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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Should systemctl status \* work on all unit types, not just .service?
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5* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
6 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
7 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
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a40593a0 9* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
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afe3ab58 11* ExecStart with unicode characters fails in strv_split_quoted:
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13 [Service]
14 Environment=ONE='one' "TWO='two two' too" THREE=
15 ExecStart=/bin/python3 -c 'import sys;print(sys.argv)' $ONE $TWO $THREE
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3f85ef0f 17* MEMORY return code is overloaded for syntax errors in the command line.
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18 str_split_quoted() should return a real return code, so spawn_child can
19 report the failure properly.
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f38afcd0 21External:
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f38afcd0 23* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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f38afcd0 25* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
bafb15ba 26
81429136 27* Fedora: move kernel image to /usr/lib/modules/, kernel-install will take care of populating /boot
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29* Fedora: remove /etc/resolv.conf tmpfiles hack
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31* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
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33* When lz4 gets an API for lz4 command output, make use of it to
34 compress coredumps in a way compatible with /usr/bin/lz4.
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81429136 36Features:
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38* port libmount hookup to use API's own inotify interface, as soon as that is table in libmount
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40* bash completion for busctl, to make it truly useful
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42* journald: broken file systems are real (btrfs), we need to handle
43 SIGBUS in some way if we cannot write or read from the disk.
44 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151848
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46* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
47 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
48 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
49 do, for example)
50
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51* resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
52 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
53 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
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55* systemd-journal-upload (or a new, related tool): allow pushing out
56 journal messages onto the network in BSD syslog protocol,
57 continously. Default to some link-local IP mcast group, to make this
58 useful as a one-stop debugging tool.
59
60* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
61 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
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63* as soon as we have kdbus, and sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
64 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
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66* set $REMOTE_IP (or $REMOTE_ADDR/$REMOTE_PORT) environment variable when doing per-connection socket activation. use format introduced by xinetd or CGI for this
67
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68* the install state probably shouldn't get confused by generated units, think dbus1/kdbus compat!
69
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70* in systemctl list-unit-files: show the install value the presets would suggest for a service in a third column
71
72* we should try harder to collapse start jobs for swaps that end up being the same:
73 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-November/025359.html
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75* timedated should compensate on SetTime for the time spent in polkit
76
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77* figure out what to do with libmount and utab?
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79* We really should have a FOREACH macro to iterate through inotify events we read, similar to KDBUS_FOREACH_ITEM
80
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81* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
82
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83* sd-resolve: drop res_query wrapping, people should call via the bus to resolved instead
84
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85* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
86 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
87 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
88 returning from the "systemctl stop".
89
b568ef14 90* 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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92* timesyncd + resolved: add ugly bus calls to set NTP and DNS servers per-interface, for usage by NM
93
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94* networkd-wait-online really should have a timeout by default
95
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96* add infrastructure to allocate dynamic/transient users and UID ranges, for use in user-namespaced containers, per-seat gdm login screens and gdm guest sessions
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98* machined: add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being removed or added to an existing machine
99
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100* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
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102* code cleanup: retire FOREACH_WORD_QUOTED, port to unquote_first_word() loops instead
103
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104* introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix?
105
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106* systemd --user should issue sd_notify() upon reaching basic.target, not on becoming idle
107
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108* configure.ac pretends dbus was optional but actually hardcodes use of dbus' pkg-config file to determine various dbus dirs such as policy and activation dirs
109
110* consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions
111
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112* dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
113
114* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
115 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
116
25e773ee 117* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 118
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119* maybe provide an API to allow migration of foreign PIDs into existing scopes.
120
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121* maybe support a new very "soft" reboot mode, that simply kills all processes, disassembles everything, flushes /run and sysvipc, and then reexecs systemd again
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123* man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
124
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125* man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
126
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127* "machinectl list" should probably show columns for OS version and IP addresses
128
279f0366 129* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 130
7d4fb3b1 131* systemctl edit: add commented help text to the end, like git commit
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133* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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135* exponential backoff in timesyncd and resolved when we cannot reach a server
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137* tmpfiles: port to unquote_many_words(), similar to sysusers
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139* unquote_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that
140 currently uses FOREACH_WORD and friends. For example, most conf
141 parsing callbacks should use it.
142
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143* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
144
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145* systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
146 units are shown.
147
b873d33e 148* networkd:
d61bb44a 149 - add LLDP client side support
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150 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
151 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
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152 - .network setting that allows overriding of the hostname to send to the dhcp server
153 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-July/021550.html
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154 - expose in the API the following bits:
155 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
156 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
157 - option 100, 101, timezone
158 - option 123, 144, geolocation
159 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
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160 - networkd's dhcp server should transparently pass on the DNS and
161 NTP server list it got from user configuration and its dhcp client
162 to clients. It should also pass on its own timezone information.
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163 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
164 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
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165 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
166 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
b873d33e 167
9d6db739 168* resolved:
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169 - put networkd events and rtnl events at a higher priority, so that
170 we always process them before we process client requests
9d6db739 171 - DNSSEC
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172 - use base64 for key presentation?
173 - add display of private key types (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4034#appendix-A.1.1)?
151226ab 174 - add nice formatting of DNS timestamps
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175 - DNS
176 - search paths
9d6db739 177 - mDNS/DNS-SD
0f47ed0a 178 - avahi compat
9d6db739 179 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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180 - edns0
181 - dname
b6b63571 182 - cname on PTR (?)
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183 - maybe randomize DNS UDP source ports
184 - maybe compare query section of DNS replies
3f77a1b1 185
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186* Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
187
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188* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
189
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190* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
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a01647e5 192* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 193 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
a940778f 194 - fstab-generator: support systemd.volatile=yes|no|state on the kernel cmdline, too, similar to nspawn's --volatile=
a01647e5 195
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196* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
197
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198* timer units: actually add extra delays to timer units with high AccuracySec values, don't start them already when we are awake...
199
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200* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
201
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202* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
203
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204* mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied
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206* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
207 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 208
f598ac3e 209* Run most system services with cgroupfs read-only and procfs with a more secure mode (doesn't work, since the hidepid= option is per-pid-namespace, not per-mount)
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211* sd-event: generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
212
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213* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
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215* consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
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217* sd-event: define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
218
6a3f892a 219* gpt-auto-generator:
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220 - Support LUKS for root devices
221 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 222 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 223
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224* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
225 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
226 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 227
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228* MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
229
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230* "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
231 /proc/$PID/exe
232
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233* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
234 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
235 for ReusePort=
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237* socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
238 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
239 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
240 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
241 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
242
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243* New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
244
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245* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
246 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
247 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
248 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
249 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
250 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
251
ef417cfd 252* completions:
ef417cfd 253 - manager property enumeration was broken when systemd moved to /usr/lib/
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f38afcd0 255* cgroups:
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256 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
257 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
258 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
259 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
260 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
261 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
262 the hierarchies of child processes
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264* transient units:
265 - allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
266 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
267 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
ebcf1f97 268
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269* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
270
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271* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
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f38afcd0 273* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
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275* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
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277* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
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94676f3e 279* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
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281* 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
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7f79cd71 283* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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285* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
286 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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287 path anyway.
288
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289* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
290
6aaa8c2f 291* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 292
d28315e4 293* make sure gdm does not use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
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295* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
296
297* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
298
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299* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
300 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
301
6bb648a1 302* sd-bus:
d0928791 303 - kdbus: process fd=-1 for incoming msgs
4a02e686 304 - make dsrt happy, and change userspace header for kdbus to yyyyuta{tv}v
f9e00a9f 305 - kdbus: remove NameOwnerChanged kernel messages for monitors
e7100587 306 - kdbus: PID/TID goes missing for method calls from outside the PID namespace?
bca3e263 307 - kdbus: the kernel should not allow messages to be delivered that have a reply serial != 0, reply-expect unset, but no appropriate window
e8bbb7c7 308 - kdbus: timestamps on kernel's NameOwnerChanged messages?
e8bbb7c7 309 - kdbus' busnames.target should get pulled in by basic.target
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310 - Ignore .busname units on classic D-Bus boots, systemd-resolved cannot be started on kdbus
311 without the active policy and should get a Wants=org.freedesktop.resolve1.busname to
312 pull-in the policy.
313 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
9398f650 314 - kdbus: maybe add controlling tty and ppid metadata fields
57f2a947 315 - 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
d28315e4 316 - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
7973ca19 317 - introduce sd_bus_emit_object_added()/sd_bus_emit_object_removed() that automatically includes the build-in interfaces in the list
f38afcd0 318 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 319 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
dc17bcef 320 - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async?
80caea6c 321 - kdbus: matches against source or destination pids for an "strace -p"-like feel. Problem: The PID info needs to be available in userspace too...
ab9716c2 322 - longer term: priority inheritance
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323 - dbus spec updates:
324 - kdbus mapping
325 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
326 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 327 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 328 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
69727e6d 329 - test bloom filter generation indexes
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330 - bus-proxy: when passing messages from kdbus, make sure we properly
331 handle the case where a large number of fds is appended that we
332 cannot pass into sendmsg() of the AF_UNIX sokcet (which only accepts
333 253 messages)
b568ef14 334 - kdbus: introduce a concept of "send-only" connections
0ad68f87 335 - kdbus: add counter for refused unicast messages that is passed out via the RECV ioctl. SImilar to the counter for dropped multicast messages we already have.
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337* sd-event
12179984 338 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 339 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
eb01ba5d 340
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341* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
342 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
343 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
344
69af4503 345* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
e8a7a315 346
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347* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
348 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
349
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350* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
351
352* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
353
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354* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
355
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356* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
357
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358* test/:
359 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
360 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
b8b4d3dd 361
b5c03638 362* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 363 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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364 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
365 destination.
366
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367* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
368 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
369
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370* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
371
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372* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
373 need manual exponential loops after all
374
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375* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
376 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
377 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
378 is installed.
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380* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
381 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
382 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
383 that automatically.
384
e5ec62c5 385* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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387* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
388
d28315e4 389* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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391* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
392
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393* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
394
395* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
396
356ce991 397* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 398
81d112a8 399* introduce ExecCondition= in services
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b44be3ec 401* EFI:
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402 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
403 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 404 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 405
c0fe5db5 406* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 407
b44be3ec 408* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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410* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
411 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 413* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 414
b44be3ec 415* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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417* logind:
418 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
419 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
420 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
421 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
422 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
e5ec62c5 423 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
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424 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
425 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
426 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
427 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
428 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
429 needs setuid().
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430 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
431 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
432 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
433 complete.
434 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
435 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
436 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
437 - logind: allow users to kill or lock their own sessions
438 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
439 - given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
440 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
441 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
b568ef14 442 - expose orientation sensors and tablet mode through logind
e673ad04 443
b44be3ec 444* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 445
b44be3ec 446* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
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b44be3ec 448* journal:
57f2a947 449 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
c06bf414 450 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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452 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
453 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 454 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
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455 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
456 - journal: reuse XZ context
457 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
458 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
459 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
460 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
461 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
462 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
463 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 464 - 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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465 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
466 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
b44be3ec 467 - 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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468 - 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.
469 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
470 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
f47ec8eb 471 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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472 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
473 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
474 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
475 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 476 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 477 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 478 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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479 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
480 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
481 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
482 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
483 to syslog when it works again.
484 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
485 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
486 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
d28315e4 487 so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
f38afcd0 488 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
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489 - optionally support running journald from the command line for testing purposes in external projects
490 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
491 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
492 journals in.
493 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
494 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
495 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
496 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
497 the most common operations.
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499* document:
8b8f2591 500 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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501 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
502 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 503 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 504 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 505 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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506 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
507 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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508 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
509 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
510 - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
511 - man: add more examples to man pages
512 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
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514* systemctl:
515 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
516 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
517 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
518 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
519 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
520 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
521 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
522 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 523 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
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524 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
525 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
526 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
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527 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
528 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
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530* unit install:
531 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
532 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
f38afcd0 533 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
8b04b925 534
b44be3ec 535* timer units:
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537 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
538 o DST changes
eb124a97 539 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
f38afcd0 540 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
d28315e4 541 - when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we will not support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200
90e071d1 542 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 543
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545
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546* 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().
547
548* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
d28315e4 549* fedup: do not delete initrd on switch-root
1cb88f2c 550* fedup: generator
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552* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
553
b44be3ec 554* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 555
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556* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
557 waiting for the timeout
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559* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
560
d28315e4 561* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 562
b44be3ec 563* nspawn:
b44be3ec 564 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
9cb74bcb 565 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
a56b63f4 566 - support taking a btrfs snapshot at startup and dropping it afterwards
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567 - introduce machines.target to order after all nspawn instances
568 - systemd-nspawn@.service should fail if some nspawn arg is invalid, with Type=notify
569 - PID 1 doesn't apply nspawns devices cgroup policy
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571* cryptsetup:
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572 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
573 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
574 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 575 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 576
424a19f8 577* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 578 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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580* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
581
a1cccad1 582* make timer units go away after they elapsed
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584* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
585
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586* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
587
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588* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
589
68f16003 590* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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592* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
593 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
d28315e4 594 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
68f16003 595 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
d28315e4 596 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
68f16003 597 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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599* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
600
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601* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
602
88a6c589 603* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
8351ceae 604
9946996c 605* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
d28315e4 606 verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
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609
59cea26a 610* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 611
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612* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
613
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614* automount: implement expire:
615 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
616 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
617 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
618 - blocking, needs a thread
619 - run until -EAGAIN
620 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
621 - call umount
622 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
623 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
465349c0 624
e01a15b7 625* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 626
abd55b16 627* udev:
abd55b16 628 - move to LGPL
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630 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 631 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
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633* 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
634
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636
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637* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
638
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639* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
640
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641* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
642
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643* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
644
645* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
646
70a44afe 647* default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
65c0cf71 648
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649* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
650 needs to be auto-respawned?
651
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652* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
653
f38afcd0 654* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 655 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 656
d28315e4 657* for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested
14e639ae 658
7f8aa671 659* hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
ff01d048 660
d3c7d7dd 661* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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663* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
664 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
665
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667
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668* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
669 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
670
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671* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
672
55cdcbac 673* add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
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675* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
676 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
677 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
678
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679* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
680 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
681
71092d70 682* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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684* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
685
68c7d001 686* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 687 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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688 - enabling dbus services
689 - status update
7a2a0b90 690 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 691 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 692 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 693 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 694 - auto-restart
e707c494 695 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 696 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 697 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 698 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 699 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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701 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
702 - how to create your own target
703 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
704 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 705
44143309 706* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 707
260abb78 708* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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710* Support --test based on current system state
711
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712* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
713
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714* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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716* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
717
71092d70 718* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
246756ca 719
7ba97195 720* systemd-python:
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722 works with ^C
b04c8c83 723 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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726 - plot per-process IO utilization
727 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
728 - document initcall_debug
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730
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732 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
733 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
734 on Path= matching
8faf88e5 735 - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
af6f0d42 736
88e4d1d7 737* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 738 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 739 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 740
0a4b9a07 741* networkd:
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743 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 744 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 745 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
5c1d3fc9 746 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
798e174a 747 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
8477107d 748 - add more attribute support for SIT tunnel
1a941ac4 749 - work with non-ethernet devices
c9fa3670 750 - add support for more bond options
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753 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
8f5675cc 754
ac976532 755* dhcp:
424a8732 756 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 757 - export timezone information
99f9dd8d 758 - support RFC4702 (pass FQDN)
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760* dhcp6:
761 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
762 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
763 - write more test cases
764 - implement and do duplicate address detection, see rfc 4862, 5.4.
765 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
766 - implement information request, see 1.2. and 18.1.5.
767 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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769 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
770 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
771 or interface down
772 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
773 this behavior
774
2f8cd170 775External:
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cc9784c6 777* dbus:
3377af3e 778 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 779 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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782
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784
9096ad36 785* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
06ae4bfe 786
71092d70 787* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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790
d28315e4 791* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and should not
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793* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
794
795* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
796
797* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
798
d2bbca68 799* 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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801* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
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803* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 804
4641a16b 805* 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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808
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810 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 811 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
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2c12a402 813
129126f3 814Regularly:
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129126f3 816* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 817
129126f3 818* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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820* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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d28315e4 824* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 825
4db17f29 826* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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9e5f3dbb 830Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 832* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)