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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Should systemctl status \* work on all unit types, not just .service?
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5* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
6 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
7 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
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a40593a0 9* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
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afe3ab58 11* ExecStart with unicode characters fails in strv_split_quoted:
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13 [Service]
14 Environment=ONE='one' "TWO='two two' too" THREE=
15 ExecStart=/bin/python3 -c 'import sys;print(sys.argv)' $ONE $TWO $THREE
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3f85ef0f 17* MEMORY return code is overloaded for syntax errors in the command line.
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18 str_split_quoted() should return a real return code, so spawn_child can
19 report the failure properly.
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f38afcd0 21External:
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f38afcd0 23* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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f38afcd0 25* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
bafb15ba 26
81429136 27* Fedora: move kernel image to /usr/lib/modules/, kernel-install will take care of populating /boot
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29* Fedora: remove /etc/resolv.conf tmpfiles hack
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31* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
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33* When lz4 gets an API for lz4 command output, make use of it to
34 compress coredumps in a way compatible with /usr/bin/lz4.
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81429136 36Features:
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38* port libmount hookup to use API's own inotify interface, as soon as that is table in libmount
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40* bash completion for busctl, to make it truly useful
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42* journald: broken file systems are real (btrfs), we need to handle
43 SIGBUS in some way if we cannot write or read from the disk.
44 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151848
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46* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
47 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
48 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
49 do, for example)
50
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51* resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
52 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
53 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
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55* systemd-journal-upload (or a new, related tool): allow pushing out
56 journal messages onto the network in BSD syslog protocol,
57 continously. Default to some link-local IP mcast group, to make this
58 useful as a one-stop debugging tool.
59
60* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
61 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
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63* as soon as we have kdbus, and sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
64 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
65
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66* set $REMOTE_IP (or $REMOTE_ADDR/$REMOTE_PORT) environment variable when doing per-connection socket activation. use format introduced by xinetd or CGI for this
67
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68* the install state probably shouldn't get confused by generated units, think dbus1/kdbus compat!
69
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70* in systemctl list-unit-files: show the install value the presets would suggest for a service in a third column
71
72* we should try harder to collapse start jobs for swaps that end up being the same:
73 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-November/025359.html
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75* timedated should compensate on SetTime for the time spent in polkit
76
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77* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
78
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79* sd-resolve: drop res_query wrapping, people should call via the bus to resolved instead
80
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81* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
82 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
83 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
84 returning from the "systemctl stop".
85
b568ef14 86* 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
c2d5b3c9 87
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88* timesyncd + resolved: add ugly bus calls to set NTP and DNS servers per-interface, for usage by NM
89
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90* networkd-wait-online really should have a timeout by default
91
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92* 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
93
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94* machined: add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being removed or added to an existing machine
95
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96* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
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98* code cleanup: retire FOREACH_WORD_QUOTED, port to unquote_first_word() loops instead
99
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100* introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix?
101
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102* systemd --user should issue sd_notify() upon reaching basic.target, not on becoming idle
103
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104* 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
105
106* consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions
107
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108* dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
109
110* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
111 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
112
25e773ee 113* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
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115* maybe provide an API to allow migration of foreign PIDs into existing scopes.
116
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117* 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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119* man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
120
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121* man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
122
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123* "machinectl list" should probably show columns for OS version and IP addresses
124
279f0366 125* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 126
7d4fb3b1 127* systemctl edit: add commented help text to the end, like git commit
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129* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
130
131* exponential backoff in timesyncd and resolved when we cannot reach a server
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133* tmpfiles: port to unquote_many_words(), similar to sysusers
134
135* unquote_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that
136 currently uses FOREACH_WORD and friends. For example, most conf
137 parsing callbacks should use it.
138
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139* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
140
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141* systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
142 units are shown.
143
b873d33e 144* networkd:
d61bb44a 145 - add LLDP client side support
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146 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
147 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
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148 - .network setting that allows overriding of the hostname to send to the dhcp server
149 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-July/021550.html
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150 - expose in the API the following bits:
151 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
152 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
153 - option 100, 101, timezone
154 - option 123, 144, geolocation
155 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
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156 - networkd's dhcp server should transparently pass on the DNS and
157 NTP server list it got from user configuration and its dhcp client
158 to clients. It should also pass on its own timezone information.
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159 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
160 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
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161 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
162 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
b873d33e 163
9d6db739 164* resolved:
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165 - put networkd events and rtnl events at a higher priority, so that
166 we always process them before we process client requests
9d6db739 167 - DNSSEC
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168 - use base64 for key presentation?
169 - add display of private key types (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4034#appendix-A.1.1)?
151226ab 170 - add nice formatting of DNS timestamps
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171 - DNS
172 - search paths
9d6db739 173 - mDNS/DNS-SD
0f47ed0a 174 - avahi compat
9d6db739 175 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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176 - edns0
177 - dname
b6b63571 178 - cname on PTR (?)
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179 - maybe randomize DNS UDP source ports
180 - maybe compare query section of DNS replies
3f77a1b1 181
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182* Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
183
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184* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
185
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186* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
187
a01647e5 188* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 189 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
a940778f 190 - fstab-generator: support systemd.volatile=yes|no|state on the kernel cmdline, too, similar to nspawn's --volatile=
a01647e5 191
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192* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
193
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194* timer units: actually add extra delays to timer units with high AccuracySec values, don't start them already when we are awake...
195
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196* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
197
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198* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
199
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200* mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied
201
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202* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
203 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 204
f598ac3e 205* 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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207* sd-event: generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
208
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209* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
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211* consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
212
213* sd-event: define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
214
6a3f892a 215* gpt-auto-generator:
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216 - Support LUKS for root devices
217 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 218 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 219
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220* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
221 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
222 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 223
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224* MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
225
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226* "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
227 /proc/$PID/exe
228
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229* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
230 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
231 for ReusePort=
232
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233* socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
234 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
235 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
236 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
237 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
238
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239* New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
240
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241* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
242 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
243 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
244 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
245 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
246 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
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ef417cfd 248* completions:
ef417cfd 249 - manager property enumeration was broken when systemd moved to /usr/lib/
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f38afcd0 251* cgroups:
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252 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
253 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
254 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
255 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
256 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
257 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
258 the hierarchies of child processes
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260* transient units:
261 - allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
262 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
263 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
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265* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
266
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267* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
268
f38afcd0 269* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
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271* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
272
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273* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
274
94676f3e 275* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
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277* 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
278
7f79cd71 279* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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281* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
282 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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283 path anyway.
284
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285* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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6aaa8c2f 287* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 288
d28315e4 289* 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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291* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
292
293* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
294
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295* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
296 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
297
6bb648a1 298* sd-bus:
d0928791 299 - kdbus: process fd=-1 for incoming msgs
4a02e686 300 - make dsrt happy, and change userspace header for kdbus to yyyyuta{tv}v
e7100587 301 - kdbus: PID/TID goes missing for method calls from outside the PID namespace?
bca3e263 302 - kdbus: the kernel should not allow messages to be delivered that have a reply serial != 0, reply-expect unset, but no appropriate window
e8bbb7c7 303 - kdbus: timestamps on kernel's NameOwnerChanged messages?
e8bbb7c7 304 - kdbus' busnames.target should get pulled in by basic.target
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305 - Ignore .busname units on classic D-Bus boots, systemd-resolved cannot be started on kdbus
306 without the active policy and should get a Wants=org.freedesktop.resolve1.busname to
307 pull-in the policy.
308 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1f140dd8 309 - kdbus: maybe add controlling tty metadata fields
57f2a947 310 - 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 311 - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
7973ca19 312 - introduce sd_bus_emit_object_added()/sd_bus_emit_object_removed() that automatically includes the build-in interfaces in the list
f38afcd0 313 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 314 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
dc17bcef 315 - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async?
80caea6c 316 - 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 317 - longer term: priority inheritance
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318 - dbus spec updates:
319 - kdbus mapping
320 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
321 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 322 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 323 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
69727e6d 324 - test bloom filter generation indexes
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325 - bus-proxy: when passing messages from kdbus, make sure we properly
326 handle the case where a large number of fds is appended that we
327 cannot pass into sendmsg() of the AF_UNIX sokcet (which only accepts
328 253 messages)
b568ef14 329 - kdbus: introduce a concept of "send-only" connections
0ad68f87 330 - 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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332* sd-event
12179984 333 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 334 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
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336* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
337 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
338 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
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69af4503 340* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
e8a7a315 341
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342* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
343 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
344
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345* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
346
347* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
348
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349* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
350
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351* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
352
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353* test/:
354 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
355 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
b8b4d3dd 356
b5c03638 357* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 358 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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359 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
360 destination.
361
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362* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
363 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
364
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365* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
366
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367* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
368 need manual exponential loops after all
369
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370* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
371 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
372 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
373 is installed.
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375* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
376 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
377 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
378 that automatically.
379
e5ec62c5 380* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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382* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
383
d28315e4 384* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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386* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
387
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388* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
389
390* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
391
356ce991 392* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 393
81d112a8 394* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 395
b44be3ec 396* EFI:
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397 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
398 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 399 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 400
c0fe5db5 401* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 402
b44be3ec 403* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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405* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
406 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 408* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
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b44be3ec 410* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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412* logind:
413 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
414 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
415 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
416 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
417 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
e5ec62c5 418 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
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419 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
420 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
421 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
422 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
423 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
424 needs setuid().
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425 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
426 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
427 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
428 complete.
429 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
430 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
431 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
432 - logind: allow users to kill or lock their own sessions
433 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
434 - given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
435 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
436 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
b568ef14 437 - expose orientation sensors and tablet mode through logind
e673ad04 438
b44be3ec 439* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 440
b44be3ec 441* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
e673ad04 442
b44be3ec 443* journal:
57f2a947 444 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
c06bf414 445 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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446 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
447 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
448 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 449 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
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450 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
451 - journal: reuse XZ context
452 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
453 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
454 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
455 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
456 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
457 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
458 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 459 - 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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460 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
461 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
b44be3ec 462 - 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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463 - 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.
464 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
465 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
f47ec8eb 466 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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467 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
468 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
469 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
470 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 471 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 472 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 473 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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474 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
475 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
476 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
477 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
478 to syslog when it works again.
479 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
480 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
481 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
d28315e4 482 so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
f38afcd0 483 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
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484 - optionally support running journald from the command line for testing purposes in external projects
485 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
486 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
487 journals in.
488 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
489 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
490 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
491 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
492 the most common operations.
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494* document:
8b8f2591 495 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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496 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
497 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 498 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 499 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 500 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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501 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
502 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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503 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
504 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
505 - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
506 - man: add more examples to man pages
507 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
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509* systemctl:
510 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
511 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
512 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
513 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
514 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
515 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
516 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
517 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 518 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
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519 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
520 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
521 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
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522 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
523 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
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525* unit install:
526 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
527 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
f38afcd0 528 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
8b04b925 529
b44be3ec 530* timer units:
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531 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
532 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
533 o DST changes
eb124a97 534 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
f38afcd0 535 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
d28315e4 536 - 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 537 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 538
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539* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
540
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541* 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().
542
543* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
d28315e4 544* fedup: do not delete initrd on switch-root
1cb88f2c 545* fedup: generator
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547* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
548
b44be3ec 549* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 550
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551* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
552 waiting for the timeout
dcfc4b2e 553
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554* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
555
d28315e4 556* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 557
b44be3ec 558* nspawn:
b44be3ec 559 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
9cb74bcb 560 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
a56b63f4 561 - support taking a btrfs snapshot at startup and dropping it afterwards
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562 - introduce machines.target to order after all nspawn instances
563 - systemd-nspawn@.service should fail if some nspawn arg is invalid, with Type=notify
564 - PID 1 doesn't apply nspawns devices cgroup policy
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566* cryptsetup:
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567 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
568 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
569 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 570 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 571
424a19f8 572* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 573 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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575* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
576
a1cccad1 577* make timer units go away after they elapsed
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579* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
580
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581* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
582
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583* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
584
68f16003 585* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 586
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587* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
588 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
d28315e4 589 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
68f16003 590 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
d28315e4 591 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
68f16003 592 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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594* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
595
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596* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
597
88a6c589 598* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
8351ceae 599
9946996c 600* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
d28315e4 601 verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
9946996c 602
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603* introduce Type=pid-file
604
59cea26a 605* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 606
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607* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
608
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609* automount: implement expire:
610 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
611 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
612 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
613 - blocking, needs a thread
614 - run until -EAGAIN
615 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
616 - call umount
617 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
618 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
465349c0 619
e01a15b7 620* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 621
abd55b16 622* udev:
abd55b16 623 - move to LGPL
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624 - kill scsi_id
625 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 626 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
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628* 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
629
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630* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
631
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632* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
633
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634* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
635
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636* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
637
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638* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
639
640* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
641
70a44afe 642* default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
65c0cf71 643
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644* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
645 needs to be auto-respawned?
646
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647* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
648
f38afcd0 649* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 650 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 651
d28315e4 652* for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested
14e639ae 653
7f8aa671 654* hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
ff01d048 655
d3c7d7dd 656* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
72b9ed82 657
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658* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
659 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
660
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662
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663* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
664 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
665
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666* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
667
55cdcbac 668* add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
8d0e38a2 669
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670* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
671 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
672 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
673
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674* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
675 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
676
71092d70 677* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 678
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679* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
680
68c7d001 681* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 682 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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683 - enabling dbus services
684 - status update
7a2a0b90 685 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 686 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 687 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 688 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 689 - auto-restart
e707c494 690 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 691 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 692 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 693 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 694 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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695 - calendar time events
696 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
697 - how to create your own target
698 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
699 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 700
44143309 701* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 702
260abb78 703* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
2791a8f8 704
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705* Support --test based on current system state
706
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707* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
708
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709* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
710
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711* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
712
71092d70 713* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
246756ca 714
7ba97195 715* systemd-python:
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717 works with ^C
b04c8c83 718 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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720* bootchart:
721 - plot per-process IO utilization
722 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
723 - document initcall_debug
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724 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
725
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726* udev-link-config:
727 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
728 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
729 on Path= matching
8faf88e5 730 - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
af6f0d42 731
88e4d1d7 732* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 733 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 734 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 735
0a4b9a07 736* networkd:
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737 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
738 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 739 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 740 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
5c1d3fc9 741 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
798e174a 742 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
8477107d 743 - add more attribute support for SIT tunnel
1a941ac4 744 - work with non-ethernet devices
c9fa3670 745 - add support for more bond options
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747* networkd-wait-online:
748 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
8f5675cc 749
ac976532 750* dhcp:
424a8732 751 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 752 - export timezone information
99f9dd8d 753 - support RFC4702 (pass FQDN)
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755* dhcp6:
756 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
757 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
758 - write more test cases
759 - implement and do duplicate address detection, see rfc 4862, 5.4.
760 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
761 - implement information request, see 1.2. and 18.1.5.
762 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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763 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
764 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
765 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
766 or interface down
767 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
768 this behavior
769
2f8cd170 770External:
74fe1fe3 771
cc9784c6 772* dbus:
3377af3e 773 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 774 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 775
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776* fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
777
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778* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
779
9096ad36 780* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
06ae4bfe 781
71092d70 782* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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784* drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields
785
d28315e4 786* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and should not
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788* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
789
790* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
791
792* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
793
d2bbca68 794* 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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796* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
797
798* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 799
4641a16b 800* 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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803
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805 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 806 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1cf3c30c 807
2c12a402 808
129126f3 809Regularly:
874aa2cc 810
129126f3 811* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 812
129126f3 813* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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815* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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818
d28315e4 819* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 820
4db17f29 821* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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824
9e5f3dbb 825Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 827* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)