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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Should systemctl status \* work on all unit types, not just .service?
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5* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
6 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
7 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
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a40593a0 9* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
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afe3ab58 11* ExecStart with unicode characters fails in strv_split_quoted:
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13 [Service]
14 Environment=ONE='one' "TWO='two two' too" THREE=
15 ExecStart=/bin/python3 -c 'import sys;print(sys.argv)' $ONE $TWO $THREE
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3f85ef0f 17* MEMORY return code is overloaded for syntax errors in the command line.
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18 str_split_quoted() should return a real return code, so spawn_child can
19 report the failure properly.
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21* udev_set_log_priority should verify the value before saving it.
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f38afcd0 23External:
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f38afcd0 25* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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f38afcd0 27* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
bafb15ba 28
81429136 29* Fedora: move kernel image to /usr/lib/modules/, kernel-install will take care of populating /boot
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31* Fedora: remove /etc/resolv.conf tmpfiles hack
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33* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
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35* When lz4 gets an API for lz4 command output, make use of it to
36 compress coredumps in a way compatible with /usr/bin/lz4.
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81429136 38Features:
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40* kdbus: set the bus-wide creds sender requirement mask to ANY
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42* code cleanup: retire FOREACH_WORD_QUOTED, port to unquote_first_word() loops instead
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44* logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
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46* optionally support running journald from the command line for testing purposes in external projects
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48* journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
49
50* introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix?
51
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52* systemd --user should issue sd_notify() upon reaching basic.target, not on becoming idle
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54* configure.ac pretends dbus was optional but actually hardcodes use of dbus' pkg-config file to determine various dbus dirs such as policy and activation dirs
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56* consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions
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58* dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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60* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
61 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
62
f62531c5 63* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps?
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65* maybe provide an API to allow migration of foreign PIDs into existing scopes.
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67* PID 1 doesn't apply nspawns devices cgroup policy
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69* maybe support a new very "soft" reboot mode, that simply kills all processes, disassembles everything, flushes /run and sysvipc, and then reexecs systemd again
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71* man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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73* bus-proxy: when passing messages from kdbus, make sure we properly
74 handle the case where a large number of fds is appended that we
75 cannot pass into sendmsg() of the AF_UNIX sokcet (which only accepts
76 253 messages)
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78* man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
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80* introduce machines.target to order after all nspawn instances
81
82* systemd-nspawn@.service should fail if some nspawn arg is invalid, with Type=notify
83
84* "machinectl list" should probably show columns for OS version and IP addresses
85
86* systemctl: if it fails, show log output?
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88* maybe add "systemctl edit" that copies unit files from /usr/lib/systemd/system to /etc/systemd/system and invokes vim on them
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90* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
91
92* exponential backoff in timesyncd and resolved when we cannot reach a server
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94* journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
95 journals in.
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97* tmpfiles: port to unquote_many_words(), similar to sysusers
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99* unquote_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that
100 currently uses FOREACH_WORD and friends. For example, most conf
101 parsing callbacks should use it.
102
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103* logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
104 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
105 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
106 complete.
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108* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
109
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110* journald: allows specification of UID range for splitting up journal files
111
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112* systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
113 units are shown.
114
b873d33e 115* networkd:
d61bb44a 116 - add LLDP client side support
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117 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
118 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
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119 - .network setting that allows overriding of the hostname to send to the dhcp server
120 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-July/021550.html
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121 - expose in the API the following bits:
122 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
123 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
124 - option 100, 101, timezone
125 - option 123, 144, geolocation
126 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
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127 - networkd's dhcp server should transparently pass on the DNS and
128 NTP server list it got from user configuration and its dhcp client
129 to clients. It should also pass on its own timezone information.
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130 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
131 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
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132 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
133 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
b873d33e 134
9d6db739 135* resolved:
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136 - put networkd events and rtnl events at a higher priority, so that
137 we always process them before we process client requests
9d6db739 138 - DNSSEC
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139 - use base64 for key presentation?
140 - add display of private key types (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4034#appendix-A.1.1)?
151226ab 141 - add nice formatting of DNS timestamps
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142 - DNS
143 - search paths
9d6db739 144 - mDNS/DNS-SD
0f47ed0a 145 - avahi compat
9d6db739 146 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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147 - edns0
148 - dname
b6b63571 149 - cname on PTR (?)
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151* Ignore .busname units on classic D-Bus boots, systemd-resolved cannot be started on kdbus
152 without the active policy and should get a Wants=org.freedesktop.resolve1.busname to
153 pull-in the policy.
154
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155* Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
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157* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
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fed515f0 159* logind: allow users to kill or lock their own sessions
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161* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
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a01647e5 163* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 164 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
a940778f 165 - fstab-generator: support systemd.volatile=yes|no|state on the kernel cmdline, too, similar to nspawn's --volatile=
a01647e5 166
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167* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
168
169* support setting empty environment variables with Environment= and EnvironmentFile=
170
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171* timer units: actually add extra delays to timer units with high AccuracySec values, don't start them already when we are awake...
172
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173* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
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175* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
176
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177* journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
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179* mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied
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181* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
182 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 183
f598ac3e 184* Run most system services with cgroupfs read-only and procfs with a more secure mode (doesn't work, since the hidepid= option is per-pid-namespace, not per-mount)
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186* sd-event: generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
187
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188* expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
189
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190* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
191
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192* consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
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194* sd-event: define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
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6a3f892a 196* gpt-auto-generator:
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197 - Support LUKS for root devices
198 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 199 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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201* improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
202 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
d28315e4 203 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
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204 the most common operations.
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206* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
207 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
208 when it is otherwise off
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210* MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
211
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212* "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
213 /proc/$PID/exe
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215* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
216 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
217 for ReusePort=
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219* socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
220 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
221 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
222 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
223 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
224
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225* New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
226
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227* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
228 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
229 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
230 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
231 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
232 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
233
ef417cfd 234* completions:
ef417cfd 235 - manager property enumeration was broken when systemd moved to /usr/lib/
3333d748 236
f38afcd0 237* cgroups:
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238 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
239 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
240 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
241 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
242 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
243 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
244 the hierarchies of child processes
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246* transient units:
247 - allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
248 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
249 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
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251* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
252
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253* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
254
f38afcd0 255* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
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257* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
258
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259* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
260
94676f3e 261* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
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263* rfkill,backlight: we probably should run the load tools inside of the udev rules so that the state is properly initialized by the time other software sees it
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7f79cd71 265* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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267* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
268 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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269 path anyway.
270
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271* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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273* given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
274 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
e10e429f 275 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
e1b7e7ec 276
6aaa8c2f 277* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 278
d28315e4 279* make sure gdm does not use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
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281* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
282
283* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
284
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285* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
286 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
287
6bb648a1 288* sd-bus:
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289 - kdbus: maybe add euid, egid, fsuid, fsgid, controlling tty and ppid metadata fields
290 - see if we can introduce a new sd_bus_get_owner_machine_id() call to retrieve the machine ID of the machine of the bus itself
d28315e4 291 - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
7973ca19 292 - systemd-bus-proxyd needs to enforce good old XML policy
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293 - allow updating attach flags during runtime
294 - pid1: peek into activating message when activating a service
295 - introduce sd_bus_emit_object_added()/sd_bus_emit_object_removed() that automatically includes the build-in interfaces in the list
dc17bcef 296 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
f38afcd0 297 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 298 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
dc17bcef 299 - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async?
80caea6c 300 - 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 301 - longer term: priority inheritance
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302 - dbus spec updates:
303 - kdbus mapping
304 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
305 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 306 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 307 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
69727e6d 308 - test bloom filter generation indexes
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310* sd-event
12179984 311 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 312 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
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314* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
315 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
316 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
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69af4503 318* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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320* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
321 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
322
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323* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
324
325* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
326
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327* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
328
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329* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
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331* test/:
332 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
333 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
b8b4d3dd 334
b5c03638 335* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 336 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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337 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
338 destination.
339
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340* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
341 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
342
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343* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
344
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345* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
346 need manual exponential loops after all
347
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348* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
349 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
350 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
351 is installed.
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353* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
354 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
355 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
356 that automatically.
357
e5ec62c5 358* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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360* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
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d28315e4 362* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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364* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
365
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366* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
367
368* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
369
356ce991 370* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 371
81d112a8 372* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 373
b44be3ec 374* EFI:
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375 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
376 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 377 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 378
c0fe5db5 379* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 380
b44be3ec 381* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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383* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
384 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 386* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 387
b44be3ec 388* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
e6c6e7af 389
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390* logind:
391 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
392 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
393 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
394 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
395 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
e5ec62c5 396 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
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397 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
398 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
399 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
400 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
401 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
402 needs setuid().
e673ad04 403
b44be3ec 404* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 405
b44be3ec 406* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
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b44be3ec 408* journal:
57f2a947 409 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
c06bf414 410 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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411 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
412 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
413 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 414 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
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415 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
416 - journal: reuse XZ context
417 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
418 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
419 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
420 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
421 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
422 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
423 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 424 - 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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425 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
426 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
b44be3ec 427 - 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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428 - 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.
429 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
430 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
f47ec8eb 431 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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432 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
433 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
434 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
435 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 436 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 437 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 438 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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439 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
440 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
441 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
442 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
443 to syslog when it works again.
444 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
445 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
446 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
d28315e4 447 so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
f38afcd0 448 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
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450* document:
8b8f2591 451 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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452 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
453 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 454 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 455 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 456 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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457 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
458 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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459 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
460 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
461 - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
462 - man: add more examples to man pages
463 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
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465* systemctl:
466 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
467 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
468 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
469 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
470 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
471 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
472 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
473 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 474 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
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475 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
476 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
477 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
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478 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
479 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
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481* unit install:
482 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
483 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
f38afcd0 484 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
8b04b925 485
b44be3ec 486* timer units:
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488 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
489 o DST changes
eb124a97 490 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
f38afcd0 491 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
d28315e4 492 - when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we will not support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200
90e071d1 493 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
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497* 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().
498
499* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
d28315e4 500* fedup: do not delete initrd on switch-root
1cb88f2c 501* fedup: generator
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504
b44be3ec 505* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 506
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507* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
508 waiting for the timeout
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511
d28315e4 512* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 513
b44be3ec 514* nspawn:
b44be3ec 515 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
9cb74bcb 516 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
a56b63f4 517 - support taking a btrfs snapshot at startup and dropping it afterwards
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519* cryptsetup:
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520 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
521 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
522 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 523 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 524
424a19f8 525* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 526 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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528* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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a1cccad1 530* make timer units go away after they elapsed
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532* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
533
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534* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
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536* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
537
68f16003 538* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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541 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
d28315e4 542 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
68f16003 543 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
d28315e4 544 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
68f16003 545 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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550
88a6c589 551* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
8351ceae 552
9946996c 553* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
d28315e4 554 verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
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557
59cea26a 558* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
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560* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
561
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562* automount: implement expire:
563 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
564 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
565 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
566 - blocking, needs a thread
567 - run until -EAGAIN
568 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
569 - call umount
570 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
571 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
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e01a15b7 573* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 574
abd55b16 575* udev:
abd55b16 576 - move to LGPL
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578 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 579 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
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588
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589* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
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592
593* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
594
70a44afe 595* default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
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597* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
598 needs to be auto-respawned?
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601
f38afcd0 602* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 603 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 604
d28315e4 605* for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested
14e639ae 606
7f8aa671 607* hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
ff01d048 608
d3c7d7dd 609* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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612 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
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617 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
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620
55cdcbac 621* add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
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624 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
625 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
626
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628 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
629
71092d70 630* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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633
68c7d001 634* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 635 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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637 - status update
7a2a0b90 638 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 639 - remote access
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641 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 642 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 643 - auto-restart
e707c494 644 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 645 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 646 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 647 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 648 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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650 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
651 - how to create your own target
652 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
653 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
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44143309 655* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 656
260abb78 657* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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666
71092d70 667* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
246756ca 668
7ba97195 669* systemd-python:
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671 works with ^C
b04c8c83 672 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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675 - plot per-process IO utilization
676 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
677 - document initcall_debug
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681 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
682 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
683 on Path= matching
8faf88e5 684 - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
af6f0d42 685
88e4d1d7 686* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 687 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 688 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 689
0a4b9a07 690* networkd:
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692 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 693 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 694 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
5c1d3fc9 695 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
798e174a 696 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
8477107d 697 - add more attribute support for SIT tunnel
1a941ac4 698 - work with non-ethernet devices
c9fa3670 699 - add support for more bond options
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702 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
8f5675cc 703
ac976532 704* dhcp:
424a8732 705 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 706 - export timezone information
99f9dd8d 707 - support RFC4702 (pass FQDN)
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710 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
711 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
712 - write more test cases
713 - implement and do duplicate address detection, see rfc 4862, 5.4.
714 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
715 - implement information request, see 1.2. and 18.1.5.
716 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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718 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
719 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
720 or interface down
721 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
722 this behavior
723
2f8cd170 724External:
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cc9784c6 726* dbus:
3377af3e 727 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 728 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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9096ad36 734* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
06ae4bfe 735
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d28315e4 740* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and should not
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742* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
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744* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
745
746* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
747
d2bbca68 748* 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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750* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
751
752* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
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4641a16b 754* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
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757
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759 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
760 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
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129126f3 763Regularly:
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129126f3 765* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 766
129126f3 767* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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769* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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d28315e4 773* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 774
4db17f29 775* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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9e5f3dbb 779Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 781* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)