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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* busctl prints errors to stdout:
8 busctl tree org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1
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f38afcd0 10External:
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f38afcd0 12* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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14* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
15
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16Janitorial Clean-ups:
17
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18* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
19
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20* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
21 semantics, like we do for device.c now
22
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23Features:
24
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25* journalctl --image= which is like --root= but operates on disk images
26
27* when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
28 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
29 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
30 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
31 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
32
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33* drop sd_bus_message_set_priority() from sd-bus API and documentation as much
34 as we can, it's a kdbus left-over and unlikely to come back on AF_UNIX, since
35 it's not really implementable there.
36
97cd52c1 37* cryptsetup/homed: also support FIDO2 HMAC password logic for unlocking
70e9d9a5 38 devices. (see: https://github.com/mjec/fido2-hmac-secret)
97cd52c1 39
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40* systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
41 creates
42
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43* homed/userdb: distuingish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
44 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
45 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
46 hence we can make them quicker to work.
47
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48* bootctl:
49 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
50 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
51 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
52
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53* by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
54 allow so that systemd survives
55
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56* honour specifiers in unit files that resolve to some very basic
57 /etc/os-release data, such as ID, VERSION_ID, BUILD_ID, VARIANT_ID.
58
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59* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
60 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
61
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62* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
63 systemd-makefs.service instead.
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65* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
66 with matches, then actviate app thorugh that passing socket oveer
67
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68* unify on openssl:
69 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
70 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
71 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
72 - port importd over from libgcrypt
73 - when that's done: kill khash.c
74 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
75
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76* kill zenata, all hail weblate?
77
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78* when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
79
80* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
81 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
82
83* hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
84 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
85 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
86 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
87 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
88
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89* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
90 that only covere the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
91 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
92 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
93
94* systemd-repart: optionally, allow specifiying a path to initialize new
95 partitions from, i.e. an fs image file or a source device node. This would
96 then turn systemd-repart into a simple installer: with a few .repart files
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97 you could replicate the host system on another device. a full installer would
98 then be: "systemd-repart /dev/sda && bootctl install /dev/sda &&
99 systemd-firstboot --image= …"
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101* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
102 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
103 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
104 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
105 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
106 automatically.
107
108* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
109 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
110
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111* systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
112 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
113
114* systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
115
116* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
117 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
118
119* systemd-repart: add specifier expansion, add especifier that refers to root
120 device node of current system, /usr device node, and matching verity, so that
121 an installer can be made a "copy" installer of the booted OS
122
2a4be3c5 123* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
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124 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
125
126* systemd-repart: when no configuration is found, exit early do not check
127 partition table, so that it is safe to run in the initrd on any system
128
129* systemd-repart: allow config of partition uuid
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131* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
132 realname substr searches in varlink API
006c44c1 133
2a4be3c5 134* userdb: allow existence checks
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136* pid: activation by journal search expression
137
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138* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
139 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
140 initrd had set.
141
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142* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
143 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
144 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
145 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
146 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
147 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
148
149* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
150 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
151 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
152
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153* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
154 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
155 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
156 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
157 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
158 source.
159
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160* figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
161 with immutable /usr
162
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163* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
164 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
165 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
166
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167* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
168
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169* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
170 the hibernation
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172* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
173 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
174 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
175 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
176 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
177 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
178 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
179 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
180 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
181 hibernation mode. (see
182 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
183 section 10.2.2.8 and
184 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
185 at the end).
186
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187* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
188 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
189 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
190 output for them.
191
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192* systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
193 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
194
195* systemd-firstboot: add --force mode that replaces existing configuration.
196
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197* We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
198 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
199 constant vendor data.
200
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201* maybe add kernel cmdline params: 1) to force first-boot mode + 2) to force
202 random seed crediting
203
204* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
205 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
206
207* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
208 fallback in "machinectl shell"
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210* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
211 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
212 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
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214* homed:
215 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
216 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
217 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
218 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
219 - resize on login?
220 - fstrim on logout?
221 - shrink fs on logout?
222 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
223 - create on activate?
224 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
225 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
226 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
227 systemd --user is shut down.
228 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
229 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk images (think: time machine)
230 - distuingish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
231 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
232 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
233 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
234 - description field for groups
235 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
236 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
237 - query password from kernel keyring first
238 - update even if record is "absent"
239 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
240 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
241 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
242 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
243 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
244 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
245
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246* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
247 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
248 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
249 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
250 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
251 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
252 exec().
253
254* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
255
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256* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
257 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
258
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259* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
260
261* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
262 gnome-bluetooth and friends
263
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264* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
265 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
266 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
267 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
268 cgroup.
269
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270* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
271 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
272 root.
273
274* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
275 is issued.
276
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277* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
278
279* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
280
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281* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
282 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
283 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 284
d238709c 285* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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286 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
287 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
288
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289* add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
290 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
291 ConfigurationDirectory=.
292
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293* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
294
d3584ec4 295* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
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297* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
298 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
299
06898123 300* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 301 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 302 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
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304* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
305
306* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
307 patching around
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309* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
310 log.c and sd-journal-send
311
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312* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
313
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314* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
315
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316* sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
317 can add in file system drivers and such
318
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319* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
320 non-zero "tries done" count
321
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322* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
323 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
324 it should skip the variant type string though.
325
326* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
327 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
328 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
329 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
330 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
331 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
332 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
333 CODE_FILE.
334
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335* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
336 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
337 some explanatory text online.
338
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339* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
340
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341* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
342 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
343 the slices, and the units attached to them.
344
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345* the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
346 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
bc130b68 347 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
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348 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
349 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
350 way)
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352* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
353 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
354 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
355
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356* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
357 original defaults before calling parse_config()
358
72d711ef 359* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
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361* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
362 Specifically:
363
364 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
365 properly)
e83419d0 366 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 367 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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369* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
370 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
371
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372* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
373 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
374 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
375 files and suchlike we operate on.
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377* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
378
379* add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
380
381* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
382 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
383
5da19043 384* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
5238e957 385 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
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386 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
387 numbers.
388
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389* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
390 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
391 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
392 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
393 unlinked from any dir.
394
bd1b3f75 395* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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397* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
398
399* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
400
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401* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
402 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
403 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
404 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
405 should reflink the image file itself.
406
407 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
408 specific paths only like this.
409
53c70a27 410* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 411 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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412 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
413 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
414 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
415
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416* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
417
418* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
419
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420* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
421 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
422
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423* teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
424 project quota
0d545655 425
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426* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
427 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
428 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
429 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
430 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
431 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
432 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
433 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
434
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435* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
436 for root, but only then.
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438* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
439
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440* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
441 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
442
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443* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
444 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
445
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446* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
447 host-side interface pointing to the container.
448
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449* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
450 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
451 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
452 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
453 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
454
cb77e122 455* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 456
899feb72 457* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 458
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459* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
460 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
461 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
462
5f7ecd61 463* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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465* maybe use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (i.e. the env var the reproducible builds folks
466 introduced) as the RTC epoch, instead of the mtime of NEWS.
467
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468* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
469 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
470
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471* blog about fd store and restartable services
472
473* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
474
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475* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
476 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
477
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478* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
479 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
480 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
481 ID is available.
482
483* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
484 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
485 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
486
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487* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
488 parameters
489
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490* maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
491 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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493 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
494 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
495 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
496 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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498* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
499 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
500
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501* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
502 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
503 wait to retrieve their exit data.
504
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505* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
506 about it in the resource log message
507
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508* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
509 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
510
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511* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
512 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
513 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
514
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516 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
517
518 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
519
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520* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
521 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
522 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
523 logging.
524
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525* hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
526 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
527 "convertible" form factor
528
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529* Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
530 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
531 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
532 as MAINPID.
533
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534* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
535 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
536 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
537
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538* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
539 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
540
541* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
542 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
543 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
544 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
545 natural habitat.
546
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547* gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
548 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
549 /usr is mounted into.
550
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551* 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
552
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553* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
554
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555* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
556 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
557 relative to the configured default value.
558
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559* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
560
561* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
562
04397464 563* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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565* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
566
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567* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
568
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569* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
570
04397464 571* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 572
04397464 573* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 574
04397464 575* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 576
8ce9b83a 577* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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579* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
580 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
581 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
582
e40a326c 583* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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585* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
586
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587* mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
588 partitions
589
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590* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
591 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
592 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
593 mapping to work.
594
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595* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
596
597* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
598
599* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
600
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601* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
602 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
603
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604* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
605 reload the unit file anyway
606
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607* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
608 from the SIGBUS handler
609
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610* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
611
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612* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
613 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
614
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615* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
616
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617* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
618 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
619
f9bf1b8f 620* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 621 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 622 specifications.
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624* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
625
5ebbb45b 626* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
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628* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
629
a2088fd0 630* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 631 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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632 prefixed with /sys generally special.
633 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
634
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635* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
636
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637* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
638
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639* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
640 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
641 state.
642 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
643
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644* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
645 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
646 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
647 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
648 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
649
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650* networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
651 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
652
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653* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
654
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655* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
656 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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658* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
659 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
660 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
661 do, for example)
662
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664 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
665
e031c227 666* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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667 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
668
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669* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
670
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671* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
672 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
673 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
674 returning from the "systemctl stop".
675
b568ef14 676* 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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678* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
679
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680* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
681 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
682
25e773ee 683* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 684
279f0366 685* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 686
5238e957 687* systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
b42de08a 688 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
202aea45 689
720652b3 690* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 691
720652b3 692* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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694* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
695
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696* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
697 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
698
9d6db739 699* resolved:
9d6db739 700 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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702 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 703 - avahi compat
9d6db739 704 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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705 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
706 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
707 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 708 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 709 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 710
e25b5a8d 711* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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714
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715* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
716
a01647e5 717* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 718 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
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720* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
721
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722* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
723
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724* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
725
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726* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
727 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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729* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
730
6a3f892a 731* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 732 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 733 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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735* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
736 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
737 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 738
f9bf1b8f 739* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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741* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
742 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
743 for ReusePort=
744
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745* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
746 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
747 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
748 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
749 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
750 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
751
f38afcd0 752* cgroups:
f38afcd0 753 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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754 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
755 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
756 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
757 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
758 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 759
f38afcd0 760* transient units:
f38afcd0 761 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
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763* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
764
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765* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
766
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767* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
768
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769* 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
770
7f79cd71 771* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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773* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
774 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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775 path anyway.
776
04397464 777* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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779* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
780
781* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
782
6bb648a1 783* sd-bus:
0d43ffef 784 - EBADSLT handling
fa607802 785 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
7212c608 786 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
57f2a947 787 - 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 788 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 789 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
ab9716c2 790 - longer term: priority inheritance
df98a87b 791 - dbus spec updates:
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793 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 794 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 795 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
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797* sd-event
12179984 798 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 799 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
e25b5a8d 800 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
eb01ba5d 801
69af4503 802* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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804* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
805 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
806
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807* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
808
809* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
810
fff87a35 811* test/:
20d52ab6 812 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 813
b5c03638 814* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 815 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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816 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
817 destination.
818
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819* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
820 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
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822* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
823
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825 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
826 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
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829 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
830 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
831 is installed.
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834 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
835 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
836 that automatically.
837
e5ec62c5 838* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 839
ccddd104 840* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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842* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
843
356ce991 844* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
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848 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 849 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 850* bootctl
631427d6 851 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 852
c0fe5db5 853* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 854
b44be3ec 855* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 856
b44be3ec 857* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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860 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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861 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
862 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
863 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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864 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
865 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
866 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
867 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
868 needs setuid().
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870 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
871 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
872 complete.
873 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
874 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
875 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
279f0366 876 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
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877 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
878 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
879 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
880 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
881 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
882 relogins
77b19caf 883 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 884
b44be3ec 885* journal:
57f2a947 886 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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888 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
889 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 890 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 891 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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893 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
894 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 895 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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897 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 898 - 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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899 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
900 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
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902 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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903 - 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.
904 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
905 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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906 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
907 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
908 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
909 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 910 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 911 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 912 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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914 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
915 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
916 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
917 to syslog when it works again.
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919 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
920 journals in.
921 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
922 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
923 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
924 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
925 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 926 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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927 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
928 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
929 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
930 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
931 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
932 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
933 operation.
934 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
935 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
936 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
937 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 938 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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939 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
940 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
941 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
942 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
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945 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
946 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
947 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
948
b44be3ec 949* document:
8b8f2591 950 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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951 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
952 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 953 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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954 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
955 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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956 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
957 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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958 - man: add more examples to man pages
959 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 960 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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962* systemctl:
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963 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
964 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
965 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
966 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
967 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
968 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
969 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 970 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 971 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 972 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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974* unit install:
975 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
976 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
8b04b925 977
b44be3ec 978* timer units:
b44be3ec 979 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
b44be3ec 980 o DST changes
90e071d1 981 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 982
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983* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
984
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985* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
986
b44be3ec 987* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 988
f59d1da8 989* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
dcfc4b2e 990
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992
d28315e4 993* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 994
b44be3ec 995* nspawn:
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996 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
997 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
998 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
999 from the kernel's logs.
1000 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1001 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1002 interface be missing
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1003 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1004 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1005 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1006 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1007 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1008 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1009 PID 1...
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1010 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1011 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1012
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1014 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1015 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1016
e25b5a8d 1017* machined:
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1018 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1019 removed or added to an existing machine
1020 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1021 difference host, via ssh
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1022 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1023 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1024 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1025 question
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1026 - "machinectl history"
1027 - "machinectl diff"
1028 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1029 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1030
b44be3ec 1031* cryptsetup:
b44be3ec 1032 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
5f1dac6b 1033 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 1034
424a19f8 1035* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 1036 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
424a19f8 1037
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1038* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1039
68f16003 1040* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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1042* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1043
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1044* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1045
abd55b16 1046* udev:
abd55b16 1047 - move to LGPL
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1048 - kill scsi_id
1049 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1050 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1051
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1052* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1053
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1054* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1055
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1056* coredump:
1057 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1058 - 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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1060* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1061
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1062* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1063 needs to be auto-respawned?
1064
f38afcd0 1065* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1066 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1067 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1068 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1069 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1070 calls follow symlinks.
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1072* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1073
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1074* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1075 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1076 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1077
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1079 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1080
71092d70 1081* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 1082
68c7d001 1083* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 1084 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
68c7d001 1085 - enabling dbus services
7a2a0b90 1086 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 1087 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 1088 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 1089 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 1090 - auto-restart
e707c494 1091 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 1092 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 1093 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 1094 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 1095 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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1096 - calendar time events
1097 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1098 - how to create your own target
1099 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1100 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 1101
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1102* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1103
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1104* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1105
e25b5a8d 1106* pid1:
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1107 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1108 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1109 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1110 that are not supported...
1111 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1112 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1113 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1114 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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1115 - move PAM code into its own binary
1116 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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1117 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1118 - Support --test based on current system state
1119 - 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().
1120 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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1121 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1122 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1123 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1124 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1125 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1126 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1127 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1128 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1129
1130* unit files:
1131 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1132 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1133 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1134 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1135 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1136 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1137 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1138 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
e25b5a8d 1139 - introduce Type=pid-file
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1140 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1141 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
e25b5a8d 1142 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
e5171296 1143 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
e25b5a8d 1144
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1146 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1147 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1148 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1149
88e4d1d7 1150* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1151 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1152 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1153
0a4b9a07 1154* networkd:
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1155 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1156 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 1157 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 1158 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
5c1d3fc9 1159 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
798e174a 1160 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1161 - work with non-Ethernet devices
c9fa3670 1162 - add support for more bond options
e25b5a8d 1163 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1164 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1165 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1166 - expose in the API the following bits:
1167 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
1168 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
1169 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1170 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1171 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1172 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1173 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1174 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1175 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1176 - allow DUID/IAID to be customized, see issue #394.
e25b5a8d 1177 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1178
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1179* networkd-wait-online:
1180 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
8f5675cc 1181
ac976532 1182* dhcp:
424a8732 1183 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1184
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1185* dhcp6:
1186 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1187 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1188 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1189 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1190 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1191 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1192 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1193 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1194 or interface down
1195 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1196 this behavior
4a77c53d 1197 - RouteTable= ?
37d8b536 1198
2f8cd170 1199External:
74fe1fe3 1200
cc9784c6 1201* dbus:
3377af3e 1202 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 1203 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 1204
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1205* fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
1206
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1207* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1208
9096ad36 1209* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
06ae4bfe 1210
71092d70 1211* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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1213* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1214
d2bbca68 1215* 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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1217* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
1218
1219* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 1220
4641a16b 1221* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
19aa7c4f 1222
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1223* register catalog database signature as file magic
1224
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1226 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 1227 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1cf3c30c 1228
90137b62 1229* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
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1230* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1231 after being started.
2c12a402 1232
129126f3 1233Regularly:
874aa2cc 1234
129126f3 1235* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 1236
129126f3 1237* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
5b6319dc 1238
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1240
d28315e4 1241* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 1242
4db17f29 1243* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
88fae6e0 1244
d05c556b 1245* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
62353f69 1246String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment