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ee9c9500 1Bugfixes:
19aadacf 2* enabling an instance unit creates a pointless link, and
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3 the unit will be started with getty@getty.service:
4 $ systemctl enable getty@.service
5 ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service' '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@.service'
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7* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
8 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
9 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
10
a40593a0 11* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
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13* shorten the message to sane length:
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15 Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status display-manager.service' for details.
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17* systemctl --root=container/ set-default ... is totally borked.
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f38afcd0 19External:
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f38afcd0 21* Fedora: when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
466784c8 22 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
55d32caf 23
f38afcd0 24* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
bafb15ba 25
f38afcd0 26* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
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eb124a97 28Features:
154ff088 29
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30* MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
31
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32* man: move .link, .network and .netdev documentation into their own
33 man pages maybe called "systemd.link(5)", "systemd.network(5)" and
34 "systemd.netdev(5)" or so.
35
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36* "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
37 /proc/$PID/exe
38
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39* systemctl (and possibly related tools): support a new switch that
40 allows enumerating units in local containers recursively. "systemctl
41 list-units -R" or so should not only lists on the host, but also the
42 services in all containers in a pretty way, to give an overview of
43 the entire system. Also, maybe add "systemctl list-machines" which
44 works like "machinectl list" but includes information about the
45 health status of each registered machine. For that we should
46 probably implement something that encodes the system health status
47 in a single enum state, i.e. something like a system-wide state
48 starting → running → failed → stopping, that is based on the current
49 job queue and a check for failed services. Maybe then change
50 "systemctl status" without args to output this state along with a
51 selection of other data, such as the uptime or so.
52
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53* Add a seccomp-based filter for socket() calls to limit services to
54 specific address families (for example: AF_UNIX), inspired by
55 Android's sandboxing
56
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57* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
58 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
59 for ReusePort=
60
61* add a timelimit to generator invocation
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63* socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
64 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
65 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
66 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
67 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
68
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69* New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
70
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71* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
72 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
73 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
74 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
75 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
76 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
77
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78* completions:
79 - busctl zsh completion is outdated
80 - systemd-nspawn -Z/-L/-q is missing for zsh
81 - systemd-nspawn completion is missing for bash
82 - manager property enumeration was broken when systemd moved to /usr/lib/
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84* cgroups:
85 - implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?)
86 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
87 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
88 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
89 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
90 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
91 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
92 the hierarchies of child processes
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94* transient units:
95 - allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
96 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
97 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
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99* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
100
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101* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
102
f38afcd0 103* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
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105* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
106
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107* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
108
94676f3e 109* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
6fd4d020 110
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111* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
112
af1082b0 113* socket-proxyd: Use sd-resolve to resolve the server address
41644622 114
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115* 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
116
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117* move config_parse_path_strv() out of conf-parser.c
118
7f79cd71 119* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 120
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121* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
122 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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123 path anyway.
124
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125* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
126
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127* given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
128 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
e10e429f 129 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
e1b7e7ec 130
6aaa8c2f 131* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 132
e1b7e7ec 133* make sure gdm doesn't use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
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135* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
136
137* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
138
9444b1f2 139* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 140 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 141 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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142 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
143 check for that and suppress event handling.
9444b1f2 144
19aadacf 145* something pulls in pcre as shared object dependency into our daemons such as hostnamed.
1f263d4d 146
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147* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
148 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
149
6bb648a1 150* sd-bus:
eb01ba5d 151 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
86312ab8 152 - implement monitor logic
f38afcd0 153 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 154 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
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155 - systemd-bus-proxyd needs to enforce good old XML policy
156 - upload minimal kdbus policy into the kernel at boot
80caea6c 157 - 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 158 - longer term: priority inheritance
452de75e 159 - check sender of response messages
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160 - dbus spec updates:
161 - kdbus mapping
162 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
163 - GVariant
bee7e928 164 - "const" properties (posted)
00586799 165 - port exit-on-idle logic to byebye ioctl
6a8b5fa4 166 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
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167 - allow updating attach flags during runtime
168 - pid1: peek into activating message when activating a service
69727e6d 169 - test bloom filter generation indexes
2fcb3af6 170 - introduce sd_bus_emit_object_added()/sd_bus_emit_object_removed() that automatically includes the build-in interfaces in the list
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171 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
172 - constructors for bus messages should probably not be OK with a NULL bus pointer
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174* sd-event
12179984 175 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
eb01ba5d 176
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177* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
178 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
179 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
180
69af4503 181* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
e8a7a315 182
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183* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
184 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
185
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186* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
187
188* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
189
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190* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
191
192* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
193
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194* timedatectl: print a nicer message when enabling ntp fails because ntpd/chrony are not installed
195
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196* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
197
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198* test/:
199 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
200 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
b8b4d3dd 201
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202* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
203
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204* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
205 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
206 file.
207
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208* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
209 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
210 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
211 destination.
212
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213* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
214 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
215
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216* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
217
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218* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
219 need manual exponential loops after all
220
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221* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
222 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
223 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
224 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
225
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226* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
227 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
228 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
229 that automatically.
230
e5ec62c5 231* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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233* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
234
54c31a79 235* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 236
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237* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
238
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239* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
240
241* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
242
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243* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
244
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245* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
246
356ce991 247* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 248
81d112a8 249* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 250
b44be3ec 251* EFI:
b44be3ec 252 - write man page for efi boot generator
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253 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
254 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 255 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 256
c0fe5db5 257* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 258
b44be3ec 259* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
e9fd44b7 260
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261* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
262 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 264* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 265
b44be3ec 266* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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268* logind:
269 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
270 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
271 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
272 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
273 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
b44be3ec 274 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
e5ec62c5 275 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
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276 - when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects
277 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
278 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
279 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
280 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
281 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
282 needs setuid().
e673ad04 283
b44be3ec 284* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 285
b44be3ec 286* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
e673ad04 287
b44be3ec 288* journal:
c06bf414 289 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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290 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
291 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
292 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
293 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
294 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
295 - journal: reuse XZ context
296 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
297 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
298 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
299 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
300 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
301 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
302 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 303 - 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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304 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
305 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
b44be3ec 306 - 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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307 - 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.
308 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
309 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 310 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 311 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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312 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
313 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
314 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
315 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
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316 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
317 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 318 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 319 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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320 - tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal, also do this for the journal fails contained in it
321 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
322 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
323 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
324 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
325 to syslog when it works again.
326 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
327 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
328 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
329 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
330 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
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332* document:
8b8f2591 333 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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334 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
335 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 336 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 337 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 338 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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339 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
340 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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341 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
342 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
343 - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
344 - man: add more examples to man pages
345 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
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347* systemctl:
348 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
349 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
350 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
351 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
352 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
353 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
354 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
355 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
356 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
357 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
358 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
359 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
360 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
f38afcd0 361 - rework wait filter to not require match callback
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362 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
363 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
8b8f2591 364 - in systemctl list-timers show time triggering units ran last
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366* unit install:
367 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
368 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
369 - "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, but should
370 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
371 unit however should remove them all).
372 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
373 - systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
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375* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
376
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377* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
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379* timer units:
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380 - timer events with system resume
381 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
382 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
383 o DST changes
eb124a97 384 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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385 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
386 - when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we won't support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200
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387 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
388 - anacron-like feature
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390* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
391
392* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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393 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
394 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 395 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 396 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 397 user did not request anything like it.
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399* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
400 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
401 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
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403* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
404 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
405 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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406 we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in
407 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
408 better supported alternative.
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410* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
411
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412* 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().
413
414* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
415* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
416* fedup: generator
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f38afcd0 418* timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
6d0274f1 419
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420* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
421
b44be3ec 422* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 423
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424* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
425 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
426 - superset of tmpfiles model
427 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
428 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
429 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
430
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431* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
432 waiting for the timeout
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436* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
437
b44be3ec 438* nspawn:
86d0d519 439 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with /usr/bin/getent, so that NSS resolving works correctly
b44be3ec 440 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
b44be3ec 441 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
9e281251 442 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters
9cb74bcb 443 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
a56b63f4 444 - support taking a btrfs snapshot at startup and dropping it afterwards
af1082b0 445 - maybe: hookup nspawn and PrivateNetwork=yes with "ip netns"
af1082b0 446 - allow booting disk images with a GPT signature using the bootloaderspec partition uuids
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448* cryptsetup:
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449 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
450 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
451 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 452 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 453
424a19f8 454* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 455 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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457* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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460
8556879e 461* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 462 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
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464* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
465
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466* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
467
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468* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
469
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470* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
471
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472* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
473
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474* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
475
68f16003 476* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 477
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478* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
479
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480* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
481 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
482 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
483 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 484 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 485 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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487* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
488
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489* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
490
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491* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
492
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493* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
494
88a6c589 495* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
8351ceae 496
bcd02123 497* syscall filter: optionally don't enforce no new privs?
c66d36e5 498
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499* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
500 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
501
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502* introduce Type=pid-file
503
59cea26a 504* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 505
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506* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
507
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508* automount: implement expire:
509 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
510 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
511 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
512 - blocking, needs a thread
513 - run until -EAGAIN
514 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
515 - call umount
516 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
517 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
465349c0 518
e01a15b7 519* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 520
abd55b16 521* udev:
3f60bcb5 522 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
abd55b16 523 - move to LGPL
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525 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 526 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 527
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528* 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
529
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530* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
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532* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
533
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534* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
535
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536* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
537
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538* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
539
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540* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
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542* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
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545
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546* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
547 needs to be auto-respawned?
548
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549* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
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552 - check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
553 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 554
b44be3ec 555* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
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558
d3c7d7dd 559* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
72b9ed82 560
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561* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
562 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
563
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567 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
568
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570
7c697168 571* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 572
71092d70 573* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
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576 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
577 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
578
f38afcd0 579* support User= and Group= attributes for AF_UNIX sockets. (difficult, requires NSS from PID 1?)
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582 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
583
71092d70 584* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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587 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
588 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
589 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
590 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
591 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
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594
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595* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
596
68c7d001 597* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 598 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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600 - status update
7a2a0b90 601 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 602 - remote access
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604 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 605 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 606 - auto-restart
e707c494 607 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 608 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 609 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 610 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 611 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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613 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
614 - how to create your own target
615 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
616 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 617
44143309 618* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 619
71092d70 620* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 621
260abb78 622* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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625
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626* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
627
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71092d70 632* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
246756ca 633
50f2a90d 634* io priority during initialization
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7ba97195 638* systemd-python:
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640 works with ^C
b04c8c83 641 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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644 - plot per-process IO utilization
645 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
646 - document initcall_debug
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648
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650 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
651 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
652 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 653
88e4d1d7 654* sd-rtnl:
32216660 655 - add support for exiting containers without reading them fully first
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657
0a4b9a07 658* networkd:
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660 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 661 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 662 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
0a4b9a07 663
2f8cd170 664External:
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cc9784c6 666* dbus:
3377af3e 667 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 668 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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673
9096ad36 674* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
06ae4bfe 675
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676* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
677 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
678 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
679 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
680 the RTC to sync up.
681
71092d70 682* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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685
686* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
687
688* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
689
690* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
691
692* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
693
d2bbca68 694* 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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696* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
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698* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 699
4641a16b 700* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
19aa7c4f 701
129126f3 702Regularly:
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129126f3 704* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 705
129126f3 706* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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708* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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71092d70 712* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 713
4db17f29 714* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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9e5f3dbb 718Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 720* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)