ec4 342* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
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344* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
345 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
346
06898123 347* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 348 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 349 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
06898123 350
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351* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
352
353* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
354 patching around
355
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356* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
357 log.c and sd-journal-send
358
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359* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
360
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361* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
362
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363* sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
364 can add in file system drivers and such
365
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366* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
367 non-zero "tries done" count
368
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369* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
370 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
371 it should skip the variant type string though.
372
373* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
374 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
375 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
376 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
377 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
378 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
379 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
380 CODE_FILE.
381
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382* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
383 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
384 some explanatory text online.
385
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386* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
387
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388* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
389 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
390 the slices, and the units attached to them.
391
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392* the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
393 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
bc130b68 394 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
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395 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
396 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
397 way)
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399* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
400 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
401 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
402
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403* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
404 original defaults before calling parse_config()
405
72d711ef 406* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
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408* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
409 Specifically:
410
411 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
412 properly)
e83419d0 413 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 414 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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416* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
417 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
418
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419* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
420 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
421 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
422 files and suchlike we operate on.
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424* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
425
426* add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
427
428* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
429 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
430
5da19043 431* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
5238e957 432 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
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433 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
434 numbers.
435
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436* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
437 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
438 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
439 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
440 unlinked from any dir.
441
bd1b3f75 442* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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444* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
445
446* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
447
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448* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
449 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
450 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
451 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
452 should reflink the image file itself.
453
454 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
455 specific paths only like this.
456
53c70a27 457* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 458 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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459 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
460 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
461 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
462
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463* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
464
465* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
466
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467* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
468 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
469
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470* teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
471 project quota
0d545655 472
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473* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
474 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
475 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
476 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
477 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
478 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
479 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
480 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
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482* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
483 for root, but only then.
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485* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
486
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487* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
488 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
489
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490* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
491 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
492
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493* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
494 host-side interface pointing to the container.
495
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496* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
497 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
498 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
499 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
500 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
501
cb77e122 502* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 503
899feb72 504* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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506* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
507 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
508 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
509
5f7ecd61 510* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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512* maybe use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (i.e. the env var the reproducible builds folks
513 introduced) as the RTC epoch, instead of the mtime of NEWS.
514
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515* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
516 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
517
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518* blog about fd store and restartable services
519
520* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
521
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522* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
523 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
524
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525* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
526 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
527 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
528 ID is available.
529
530* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
531 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
532 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
533
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534* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
535 parameters
536
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537* maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
538 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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539 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
540 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
541 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
542 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
543 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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545* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
546 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
547
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548* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
549 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
550 wait to retrieve their exit data.
551
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552* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
553 about it in the resource log message
554
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555* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
556 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
557
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558* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
559 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
560 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
561
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562* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
563 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
564
565 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
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567* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
568 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
569 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
570 logging.
571
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572* hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
573 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
574 "convertible" form factor
575
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576* Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
577 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
578 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
579 as MAINPID.
580
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581* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
582 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
583 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
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585* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
586 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
587
588* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
589 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
590 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
591 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
592 natural habitat.
593
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594* gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
595 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
596 /usr is mounted into.
597
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598* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
599
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600* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
601
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602* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
603 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
604 relative to the configured default value.
605
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606* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
607
608* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
609
04397464 610* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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612* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
613
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614* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
615
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616* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
617
04397464 618* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 619
04397464 620* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 621
04397464 622* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 623
8ce9b83a 624* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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626* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
627 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
628 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
629
e40a326c 630* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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632* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
633
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634* mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
635 partitions
636
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637* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
638 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
639 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
640 mapping to work.
641
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642* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
643
644* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
645
646* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
647
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648* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
649 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
650
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651* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
652 reload the unit file anyway
653
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654* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
655 from the SIGBUS handler
656
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657* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
658
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659* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
660 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
661
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662* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
663
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664* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
665 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
666
f9bf1b8f 667* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 668 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 669 specifications.
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671* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
672
5ebbb45b 673* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
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675* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
676
a2088fd0 677* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 678 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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679 prefixed with /sys generally special.
680 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
681
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682* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
683
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684* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
685
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686* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
687 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
688 state.
689 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
690
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691* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
692 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
693 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
694 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
695 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
696
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697* networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
698 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
699
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700* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
701
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702* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
703 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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705* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
706 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
707 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
708 do, for example)
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710* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
711 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
712
e031c227 713* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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714 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
715
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716* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
717
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718* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
719 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
720 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
721 returning from the "systemctl stop".
722
b568ef14 723* 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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725* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
726
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727* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
728 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
729
25e773ee 730* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 731
279f0366 732* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 733
5238e957 734* systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
b42de08a 735 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
202aea45 736
720652b3 737* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 738
720652b3 739* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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741* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
742
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743* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
744 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
745
9d6db739 746* resolved:
9d6db739 747 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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749 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 750 - avahi compat
9d6db739 751 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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752 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
753 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
754 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 755 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 756 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 757
e25b5a8d 758* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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760* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
761
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762* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
763
a01647e5 764* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 765 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
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767* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
768
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769* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
770
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771* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
772
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773* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
774 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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776* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
777
6a3f892a 778* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 779 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 780 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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782* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
783 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
784 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 785
f9bf1b8f 786* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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788* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
789 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
790 for ReusePort=
791
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792* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
793 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
794 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
795 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
796 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
797 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
798
f38afcd0 799* cgroups:
f38afcd0 800 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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801 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
802 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
803 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
804 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
805 the hierarchies of child processes
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f38afcd0 807* transient units:
f38afcd0 808 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
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810* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
811
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812* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
813
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814* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
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816* 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
817
7f79cd71 818* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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820* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
821 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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822 path anyway.
823
04397464 824* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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826* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
827
828* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
829
6bb648a1 830* sd-bus:
0d43ffef 831 - EBADSLT handling
fa607802 832 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
7212c608 833 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
57f2a947 834 - see if we can introduce a new sd_bus_get_owner_machine_id() call to retrieve the machine ID of the machine of the bus itself
f38afcd0 835 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 836 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
ab9716c2 837 - longer term: priority inheritance
df98a87b 838 - dbus spec updates:
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840 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 841 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 842 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
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844* sd-event
12179984 845 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 846 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
e25b5a8d 847 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
eb01ba5d 848
69af4503 849* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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851* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
852 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
853
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854* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
855
856* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
857
fff87a35 858* test/:
20d52ab6 859 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 860
b5c03638 861* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 862 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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863 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
864 destination.
865
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866* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
867 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
868
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869* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
870
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871* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
872 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
873 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
874
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876 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
877 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
878 is installed.
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880* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
881 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
882 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
883 that automatically.
884
e5ec62c5 885* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 886
ccddd104 887* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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889* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
890
356ce991 891* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 892
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895 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 896 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 897* bootctl
631427d6 898 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 899
c0fe5db5 900* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 901
b44be3ec 902* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 903
b44be3ec 904* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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907 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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908 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
909 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
910 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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911 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
912 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
913 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
914 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
915 needs setuid().
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917 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
918 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
919 complete.
920 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
921 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
922 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
279f0366 923 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
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925 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
926 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
927 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
928 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
929 relogins
77b19caf 930 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 931
b44be3ec 932* journal:
57f2a947 933 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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935 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
936 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 937 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 938 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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939 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
940 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
941 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 942 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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943 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
944 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 945 - 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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946 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
947 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
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948 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
949 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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950 - 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.
951 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
952 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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953 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
954 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
955 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
956 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 957 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 958 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 959 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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960 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
961 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
962 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
963 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
964 to syslog when it works again.
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965 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
966 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
967 journals in.
968 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
969 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
970 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
971 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
972 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 973 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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974 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
975 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
976 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
977 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
978 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
979 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
980 operation.
981 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
982 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
983 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
984 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 985 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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986 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
987 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
988 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
989 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
b44be3ec 990
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992 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
993 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
994 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
995
b44be3ec 996* document:
8b8f2591 997 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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998 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
999 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1000 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1001 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1002 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1003 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1004 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1005 - man: add more examples to man pages
1006 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1007 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1008
1009* systemctl:
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1010 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1011 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1012 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1013 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1014 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1015 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1016 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1017 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1018 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1019 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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1021* unit install:
1022 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1023 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
8b04b925 1024
b44be3ec 1025* timer units:
b44be3ec 1026 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
b44be3ec 1027 o DST changes
90e071d1 1028 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 1029
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1030* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1031
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1032* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1033
b44be3ec 1034* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 1035
f59d1da8 1036* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
dcfc4b2e 1037
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1038* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1039
d28315e4 1040* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 1041
b44be3ec 1042* nspawn:
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1043 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1044 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1045 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1046 from the kernel's logs.
1047 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1048 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1049 interface be missing
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1050 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1051 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1052 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1053 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1054 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1055 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1056 PID 1...
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1057 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1058 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1059
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1060* dissect
1061 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1062 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1063
e25b5a8d 1064* machined:
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1065 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1066 removed or added to an existing machine
1067 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1068 difference host, via ssh
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1069 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1070 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1071 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1072 question
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1073 - "machinectl history"
1074 - "machinectl diff"
1075 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1076 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1077
b44be3ec 1078* cryptsetup:
b44be3ec 1079 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
5f1dac6b 1080 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 1081
424a19f8 1082* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 1083 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
424a19f8 1084
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1085* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1086
68f16003 1087* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 1088
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1089* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1090
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1091* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1092
abd55b16 1093* udev:
abd55b16 1094 - move to LGPL
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1095 - kill scsi_id
1096 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1097 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1098
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1099* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1100
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1101* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1102
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1103* coredump:
1104 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1105 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
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1106
1107* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1108
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1109* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1110 needs to be auto-respawned?
1111
f38afcd0 1112* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1113 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1114 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1115 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1116 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1117 calls follow symlinks.
1258097c 1118
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1119* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1120
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1121* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1122 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1123 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1124
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1125* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1126 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1127
71092d70 1128* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 1129
68c7d001 1130* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 1131 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
68c7d001 1132 - enabling dbus services
7a2a0b90 1133 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 1134 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 1135 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 1136 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 1137 - auto-restart
e707c494 1138 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 1139 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 1140 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 1141 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 1142 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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1143 - calendar time events
1144 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1145 - how to create your own target
1146 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1147 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 1148
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1149* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1150
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1151* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1152
e25b5a8d 1153* pid1:
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1154 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1155 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1156 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1157 that are not supported...
1158 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1159 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1160 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1161 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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1162 - move PAM code into its own binary
1163 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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1164 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1165 - Support --test based on current system state
1166 - 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().
1167 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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1168 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1169 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1170 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1171 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1172 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1173 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1174 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1175 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1176
1177* unit files:
1178 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1179 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1180 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1181 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1182 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1183 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1184 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1185 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
e25b5a8d 1186 - introduce Type=pid-file
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1187 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1188 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
e25b5a8d 1189 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
e5171296 1190 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
e25b5a8d 1191
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1192* udev-link-config:
1193 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1194 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1195 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1196
88e4d1d7 1197* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1198 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1199 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1200
0a4b9a07 1201* networkd:
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1202 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1203 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 1204 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 1205 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
5c1d3fc9 1206 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
798e174a 1207 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1208 - work with non-Ethernet devices
c9fa3670 1209 - add support for more bond options
e25b5a8d 1210 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1211 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1212 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1213 - expose in the API the following bits:
1214 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
38b38500 1215 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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1216 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1217 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1218 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1219 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1220 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1221 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1222 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1223 - allow DUID/IAID to be customized, see issue #394.
e25b5a8d 1224 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1225
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1226* networkd-wait-online:
1227 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
8f5675cc 1228
ac976532 1229* dhcp:
424a8732 1230 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1231
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1232* dhcp6:
1233 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1234 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1235 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1236 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1237 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1238 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1239 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1240 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1241 or interface down
1242 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1243 this behavior
4a77c53d 1244 - RouteTable= ?
37d8b536 1245
2f8cd170 1246External:
74fe1fe3 1247
cc9784c6 1248* dbus:
3377af3e 1249 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 1250 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 1251
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1252* fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
1253
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1254* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1255
9096ad36 1256* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
06ae4bfe 1257
71092d70 1258* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
14bd37fe 1259
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1260* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1261
d2bbca68 1262* 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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1263
1264* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
1265
1266* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 1267
4641a16b 1268* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
19aa7c4f 1269
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1270* register catalog database signature as file magic
1271
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1272* zsh shell completion:
1273 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 1274 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1cf3c30c 1275
90137b62 1276* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
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1277* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1278 after being started.
2c12a402 1279
129126f3 1280Regularly:
874aa2cc 1281
129126f3 1282* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 1283
129126f3 1284* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
5b6319dc 1285
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1286* pahole
1287
d28315e4 1288* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 1289
4db17f29 1290* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
88fae6e0 1291
d05c556b 1292* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
62353f69 1293String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment