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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* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
8 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
9 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
10
a40593a0 11* 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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13* shorten the message to sane length:
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15 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.
16
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17* systemctl --root=container/ set-default ... is totally borked.
18
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19* sd_bus_unref() is broken regarding self-references and "pseudo thread-safety".
20 See the comment in sd_bus_unref() for more..
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f38afcd0 22External:
7b4da18c 23
f38afcd0 24* Fedora: when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
466784c8 25 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
55d32caf 26
f38afcd0 27* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
bafb15ba 28
f38afcd0 29* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
bafb15ba 30
eb124a97 31Features:
154ff088 32
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33* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
34
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35* consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
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37* sd-event: define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
38
6a3f892a 39* gpt-auto-generator:
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40 - Support LUKS for root devices
41 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 42 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 43
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44* improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
45 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
46 don't have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
47 the most common operations.
48
726a6e96 49* support transient mount units
7ba4fedb 50
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51* add an "input" group to udev logic and add all input devices to it
52
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53* machined: provide calls GetMachineByAddress() on the manager
54 interface to get the machine for a local IP address, and
55 GetAddress() on the Machine interface to get the Address for a
56 machine. Implement via forking off child process which quickly joins
57 the cotnainer and passes data to parent. Show this in "machinectl
58 status", and use it to implement NSS module to provide automatic
59 name resolution for containers.
60
61* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
62 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
63 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 64
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65* MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
66
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67* "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
68 /proc/$PID/exe
69
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70* systemctl: support --recursive for list-sockets, list-timers,
71 ... too, not just for list-units.
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73* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
74 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
75 for ReusePort=
76
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77* socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
78 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
79 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
80 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
81 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
82
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83* New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
84
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85* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
86 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
87 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
88 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
89 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
90 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
91
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92* completions:
93 - busctl zsh completion is outdated
94 - systemd-nspawn -Z/-L/-q is missing for zsh
ef417cfd 95 - manager property enumeration was broken when systemd moved to /usr/lib/
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f38afcd0 97* cgroups:
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98 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
99 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
100 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
101 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
102 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
103 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
104 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 105
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106* transient units:
107 - allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
108 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
109 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
ebcf1f97 110
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111* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
112
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113* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
114
f38afcd0 115* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
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117* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
118
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119* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
120
94676f3e 121* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
6fd4d020 122
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123* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
124
af1082b0 125* socket-proxyd: Use sd-resolve to resolve the server address
41644622 126
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127* 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
128
7f79cd71 129* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 130
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131* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
132 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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133 path anyway.
134
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135* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
136
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137* given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
138 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
e10e429f 139 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
e1b7e7ec 140
6aaa8c2f 141* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 142
e1b7e7ec 143* make sure gdm doesn't use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
18d4e7c2 144
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145* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
146
147* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
148
9444b1f2 149* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 150 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 151 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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152 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
153 check for that and suppress event handling.
9444b1f2 154
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155* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
156 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
157
6bb648a1 158* sd-bus:
eb01ba5d 159 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
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160 - systemd-bus-proxyd needs to enforce good old XML policy
161 - port exit-on-idle logic to byebye ioctl
162 - allow updating attach flags during runtime
163 - pid1: peek into activating message when activating a service
164 - introduce sd_bus_emit_object_added()/sd_bus_emit_object_removed() that automatically includes the build-in interfaces in the list
165 - constructors for bus messages should probably not be OK with a NULL bus pointer
166 - .busname units should not use get_user_creds()/get_cgroup_creds() but instead do NSS only in temporarily forked off child
f38afcd0 167 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 168 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
80caea6c 169 - kdbus: matches against source or destination pids for an "strace -p"-like feel. Problem: The PID info needs to be available in userspace too...
ab9716c2 170 - longer term: priority inheritance
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171 - dbus spec updates:
172 - kdbus mapping
173 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
174 - GVariant
bee7e928 175 - "const" properties (posted)
2ecfc64e 176 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 177 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
69727e6d 178 - test bloom filter generation indexes
0f3e07b7 179 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
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181* sd-event
12179984 182 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
eb01ba5d 183
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184* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
185 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
186 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
187
69af4503 188* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
e8a7a315 189
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190* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
191 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
192
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193* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
194
195* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
196
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197* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
198
199* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
200
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201* timedatectl: print a nicer message when enabling ntp fails because ntpd/chrony are not installed
202
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203* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
204
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205* test/:
206 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
207 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
b8b4d3dd 208
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209* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
210
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211* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
212 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
213 file.
214
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215* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
216 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
217 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
218 destination.
219
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220* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
221 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
222
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223* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
224
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225* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
226 need manual exponential loops after all
227
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228* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
229 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
230 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
231 is installed.
795607b2 232
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233* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
234 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
235 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
236 that automatically.
237
e5ec62c5 238* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 239
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240* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
241
54c31a79 242* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 243
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244* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
245
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246* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
247
248* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
249
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250* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
251
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252* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
253
356ce991 254* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 255
81d112a8 256* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 257
b44be3ec 258* EFI:
b44be3ec 259 - write man page for efi boot generator
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260 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
261 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 262 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 263
c0fe5db5 264* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 265
b44be3ec 266* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
e9fd44b7 267
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268* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
269 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 271* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 272
b44be3ec 273* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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275* logind:
276 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
277 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
278 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
279 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
280 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
e5ec62c5 281 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
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282 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
283 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
284 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
285 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
286 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
287 needs setuid().
e673ad04 288
b44be3ec 289* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 290
b44be3ec 291* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
e673ad04 292
b44be3ec 293* journal:
c06bf414 294 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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295 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
296 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
297 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
298 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
299 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
300 - journal: reuse XZ context
301 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
302 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
303 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
304 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
305 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
306 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
307 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 308 - 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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309 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
310 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
b44be3ec 311 - 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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312 - 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.
313 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
314 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 315 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 316 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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317 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
318 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
319 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
320 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
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321 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
322 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 323 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 324 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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325 - tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal, also do this for the journal fails contained in it
326 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
327 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
328 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
329 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
330 to syslog when it works again.
331 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
332 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
333 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
334 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
335 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
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337* document:
8b8f2591 338 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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339 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
340 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 341 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 342 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 343 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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344 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
345 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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346 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
347 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
348 - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
349 - man: add more examples to man pages
350 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
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352* systemctl:
353 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
354 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
355 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
356 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
357 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
358 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
359 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
360 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
361 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
362 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
363 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
364 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
365 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
f38afcd0 366 - rework wait filter to not require match callback
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367 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
368 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
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370* unit install:
371 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
372 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
373 - "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, but should
374 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
375 unit however should remove them all).
376 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
377 - systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
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379* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
380
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381* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
382
383* timer units:
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384 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
385 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
386 o DST changes
eb124a97 387 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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388 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
389 - 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
90e071d1 390 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
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392* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
393
394* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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395 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
396 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 397 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 398 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 399 user did not request anything like it.
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401* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
402 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
403 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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404 we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in
405 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
406 better supported alternative.
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408* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
409
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410* 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().
411
412* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
413* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
414* fedup: generator
603cd8fe 415
f38afcd0 416* timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
6d0274f1 417
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418* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
419
b44be3ec 420* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 421
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422* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
423 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
424 - superset of tmpfiles model
425 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
426 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
427 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
428
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429* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
430 waiting for the timeout
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432* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
433
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434* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
435
b44be3ec 436* nspawn:
b44be3ec 437 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
b44be3ec 438 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
9e281251 439 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters
9cb74bcb 440 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
a56b63f4 441 - support taking a btrfs snapshot at startup and dropping it afterwards
af1082b0 442 - maybe: hookup nspawn and PrivateNetwork=yes with "ip netns"
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443 - generate predictable mac addresses for the netdev we create (host0), maybe based on guest's machine
444 name and machine-id of host (?)
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446* cryptsetup:
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447 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
448 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
449 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 450 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 451
424a19f8 452* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 453 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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455* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
456
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457* make timer units go away after they elapsed
458
8556879e 459* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 460 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
8556879e 461
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462* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
463
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464* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
465
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466* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
467
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468* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
469
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470* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
471
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472* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
473
68f16003 474* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 475
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476* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
477
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478* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
479 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
480 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
481 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 482 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 483 but much rather a disconnect on success.
0790b9fe 484
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485* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
486
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487* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
488
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489* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
490
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491* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
492
88a6c589 493* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
8351ceae 494
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495* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
496 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
497
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498* introduce Type=pid-file
499
59cea26a 500* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 501
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502* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
503
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504* automount: implement expire:
505 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
506 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
507 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
508 - blocking, needs a thread
509 - run until -EAGAIN
510 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
511 - call umount
512 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
513 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
465349c0 514
e01a15b7 515* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 516
abd55b16 517* udev:
3f60bcb5 518 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
abd55b16 519 - move to LGPL
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520 - kill scsi_id
521 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 522 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 523
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524* 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
525
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526* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
527
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528* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
529
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530* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
531
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532* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
533
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534* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
535
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536* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
537
538* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
539
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540* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
541
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542* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
543 needs to be auto-respawned?
544
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545* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
546
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547* tmpfiles:
548 - check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
549 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 550
b44be3ec 551* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
14e639ae 552
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554
d3c7d7dd 555* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
72b9ed82 556
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557* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
558 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
559
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560* move PAM code into its own binary
561
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562* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
563 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
564
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565* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
566
7c697168 567* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 568
71092d70 569* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
8d0e38a2 570
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572 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
573 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
574
f38afcd0 575* support User= and Group= attributes for AF_UNIX sockets. (difficult, requires NSS from PID 1?)
a012ab52 576
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577* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
578 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
579
71092d70 580* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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583 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
584 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
585 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
586 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
587 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
b23de6af 588
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589* add support for /bin/mount -s
590
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591* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
592
68c7d001 593* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 594 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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595 - enabling dbus services
596 - status update
7a2a0b90 597 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 598 - remote access
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599 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
600 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 601 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 602 - auto-restart
e707c494 603 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 604 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 605 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 606 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 607 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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608 - calendar time events
609 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
610 - how to create your own target
611 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
612 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 613
44143309 614* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 615
71092d70 616* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 617
260abb78 618* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
2791a8f8 619
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620* Support --test based on current system state
621
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622* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
623
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624* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
625
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626* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
627
71092d70 628* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
246756ca 629
50f2a90d 630* io priority during initialization
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633
7ba97195 634* systemd-python:
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636 works with ^C
b04c8c83 637 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
7ba97195 638
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640 - plot per-process IO utilization
641 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
642 - document initcall_debug
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643 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
644
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645* udev-link-config:
646 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
647 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
648 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 649
88e4d1d7 650* sd-rtnl:
32216660 651 - add support for exiting containers without reading them fully first
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653
0a4b9a07 654* networkd:
e09826dc 655 - make sure RTM_NEWLINK messages match both the ifname and kind when setting the ifindex of a netdev
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656 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
657 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 658 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 659 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
5c1d3fc9 660 - add IPv4LL tests (inspire by DHCP)
5c1d3fc9 661 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
5c1d3fc9 662 - have smooth transition from LL to routable address, without disconnecting clients.
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665 - make sure ipv4ll and dhcp clients can handle changing mac addresses while running
666
2f8cd170 667External:
74fe1fe3 668
cc9784c6 669* dbus:
3377af3e 670 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 671 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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673* fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
674
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675* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
676
9096ad36 677* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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679* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
680 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
681 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
682 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
683 the RTC to sync up.
684
71092d70 685* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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688
689* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
690
691* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
692
693* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
694
695* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
696
d2bbca68 697* 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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699* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
700
701* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 702
4641a16b 703* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
19aa7c4f 704
129126f3 705Regularly:
874aa2cc 706
129126f3 707* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 708
129126f3 709* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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711* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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71092d70 715* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 716
4db17f29 717* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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720
9e5f3dbb 721Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 723* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)