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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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afe3ab58 9* ExecStart with unicode characters fails in strv_split_quoted:
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11 [Service]
12 Environment=ONE='one' "TWO='two two' too" THREE=
13 ExecStart=/bin/python3 -c 'import sys;print(sys.argv)' $ONE $TWO $THREE
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3f85ef0f 15* MEMORY return code is overloaded for syntax errors in the command line.
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16 str_split_quoted() should return a real return code, so spawn_child can
17 report the failure properly.
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19* When systemctl --host is used, underlying ssh connection can remain open.
20 bus_close does not kill children?
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f38afcd0 22External:
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f38afcd0 24* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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81429136 26* Fedora: move kernel image to /usr/lib/modules/, kernel-install will take care of populating /boot
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28* Fedora: remove /etc/resolv.conf tmpfiles hack
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30* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
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32* When lz4 gets an API for lz4 command output, make use of it to
33 compress coredumps in a way compatible with /usr/bin/lz4.
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35Features:
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37* maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
38 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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40* rework kexec logic to use new kexec_file_load() syscall, so that we
41 don't have to call kexec tool anymore.
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43* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
44 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
45 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
46 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
47 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
48
49* We should remove really old cruft from cdrom_id
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51* nspawn: emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
52 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
53 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
54 from the kernel's logs.
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56* networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
57 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
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59* When RLIMIT_NPROC is set from a unit file it currently always is set
60 for root, not for the user set in User=, which makes it
61 useless. After fixing this, set RLIMIT_NPROC for
62 systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our services that run under
63 their own user ids, and use User= (but only in a world where userns
64 is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot invoke those daemons on the
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65 host AND in a container anymore). Also, if LimitNPROC= is used
66 without User= we should warn and refuse operation.
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68* logind: maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
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70* Set NoNewPriviliges= on all of our own services, where that makes sense
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72* Rework systemctl's GetAll property parsing to use the generic bus_map_all_properties() API
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74* rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
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76* import-dkr: support tarsum checksum verification, if it becomes reality one day...
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78* import-dkr: convert json bits to nspawn configuration
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80* import: support import from local files, and export to local files
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82* core/cgroup: support net_cls modules, and support automatically allocating class ids, then add support for making firewall changes depending on it, to implement a per-service firewall
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84* introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
85
cc98b302 86* logind,machined: add generic catch-all polkit verbs for most privileged operations, similar to systemd itself
a47e6701 87
fa607802 88* "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in question
a47e6701 89
92ff080b 90* "machinectl list-images" should show os-release data, as well as machine-info data (including deployment level)
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92* nspawn: when start a container "foobar" look for its configuration in a file "foobar.nspawn" in /etc/systemd/nspawn/ as well as next to the actualy directory or image to boot
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94* Port various tools to make use of verbs.[ch], where applicable
95
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96* "machinectl history"
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98* "machinectl diff"
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100* "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
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102* "machinectl status" should show 10 most recent log lines of both the host logs of the unit of the machine, plus the logs generated in the machine
103
91f4347e 104* add transparent btrfs pool in a loopback file in /var if btrfs operations (such as systemd-import pull-dkr) are used and /var is not a btrfs file system
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106* systemd-nspawn -x should support ephemeral instances of gpt images
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108* move machinectl's mount and copy commands into machined
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110* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
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112* sysfs set api in libudev is not const
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114* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
115 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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117* port libmount hookup to use API's own inotify interface, as soon as that is table in libmount
118
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119* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
120 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
121 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
122 do, for example)
123
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124* resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
125 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
126 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
127
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128* systemd-journal-upload (or a new, related tool): allow pushing out
129 journal messages onto the network in BSD syslog protocol,
f131770b 130 continuously. Default to some link-local IP mcast group, to make this
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131 useful as a one-stop debugging tool.
132
133* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
134 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
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136* as soon as we have kdbus, and sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
137 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
138
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139* set $REMOTE_IP (or $REMOTE_ADDR/$REMOTE_PORT) environment variable when doing per-connection socket activation. use format introduced by xinetd or CGI for this
140
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141* the install state probably shouldn't get confused by generated units, think dbus1/kdbus compat!
142
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143* in systemctl list-unit-files: show the install value the presets would suggest for a service in a third column
144
145* we should try harder to collapse start jobs for swaps that end up being the same:
146 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-November/025359.html
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148* timedated should compensate on SetTime for the time spent in polkit
149
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150* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
151
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152* sd-resolve: drop res_query wrapping, people should call via the bus to resolved instead
153
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154* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
155 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
156 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
157 returning from the "systemctl stop".
158
b568ef14 159* 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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161* timesyncd + resolved: add ugly bus calls to set NTP and DNS servers per-interface, for usage by NM
162
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163* add infrastructure to allocate dynamic/transient users and UID ranges, for use in user-namespaced containers, per-seat gdm login screens and gdm guest sessions
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165* machined: add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being removed or added to an existing machine
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167* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
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169* code cleanup: retire FOREACH_WORD_QUOTED, port to unquote_first_word() loops instead
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171* introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix?
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173* systemd --user should issue sd_notify() upon reaching basic.target, not on becoming idle
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175* consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions
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177* dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
178
179* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
180 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
181
25e773ee 182* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 183
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184* maybe provide an API to allow migration of foreign PIDs into existing scopes.
185
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186* 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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188* man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
189
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190* man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
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192* "machinectl list" should probably show columns for OS version and IP addresses
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279f0366 194* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 195
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196* systemctl edit:
197- allow creation of units from scratch
198- use equvalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
199 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
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201* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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203* exponential backoff in timesyncd and resolved when we cannot reach a server
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205* tmpfiles: port to unquote_many_words(), similar to sysusers
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207* unquote_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that
208 currently uses FOREACH_WORD and friends. For example, most conf
209 parsing callbacks should use it.
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211* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
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213* systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
214 units are shown.
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b873d33e 216* networkd:
d61bb44a 217 - add LLDP client side support
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218 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
219 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
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220 - .network setting that allows overriding of the hostname to send to the dhcp server
221 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-July/021550.html
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222 - expose in the API the following bits:
223 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
224 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
225 - option 100, 101, timezone
226 - option 123, 144, geolocation
227 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
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228 - networkd's dhcp server should transparently pass on the DNS and
229 NTP server list it got from user configuration and its dhcp client
230 to clients. It should also pass on its own timezone information.
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231 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
232 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
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233 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
234 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
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9d6db739 236* resolved:
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237 - put networkd events and rtnl events at a higher priority, so that
238 we always process them before we process client requests
9d6db739 239 - DNSSEC
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240 - use base64 for key presentation?
241 - add display of private key types (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4034#appendix-A.1.1)?
151226ab 242 - add nice formatting of DNS timestamps
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243 - DNS
244 - search paths
9d6db739 245 - mDNS/DNS-SD
0f47ed0a 246 - avahi compat
9d6db739 247 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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248 - edns0
249 - dname
b6b63571 250 - cname on PTR (?)
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251 - maybe randomize DNS UDP source ports
252 - maybe compare query section of DNS replies
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254* Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
255
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256* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
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258* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
259
a01647e5 260* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 261 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
a940778f 262 - fstab-generator: support systemd.volatile=yes|no|state on the kernel cmdline, too, similar to nspawn's --volatile=
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264* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
265
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266* timer units: actually add extra delays to timer units with high AccuracySec values, don't start them already when we are awake...
267
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268* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
269
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270* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
271
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272* mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied
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274* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
275 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 276
f598ac3e 277* 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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279* sd-event: generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
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281* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
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283* consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
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285* sd-event: define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
286
6a3f892a 287* gpt-auto-generator:
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288 - Support LUKS for root devices
289 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 290 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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292* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
293 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
294 when it is otherwise off
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296* MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
297
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298* "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
299 /proc/$PID/exe
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301* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
302 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
303 for ReusePort=
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305* socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
306 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
307 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
308 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
309 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
310
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311* New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
312
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313* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
314 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
315 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
316 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
317 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
318 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
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f38afcd0 320* cgroups:
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321 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
322 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
323 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
324 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
325 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
326 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
327 the hierarchies of child processes
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329* transient units:
330 - allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
331 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
332 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
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334* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
335
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336* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
337
f38afcd0 338* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
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340* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
341
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342* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
343
94676f3e 344* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
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346* 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
347
7f79cd71 348* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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350* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
351 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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352 path anyway.
353
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354* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
355
6aaa8c2f 356* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 357
d28315e4 358* 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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360* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
361
362* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
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364* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
365 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
366
6bb648a1 367* sd-bus:
fa607802 368 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
d0928791 369 - kdbus: process fd=-1 for incoming msgs
7212c608 370 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1f140dd8 371 - kdbus: maybe add controlling tty metadata fields
57f2a947 372 - 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 373 - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
f38afcd0 374 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 375 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
dc17bcef 376 - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async?
80caea6c 377 - 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 378 - longer term: priority inheritance
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379 - dbus spec updates:
380 - kdbus mapping
381 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
382 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 383 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 384 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
69727e6d 385 - test bloom filter generation indexes
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386 - bus-proxy: when passing messages from kdbus, make sure we properly
387 handle the case where a large number of fds is appended that we
388 cannot pass into sendmsg() of the AF_UNIX sokcet (which only accepts
389 253 messages)
b568ef14 390 - kdbus: introduce a concept of "send-only" connections
0ad68f87 391 - kdbus: add counter for refused unicast messages that is passed out via the RECV ioctl. SImilar to the counter for dropped multicast messages we already have.
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393* sd-event
12179984 394 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 395 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
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397* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
398 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
399 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
400
69af4503 401* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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403* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
404 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
405
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406* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
407
408* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
409
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410* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
411
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412* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
413
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414* test/:
415 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
416 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
b8b4d3dd 417
b5c03638 418* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 419 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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420 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
421 destination.
422
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423* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
424 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
425
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426* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
427
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428* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
429 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
430 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
431 is installed.
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433* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
434 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
435 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
436 that automatically.
437
e5ec62c5 438* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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440* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
441
d28315e4 442* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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444* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
445
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446* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
447
448* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
449
356ce991 450* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 451
81d112a8 452* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 453
b44be3ec 454* EFI:
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455 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
456 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 457 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 458
c0fe5db5 459* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 460
b44be3ec 461* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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464 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
3040728b 465
b44be3ec 466* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 467
b44be3ec 468* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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471 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
472 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
473 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
474 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
475 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
e5ec62c5 476 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
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477 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
478 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
479 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
480 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
481 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
482 needs setuid().
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484 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
485 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
486 complete.
487 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
488 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
489 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
490 - logind: allow users to kill or lock their own sessions
491 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
492 - given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
493 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
494 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
b568ef14 495 - expose orientation sensors and tablet mode through logind
e673ad04 496
b44be3ec 497* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 498
b44be3ec 499* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
e673ad04 500
b44be3ec 501* journal:
57f2a947 502 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
c06bf414 503 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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505 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
506 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 507 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
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508 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
509 - journal: reuse XZ context
510 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
511 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
512 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
513 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
514 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
515 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
516 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 517 - 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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518 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
519 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
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521 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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522 - 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.
523 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
524 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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525 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
526 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
527 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
528 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 529 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 530 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 531 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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532 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
533 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
534 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
535 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
536 to syslog when it works again.
537 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
538 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
539 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
d28315e4 540 so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
f38afcd0 541 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
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543 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
544 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
545 journals in.
546 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
547 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
548 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
549 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
550 the most common operations.
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552* document:
8b8f2591 553 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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554 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
555 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 556 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 557 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 558 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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559 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
560 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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561 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
562 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
563 - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
564 - man: add more examples to man pages
565 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
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567* systemctl:
568 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
569 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
570 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
571 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
572 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
573 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
574 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
575 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 576 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
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577 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
578 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
579 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
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580 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
581 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
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583* unit install:
584 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
585 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
f38afcd0 586 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
8b04b925 587
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590 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
591 o DST changes
eb124a97 592 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
f38afcd0 593 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
d28315e4 594 - 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 595 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
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598
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599* 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().
600
601* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
d28315e4 602* fedup: do not delete initrd on switch-root
1cb88f2c 603* fedup: generator
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605* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
606
b44be3ec 607* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 608
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609* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
610 waiting for the timeout
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612* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
613
d28315e4 614* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 615
b44be3ec 616* nspawn:
9cb74bcb 617 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
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619* cryptsetup:
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620 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
621 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
622 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 623 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 624
424a19f8 625* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 626 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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628* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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a1cccad1 630* make timer units go away after they elapsed
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632* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
633
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634* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
635
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636* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
637
68f16003 638* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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640* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
641 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
d28315e4 642 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
68f16003 643 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
d28315e4 644 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
68f16003 645 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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647* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
648
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649* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
650
88a6c589 651* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
8351ceae 652
9946996c 653* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
d28315e4 654 verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
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657
59cea26a 658* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
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660* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
661
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662* automount: implement expire:
663 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
664 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
665 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
666 - blocking, needs a thread
667 - run until -EAGAIN
668 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
669 - call umount
670 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
671 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
465349c0 672
e01a15b7 673* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 674
abd55b16 675* udev:
abd55b16 676 - move to LGPL
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678 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 679 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
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681* 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
682
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683* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
684
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685* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
686
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687* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
688
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689* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
690
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691* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
692
693* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
694
70a44afe 695* default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
65c0cf71 696
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697* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
698 needs to be auto-respawned?
699
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700* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
701
f38afcd0 702* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 703 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
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705 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
7d441ddb 706
d28315e4 707* for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested
14e639ae 708
7f8aa671 709* hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
ff01d048 710
d3c7d7dd 711* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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713* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
714 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
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717
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719 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
720
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722
55cdcbac 723* add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
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725* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
726 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
727 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
728
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730 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
731
71092d70 732* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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735
68c7d001 736* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 737 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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739 - status update
7a2a0b90 740 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 741 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 742 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 743 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 744 - auto-restart
e707c494 745 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 746 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 747 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 748 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 749 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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751 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
752 - how to create your own target
753 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
754 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 755
44143309 756* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 757
260abb78 758* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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760* Support --test based on current system state
761
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762* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
763
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766* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
767
71092d70 768* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
246756ca 769
7ba97195 770* systemd-python:
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772 works with ^C
b04c8c83 773 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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776 - plot per-process IO utilization
777 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
778 - document initcall_debug
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780
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782 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
783 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
784 on Path= matching
8faf88e5 785 - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
af6f0d42 786
88e4d1d7 787* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 788 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 789 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 790
0a4b9a07 791* networkd:
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793 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 794 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 795 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
5c1d3fc9 796 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
798e174a 797 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
8477107d 798 - add more attribute support for SIT tunnel
1a941ac4 799 - work with non-ethernet devices
c9fa3670 800 - add support for more bond options
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803 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
8f5675cc 804
ac976532 805* dhcp:
424a8732 806 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 807 - export timezone information
99f9dd8d 808 - support RFC4702 (pass FQDN)
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811 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
812 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
813 - write more test cases
814 - implement and do duplicate address detection, see rfc 4862, 5.4.
815 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 816 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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817 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
818 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
819 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
820 or interface down
821 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
822 this behavior
823
2f8cd170 824External:
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cc9784c6 826* dbus:
3377af3e 827 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 828 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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833
9096ad36 834* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
06ae4bfe 835
71092d70 836* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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d28315e4 840* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and should not
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842* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
843
844* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
845
846* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
847
d2bbca68 848* 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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850* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
851
852* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 853
4641a16b 854* 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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857
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859 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 860 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
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2c12a402 862
129126f3 863Regularly:
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129126f3 865* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 866
129126f3 867* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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869* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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d28315e4 873* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 874
4db17f29 875* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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878
9e5f3dbb 879Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 881* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)