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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.
20ffc4c4 12
19aadacf 13* When we detect invalid UTF-8, we cannot use it in an error message:
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14 log...("Path is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment: %s", rvalue);
15
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16* shorten the message to sane length:
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18 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.
19
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20* systemctl --root=container/ set-default ... is totally borked.
21
f38afcd0 22External:
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f38afcd0 24* ps should gain colums for slice
81d112a8 25
f38afcd0 26* Fedora: when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
466784c8 27 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
55d32caf 28
f38afcd0 29* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
bafb15ba 30
f38afcd0 31* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
bafb15ba 32
eb124a97 33Features:
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35* Introduce PrivateDevices=yes/no which works like PrivateTmp= but for /dev setting up a tmpfs for it that only includes /dev/null, /dev/zero, /dev/random, /dev/urandom, but nothing else.
36
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37* libsystemd-journal returns the object created as first param in sd_journal_new(), sd_bus_new() and suchlike as last...
38
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39* cgroups:
40 - implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?)
41 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
42 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
43 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
44 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
45 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
46 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
47 the hierarchies of child processes
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49* transient units:
50 - allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
51 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
52 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
ebcf1f97 53
08cd1552 54* code cleanup
08cd1552 55 - we probably should replace the left-over uses of strv_append() and replace them by strv_push() or strv_extend()
2e41a51e 56
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57* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
58
59* move libasyncns into systemd as libsystemd-asyncns
60
f38afcd0 61* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
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63* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
64
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65* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
66
94676f3e 67* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
6fd4d020 68
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69* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
70
f38afcd0 71* socket-proxyd:Use a nonblocking alternative to getaddrinfo
41644622 72
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73* 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
74
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75* Add a new Distribute=$NUMBER key to socket units that makes use of SO_REUSEPORT to distribute network traffic on $NUMBER instances
76
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77* move config_parse_path_strv() out of conf-parser.c
78
7f79cd71 79* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 80
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81* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
82 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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83 path anyway.
84
19aadacf 85* When a Type=forking service fails and needed another service, that
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86 service is not cleaned up again when it has StopWhenUnneeded=yes
87 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-July/012141.html
88
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89* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
90
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91* given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
92 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
e10e429f 93 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
e1b7e7ec 94
6aaa8c2f 95* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 96
e1b7e7ec 97* 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 98
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99* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
100
101* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
102
9444b1f2 103* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 104 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 105 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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106 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
107 check for that and suppress event handling.
9444b1f2 108
19aadacf 109* something pulls in pcre as shared object dependency into our daemons such as hostnamed.
1f263d4d 110
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111* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
112 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
113
eb01ba5d 114* libsystemd-bus:
eb01ba5d 115 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
86312ab8 116 - implement monitor logic
f38afcd0 117 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
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118 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
119 - SD_BUS_COMMENT() macro for inclusion in vtables, syntax inspired by gdbus
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120 - systemd-bus-proxyd needs to enforce good old XML policy
121 - upload minimal kdbus policy into the kernel at boot
80caea6c 122 - kdbus: matches against source or destination pids for an "strace -p"-like feel. Problem: The PID info needs to be available in userspace too...
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123 - longer term:
124 * priority queues
125 * priority inheritance
452de75e 126 - check sender of response messages
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127 - dbus spec updates:
128 - kdbus mapping
129 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
130 - GVariant
bee7e928 131 - "const" properties (posted)
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132 - port exit-on-idle logic to byebye ioctl
133 - make use of "drop" ioctl in pid 1 bus activation
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134 - bus proxy: override unique id sender for messages from driver to match the well-known name
135 - bus driver: GetNameOwner() for "org.freedesktop.DBus" should return "org.freedesktop.DBus"
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137* sd-event
12179984 138 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
eb01ba5d 139
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140* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
141 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
142 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
143
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144* Introduce a way how we can kill the main process of a service with KillSignal, but all processes with SIGKILL later on
145 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952634
146
69af4503 147* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses where the access mode of unit files is nonsensical.
19aa7c4f 148
69af4503 149* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
e8a7a315 150
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151* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
152 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
153
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154* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
155
156* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
157
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158* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
159
160* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
161
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162* timedatectl: print a nicer message when enabling ntp fails because ntpd/chrony are not installed
163
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164* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
165
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166* test/:
167 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
168 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
b8b4d3dd 169
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170* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
171
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172* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
173 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
174 file.
175
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176* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
177 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
178 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
179 destination.
180
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181* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
182 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
183
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184* add ConditionArchitecture= or so
185
186* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
187
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188* Support SO_REUSEPORT with socket activation:
189 - Let systemd maintain a pool of servers.
190 - Use for seamless upgrades, by running the new server before stopping the
191 old.
192
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193* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
194 need manual exponential loops after all
195
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196* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
197 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
198 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
199 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
200
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201* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
202 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
203 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
204 that automatically.
205
e5ec62c5 206* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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208* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
209
54c31a79 210* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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212* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
213
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214* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
215
216* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
217
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218* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
219
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220* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
221
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222* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
223 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
224 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
225 will be activated.
226
356ce991 227* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 228
81d112a8 229* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 230
b44be3ec 231* EFI:
b44be3ec 232 - write man page for efi boot generator
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233 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
234 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 235 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 236
c0fe5db5 237* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 238
b44be3ec 239* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
e9fd44b7 240
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241* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
242 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 244* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 245
b44be3ec 246* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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248* logind:
249 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
250 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
251 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
252 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
253 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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254 - logind: non-local X11 server handling
255 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
b44be3ec 256 - pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree
e5ec62c5 257 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
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258 - when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects
259 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
260 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
261 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
262 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
263 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
264 needs setuid().
e673ad04 265
b44be3ec 266* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 267
b44be3ec 268* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
e673ad04 269
b44be3ec 270* journal:
c06bf414 271 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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272 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
273 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
274 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
275 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
276 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
277 - journal: reuse XZ context
278 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
279 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
280 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
281 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
282 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
283 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
284 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 285 - 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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286 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
287 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
b44be3ec 288 - 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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289 - 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.
290 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
291 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 292 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 293 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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294 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
295 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
296 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
297 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
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298 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
299 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 300 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 301 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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302 - tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal, also do this for the journal fails contained in it
303 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
304 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
305 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
306 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
307 to syslog when it works again.
308 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
309 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
310 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
311 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
312 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
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314* document:
8b8f2591 315 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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316 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
317 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 318 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 319 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 320 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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321 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
322 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
323 - man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf
324 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
325 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
326 - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
327 - man: add more examples to man pages
328 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
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330* systemctl:
331 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
332 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
333 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
334 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
335 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
336 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
337 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
338 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
339 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
340 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
341 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
342 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
343 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
f38afcd0 344 - rework wait filter to not require match callback
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345 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
346 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
8b8f2591 347 - in systemctl list-timers show time triggering units ran last
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349* unit install:
350 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
351 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
352 - "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, but should
353 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
354 unit however should remove them all).
355 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
356 - systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
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358* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
359
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360* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
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362* timer units:
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363 - timer events with system resume
364 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
365 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
366 o DST changes
eb124a97 367 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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368 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
369 - 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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370 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
371 - anacron-like feature
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373* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
374
375* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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376 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
377 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 378 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 379 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 380 user did not request anything like it.
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382* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
383 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
384 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
9ec82de1 385
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386* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
387 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
388 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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389 we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in
390 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
391 better supported alternative.
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393* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
394
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395* 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().
396
397* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
398* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
399* fedup: generator
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f38afcd0 401* timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
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403* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
404
b44be3ec 405* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 406
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407* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
408 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
409 - superset of tmpfiles model
410 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
411 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
412 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
413
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414* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
415 waiting for the timeout
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417* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
418
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419* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
420
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421* nspawn:
422 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly
423 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
424 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
425 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
426 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
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427 - nspawn: investigate whether we can support the same as LXC's
428 lxc.network.type=phys mode, and pass through entire network
429 interfaces to the container
eb124a97 430 - nspawn: maybe explicitly reset loginuid?
3679d112 431 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
9cb74bcb 432 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
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433 - add an option to nspawn that uses seccomp to make socket(AF_NETLINK,
434 SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_AUDIT) fail the the appropriate error code that
435 makes the audit userspace to think auditing is not available in the
436 kernel.
a56b63f4 437 - support taking a btrfs snapshot at startup and dropping it afterwards
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439* cryptsetup:
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440 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
441 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
442 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 443 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 444
424a19f8 445* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 446 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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448* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
449
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450* make timer units go away after they elapsed
451
8556879e 452* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 453 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
8556879e 454
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455* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
456
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457* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
458
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459* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
460
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461* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
462
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463* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
464
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465* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
466
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467* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container
468
68f16003 469* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 470
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471* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
472
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473* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
474 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
475 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
476 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 477 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 478 but much rather a disconnect on success.
0790b9fe 479
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480* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
481
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482* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
483
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484* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
485
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486* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
487
88a6c589 488* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
8351ceae 489
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490* syscall filter:
491 - syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls
492 - syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs?
493 - syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS?
494 - syscall filter: port to libseccomp
495 - system-wide seccomp filter
c66d36e5 496
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497* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
498 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
499
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500* introduce Type=pid-file
501
59cea26a 502* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 503
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504* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
505
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506* automount: implement expire:
507 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
508 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
509 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
510 - blocking, needs a thread
511 - run until -EAGAIN
512 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
513 - call umount
514 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
515 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
465349c0 516
e01a15b7 517* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 518
abd55b16 519* udev:
3f60bcb5 520 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
abd55b16 521 - move to LGPL
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523 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
b8217b7b 524
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525* 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
526
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527* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
528
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529* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
530
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531* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
532
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533* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
534
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535* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
536
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537* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
538
539* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
540
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542
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543* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
544 needs to be auto-respawned?
545
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546* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
547
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548* tmpfiles:
549 - check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
550 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 551
b44be3ec 552* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
14e639ae 553
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555
d3c7d7dd 556* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
72b9ed82 557
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558* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
559 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
560
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561* move PAM code into its own binary
562
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563* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
564 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
565
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566* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
567
7c697168 568* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 569
71092d70 570* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
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573 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
574 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
575
f38afcd0 576* support User= and Group= attributes for AF_UNIX sockets. (difficult, requires NSS from PID 1?)
a012ab52 577
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578* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
579 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
580
71092d70 581* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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584 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
585 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
586 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
587 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
588 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
b23de6af 589
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590* add support for /bin/mount -s
591
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592* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
593
68c7d001 594* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 595 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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596 - enabling dbus services
597 - status update
7a2a0b90 598 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 599 - remote access
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600 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
601 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 602 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 603 - auto-restart
e707c494 604 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 605 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 606 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 607 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 608 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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609 - calendar time events
610 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
611 - how to create your own target
612 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
613 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
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44143309 615* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 616
71092d70 617* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 618
260abb78 619* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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622
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623* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
624
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625* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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627* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
628
129126f3 629* port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID:
a625ac1a 630 - postfix, saslauthd
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632 - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro)
633 - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!)
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635
71092d70 636* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
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50f2a90d 638* io priority during initialization
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641
7ba97195 642* systemd-python:
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644 works with ^C
b04c8c83 645 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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648 - plot per-process IO utilization
649 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
650 - document initcall_debug
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651 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
652
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653* udev-link-config:
654 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
655 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
656 on Path= matching
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657 - Check if Driver= is broken, or just my driver (bcma)
658
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660 - replace sd_rtnl_message_append() by type-safe versions
661 - improve container support, and add support for entering containers when reading
662 - add support for more attribute types
663
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665 - unify and clarify logging, also use proper structured log messages
666 - add [Route] sections
667 - add more keys to [Address] sections
668 - add DHCPv4 support (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
669 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
670
2f8cd170 671External:
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cc9784c6 673* dbus:
3377af3e 674 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 675 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 676
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677* fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
678
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679* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
680
9096ad36 681* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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683* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
684 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
685 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
686 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
687 the RTC to sync up.
688
71092d70 689* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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691* drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields
692
693* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
694
695* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
696
697* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
698
699* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
700
d2bbca68 701* 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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703* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
704
705* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 706
4641a16b 707* 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 709Regularly:
874aa2cc 710
129126f3 711* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 712
129126f3 713* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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715* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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718
71092d70 719* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 720
4db17f29 721* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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9e5f3dbb 725Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 727* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)