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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* busctl prints errors to stdout:
8 busctl tree org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1
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f38afcd0 10External:
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f38afcd0 12* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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14* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
15
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16Janitorial Clean-ups:
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18* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
19
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20* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
21 semantics, like we do for device.c now
22
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23Features:
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25* homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
26 easily?
27
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28* journalctl --image= which is like --root= but operates on disk images
29
30* when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
31 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
32 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
33 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
34 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
35
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36* drop sd_bus_message_set_priority() from sd-bus API and documentation as much
37 as we can, it's a kdbus left-over and unlikely to come back on AF_UNIX, since
38 it's not really implementable there.
39
97cd52c1 40* cryptsetup/homed: also support FIDO2 HMAC password logic for unlocking
70e9d9a5 41 devices. (see: https://github.com/mjec/fido2-hmac-secret)
97cd52c1 42
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43* systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
44 creates
45
86b52a39 46* homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
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47 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
48 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
49 hence we can make them quicker to work.
50
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51* bootctl:
52 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
53 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
54 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
55
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56* by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
57 allow so that systemd survives
58
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59* honour specifiers in unit files that resolve to some very basic
60 /etc/os-release data, such as ID, VERSION_ID, BUILD_ID, VARIANT_ID.
61
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62* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
63 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
64
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65* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
66 systemd-makefs.service instead.
67
91fc013f 68* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 69 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 70
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71* unify on openssl:
72 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
73 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
74 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
75 - port importd over from libgcrypt
76 - when that's done: kill khash.c
77 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
78
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79* kill zenata, all hail weblate?
80
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81* when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
82
83* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
84 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
85
86* hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
87 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
88 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
89 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
90 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
91
492f91d8 92* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
86b52a39 93 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
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94 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
95 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
96
86b52a39 97* systemd-repart: optionally, allow specifying a path to initialize new
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98 partitions from, i.e. an fs image file or a source device node. This would
99 then turn systemd-repart into a simple installer: with a few .repart files
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100 you could replicate the host system on another device. a full installer would
101 then be: "systemd-repart /dev/sda && bootctl install /dev/sda &&
102 systemd-firstboot --image= …"
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104* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
105 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
106 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
107 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
108 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
109 automatically.
110
111* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
112 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
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114* systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
115 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
116
117* systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
118
119* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
120 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
121
122* systemd-repart: add specifier expansion, add especifier that refers to root
123 device node of current system, /usr device node, and matching verity, so that
124 an installer can be made a "copy" installer of the booted OS
125
2a4be3c5 126* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
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127 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
128
129* systemd-repart: when no configuration is found, exit early do not check
130 partition table, so that it is safe to run in the initrd on any system
131
132* systemd-repart: allow config of partition uuid
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134* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
135 realname substr searches in varlink API
006c44c1 136
2a4be3c5 137* userdb: allow existence checks
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139* pid: activation by journal search expression
140
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141* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
142 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
143 initrd had set.
144
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145* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
146 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
147 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
148 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
149 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
150 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
151
152* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
153 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
154 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
155
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156* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
157 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
158 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
159 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
160 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
161 source.
162
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163* figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
164 with immutable /usr
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166* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
167 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
168 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
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170* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
171
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172* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
173 the hibernation
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175* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
176 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
177 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
178 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
179 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
180 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
181 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
182 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
183 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
184 hibernation mode. (see
185 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
186 section 10.2.2.8 and
187 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
188 at the end).
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190* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
191 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
192 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
193 output for them.
194
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195* systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
196 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
197
198* systemd-firstboot: add --force mode that replaces existing configuration.
199
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200* We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
201 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
202 constant vendor data.
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204* maybe add kernel cmdline params: 1) to force first-boot mode + 2) to force
205 random seed crediting
206
207* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
208 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
209
210* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
211 fallback in "machinectl shell"
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213* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
214 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
215 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
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217* homed:
218 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
219 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
220 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
221 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
222 - resize on login?
223 - fstrim on logout?
224 - shrink fs on logout?
225 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
226 - create on activate?
227 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
228 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
229 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
230 systemd --user is shut down.
231 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
232 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk images (think: time machine)
86b52a39 233 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
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234 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
235 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
236 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
237 - description field for groups
238 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
239 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
240 - query password from kernel keyring first
241 - update even if record is "absent"
242 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
243 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
244 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
245 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
246 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
247 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
248
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249* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
250 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
251 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
252 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
253 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
254 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
255 exec().
256
257* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
258
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259* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
260 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
261
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262* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
263
264* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
265 gnome-bluetooth and friends
266
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267* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
268 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
269 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
270 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
271 cgroup.
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273* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
274 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
275 root.
276
277* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
278 is issued.
279
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280* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
281
282* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
283
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284* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
285 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
286 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 287
d238709c 288* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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289 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
290 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
291
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292* add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
293 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
294 ConfigurationDirectory=.
295
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296* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
297
d3584ec4 298* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
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300* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
301 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
302
06898123 303* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 304 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 305 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
06898123 306
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307* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
308
309* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
310 patching around
311
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312* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
313 log.c and sd-journal-send
314
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315* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
316
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317* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
318
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319* sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
320 can add in file system drivers and such
321
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322* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
323 non-zero "tries done" count
324
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325* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
326 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
327 it should skip the variant type string though.
328
329* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
330 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
331 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
332 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
333 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
334 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
335 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
336 CODE_FILE.
337
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338* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
339 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
340 some explanatory text online.
341
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342* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
343
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344* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
345 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
346 the slices, and the units attached to them.
347
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348* the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
349 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
bc130b68 350 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
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351 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
352 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
353 way)
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355* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
356 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
357 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
358
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359* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
360 original defaults before calling parse_config()
361
72d711ef 362* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
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364* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
365 Specifically:
366
367 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
368 properly)
e83419d0 369 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 370 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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372* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
373 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
374
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375* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
376 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
377 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
378 files and suchlike we operate on.
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380* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
381
382* add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
383
384* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
385 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
386
5da19043 387* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
5238e957 388 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
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389 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
390 numbers.
391
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392* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
393 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
394 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
395 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
396 unlinked from any dir.
397
bd1b3f75 398* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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400* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
401
402* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
403
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404* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
405 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
406 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
407 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
408 should reflink the image file itself.
409
410 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
411 specific paths only like this.
412
53c70a27 413* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 414 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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415 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
416 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
417 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
418
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419* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
420
421* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
422
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423* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
424 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
425
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426* teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
427 project quota
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429* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
430 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
431 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
432 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
433 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
434 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
435 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
436 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
437
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438* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
439 for root, but only then.
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441* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
442
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443* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
444 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
445
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446* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
447 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
448
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449* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
450 host-side interface pointing to the container.
451
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452* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
453 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
454 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
455 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
456 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
457
cb77e122 458* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 459
899feb72 460* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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462* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
463 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
464 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
465
5f7ecd61 466* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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468* maybe use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (i.e. the env var the reproducible builds folks
469 introduced) as the RTC epoch, instead of the mtime of NEWS.
470
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471* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
472 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
473
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474* blog about fd store and restartable services
475
476* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
477
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478* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
479 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
480
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481* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
482 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
483 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
484 ID is available.
485
486* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
487 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
488 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
489
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490* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
491 parameters
492
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493* maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
494 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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495 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
496 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
497 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
498 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
499 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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501* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
502 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
503
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504* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
505 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
506 wait to retrieve their exit data.
507
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508* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
509 about it in the resource log message
510
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511* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
512 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
513
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514* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
515 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
516 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
517
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518* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
519 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
520
521 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
522
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523* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
524 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
525 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
526 logging.
527
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528* hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
529 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
530 "convertible" form factor
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532* Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
533 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
534 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
535 as MAINPID.
536
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537* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
538 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
539 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
540
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542 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
543
544* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
545 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
546 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
547 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
548 natural habitat.
549
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551 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
552 /usr is mounted into.
553
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554* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
555
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556* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
557
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558* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
559 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
560 relative to the configured default value.
561
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562* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
563
564* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
565
04397464 566* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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568* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
569
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570* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
571
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572* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
573
04397464 574* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 575
04397464 576* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 577
04397464 578* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 579
8ce9b83a 580* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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582* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
583 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
584 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
585
e40a326c 586* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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588* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
589
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590* mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
591 partitions
592
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593* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
594 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
595 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
596 mapping to work.
597
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598* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
599
600* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
601
602* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
603
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604* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
605 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
606
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607* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
608 reload the unit file anyway
609
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610* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
611 from the SIGBUS handler
612
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613* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
614
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615* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
616 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
617
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618* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
619
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620* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
621 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
622
f9bf1b8f 623* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 624 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 625 specifications.
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628
5ebbb45b 629* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
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632
a2088fd0 633* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 634 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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635 prefixed with /sys generally special.
636 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
637
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638* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
639
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640* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
641
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642* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
643 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
644 state.
645 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
646
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647* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
648 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
649 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
650 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
651 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
652
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654 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
655
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656* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
657
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658* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
659 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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661* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
662 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
663 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
664 do, for example)
665
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667 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
668
e031c227 669* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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670 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
671
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672* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
673
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674* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
675 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
676 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
677 returning from the "systemctl stop".
678
b568ef14 679* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
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681* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
682
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683* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
684 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
685
25e773ee 686* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 687
279f0366 688* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 689
5238e957 690* systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
b42de08a 691 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
202aea45 692
720652b3 693* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 694
720652b3 695* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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697* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
698
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699* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
700 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
701
9d6db739 702* resolved:
9d6db739 703 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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705 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 706 - avahi compat
9d6db739 707 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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708 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
709 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
710 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 711 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 712 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 713
e25b5a8d 714* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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717
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718* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
719
a01647e5 720* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 721 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
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723* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
724
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725* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
726
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727* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
728
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729* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
730 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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733
6a3f892a 734* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 735 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 736 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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739 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
740 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 741
f9bf1b8f 742* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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744* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
745 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
746 for ReusePort=
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749 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
750 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
751 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
752 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
753 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
754
f38afcd0 755* cgroups:
f38afcd0 756 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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757 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
758 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
759 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
760 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
761 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 762
f38afcd0 763* transient units:
f38afcd0 764 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
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766* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
767
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768* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
769
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770* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
771
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772* 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
773
7f79cd71 774* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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776* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
777 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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778 path anyway.
779
04397464 780* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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782* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
783
784* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
785
6bb648a1 786* sd-bus:
0d43ffef 787 - EBADSLT handling
fa607802 788 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
7212c608 789 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
57f2a947 790 - see if we can introduce a new sd_bus_get_owner_machine_id() call to retrieve the machine ID of the machine of the bus itself
f38afcd0 791 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 792 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
ab9716c2 793 - longer term: priority inheritance
df98a87b 794 - dbus spec updates:
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796 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 797 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 798 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
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800* sd-event
12179984 801 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 802 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
e25b5a8d 803 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
eb01ba5d 804
69af4503 805* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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807* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
808 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
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810* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
811
812* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
813
fff87a35 814* test/:
20d52ab6 815 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 816
b5c03638 817* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 818 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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819 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
820 destination.
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822* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
823 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
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825* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
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828 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
829 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
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832 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
833 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
834 is installed.
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837 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
838 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
839 that automatically.
840
e5ec62c5 841* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 842
ccddd104 843* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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846
356ce991 847* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
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851 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 852 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 853* bootctl
631427d6 854 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 855
c0fe5db5 856* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 857
b44be3ec 858* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 859
b44be3ec 860* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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863 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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864 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
865 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
866 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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868 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
869 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
870 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
871 needs setuid().
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873 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
874 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
875 complete.
876 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
877 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
878 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
279f0366 879 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
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881 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
882 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
883 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
884 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
885 relogins
77b19caf 886 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 887
b44be3ec 888* journal:
57f2a947 889 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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890 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
891 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
892 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 893 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 894 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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896 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
897 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 898 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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900 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 901 - 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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902 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
903 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
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905 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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906 - 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.
907 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
908 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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909 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
910 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
911 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
912 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 913 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 914 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 915 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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917 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
918 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
919 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
920 to syslog when it works again.
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922 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
923 journals in.
924 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
925 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
926 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
927 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
928 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 929 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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930 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
931 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
932 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
933 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
934 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
935 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
936 operation.
937 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
938 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
939 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
940 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 941 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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942 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
943 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
944 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
945 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
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948 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
949 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
950 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
951
b44be3ec 952* document:
8b8f2591 953 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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954 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
955 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 956 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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957 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
958 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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959 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
960 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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961 - man: add more examples to man pages
962 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 963 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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965* systemctl:
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966 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
967 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
968 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
969 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
970 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
971 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
972 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 973 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 974 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 975 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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977* unit install:
978 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
979 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
8b04b925 980
b44be3ec 981* timer units:
b44be3ec 982 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
b44be3ec 983 o DST changes
90e071d1 984 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 985
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986* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
987
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988* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
989
b44be3ec 990* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 991
f59d1da8 992* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
dcfc4b2e 993
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995
d28315e4 996* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 997
b44be3ec 998* nspawn:
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999 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1000 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1001 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1002 from the kernel's logs.
1003 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1004 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1005 interface be missing
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1006 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1007 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1008 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1009 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1010 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1011 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1012 PID 1...
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1013 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1014 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1015
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1016* dissect
1017 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1018 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1019
e25b5a8d 1020* machined:
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1021 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1022 removed or added to an existing machine
1023 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1024 difference host, via ssh
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1025 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1026 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1027 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1028 question
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1029 - "machinectl history"
1030 - "machinectl diff"
1031 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1032 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1033
b44be3ec 1034* cryptsetup:
b44be3ec 1035 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
5f1dac6b 1036 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 1037
424a19f8 1038* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 1039 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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1042
68f16003 1043* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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1045* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1046
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1047* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1048
abd55b16 1049* udev:
abd55b16 1050 - move to LGPL
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1051 - kill scsi_id
1052 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1053 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1054
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1055* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1056
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1057* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1058
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1059* coredump:
1060 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1061 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
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1063* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1064
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1065* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1066 needs to be auto-respawned?
1067
f38afcd0 1068* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1069 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1070 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1071 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1072 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1073 calls follow symlinks.
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1075* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1076
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1077* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1078 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1079 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1080
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1081* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1082 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1083
71092d70 1084* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 1085
68c7d001 1086* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 1087 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
68c7d001 1088 - enabling dbus services
7a2a0b90 1089 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 1090 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 1091 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 1092 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 1093 - auto-restart
e707c494 1094 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 1095 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 1096 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 1097 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 1098 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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1099 - calendar time events
1100 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1101 - how to create your own target
1102 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1103 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 1104
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1105* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1106
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1107* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1108
e25b5a8d 1109* pid1:
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1110 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1111 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1112 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1113 that are not supported...
1114 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1115 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1116 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1117 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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1118 - move PAM code into its own binary
1119 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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1120 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1121 - Support --test based on current system state
1122 - 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().
1123 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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1124 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1125 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1126 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1127 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1128 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1129 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1130 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1131 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1132
1133* unit files:
1134 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1135 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1136 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1137 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1138 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1139 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1140 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1141 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
e25b5a8d 1142 - introduce Type=pid-file
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1143 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1144 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
e25b5a8d 1145 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
e5171296 1146 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
e25b5a8d 1147
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1149 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1150 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1151 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1152
88e4d1d7 1153* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1154 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1155 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1156
0a4b9a07 1157* networkd:
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1158 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1159 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 1160 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 1161 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
5c1d3fc9 1162 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
798e174a 1163 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1164 - work with non-Ethernet devices
c9fa3670 1165 - add support for more bond options
e25b5a8d 1166 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1167 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1168 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1169 - expose in the API the following bits:
1170 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
1171 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
1172 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1173 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1174 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1175 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1176 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1177 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1178 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1179 - allow DUID/IAID to be customized, see issue #394.
e25b5a8d 1180 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1181
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1182* networkd-wait-online:
1183 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
8f5675cc 1184
ac976532 1185* dhcp:
424a8732 1186 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1187
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1188* dhcp6:
1189 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1190 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1191 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1192 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1193 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1194 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1195 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1196 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1197 or interface down
1198 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1199 this behavior
4a77c53d 1200 - RouteTable= ?
37d8b536 1201
2f8cd170 1202External:
74fe1fe3 1203
cc9784c6 1204* dbus:
3377af3e 1205 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 1206 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 1207
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1208* fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
1209
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1210* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1211
9096ad36 1212* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
06ae4bfe 1213
71092d70 1214* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
14bd37fe 1215
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1216* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1217
d2bbca68 1218* 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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1220* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
1221
1222* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 1223
4641a16b 1224* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
19aa7c4f 1225
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1226* register catalog database signature as file magic
1227
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1228* zsh shell completion:
1229 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 1230 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1cf3c30c 1231
90137b62 1232* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
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1233* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1234 after being started.
2c12a402 1235
129126f3 1236Regularly:
874aa2cc 1237
129126f3 1238* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 1239
129126f3 1240* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
5b6319dc 1241
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1243
d28315e4 1244* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 1245
4db17f29 1246* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
88fae6e0 1247
d05c556b 1248* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
62353f69 1249String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment