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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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f38afcd0 9* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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11* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
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13Janitorial Clean-ups:
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15* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
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17* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
18 semantics, like we do for device.c now
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20Features:
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22* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
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24* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
25 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
26
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27* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
28 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
29 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
30 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
31 anything like that.
32
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33* add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
34 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
35 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
36
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37* move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
38 these days
39
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40* nspawn: support time namespaces
41
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42* add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
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44* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
45 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
46
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47* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
48
49* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
50
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51* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
52 when it exits
53
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54* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
55 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
56
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57* make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
58 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
59 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
60
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61* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
62 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, firstboot, tmpfiles,
63 sysusers, systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl.
64
65* per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
66 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
67 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
68 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
69 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
70 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
71 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
72 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
73
74* homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
75 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
76
77* homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
78 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
79
80* homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
81 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
82 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
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84* homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
85 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
86 signature
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88* homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
89 and insert a local signature instead.
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91* homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
92 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
93 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
15dd4515 94 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
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95 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
96
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97* homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
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99* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
100 exists and responds.
101
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102* homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
103 easily?
104
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105* when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
106 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
107 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
108 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
109 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
110
97cd52c1 111* cryptsetup/homed: also support FIDO2 HMAC password logic for unlocking
70e9d9a5 112 devices. (see: https://github.com/mjec/fido2-hmac-secret)
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114* systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
115 creates
116
86b52a39 117* homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
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118 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
119 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
120 hence we can make them quicker to work.
121
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122* bootctl:
123 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
124 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
125 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
126
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127* by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
128 allow so that systemd survives
129
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130* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
131 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
132
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133* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
134 systemd-makefs.service instead.
135
91fc013f 136* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 137 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
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139* unify on openssl:
140 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
141 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
142 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
143 - port importd over from libgcrypt
144 - when that's done: kill khash.c
145 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
146
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147* kill zenata, all hail weblate?
148
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149* when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
150
151* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
152 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
153
154* hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
155 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
156 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
157 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
158 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
159
492f91d8 160* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
86b52a39 161 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
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162 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
163 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
164
86b52a39 165* systemd-repart: optionally, allow specifying a path to initialize new
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166 partitions from, i.e. an fs image file or a source device node. This would
167 then turn systemd-repart into a simple installer: with a few .repart files
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168 you could replicate the host system on another device. a full installer would
169 then be: "systemd-repart /dev/sda && bootctl install /dev/sda &&
170 systemd-firstboot --image= …"
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172* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
173 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
174 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
175 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
176 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
177 automatically.
178
179* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
180 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
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182* systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
183 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
184
185* systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
186
187* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
188 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
189
190* systemd-repart: add specifier expansion, add especifier that refers to root
191 device node of current system, /usr device node, and matching verity, so that
192 an installer can be made a "copy" installer of the booted OS
193
2a4be3c5 194* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
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195 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
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197* systemd-repart: allow config of partition uuid
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199* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
200 realname substr searches in varlink API
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202* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
203
2a4be3c5 204* userdb: allow existence checks
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f1eb0ccd 206* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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208* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
209 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
210 initrd had set.
211
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212* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
213 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
214 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
215 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
216 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
217 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
218
219* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
220 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
221 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
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223* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
224 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
225 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
226 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
227 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
228 source.
229
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230* figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
231 with immutable /usr
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233* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
234 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
235 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
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237* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
238
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239* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
240 the hibernation
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242* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
243 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
244 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
245 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
246 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
247 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
248 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
249 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
250 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
251 hibernation mode. (see
252 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
253 section 10.2.2.8 and
254 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
255 at the end).
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257* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
258 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
259 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
260 output for them.
261
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262* systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
263 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
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265* We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
266 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
267 constant vendor data.
268
c6526b8d 269* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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271* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
272 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
273
274* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
275 fallback in "machinectl shell"
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277* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
278 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
279 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
280
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281* homed:
282 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
283 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
284 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
285 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
286 - resize on login?
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287 - shrink fs on logout?
288 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
289 - create on activate?
290 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
291 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
292 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
293 systemd --user is shut down.
294 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
295 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk images (think: time machine)
86b52a39 296 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
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297 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
298 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
299 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
300 - description field for groups
301 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
302 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
303 - query password from kernel keyring first
304 - update even if record is "absent"
305 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
306 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
307 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
308 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
309 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
310 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
311
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312* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
313 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
314 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
315 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
316 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
317 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
318 exec().
319
320* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
321
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322* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
323 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
324
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325* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
326
327* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
328 gnome-bluetooth and friends
329
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330* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
331 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
332 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
333 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
334 cgroup.
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336* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
337 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
338 root.
339
340* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
341 is issued.
342
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343* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
344
345* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
346
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347* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
348 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
349 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 350
d238709c 351* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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352 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
353 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
354
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355* add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
356 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
357 ConfigurationDirectory=.
358
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359* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
360
d3584ec4 361* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
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363* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
364 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
365
06898123 366* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 367 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 368 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
06898123 369
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370* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
371
372* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
373 patching around
374
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375* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
376 log.c and sd-journal-send
377
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378* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
379
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380* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
381
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382* sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
383 can add in file system drivers and such
384
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385* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
386 non-zero "tries done" count
387
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388* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
389 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
390 it should skip the variant type string though.
391
392* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
393 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
394 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
395 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
396 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
397 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
398 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
399 CODE_FILE.
400
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401* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
402 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
403 some explanatory text online.
404
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405* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
406
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407* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
408 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
409 the slices, and the units attached to them.
410
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411* the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
412 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
bc130b68 413 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
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414 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
415 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
416 way)
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418* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
419 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
420 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
421
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422* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
423 original defaults before calling parse_config()
424
72d711ef 425* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
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427* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
428 Specifically:
429
430 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
431 properly)
e83419d0 432 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 433 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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435* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
436 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
437
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438* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
439 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
440 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
441 files and suchlike we operate on.
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443* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
444
445* add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
446
447* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
448 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
449
5da19043 450* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
5238e957 451 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
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452 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
453 numbers.
454
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455* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
456 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
457 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
458 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
459 unlinked from any dir.
460
bd1b3f75 461* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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463* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
464
465* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
466
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467* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
468 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
469 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
470 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
471 should reflink the image file itself.
472
473 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
474 specific paths only like this.
475
53c70a27 476* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 477 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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478 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
479 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
480 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
481
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482* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
483
484* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
485
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486* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
487 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
488
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489* teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
490 project quota
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492* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
493 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
494 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
495 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
496 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
497 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
498 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
499 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
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501* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
502 for root, but only then.
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504* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
505
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506* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
507 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
508
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509* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
510 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
511
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512* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
513 host-side interface pointing to the container.
514
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515* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
516 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
517 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
518 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
519 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
520
cb77e122 521* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 522
899feb72 523* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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525* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
526 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
527 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
528
5f7ecd61 529* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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531* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
532 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
533
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534* blog about fd store and restartable services
535
536* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
537
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538* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
539 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
540
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541* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
542 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
543 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
544 ID is available.
545
546* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
547 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
548 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
549
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550* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
551 parameters
552
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553* maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
554 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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556 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
557 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
558 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
559 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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561* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
562 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
563
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564* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
565 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
566 wait to retrieve their exit data.
567
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568* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
569 about it in the resource log message
570
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571* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
572 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
573
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574* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
575 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
576 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
577
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578* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
579 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
580
581 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
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584 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
585 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
586 logging.
587
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589 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
590 "convertible" form factor
591
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592* Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
593 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
594 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
595 as MAINPID.
596
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597* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
598 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
599 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
600
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601* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
602 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
603
604* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
605 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
606 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
607 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
608 natural habitat.
609
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611 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
612 /usr is mounted into.
613
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614* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
615
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616* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
617
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618* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
619 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
620 relative to the configured default value.
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622* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
623
624* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
625
04397464 626* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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628* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
629
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630* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
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632* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
633
04397464 634* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 635
04397464 636* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 637
04397464 638* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 639
8ce9b83a 640* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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642* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
643 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
644 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
645
e40a326c 646* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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648* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
649
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650* mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
651 partitions
652
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653* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
654 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
655 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
656 mapping to work.
657
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658* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
659
660* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
661
662* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
663
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664* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
665 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
666
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667* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
668 reload the unit file anyway
669
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670* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
671 from the SIGBUS handler
672
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673* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
674
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675* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
676 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
677
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678* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
679
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680* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
681 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
682
f9bf1b8f 683* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 684 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 685 specifications.
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688
5ebbb45b 689* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
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691* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
692
a2088fd0 693* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 694 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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695 prefixed with /sys generally special.
696 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
697
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698* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
699
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700* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
701
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702* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
703 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
704 state.
705 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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707* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
708 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
709 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
710 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
711 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
712
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714 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
715
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716* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
717
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718* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
719 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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721* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
722 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
723 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
724 do, for example)
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727 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
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e031c227 729* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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732* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
733
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734* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
735 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
736 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
737 returning from the "systemctl stop".
738
b568ef14 739* 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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741* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
742
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743* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
744 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
745
25e773ee 746* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 747
279f0366 748* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 749
5238e957 750* systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
b42de08a 751 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
202aea45 752
720652b3 753* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 754
720652b3 755* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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757* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
758
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759* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
760 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
761
9d6db739 762* resolved:
9d6db739 763 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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765 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 766 - avahi compat
9d6db739 767 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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769 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
770 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 771 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 772 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 773
e25b5a8d 774* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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776* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
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778* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
779
a01647e5 780* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 781 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
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783* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
784
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785* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
786
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787* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
788
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789* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
790 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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792* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
793
6a3f892a 794* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 795 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 796 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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798* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
799 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
800 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 801
f9bf1b8f 802* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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804* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
805 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
806 for ReusePort=
807
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808* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
809 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
810 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
811 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
812 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
813 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
814
f38afcd0 815* cgroups:
f38afcd0 816 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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817 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
818 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
819 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
820 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
821 the hierarchies of child processes
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f38afcd0 823* transient units:
f38afcd0 824 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
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826* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
827
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828* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
829
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830* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
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832* 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
833
7f79cd71 834* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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836* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
837 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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839
04397464 840* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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842* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
843
844* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
845
6bb648a1 846* sd-bus:
0d43ffef 847 - EBADSLT handling
fa607802 848 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
7212c608 849 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
57f2a947 850 - see if we can introduce a new sd_bus_get_owner_machine_id() call to retrieve the machine ID of the machine of the bus itself
f38afcd0 851 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 852 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
ab9716c2 853 - longer term: priority inheritance
df98a87b 854 - dbus spec updates:
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856 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 857 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 858 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
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860* sd-event
12179984 861 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 862 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
e25b5a8d 863 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
eb01ba5d 864
69af4503 865* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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867* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
868 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
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870* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
871
872* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
873
fff87a35 874* test/:
20d52ab6 875 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 876
b5c03638 877* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 878 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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879 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
880 destination.
881
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882* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
883 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
884
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885* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
886
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887* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
888 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
889 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
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892 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
893 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
894 is installed.
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897 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
898 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
899 that automatically.
900
e5ec62c5 901* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 902
ccddd104 903* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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906
356ce991 907* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 908
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911 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 912 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 913* bootctl
631427d6 914 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 915
c0fe5db5 916* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 917
b44be3ec 918* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 919
b44be3ec 920* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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923 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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924 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
925 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
926 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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928 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
929 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
930 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
931 needs setuid().
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933 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
934 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
935 complete.
936 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
937 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
938 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
279f0366 939 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
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940 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
941 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
942 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
943 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
944 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
945 relogins
77b19caf 946 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 947
b44be3ec 948* journal:
57f2a947 949 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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950 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
951 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
952 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 953 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 954 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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955 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
956 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
957 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 958 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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959 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
960 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 961 - 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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962 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
963 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
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964 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
965 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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966 - 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.
967 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
968 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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969 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
970 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
971 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
972 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 973 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 974 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 975 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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976 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
977 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
978 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
979 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
980 to syslog when it works again.
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981 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
982 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
983 journals in.
984 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
985 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
986 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
987 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
988 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 989 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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990 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
991 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
992 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
993 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
994 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
995 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
996 operation.
997 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
998 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
999 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1000 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1001 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1002 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1003 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1004 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1005 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
b44be3ec 1006
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1008 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1009 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1010 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1011
b44be3ec 1012* document:
8b8f2591 1013 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1014 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1015 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1016 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1017 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1018 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1019 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1020 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1021 - man: add more examples to man pages
1022 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1023 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1024
1025* systemctl:
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1026 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1027 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1028 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1029 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1030 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1031 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1032 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1033 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1034 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1035 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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1036
1037* unit install:
1038 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1039 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
8b04b925 1040
b44be3ec 1041* timer units:
b44be3ec 1042 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
b44be3ec 1043 o DST changes
90e071d1 1044 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 1045
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1046* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1047
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1048* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1049
b44be3ec 1050* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 1051
f59d1da8 1052* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
dcfc4b2e 1053
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1054* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1055
d28315e4 1056* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 1057
b44be3ec 1058* nspawn:
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1059 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1060 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1061 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1062 from the kernel's logs.
1063 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1064 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1065 interface be missing
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1066 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1067 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1068 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1069 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1070 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1071 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1072 PID 1...
e25b5a8d
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1073 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1074 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1075
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1076* dissect
1077 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1078 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1079
e25b5a8d 1080* machined:
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1081 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1082 removed or added to an existing machine
1083 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1084 difference host, via ssh
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1085 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1086 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1087 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1088 question
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1089 - "machinectl history"
1090 - "machinectl diff"
1091 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1092 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1093
b44be3ec 1094* cryptsetup:
b44be3ec 1095 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
5f1dac6b 1096 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 1097
424a19f8 1098* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 1099 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
424a19f8 1100
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1101* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1102
68f16003 1103* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 1104
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1105* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1106
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1107* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1108
abd55b16 1109* udev:
abd55b16 1110 - move to LGPL
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1111 - kill scsi_id
1112 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1113 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1114
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1115* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1116
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1117* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1118
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1119* coredump:
1120 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1121 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
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1122
1123* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1124
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1125* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1126 needs to be auto-respawned?
1127
f38afcd0 1128* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1129 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1130 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1131 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1132 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1133 calls follow symlinks.
1258097c 1134
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1135* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1136
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1137* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1138 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1139 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1140
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1141* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1142 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1143
71092d70 1144* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 1145
68c7d001 1146* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 1147 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
68c7d001 1148 - enabling dbus services
7a2a0b90 1149 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 1150 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 1151 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 1152 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 1153 - auto-restart
e707c494 1154 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 1155 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 1156 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 1157 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 1158 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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1159 - calendar time events
1160 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1161 - how to create your own target
1162 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1163 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 1164
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1165* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1166
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1167* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1168
e25b5a8d 1169* pid1:
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1170 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1171 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1172 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1173 that are not supported...
1174 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1175 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1176 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1177 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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1178 - move PAM code into its own binary
1179 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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1180 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1181 - Support --test based on current system state
1182 - 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().
1183 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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1184 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1185 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1186 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1187 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1188 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1189 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1190 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1191 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1192
1193* unit files:
1194 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1195 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1196 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1197 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1198 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1199 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1200 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1201 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
e25b5a8d 1202 - introduce Type=pid-file
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1203 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1204 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
e25b5a8d 1205 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
e5171296 1206 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
e25b5a8d 1207
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1208* udev-link-config:
1209 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1210 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1211 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1212
88e4d1d7 1213* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1214 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1215 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1216
0a4b9a07 1217* networkd:
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1218 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1219 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 1220 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 1221 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1222 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 1223 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1224 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1225 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1226 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 1227 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 1228 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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1229 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1230 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1231 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1232 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1233 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1234 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1235 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
e25b5a8d 1236 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1237
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1238* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1239
ac976532 1240* dhcp:
424a8732 1241 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1242
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1243* dhcp6:
1244 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1245 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1246 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1247 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1248 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1249 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1250 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1251 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1252 or interface down
1253 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1254 this behavior
4a77c53d 1255 - RouteTable= ?
37d8b536 1256
2f8cd170 1257External:
74fe1fe3 1258
cc9784c6 1259* dbus:
3377af3e 1260 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 1261 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 1262
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1263* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1264
71092d70 1265* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
14bd37fe 1266
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1267* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1268
d2bbca68 1269* 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=
8973790e 1270
8973790e 1271* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 1272
4641a16b 1273* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
19aa7c4f 1274
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1275* register catalog database signature as file magic
1276
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1277* zsh shell completion:
1278 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 1279 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1cf3c30c 1280
90137b62 1281* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
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1282* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1283 after being started.
2c12a402 1284
129126f3 1285Regularly:
874aa2cc 1286
129126f3 1287* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 1288
129126f3 1289* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
5b6319dc 1290
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1291* pahole
1292
d28315e4 1293* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 1294
4db17f29 1295* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
88fae6e0 1296
d05c556b 1297* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
62353f69 1298String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment