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ee9c9500 1Bugfixes:
19aadacf 2* enabling an instance unit creates a pointless link, and
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3 the unit will be started with getty@getty.service:
4 $ systemctl enable getty@.service
5 ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service' '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@.service'
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7* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
8 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
9 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
10
a40593a0 11* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
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13* shorten the message to sane length:
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15 Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status display-manager.service' for details.
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17* systemctl --root=container/ set-default ... is totally borked.
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f38afcd0 19External:
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f38afcd0 21* Fedora: when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
466784c8 22 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
55d32caf 23
f38afcd0 24* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
bafb15ba 25
f38afcd0 26* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
bafb15ba 27
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28Preparation for 209:
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30* Review new libraries
31
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32* libsystemd-journal returns the object created as first param in sd_journal_new(), sd_bus_new() and suchlike as last...
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eb124a97 34Features:
154ff088 35
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36* systemctl (and possibly related tools): support a new switch that
37 allows enumerating units in local containers recursively. "systemctl
38 list-units -R" or so should not only lists on the host, but also the
39 services in all containers in a pretty way, to give an overview of
40 the entire system. Also, maybe add "systemctl list-machines" which
41 works like "machinectl list" but includes information about the
42 health status of each registered machine. For that we should
43 probably implement something that encodes the system health status
44 in a single enum state, i.e. something like a system-wide state
45 starting → running → failed → stopping, that is based on the current
46 job queue and a check for failed services. Maybe then change
47 "systemctl status" without args to output this state along with a
48 selection of other data, such as the uptime or so.
49
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50* generalize ConditionXYZ= logic and make it available in networkd's
51 .network, .netdev, .network files, too. This is particularly useful
52 to match on containers with ConditionVirtualization to
53 conditionalize network setups for containers
54
55* doc: remove documentation for .include, drop-in snippets are the
56 better replacement.
57
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58* Add a seccomp-based filter for socket() calls to limit services to
59 specific address families (for example: AF_UNIX), inspired by
60 Android's sandboxing
61
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62* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
63 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
64 for ReusePort=
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66* add a timelimit to generator invocation
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68* socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
69 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
70 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
71 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
72 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
73
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74* New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
75
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76* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
77 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
78 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
79 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
80 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
81 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
82
3333d748 83* machinectl bash completion is missing
708c143c 84* busctl bash and zsh completions are outdated
3333d748 85
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86* cgroups:
87 - implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?)
88 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
89 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
90 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
91 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
92 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
93 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
94 the hierarchies of child processes
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96* transient units:
97 - allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
98 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
99 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
ebcf1f97 100
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101* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
102
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103* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
104
f38afcd0 105* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
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107* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
108
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109* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
110
94676f3e 111* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
6fd4d020 112
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113* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
114
af1082b0 115* socket-proxyd: Use sd-resolve to resolve the server address
41644622 116
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117* 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
118
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119* move config_parse_path_strv() out of conf-parser.c
120
7f79cd71 121* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 122
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123* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
124 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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125 path anyway.
126
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127* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
128
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129* given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
130 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
e10e429f 131 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
e1b7e7ec 132
6aaa8c2f 133* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 134
e1b7e7ec 135* 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 136
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137* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
138
139* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
140
9444b1f2 141* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 142 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 143 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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144 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
145 check for that and suppress event handling.
9444b1f2 146
19aadacf 147* something pulls in pcre as shared object dependency into our daemons such as hostnamed.
1f263d4d 148
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149* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
150 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
151
6bb648a1 152* sd-bus:
eb01ba5d 153 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
86312ab8 154 - implement monitor logic
f38afcd0 155 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 156 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
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157 - systemd-bus-proxyd needs to enforce good old XML policy
158 - upload minimal kdbus policy into the kernel at boot
80caea6c 159 - kdbus: matches against source or destination pids for an "strace -p"-like feel. Problem: The PID info needs to be available in userspace too...
ab9716c2 160 - longer term: priority inheritance
452de75e 161 - check sender of response messages
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162 - dbus spec updates:
163 - kdbus mapping
164 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
165 - GVariant
bee7e928 166 - "const" properties (posted)
00586799 167 - port exit-on-idle logic to byebye ioctl
6a8b5fa4 168 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
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169 - allow updating attach flags during runtime
170 - pid1: peek into activating message when activating a service
69727e6d 171 - test bloom filter generation indexes
2fcb3af6 172 - introduce sd_bus_emit_object_added()/sd_bus_emit_object_removed() that automatically includes the build-in interfaces in the list
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173 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
174 - constructors for bus messages should probably not be OK with a NULL bus pointer
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176* sd-event
12179984 177 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
eb01ba5d 178
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179* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
180 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
181 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
182
69af4503 183* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
e8a7a315 184
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185* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
186 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
187
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188* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
189
190* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
191
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192* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
193
194* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
195
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196* timedatectl: print a nicer message when enabling ntp fails because ntpd/chrony are not installed
197
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198* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
199
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200* test/:
201 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
202 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
b8b4d3dd 203
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204* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
205
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206* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
207 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
208 file.
209
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210* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
211 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
212 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
213 destination.
214
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215* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
216 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
217
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218* add ConditionArchitecture= or so
219
220* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
221
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222* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
223 need manual exponential loops after all
224
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225* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
226 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
227 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
228 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
229
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230* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
231 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
232 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
233 that automatically.
234
e5ec62c5 235* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 236
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237* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
238
54c31a79 239* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 240
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241* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
242
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243* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
244
245* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
246
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247* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
248
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249* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
250
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251* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
252 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
253 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
254 will be activated.
255
356ce991 256* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 257
81d112a8 258* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 259
b44be3ec 260* EFI:
b44be3ec 261 - write man page for efi boot generator
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262 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
263 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 264 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 265
c0fe5db5 266* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 267
b44be3ec 268* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
e9fd44b7 269
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270* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
271 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 273* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 274
b44be3ec 275* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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277* logind:
278 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
279 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
280 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
281 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
282 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
b44be3ec 283 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
e5ec62c5 284 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
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285 - when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects
286 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
287 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
288 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
289 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
290 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
291 needs setuid().
e673ad04 292
b44be3ec 293* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 294
b44be3ec 295* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
e673ad04 296
b44be3ec 297* journal:
c06bf414 298 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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299 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
300 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
301 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
302 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
303 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
304 - journal: reuse XZ context
305 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
306 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
307 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
308 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
309 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
310 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
311 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 312 - 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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313 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
314 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
b44be3ec 315 - 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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316 - 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.
317 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
318 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 319 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 320 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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321 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
322 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
323 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
324 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
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325 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
326 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 327 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 328 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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329 - tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal, also do this for the journal fails contained in it
330 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
331 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
332 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
333 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
334 to syslog when it works again.
335 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
336 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
337 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
338 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
339 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
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341* document:
8b8f2591 342 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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343 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
344 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 345 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 346 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 347 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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348 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
349 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
350 - man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf
351 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
352 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
353 - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
354 - man: add more examples to man pages
355 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
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357* systemctl:
358 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
359 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
360 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
361 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
362 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
363 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
364 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
365 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
366 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
367 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
368 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
369 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
370 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
f38afcd0 371 - rework wait filter to not require match callback
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372 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
373 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
8b8f2591 374 - in systemctl list-timers show time triggering units ran last
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376* unit install:
377 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
378 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
379 - "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, but should
380 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
381 unit however should remove them all).
382 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
383 - systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
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385* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
386
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387* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
388
389* timer units:
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390 - timer events with system resume
391 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
392 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
393 o DST changes
eb124a97 394 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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395 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
396 - 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
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397 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
398 - anacron-like feature
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400* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
401
402* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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403 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
404 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 405 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 406 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 407 user did not request anything like it.
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409* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
410 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
411 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
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413* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
414 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
415 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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416 we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in
417 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
418 better supported alternative.
e707c494 419
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420* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
421
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422* 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().
423
424* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
425* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
426* fedup: generator
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f38afcd0 428* timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
6d0274f1 429
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430* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
431
b44be3ec 432* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
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434* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
435 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
436 - superset of tmpfiles model
437 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
438 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
439 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
440
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441* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
442 waiting for the timeout
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444* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
445
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446* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
447
b44be3ec 448* nspawn:
86d0d519 449 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with /usr/bin/getent, so that NSS resolving works correctly
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450 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
451 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
452 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
453 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
3679d112 454 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
9cb74bcb 455 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
a56b63f4 456 - support taking a btrfs snapshot at startup and dropping it afterwards
af1082b0 457 - maybe: hookup nspawn and PrivateNetwork=yes with "ip netns"
af1082b0 458 - allow booting disk images with a GPT signature using the bootloaderspec partition uuids
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460* cryptsetup:
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461 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
462 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
463 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 464 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 465
424a19f8 466* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 467 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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469* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
470
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471* make timer units go away after they elapsed
472
8556879e 473* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 474 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
8556879e 475
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476* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
477
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478* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
479
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480* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
481
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482* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
483
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484* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
485
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486* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
487
68f16003 488* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 489
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490* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
491
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492* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
493 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
494 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
495 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 496 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 497 but much rather a disconnect on success.
0790b9fe 498
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499* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
500
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501* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
502
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503* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
504
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505* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
506
88a6c589 507* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
8351ceae 508
bcd02123 509* syscall filter: optionally don't enforce no new privs?
c66d36e5 510
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511* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
512 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
513
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514* introduce Type=pid-file
515
59cea26a 516* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 517
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518* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
519
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520* automount: implement expire:
521 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
522 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
523 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
524 - blocking, needs a thread
525 - run until -EAGAIN
526 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
527 - call umount
528 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
529 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
465349c0 530
e01a15b7 531* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 532
abd55b16 533* udev:
3f60bcb5 534 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
abd55b16 535 - move to LGPL
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536 - kill scsi_id
537 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
b8217b7b 538
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539* when a service has the same env var set twice we actually store it twice and return that in systemctl show -p... We should only show the last setting
540
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541* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
542
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543* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
544
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545* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
546
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547* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
548
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549* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
550
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551* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
552
553* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
554
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555* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
556
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557* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
558 needs to be auto-respawned?
559
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560* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
561
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562* tmpfiles:
563 - check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
564 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 565
b44be3ec 566* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
14e639ae 567
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d3c7d7dd 570* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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572* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
573 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
574
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575* move PAM code into its own binary
576
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577* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
578 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
579
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580* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
581
7c697168 582* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 583
71092d70 584* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
8d0e38a2 585
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586* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
587 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
588 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
589
f38afcd0 590* support User= and Group= attributes for AF_UNIX sockets. (difficult, requires NSS from PID 1?)
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592* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
593 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
594
71092d70 595* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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597* readahead:
598 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
599 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
600 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
601 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
602 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
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604* add support for /bin/mount -s
605
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606* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
607
68c7d001 608* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 609 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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610 - enabling dbus services
611 - status update
7a2a0b90 612 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 613 - remote access
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614 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
615 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 616 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 617 - auto-restart
e707c494 618 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 619 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 620 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 621 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 622 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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624 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
625 - how to create your own target
626 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
627 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
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44143309 629* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 630
71092d70 631* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 632
260abb78 633* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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635* Support --test based on current system state
636
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637* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
638
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639* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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641* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
642
71092d70 643* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
246756ca 644
50f2a90d 645* io priority during initialization
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648
7ba97195 649* systemd-python:
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651 works with ^C
b04c8c83 652 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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655 - plot per-process IO utilization
656 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
657 - document initcall_debug
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658 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
659
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661 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
662 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
663 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 664
88e4d1d7 665* sd-rtnl:
32216660 666 - add support for exiting containers without reading them fully first
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667 - add support for more attribute types
668
0a4b9a07 669* networkd:
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670 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
671 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
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672 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
673
2f8cd170 674External:
74fe1fe3 675
cc9784c6 676* dbus:
3377af3e 677 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 678 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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680* fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
681
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682* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
683
9096ad36 684* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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686* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
687 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
688 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
689 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
690 the RTC to sync up.
691
71092d70 692* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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695
696* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
697
698* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
699
700* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
701
702* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
703
d2bbca68 704* 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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706* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
707
708* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 709
4641a16b 710* 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 712Regularly:
874aa2cc 713
129126f3 714* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 715
129126f3 716* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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718* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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720* pahole
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71092d70 722* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 723
4db17f29 724* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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727
9e5f3dbb 728Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 730* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)