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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
10
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11* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
12 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
13 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
14
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);
19
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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* check :no-sender logic after PID 1 conversion
47
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48* increase journal files by a few MB each time, instead of piecemeal
49
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50* add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
51
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52* systemctl: rework wait filter to not require match callback
53
54* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
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56* bus: access policy as vtable flag
57
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58* journalctl: support -M to read journal of containers and determine journal directory from root directory of container
59
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60* 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
61
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62* "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
63 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
64
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65* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
66
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67* remove NSS usage from PID 1 (notably the specifiers)
68
a427c13d 69* socket-proxyd:
fd201fda 70 - Support multiple inherited sockets mapped to different remote hosts
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71 - Use a nonblocking alternative to getaddrinfo
72 - Until we can start daemons directly, find a less ugly, less racy alternative than shell scripts for the second man page example.
73 - Support starting daemons directly without requiring a shell script; update man pages
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75* optimize the cgroup propagation bits, especially unit_get_members_mask(), cgroup_context_get_mask()
76
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77* "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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79* 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
80
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81* Add a new Distribute=$NUMBER key to socket units that makes use of SO_REUSEPORT to distribute network traffic on $NUMBER instances
82
19aadacf 83* tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal, also do this for the journal fails contained in it
7f79cd71 84
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85* we probably should replace the left-over uses of strv_append() and replace them by strv_push() or strv_extend()
86
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87* move config_parse_path_strv() out of conf-parser.c
88
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89* libdsystemd-bus should expose utf8 validation calls
90
7f79cd71 91* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 92
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93* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
94 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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95 path anyway.
96
19aadacf 97* When a Type=forking service fails and needed another service, that
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98 service is not cleaned up again when it has StopWhenUnneeded=yes
99 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-July/012141.html
100
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101* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
102
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103* ensure scope units may be started only a single time
104
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105* better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
106
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107* systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
108
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109* for transient units, instead of writing out drop-ins for all properties consider serializing them in the normal serialization stream
110
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111* logind: when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects
112
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113* session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
114
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115* add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
116
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117* journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
118
19aadacf 119* given that logind/machined now let PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
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120 probably reduce the capability set they retain substantially.
121
6aaa8c2f 122* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 123
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124* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
125
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126* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
127
e1b7e7ec 128* 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 129
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130* 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
131
19aadacf 132* when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
fa7deadb 133
19aadacf 134* "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, but should
69af4503 135 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
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136 unit however should remove them all).
137
138* journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
139
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140* systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
141
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142* journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
143 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
144 to syslog when it works again.
145
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146* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
147
148* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
149
19aadacf 150* service_coldplug() appears to reinstall the wrong stop timeout watch.
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152* transient units: allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
153
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154* how to reset dynamically changed attributes sanely?
155
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156* when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
157
4ad49000 158* journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
3d3ee759 159
9444b1f2 160* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 161 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 162 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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163 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
164 check for that and suppress event handling.
9444b1f2 165
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166* when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
167 the hierarchies of child processes
168
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169* document logic of auto/noauto and fail/nofail in fstab in systemd.mount or systemd-fstab-generator man page
170
19aadacf 171* something pulls in pcre as shared object dependency into our daemons such as hostnamed.
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173* document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
174
a65f06bb 175* change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
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176 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
177 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
178 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
179
180* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
181 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
182
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183* libsystemd-bus:
184 - default policy (allow uid == 0 and our own uid)
185 - enforce alignment of pointers passed in
eb01ba5d 186 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
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187 - implement translator service
188 - port systemd to new library
189 - implement busname unit type in systemd
190 - move to gvariant
eb01ba5d 191 - merge busctl into systemctl or so?
e4ee6e5c 192 - synthesize sd_bus_message objects from kernel messages
c7819669 193 - properly implement name registry ioctls for kdbus
86312ab8 194 - implement monitor logic
07459db6 195 - properly map matches with well-known names against messages with unique names
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196 - longer term:
197 * priority queues
86312ab8 198 * priority inheritance
eb01ba5d 199
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200* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
201 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
202 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
203
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204* add an option to nspawn that uses seccomp to make socket(AF_NETLINK,
205 SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_AUDIT) fail the the appropriate error code that
206 makes the audit userspace to think auditing is not available in the
207 kernel.
208
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209* Introduce a way how we can kill the main process of a service with KillSignal, but all processes with SIGKILL later on
210 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952634
211
69af4503 212* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses where the access mode of unit files is nonsensical.
19aa7c4f 213
69af4503 214* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
e8a7a315 215
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216* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
217 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
218
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219* if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
220 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
221 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
222 needs setuid().
223
224* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
225
226* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
227
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228* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
229
230* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
231
4a449ed7 232* logind: add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
75512303 233
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234* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
235
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236* test/:
237 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
238 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
889a9042 239 - qemu wrapper script: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg72389.html
b8b4d3dd 240
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241* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
242
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243* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
244 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
245 file.
246
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247* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
248 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
249 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
250 destination.
251
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252* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
253 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
254
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255* add ConditionArchitecture= or so
256
257* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
258
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259* Support SO_REUSEPORT with socket activation:
260 - Let systemd maintain a pool of servers.
261 - Use for seamless upgrades, by running the new server before stopping the
262 old.
263
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264* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
265 need manual exponential loops after all
266
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267* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
268 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
269 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
270 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
271
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272* man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf
273
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274* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
275 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
276 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
277 that automatically.
278
69af4503 279* rework specifier logic so that we can distinguish OOM errors from other errors
487060c2 280
e5ec62c5 281* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 282
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283* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
284
54c31a79 285* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 286
8973790e 287* documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
3679d112 288
69af4503 289* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapse and the time the units ran last
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291* man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
292
293* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
294
69af4503 295* 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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297* systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
298
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299* man: add more examples to man pages
300
301* man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
302
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303* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
304
305* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
306
307* msgcatalog determine default language of entries from the catalog
308 file name. i.e. foobar.de_DE.catalog would set the default entry
309 name for the entries to de_DE if they aren't explicitly suffixed
310 individually.
311
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312* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
313
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314* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
315
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316* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
317 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
318 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
319 will be activated.
320
356ce991 321* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 322
81d112a8 323* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 324
b44be3ec 325* EFI:
b44be3ec 326 - write man page for efi boot generator
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327 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
328 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 329 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 330
c0fe5db5 331* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 332
b44be3ec 333* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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335* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
336 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 338* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 339
b44be3ec 340* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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342* logind:
343 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
344 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
345 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
346 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
347 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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348 - logind: non-local X11 server handling
349 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
b44be3ec 350 - pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree
e5ec62c5 351 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
e673ad04 352
b44be3ec 353* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 354
b44be3ec 355* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
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b44be3ec 357* journal:
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358 - do not use magic msync() in src/journal/journal-file.c, just call fsync()
359 <alxchk> poettering: looks like msync just calls vfs_fsync
360 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/mm/msync.c#n18
c06bf414 361 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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362 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
363 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
364 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
365 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
366 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
367 - journal: reuse XZ context
368 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
369 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
370 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
371 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
372 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
373 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
374 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 375 - 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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376 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
377 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
378 - journal: when rotating, copy over old acls/access mode
b44be3ec 379 - 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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380 - 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.
381 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
382 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 383 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 384 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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385 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
386 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
387 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
388 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
77a9e8de 389 - journalctl: expand tabs
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390 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
391 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
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392 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
393 - Port upower to use the journal for historical power information used in future calculations
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395* document:
396 - document unit_name_mangle()
397 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in
398 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
399 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
400 - Document word splitting syntax for ExecStart= and friends
401 - document that units from /etc override those from /usr and /run
402 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 403 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 404 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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406* systemctl:
407 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
408 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
409 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
410 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
411 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
412 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
413 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
414 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
415 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
416 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
417 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
418 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
419 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
8b04b925 420
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421* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
422
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423* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
424
425* timer units:
426 - configurable jitter for timer events
90e071d1 427 - Adjust timers to be triggered at the same time as sd-event timers
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428 - timer events with system resume
429 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
430 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
431 o DST changes
eb124a97 432 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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433 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
434 - anacron-like feature
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436* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
437
438* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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439 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
440 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 441 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 442 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 443 user did not request anything like it.
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445* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
446 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
447 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
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449* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
450 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
451 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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453 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
454 better supported alternative.
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458* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
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460* 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().
461
462* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
463* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
464* fedup: generator
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b44be3ec 466* timedated:
b44be3ec 467 - timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
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469* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
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471* introduce generic AUGMENT_PID=, AUGMENT_DEVICE= fields
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b44be3ec 473* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
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475* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
476 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
477 - superset of tmpfiles model
478 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
479 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
480 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
481
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482* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
483 waiting for the timeout
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485* high level net_prio setting in execution context
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487* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
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489* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
490
15abdb9a 491* refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful (or set taint?)
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494 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly
495 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
496 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
497 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
498 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
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500 lxc.network.type=phys mode, and pass through entire network
501 interfaces to the container
502 - nspawn: maybe add a way to drop additional caps, in addition to add additional caps
503 - nspawn: maybe explicitly reset loginuid?
3679d112 504 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
9cb74bcb 505 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
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507* cryptsetup:
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508 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
509 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
510 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 511 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
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514
424a19f8 515* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 516 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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518* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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8556879e 522* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 523 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
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526
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527* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
528
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529* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
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531* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
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533* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
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535* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
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537* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container
538
68f16003 539* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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544 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
545 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
546 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 547 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 548 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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552* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
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554* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
555
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556* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
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558* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
559
88a6c589 560* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
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563 - syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls
564 - syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs?
565 - syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS?
566 - syscall filter: port to libseccomp
567 - system-wide seccomp filter
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571* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
572 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
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574* introduce Type=pid-file
575
59cea26a 576* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
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578* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
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580* automount: implement expire:
581 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
582 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
583 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
584 - blocking, needs a thread
585 - run until -EAGAIN
586 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
587 - call umount
588 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
589 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
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592
e01a15b7 593* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 594
abd55b16 595* udev:
3f60bcb5 596 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
abd55b16 597 - move to LGPL
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599 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
b8217b7b 600
18b754d3 601* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording
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605* support container_ttys=
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611* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
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613* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
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615* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
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618
619* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
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624 needs to be auto-respawned?
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627
de6c78f8 628* tmpfiles: apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
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b44be3ec 630* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
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d3c7d7dd 634* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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637 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
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642 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
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645
7c697168 646* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 647
71092d70 648* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
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651 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
652 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
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657 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
658
71092d70 659* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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662 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
663 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
664 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
665 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
666 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
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671
68c7d001 672* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 673 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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675 - status update
7a2a0b90 676 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 677 - remote access
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679 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 680 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 681 - auto-restart
e707c494 682 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 683 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 684 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 685 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 686 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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688 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
689 - how to create your own target
690 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
691 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
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44143309 693* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 694
71092d70 695* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 696
260abb78 697* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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706
129126f3 707* port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID:
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709 - cups HAVEPATCH
a625ac1a 710 - postfix, saslauthd
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712 - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro)
713 - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!)
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71092d70 716* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
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50f2a90d 718* io priority during initialization
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7ba97195 722* systemd-python:
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724 works with ^C
b04c8c83 725 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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728 - plot per-process IO utilization
729 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
730 - document initcall_debug
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734 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
735 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
736 on Path= matching
737 - NamePolicy= replace the current naming rules
738 - MACPolicy= support 'firmware', 'synthetic' and 'random'
739 - Check if Driver= is broken, or just my driver (bcma)
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2f8cd170 741External:
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cc9784c6 743* dbus:
cc9784c6 744 - dbus --user
3377af3e 745 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
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747 - allow disabling of fd passing when connecting a AF_UNIX connection
3377af3e 748 - allow disabling of UID passing for AUTH EXTERNAL
b69d29ce 749 - always pass cred data along each message
b44be3ec 750 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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9096ad36 756* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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758* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
759 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
760 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
761 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
762 the RTC to sync up.
763
71092d70 764* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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768* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
769
770* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
771
772* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
773
774* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
775
d2bbca68 776* 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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778* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
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780* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
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4641a16b 782* 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 784Regularly:
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129126f3 786* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 787
129126f3 788* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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790* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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794* pahole
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71092d70 796* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
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4db17f29 798* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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9e5f3dbb 802Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 804* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)