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ee9c9500 1Bugfixes:
19aadacf 2* enabling an instance unit creates a pointless link, and
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3 the unit will be started with getty@getty.service:
4 $ systemctl enable getty@.service
5 ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service' '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@.service'
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7* check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
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9* swap units that are activated by one name but shown in the kernel under another are semi-broken
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11* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
12 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
13 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
14
a40593a0 15* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
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19aadacf 17* When we detect invalid UTF-8, we cannot use it in an error message:
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18 log...("Path is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment: %s", rvalue);
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20* shorten the message to sane length:
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22 Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status display-manager.service' for details.
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466784c8 24Fedora 20:
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dc7adf20 26* external: ps should gain colums for slice and machine
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81d112a8 28* localed:
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29 - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps
30
55d32caf 31* when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
466784c8 32 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
55d32caf 33
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34CGroup Rework Completion:
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36* implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?)
37
38* implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
39
40* handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
41
049b4474 42* introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
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eb124a97 44Features:
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46* sd-bus: synthesized messages should get serial number (uint32_t) -1
47
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48* sd-event: allow multiple signal handlers per signal
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50* timer: expose accuracy as unit setting
51
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52* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
53
54* move libasyncns into systemd as libsystemd-asyncns
55
56* calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
57
58* pid1 porting:
59 - restore selinux access control on properties
60
61* sd-bus: when triggering property change events, allow a NULL strv indicate that all properties listed as such are send out as changed
62
63* sd-bus: enforce signatures on response messages
64
65* sd-bus: make message handlers take an sd_bus_error and generate error replies automatically if they are set
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67* sd-bus: see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
68
69* sd-bus: introduce sd_bus_creds object and attach it to messages as well as allow querying it for names
70
71* sd-bus: support "const" properties as flag
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73* sd-event: when a handler returns an error, just turn off its event
74 source, but do not return anything up to the event loop
75 caller. Instead add parameter to sd_event_request_quit() to take
76 retval. This way errors rippling upwards are the option, not the
77 default
78
79* sd-event: child pid handling: first invoke waitid(WNOHANG) and call event handler, only afterwards reap the process
80
81* sd-event: native support for watchdog stuff
82
83* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH call over the bus
84
85* sd-bus: SD_BUS_COMMENT() macro for inclusion in vtables, syntax inspired by gdbus
86
87* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
88
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89* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
90
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91* increase journal files by a few MB each time, instead of piecemeal
92
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93* add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
94
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95* systemctl: rework wait filter to not require match callback
96
97* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
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99* bus: access policy as vtable flag
100
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101* journalctl: support -M to read journal of containers and determine journal directory from root directory of container
102
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103* tmpfiles: to make sure we don't delete unpacked tarballs with old timestamps right-away never delete stuff that is inside a directory with a new mtime
104
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105* "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
106 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
107
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108* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
109
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110* remove NSS usage from PID 1 (notably the specifiers)
111
a427c13d 112* socket-proxyd:
fd201fda 113 - Support multiple inherited sockets mapped to different remote hosts
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114 - Use a nonblocking alternative to getaddrinfo
115 - Until we can start daemons directly, find a less ugly, less racy alternative than shell scripts for the second man page example.
116 - Support starting daemons directly without requiring a shell script; update man pages
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118* optimize the cgroup propagation bits, especially unit_get_members_mask(), cgroup_context_get_mask()
119
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120* "systemctl cat" or "systemctl view" command or or so, that cats the backing unit file of a service, plus its drop-ins and shows them in a pager
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122* 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
123
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124* Add a new Distribute=$NUMBER key to socket units that makes use of SO_REUSEPORT to distribute network traffic on $NUMBER instances
125
19aadacf 126* tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal, also do this for the journal fails contained in it
7f79cd71 127
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128* we probably should replace the left-over uses of strv_append() and replace them by strv_push() or strv_extend()
129
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130* move config_parse_path_strv() out of conf-parser.c
131
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132* libdsystemd-bus should expose utf8 validation calls
133
7f79cd71 134* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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136* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
137 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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138 path anyway.
139
19aadacf 140* When a Type=forking service fails and needed another service, that
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141 service is not cleaned up again when it has StopWhenUnneeded=yes
142 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-July/012141.html
143
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144* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
145
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146* ensure scope units may be started only a single time
147
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148* better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
149
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150* systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
151
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152* for transient units, instead of writing out drop-ins for all properties consider serializing them in the normal serialization stream
153
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154* logind: when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects
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156* session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
157
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158* add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
159
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160* journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
161
19aadacf 162* given that logind/machined now let PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
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163 probably reduce the capability set they retain substantially.
164
6aaa8c2f 165* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 166
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167* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
168
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169* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
170
e1b7e7ec 171* make sure gdm doesn't use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
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173* when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we won't support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200
174
19aadacf 175* when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
fa7deadb 176
19aadacf 177* "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, but should
69af4503 178 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
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179 unit however should remove them all).
180
181* journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
182
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183* systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
184
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185* journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
186 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
187 to syslog when it works again.
188
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189* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
190
191* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
192
19aadacf 193* service_coldplug() appears to reinstall the wrong stop timeout watch.
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195* transient units: allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
196
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197* how to reset dynamically changed attributes sanely?
198
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199* when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
200
4ad49000 201* journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
3d3ee759 202
9444b1f2 203* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 204 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 205 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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206 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
207 check for that and suppress event handling.
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209* when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
210 the hierarchies of child processes
211
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212* document logic of auto/noauto and fail/nofail in fstab in systemd.mount or systemd-fstab-generator man page
213
19aadacf 214* something pulls in pcre as shared object dependency into our daemons such as hostnamed.
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216* document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
217
a65f06bb 218* change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
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219 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
220 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
221 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
222
223* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
224 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
225
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226* libsystemd-bus:
227 - default policy (allow uid == 0 and our own uid)
228 - enforce alignment of pointers passed in
eb01ba5d 229 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
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230 - implement translator service
231 - port systemd to new library
232 - implement busname unit type in systemd
233 - move to gvariant
eb01ba5d 234 - merge busctl into systemctl or so?
e4ee6e5c 235 - synthesize sd_bus_message objects from kernel messages
c7819669 236 - properly implement name registry ioctls for kdbus
86312ab8 237 - implement monitor logic
07459db6 238 - properly map matches with well-known names against messages with unique names
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239 - longer term:
240 * priority queues
86312ab8 241 * priority inheritance
eb01ba5d 242
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243* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
244 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
245 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
246
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247* add an option to nspawn that uses seccomp to make socket(AF_NETLINK,
248 SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_AUDIT) fail the the appropriate error code that
249 makes the audit userspace to think auditing is not available in the
250 kernel.
251
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252* Introduce a way how we can kill the main process of a service with KillSignal, but all processes with SIGKILL later on
253 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952634
254
69af4503 255* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses where the access mode of unit files is nonsensical.
19aa7c4f 256
69af4503 257* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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259* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
260 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
261
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262* if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
263 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
264 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
265 needs setuid().
266
267* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
268
269* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
270
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271* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
272
273* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
274
4a449ed7 275* logind: add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
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277* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
278
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279* test/:
280 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
281 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
889a9042 282 - qemu wrapper script: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg72389.html
b8b4d3dd 283
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284* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
285
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286* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
287 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
288 file.
289
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290* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
291 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
292 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
293 destination.
294
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295* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
296 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
297
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298* add ConditionArchitecture= or so
299
300* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
301
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302* Support SO_REUSEPORT with socket activation:
303 - Let systemd maintain a pool of servers.
304 - Use for seamless upgrades, by running the new server before stopping the
305 old.
306
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307* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
308 need manual exponential loops after all
309
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310* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
311 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
312 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
313 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
314
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315* man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf
316
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317* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
318 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
319 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
320 that automatically.
321
69af4503 322* rework specifier logic so that we can distinguish OOM errors from other errors
487060c2 323
e5ec62c5 324* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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326* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
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54c31a79 328* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 329
8973790e 330* documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
3679d112 331
69af4503 332* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapse and the time the units ran last
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334* man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
335
336* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
337
69af4503 338* man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
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340* systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
341
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342* man: add more examples to man pages
343
344* man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
345
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346* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
347
348* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
349
350* msgcatalog determine default language of entries from the catalog
351 file name. i.e. foobar.de_DE.catalog would set the default entry
352 name for the entries to de_DE if they aren't explicitly suffixed
353 individually.
354
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355* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
356
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357* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
358
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359* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
360 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
361 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
362 will be activated.
363
356ce991 364* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 365
81d112a8 366* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 367
b44be3ec 368* EFI:
b44be3ec 369 - write man page for efi boot generator
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370 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
371 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 372 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 373
c0fe5db5 374* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 375
b44be3ec 376* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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378* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
379 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 381* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 382
b44be3ec 383* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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385* logind:
386 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
387 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
388 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
389 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
390 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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391 - logind: non-local X11 server handling
392 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
b44be3ec 393 - pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree
e5ec62c5 394 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
e673ad04 395
b44be3ec 396* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 397
b44be3ec 398* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
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b44be3ec 400* journal:
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401 - do not use magic msync() in src/journal/journal-file.c, just call fsync()
402 <alxchk> poettering: looks like msync just calls vfs_fsync
403 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/mm/msync.c#n18
c06bf414 404 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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405 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
406 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
407 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
408 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
409 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
410 - journal: reuse XZ context
411 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
412 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
413 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
414 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
415 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
416 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
417 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 418 - 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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419 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
420 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
421 - journal: when rotating, copy over old acls/access mode
b44be3ec 422 - journal: send out marker messages every now and then, and immediately sync with fdatasync() afterwards, in order to have hourly guaranteed syncs.
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423 - 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.
424 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
425 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 426 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 427 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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428 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
429 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
430 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
431 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
77a9e8de 432 - journalctl: expand tabs
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433 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
434 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
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435 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
436 - Port upower to use the journal for historical power information used in future calculations
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438* document:
439 - document unit_name_mangle()
440 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in
441 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
442 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
443 - Document word splitting syntax for ExecStart= and friends
444 - document that units from /etc override those from /usr and /run
445 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 446 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 447 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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449* systemctl:
450 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
451 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
452 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
453 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
454 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
455 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
456 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
457 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
458 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
459 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
460 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
461 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
462 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
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464* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
465
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466* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
467
468* timer units:
469 - configurable jitter for timer events
90e071d1 470 - Adjust timers to be triggered at the same time as sd-event timers
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471 - timer events with system resume
472 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
473 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
474 o DST changes
eb124a97 475 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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476 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
477 - anacron-like feature
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479* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
480
481* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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482 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
483 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 484 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 485 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 486 user did not request anything like it.
c55b1b59 487
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488* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
489 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
490 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
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492* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
493 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
494 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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496 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
497 better supported alternative.
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499* figure out relation of --all and --full in the various tools
500
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501* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
502
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503* 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().
504
505* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
506* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
507* fedup: generator
603cd8fe 508
b44be3ec 509* timedated:
b44be3ec 510 - timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
6d0274f1 511
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512* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
513
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514* introduce generic AUGMENT_PID=, AUGMENT_DEVICE= fields
515
b44be3ec 516* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
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518* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
519 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
520 - superset of tmpfiles model
521 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
522 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
523 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
524
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525* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
526 waiting for the timeout
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528* high level net_prio setting in execution context
529
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530* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
531
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532* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
533
15abdb9a 534* refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful (or set taint?)
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537 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly
538 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
539 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
540 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
541 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
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543 lxc.network.type=phys mode, and pass through entire network
544 interfaces to the container
545 - nspawn: maybe add a way to drop additional caps, in addition to add additional caps
546 - nspawn: maybe explicitly reset loginuid?
3679d112 547 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
9cb74bcb 548 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
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550* cryptsetup:
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551 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
552 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
553 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 554 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 555
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556* move debug shell to tty6 and make sure this doesn't break the gettys on tty6
557
424a19f8 558* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 559 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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561* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
562
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563* make timer units go away after they elapsed
564
8556879e 565* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 566 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
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569
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570* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
571
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572* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
573
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574* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
575
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576* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
577
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578* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
579
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580* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container
581
68f16003 582* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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584* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
585
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586* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
587 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
588 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
589 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 590 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 591 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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593* use opterr = 0 for all getopt tools
594
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595* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
596
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597* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
598
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599* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
600
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601* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
602
88a6c589 603* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
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606 - syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls
607 - syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs?
608 - syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS?
609 - syscall filter: port to libseccomp
610 - system-wide seccomp filter
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612* .device aliases need to be implemented with the "following" logic, probably.
613
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614* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
615 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
616
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617* introduce Type=pid-file
618
59cea26a 619* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
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624 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
625 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
626 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
627 - blocking, needs a thread
628 - run until -EAGAIN
629 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
630 - call umount
631 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
632 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
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635
e01a15b7 636* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 637
abd55b16 638* udev:
3f60bcb5 639 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
abd55b16 640 - move to LGPL
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642 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
b8217b7b 643
18b754d3 644* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording
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646* 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
647
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648* support container_ttys=
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650* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
651
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652* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
653
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654* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
655
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656* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
657
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658* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
659
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660* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
661
662* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
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665
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666* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
667 needs to be auto-respawned?
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670
de6c78f8 671* tmpfiles: apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 672
b44be3ec 673* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
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676
d3c7d7dd 677* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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679* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
680 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
681
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683
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685 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
686
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687* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
688
7c697168 689* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 690
71092d70 691* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
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693* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
694 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
695 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
696
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698
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699* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
700 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
701
71092d70 702* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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705 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
706 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
707 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
708 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
709 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
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711* add support for /bin/mount -s
712
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714
68c7d001 715* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 716 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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717 - enabling dbus services
718 - status update
7a2a0b90 719 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 720 - remote access
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722 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 723 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 724 - auto-restart
e707c494 725 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 726 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 727 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 728 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 729 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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731 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
732 - how to create your own target
733 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
734 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
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44143309 736* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 737
71092d70 738* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 739
260abb78 740* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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742* Support --test based on current system state
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744* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
745
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748* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
749
129126f3 750* port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID:
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752 - cups HAVEPATCH
a625ac1a 753 - postfix, saslauthd
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754 - apache/samba
755 - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro)
756 - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!)
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757 - distccd
758
71092d70 759* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
246756ca 760
50f2a90d 761* io priority during initialization
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7ba97195 765* systemd-python:
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767 works with ^C
b04c8c83 768 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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770* bootchart:
771 - plot per-process IO utilization
772 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
773 - document initcall_debug
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775
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777 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
778 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
779 on Path= matching
780 - NamePolicy= replace the current naming rules
781 - MACPolicy= support 'firmware', 'synthetic' and 'random'
782 - Check if Driver= is broken, or just my driver (bcma)
783
2f8cd170 784External:
74fe1fe3 785
cc9784c6 786* dbus:
cc9784c6 787 - dbus --user
3377af3e 788 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
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790 - allow disabling of fd passing when connecting a AF_UNIX connection
3377af3e 791 - allow disabling of UID passing for AUTH EXTERNAL
b69d29ce 792 - always pass cred data along each message
b44be3ec 793 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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796
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798
9096ad36 799* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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801* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
802 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
803 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
804 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
805 the RTC to sync up.
806
71092d70 807* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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810
811* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
812
813* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
814
815* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
816
817* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
818
d2bbca68 819* 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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821* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
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823* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 824
4641a16b 825* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
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129126f3 827Regularly:
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129126f3 829* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 830
129126f3 831* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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833* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
8c6db833 834
14212119 835* %m in printf() instead of strerror(errno);
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837* pahole
838
71092d70 839* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 840
4db17f29 841* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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9e5f3dbb 845Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 847* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)