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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* busctl prints errors to stdout:
8 busctl tree org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1
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f38afcd0 10External:
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f38afcd0 12* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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14* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
15
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16Janitorial Clean-ups:
17
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18* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
19
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20* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
21 semantics, like we do for device.c now
22
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23Features:
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25* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
26 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
27
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28* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
29 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
30 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
31 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
32 anything like that.
33
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34* add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
35 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
36 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
37
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38* move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
39 these days
40
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41* nspawn: support time namespaces
42
43* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
44
45* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
46
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47* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
48 when it exits
49
50* make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
51 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
52 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
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54* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
55 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, firstboot, tmpfiles,
56 sysusers, systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl.
57
58* per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
59 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
60 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
61 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
62 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
63 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
64 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
65 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
66
67* homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
68 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
69
70* homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
71 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
72
73* homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
74 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
75 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
76
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77* homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
78 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
79 signature
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81* homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
82 and insert a local signature instead.
83
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84* homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
85 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
86 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
15dd4515 87 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
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88 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
89
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90* homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
91
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92* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
93 exists and responds.
94
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95* homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
96 easily?
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98* when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
99 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
100 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
101 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
102 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
103
97cd52c1 104* cryptsetup/homed: also support FIDO2 HMAC password logic for unlocking
70e9d9a5 105 devices. (see: https://github.com/mjec/fido2-hmac-secret)
97cd52c1 106
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107* systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
108 creates
109
86b52a39 110* homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
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111 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
112 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
113 hence we can make them quicker to work.
114
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115* bootctl:
116 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
117 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
118 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
119
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120* by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
121 allow so that systemd survives
122
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123* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
124 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
125
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126* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
127 systemd-makefs.service instead.
128
91fc013f 129* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 130 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 131
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132* unify on openssl:
133 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
134 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
135 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
136 - port importd over from libgcrypt
137 - when that's done: kill khash.c
138 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
139
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140* kill zenata, all hail weblate?
141
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142* when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
143
144* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
145 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
146
147* hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
148 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
149 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
150 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
151 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
152
492f91d8 153* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
86b52a39 154 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
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155 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
156 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
157
86b52a39 158* systemd-repart: optionally, allow specifying a path to initialize new
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159 partitions from, i.e. an fs image file or a source device node. This would
160 then turn systemd-repart into a simple installer: with a few .repart files
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161 you could replicate the host system on another device. a full installer would
162 then be: "systemd-repart /dev/sda && bootctl install /dev/sda &&
163 systemd-firstboot --image= …"
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165* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
166 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
167 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
168 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
169 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
170 automatically.
171
172* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
173 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
174
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175* systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
176 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
177
178* systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
179
180* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
181 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
182
183* systemd-repart: add specifier expansion, add especifier that refers to root
184 device node of current system, /usr device node, and matching verity, so that
185 an installer can be made a "copy" installer of the booted OS
186
2a4be3c5 187* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
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188 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
189
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190* systemd-repart: allow config of partition uuid
191
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192* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
193 realname substr searches in varlink API
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195* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
196
2a4be3c5 197* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 198
f1eb0ccd 199* pid1: activation by journal search expression
006c44c1 200
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201* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
202 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
203 initrd had set.
204
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205* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
206 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
207 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
208 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
209 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
210 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
211
212* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
213 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
214 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
215
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216* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
217 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
218 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
219 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
220 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
221 source.
222
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223* figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
224 with immutable /usr
225
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226* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
227 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
228 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
229
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230* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
231
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232* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
233 the hibernation
234
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235* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
236 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
237 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
238 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
239 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
240 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
241 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
242 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
243 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
244 hibernation mode. (see
245 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
246 section 10.2.2.8 and
247 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
248 at the end).
249
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250* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
251 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
252 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
253 output for them.
254
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255* systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
256 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
257
258* systemd-firstboot: add --force mode that replaces existing configuration.
259
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260* We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
261 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
262 constant vendor data.
263
c6526b8d 264* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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266* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
267 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
268
269* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
270 fallback in "machinectl shell"
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272* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
273 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
274 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
275
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276* homed:
277 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
278 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
279 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
280 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
281 - resize on login?
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282 - shrink fs on logout?
283 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
284 - create on activate?
285 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
286 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
287 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
288 systemd --user is shut down.
289 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
290 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk images (think: time machine)
86b52a39 291 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
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292 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
293 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
294 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
295 - description field for groups
296 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
297 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
298 - query password from kernel keyring first
299 - update even if record is "absent"
300 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
301 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
302 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
303 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
304 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
305 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
306
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307* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
308 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
309 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
310 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
311 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
312 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
313 exec().
314
315* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
316
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317* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
318 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
319
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320* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
321
322* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
323 gnome-bluetooth and friends
324
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325* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
326 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
327 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
328 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
329 cgroup.
330
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331* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
332 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
333 root.
334
335* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
336 is issued.
337
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338* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
339
340* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
341
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342* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
343 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
344 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 345
d238709c 346* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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347 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
348 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
349
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350* add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
351 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
352 ConfigurationDirectory=.
353
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354* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
355
d3584ec4 356* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
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358* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
359 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
360
06898123 361* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 362 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 363 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
06898123 364
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365* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
366
367* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
368 patching around
369
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370* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
371 log.c and sd-journal-send
372
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373* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
374
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375* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
376
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377* sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
378 can add in file system drivers and such
379
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380* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
381 non-zero "tries done" count
382
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383* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
384 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
385 it should skip the variant type string though.
386
387* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
388 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
389 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
390 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
391 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
392 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
393 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
394 CODE_FILE.
395
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396* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
397 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
398 some explanatory text online.
399
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400* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
401
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402* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
403 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
404 the slices, and the units attached to them.
405
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406* the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
407 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
bc130b68 408 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
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409 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
410 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
411 way)
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413* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
414 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
415 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
416
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417* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
418 original defaults before calling parse_config()
419
72d711ef 420* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
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422* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
423 Specifically:
424
425 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
426 properly)
e83419d0 427 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 428 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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430* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
431 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
432
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433* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
434 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
435 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
436 files and suchlike we operate on.
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438* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
439
440* add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
441
442* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
443 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
444
5da19043 445* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
5238e957 446 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
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447 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
448 numbers.
449
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450* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
451 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
452 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
453 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
454 unlinked from any dir.
455
bd1b3f75 456* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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458* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
459
460* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
461
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462* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
463 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
464 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
465 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
466 should reflink the image file itself.
467
468 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
469 specific paths only like this.
470
53c70a27 471* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 472 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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473 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
474 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
475 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
476
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477* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
478
479* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
480
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481* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
482 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
483
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484* teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
485 project quota
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487* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
488 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
489 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
490 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
491 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
492 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
493 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
494 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
495
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496* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
497 for root, but only then.
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499* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
500
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501* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
502 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
503
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504* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
505 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
506
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507* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
508 host-side interface pointing to the container.
509
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510* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
511 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
512 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
513 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
514 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
515
cb77e122 516* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 517
899feb72 518* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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520* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
521 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
522 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
523
5f7ecd61 524* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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526* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
527 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
528
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529* blog about fd store and restartable services
530
531* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
532
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533* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
534 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
535
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536* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
537 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
538 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
539 ID is available.
540
541* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
542 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
543 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
544
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545* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
546 parameters
547
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548* maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
549 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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550 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
551 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
552 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
553 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
554 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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556* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
557 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
558
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559* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
560 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
561 wait to retrieve their exit data.
562
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563* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
564 about it in the resource log message
565
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566* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
567 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
568
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569* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
570 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
571 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
572
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573* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
574 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
575
576 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
577
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578* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
579 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
580 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
581 logging.
582
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583* hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
584 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
585 "convertible" form factor
586
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587* Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
588 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
589 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
590 as MAINPID.
591
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592* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
593 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
594 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
595
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596* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
597 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
598
599* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
600 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
601 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
602 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
603 natural habitat.
604
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605* gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
606 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
607 /usr is mounted into.
608
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609* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
610
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611* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
612
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613* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
614 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
615 relative to the configured default value.
616
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617* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
618
619* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
620
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623* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
624
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625* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
626
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627* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
628
04397464 629* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 630
04397464 631* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 632
04397464 633* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 634
8ce9b83a 635* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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637* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
638 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
639 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
640
e40a326c 641* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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643* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
644
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645* mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
646 partitions
647
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648* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
649 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
650 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
651 mapping to work.
652
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653* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
654
655* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
656
657* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
658
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659* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
660 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
661
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662* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
663 reload the unit file anyway
664
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665* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
666 from the SIGBUS handler
667
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668* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
669
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670* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
671 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
672
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673* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
674
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675* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
676 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
677
f9bf1b8f 678* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 679 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 680 specifications.
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682* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
683
5ebbb45b 684* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
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686* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
687
a2088fd0 688* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 689 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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690 prefixed with /sys generally special.
691 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
692
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693* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
694
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695* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
696
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697* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
698 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
699 state.
700 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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702* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
703 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
704 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
705 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
706 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
707
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708* networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
709 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
710
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711* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
712
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713* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
714 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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716* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
717 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
718 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
719 do, for example)
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722 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
723
e031c227 724* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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725 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
726
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727* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
728
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729* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
730 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
731 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
732 returning from the "systemctl stop".
733
b568ef14 734* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
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736* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
737
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738* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
739 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
740
25e773ee 741* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 742
279f0366 743* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 744
5238e957 745* systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
b42de08a 746 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
202aea45 747
720652b3 748* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 749
720652b3 750* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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752* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
753
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754* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
755 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
756
9d6db739 757* resolved:
9d6db739 758 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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760 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 761 - avahi compat
9d6db739 762 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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763 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
764 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
765 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 766 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 767 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 768
e25b5a8d 769* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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771* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
772
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773* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
774
a01647e5 775* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 776 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
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778* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
779
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780* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
781
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782* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
783
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784* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
785 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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787* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
788
6a3f892a 789* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 790 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 791 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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793* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
794 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
795 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 796
f9bf1b8f 797* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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799* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
800 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
801 for ReusePort=
802
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803* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
804 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
805 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
806 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
807 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
808 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
809
f38afcd0 810* cgroups:
f38afcd0 811 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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812 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
813 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
814 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
815 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
816 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 817
f38afcd0 818* transient units:
f38afcd0 819 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
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821* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
822
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823* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
824
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825* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
826
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827* 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
828
7f79cd71 829* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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831* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
832 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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833 path anyway.
834
04397464 835* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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837* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
838
839* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
840
6bb648a1 841* sd-bus:
0d43ffef 842 - EBADSLT handling
fa607802 843 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
7212c608 844 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
57f2a947 845 - see if we can introduce a new sd_bus_get_owner_machine_id() call to retrieve the machine ID of the machine of the bus itself
f38afcd0 846 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 847 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
ab9716c2 848 - longer term: priority inheritance
df98a87b 849 - dbus spec updates:
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851 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 852 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 853 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
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855* sd-event
12179984 856 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 857 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
e25b5a8d 858 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
eb01ba5d 859
69af4503 860* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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862* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
863 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
864
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865* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
866
867* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
868
fff87a35 869* test/:
20d52ab6 870 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 871
b5c03638 872* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 873 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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874 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
875 destination.
876
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877* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
878 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
879
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880* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
881
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882* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
883 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
884 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
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886* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
887 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
888 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
889 is installed.
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891* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
892 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
893 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
894 that automatically.
895
e5ec62c5 896* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 897
ccddd104 898* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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900* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
901
356ce991 902* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 903
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906 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 907 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 908* bootctl
631427d6 909 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 910
c0fe5db5 911* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 912
b44be3ec 913* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 914
b44be3ec 915* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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918 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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919 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
920 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
921 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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923 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
924 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
925 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
926 needs setuid().
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928 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
929 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
930 complete.
931 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
932 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
933 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
279f0366 934 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
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936 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
937 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
938 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
939 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
940 relogins
77b19caf 941 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 942
b44be3ec 943* journal:
57f2a947 944 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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945 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
946 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
947 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 948 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 949 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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950 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
951 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
952 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 953 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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954 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
955 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 956 - 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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957 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
958 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
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959 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
960 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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961 - 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.
962 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
963 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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964 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
965 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
966 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
967 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 968 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 969 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 970 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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971 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
972 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
973 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
974 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
975 to syslog when it works again.
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976 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
977 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
978 journals in.
979 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
980 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
981 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
982 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
983 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 984 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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985 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
986 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
987 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
988 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
989 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
990 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
991 operation.
992 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
993 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
994 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
995 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 996 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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997 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
998 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
999 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1000 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
b44be3ec 1001
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1003 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1004 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1005 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1006
b44be3ec 1007* document:
8b8f2591 1008 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1009 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1010 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1011 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1012 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1013 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1014 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1015 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1016 - man: add more examples to man pages
1017 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1018 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1019
1020* systemctl:
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1021 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1022 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1023 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1024 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1025 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1026 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1027 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1028 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1029 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1030 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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1031
1032* unit install:
1033 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1034 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
8b04b925 1035
b44be3ec 1036* timer units:
b44be3ec 1037 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
b44be3ec 1038 o DST changes
90e071d1 1039 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 1040
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1041* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1042
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1043* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1044
b44be3ec 1045* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 1046
f59d1da8 1047* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
dcfc4b2e 1048
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1049* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1050
d28315e4 1051* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 1052
b44be3ec 1053* nspawn:
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1054 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1055 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1056 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1057 from the kernel's logs.
1058 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1059 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1060 interface be missing
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1061 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1062 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1063 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1064 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1065 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1066 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1067 PID 1...
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1068 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1069 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1070
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1071* dissect
1072 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1073 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1074
e25b5a8d 1075* machined:
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1076 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1077 removed or added to an existing machine
1078 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1079 difference host, via ssh
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1080 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1081 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1082 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1083 question
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1084 - "machinectl history"
1085 - "machinectl diff"
1086 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1087 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1088
b44be3ec 1089* cryptsetup:
b44be3ec 1090 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
5f1dac6b 1091 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 1092
424a19f8 1093* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 1094 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
424a19f8 1095
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1096* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1097
68f16003 1098* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 1099
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1100* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1101
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1102* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1103
abd55b16 1104* udev:
abd55b16 1105 - move to LGPL
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1106 - kill scsi_id
1107 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1108 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1109
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1110* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1111
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1112* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1113
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1114* coredump:
1115 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1116 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
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1117
1118* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1119
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1120* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1121 needs to be auto-respawned?
1122
f38afcd0 1123* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1124 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1125 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1126 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1127 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1128 calls follow symlinks.
1258097c 1129
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1130* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1131
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1132* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1133 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1134 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1135
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1136* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1137 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1138
71092d70 1139* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 1140
68c7d001 1141* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 1142 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
68c7d001 1143 - enabling dbus services
7a2a0b90 1144 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 1145 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 1146 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 1147 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 1148 - auto-restart
e707c494 1149 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 1150 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 1151 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 1152 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 1153 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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1154 - calendar time events
1155 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1156 - how to create your own target
1157 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1158 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 1159
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1160* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1161
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1162* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1163
e25b5a8d 1164* pid1:
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1165 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1166 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1167 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1168 that are not supported...
1169 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1170 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1171 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1172 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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1173 - move PAM code into its own binary
1174 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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1175 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1176 - Support --test based on current system state
1177 - 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().
1178 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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1179 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1180 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1181 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1182 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1183 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1184 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1185 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1186 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1187
1188* unit files:
1189 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1190 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1191 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1192 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1193 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1194 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1195 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1196 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
e25b5a8d 1197 - introduce Type=pid-file
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1198 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1199 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
e25b5a8d 1200 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
e5171296 1201 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
e25b5a8d 1202
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1203* udev-link-config:
1204 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1205 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1206 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1207
88e4d1d7 1208* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1209 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1210 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1211
0a4b9a07 1212* networkd:
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1213 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1214 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 1215 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 1216 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1217 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 1218 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1219 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1220 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1221 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 1222 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 1223 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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1224 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1225 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1226 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1227 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1228 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1229 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1230 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
e25b5a8d 1231 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1232
ac976532 1233* dhcp:
424a8732 1234 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1235
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1236* dhcp6:
1237 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1238 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1239 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1240 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1241 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1242 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1243 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1244 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1245 or interface down
1246 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1247 this behavior
4a77c53d 1248 - RouteTable= ?
37d8b536 1249
2f8cd170 1250External:
74fe1fe3 1251
cc9784c6 1252* dbus:
3377af3e 1253 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 1254 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 1255
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1256* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1257
71092d70 1258* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
14bd37fe 1259
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1260* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1261
d2bbca68 1262* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
8973790e 1263
8973790e 1264* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 1265
4641a16b 1266* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
19aa7c4f 1267
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1268* register catalog database signature as file magic
1269
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1270* zsh shell completion:
1271 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 1272 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1cf3c30c 1273
90137b62 1274* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
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1275* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1276 after being started.
2c12a402 1277
129126f3 1278Regularly:
874aa2cc 1279
129126f3 1280* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 1281
129126f3 1282* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
5b6319dc 1283
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1284* pahole
1285
d28315e4 1286* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 1287
4db17f29 1288* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
88fae6e0 1289
d05c556b 1290* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
62353f69 1291String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment