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71092d70 1Bugfixes:
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2* the running hwdb seems not to pick up updated database files without
3 an explicit: udevadm control --reload
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5* enabling an instance unit creates pointless link, and
6 the unit will be started with getty@getty.service:
7 $ systemctl enable getty@.service
8 ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service' '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@.service'
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10* check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
11
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12* swap units that are activated by one name but shown in the kernel under another are semi-broken
13
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14* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
15 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
16 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
17
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18* make polkit checks async
19
a40593a0 20* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
20ffc4c4 21
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22* ellipsize_mem must take into account multi-byte unicode characters, and
23 - make the resulting line the requested number of *characters*, not *bytes*,
24 - avoid truncuating multi-byte sequences in the middle.
25
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26* When we detect invalid UTF-8, we cant't use it in an error message:
27 log...("Path is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment: %s", rvalue);
28
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29* shorten the message to sane length:
30
31 Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status display-manager.service' for details.
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466784c8 33Fedora 20:
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dc7adf20 35* external: ps should gain colums for slice and machine
7b4da18c 36
81d112a8 37* localed:
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38 - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps
39
55d32caf 40* when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
466784c8 41 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
55d32caf 42
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43CGroup Rework Completion:
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94bbc991 45* introduce "mainpid" for scopes (or maybe not?)
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47* implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?)
48
49* implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
50
51* handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
52
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53* make BlockIODeviceWeight=, BlockIODeviceBandwidth= runtime settable
54
049b4474 55* introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
bafb15ba 56
431c72dc 57* wiki: document new bus APIs of PID 1 (transient units, Reloading signal)
bafb15ba 58
eb124a97 59Features:
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61* When a Type=forking service fails and needed another service that
62 service is not cleaned up again when it has StopWhenUnneeded=yes
63 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-July/012141.html
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65* backlight: properly handle multiple backlight devices for the same
66 hardware: at shutdown we should only save the backlight setting for
67 the "best" way to access the backlight. Strategy should be: at
68 shutdown, ignore all backlights that are connected to a non-eDP or
69 non-LVDS port, and then prefer the firmware device over platform
70 device over raw device per-PCI card. Delete all old data. At boot
71 simply apply whatever data we find. Also see
72 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libbacklight/tree/libbacklight.c#n194
73
74* rfkill: save/restore soft rfkill status across reboots
75
76* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
77
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78* ensure scope units may be started only a single time
79
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80* document that in instead of FsckPassNo= people should just add a manual dep to systemd-fsck@.service to their mount units.
81
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82* better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
83
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84* systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
85
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86* for transient units, instead of writing out drop-ins for all properties consider serializing them in the normal serialization stream
87
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88* logind: when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects
89
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90* session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
91
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92* add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
93
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94* journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
95
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96* given that logind/machined now let PID 1 do all nasty work we can
97 probably reduce the capability set they retain substantially.
98
6aaa8c2f 99* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
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101* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
102
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103* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
104
e1b7e7ec 105* make sure gdm doesn't use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
18d4e7c2 106
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107* when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we won't support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200
108
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109* when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop we should ratelimit that too.
110
c5757cc8 111* "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, should
69af4503 112 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
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113 unit however should remove them all).
114
115* journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
116
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117* systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
118
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119* journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
120 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
121 to syslog when it works again.
122
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123* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
124
125* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
126
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127* add a fixed dbus path for "my own unit", "my own session", ... to PID1, logind, ...
128
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129* service_coldplug() appears to reinstall the wrong stop timeout watch?
130
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131* transient units: allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
132
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133* how to reset dynamically changed attributes sanely?
134
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135* when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
136
4ad49000 137* journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
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139* libsystemd-logind: sd_session_is_active() and friends: verify
140 validity of session name before appending it to a path
141
9444b1f2 142* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 143 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 144 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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145 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
146 check for that and suppress event handling.
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148* when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
149 the hierarchies of child processes
150
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151* document logic of auto/noauto and fail/nofail in fstab in systemd.mount or systemd-fstab-generator man page
152
9444b1f2 153* we should properly escape ssh hostnames we add into dbus server strings
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155* something pulls in pcre as so dep into our daemons such as hostnamed.
156
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157* document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
158
a65f06bb 159* change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
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160 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
161 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
162 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
163
164* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
165 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
166
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167* libsystemd-bus:
168 - default policy (allow uid == 0 and our own uid)
169 - enforce alignment of pointers passed in
eb01ba5d 170 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
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171 - implement translator service
172 - port systemd to new library
173 - implement busname unit type in systemd
174 - move to gvariant
eb01ba5d 175 - merge busctl into systemctl or so?
e4ee6e5c 176 - synthesize sd_bus_message objects from kernel messages
c7819669 177 - properly implement name registry ioctls for kdbus
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178 - get rid of object hash table, use decision tree everyhwere instead?
179 - implement monitor logic
180 - object vtable logic
181 - longer term:
182 * priority queues
86312ab8 183 * priority inheritance
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185* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
186 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
187 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
188
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189* add an option to nspawn that uses seccomp to make socket(AF_NETLINK,
190 SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_AUDIT) fail the the appropriate error code that
191 makes the audit userspace to think auditing is not available in the
192 kernel.
193
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194* Introduce a way how we can kill the main process of a service with KillSignal, but all processes with SIGKILL later on
195 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952634
196
69af4503 197* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses where the access mode of unit files is nonsensical.
19aa7c4f 198
69af4503 199* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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201* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
202 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
203
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204* if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
205 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
206 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
207 needs setuid().
208
209* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
210
211* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
212
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213* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
214
215* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
216
4a449ed7 217* logind: add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
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219* we need dynamic units
220
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221* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
222
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223* test/:
224 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
225 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
226 - remove all the duplicated code in test/
b8b4d3dd 227
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228* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
229
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230* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
231 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
232 file.
233
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234* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
235 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
236 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
237 destination.
238
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239* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
240 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
241
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242* add ConditionArchitecture= or so
243
244* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
245
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246* Support SO_REUSEPORT with socket activation:
247 - Let systemd maintain a pool of servers.
248 - Use for seamless upgrades, by running the new server before stopping the
249 old.
250
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251* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
252 need manual exponential loops after all
253
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254* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
255 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
256 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
257 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
258
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259* man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf
260
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261* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
262 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
263 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
264 that automatically.
265
69af4503 266* rework specifier logic so that we can distinguish OOM errors from other errors
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e5ec62c5 268* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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270* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
271
54c31a79 272* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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8973790e 274* documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
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69af4503 276* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapse and the time the units ran last
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278* man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
279
280* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
281
69af4503 282* man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
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284* systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
285
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286* man: add more examples to man pages
287
288* man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
289
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290* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
291
292* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
293
294* msgcatalog determine default language of entries from the catalog
295 file name. i.e. foobar.de_DE.catalog would set the default entry
296 name for the entries to de_DE if they aren't explicitly suffixed
297 individually.
298
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299* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
300
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301* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
302
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303* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
304 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
305 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
306 will be activated.
307
356ce991 308* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 309
81d112a8 310* introduce ExecCondition= in services
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312* EFI:
313 - fsck hookup for the ESP mount is missing
314 - write man page for efi boot generator
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315 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
316 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 317 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 318
c0fe5db5 319* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 320
b44be3ec 321* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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323* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
324 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 326* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
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b44be3ec 328* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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330* logind:
331 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
332 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
333 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
334 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
335 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
336 - logind: spawn user@..service on login
337 - logind: non-local X11 server handling
338 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
b44be3ec 339 - pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree
eb124a97 340 - logind: GetSessionByPID() should accept 0 as PID value
e5ec62c5 341 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
e673ad04 342
b44be3ec 343* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 344
b44be3ec 345* DeviceAllow/DeviceDeny: disallow everything by default, but whitelist /dev/zero, /dev/null and friends
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b44be3ec 347* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
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b44be3ec 349* journal:
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350 - do not use magic msync() in src/journal/journal-file.c, just call fsync()
351 <alxchk> poettering: looks like msync just calls vfs_fsync
352 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/mm/msync.c#n18
c06bf414 353 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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354 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
355 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
356 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
357 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
358 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
359 - journal: reuse XZ context
360 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
361 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
362 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
363 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
364 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
365 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
366 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 367 - 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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368 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
369 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
370 - journal: when rotating, copy over old acls/access mode
b44be3ec 371 - 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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372 - 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.
373 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
374 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 375 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 376 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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377 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
378 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
379 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
380 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
77a9e8de 381 - journalctl: expand tabs
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382 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
383 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
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384 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
385 - Port upower to use the journal for historical power information used in future calculations
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387* document:
388 - document unit_name_mangle()
389 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in
390 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
391 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
392 - Document word splitting syntax for ExecStart= and friends
393 - document that units from /etc override those from /usr and /run
394 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 395 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 396 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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398* systemctl:
399 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
400 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
401 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
402 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
403 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
404 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
405 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
406 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
407 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
408 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
409 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
410 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
411 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
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413* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
414
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415* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
416
417* timer units:
418 - configurable jitter for timer events
419 - timer events with system resume
420 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
421 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
422 o DST changes
eb124a97 423 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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425* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
426
427* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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428 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
429 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 430 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 431 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 432 user did not request anything like it.
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434* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
435 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
436 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
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438* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
439 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
440 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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441 we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in
442 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
443 better supported alternative.
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445* figure out relation of --all and --full in the various tools
446
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447* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
448
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449* 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().
450
451* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
452* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
453* fedup: generator
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b44be3ec 455* timedated:
b44be3ec 456 - timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
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458* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
459
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460* introduce generic AUGMENT_PID=, AUGMENT_DEVICE= fields
461
b44be3ec 462* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
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464* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
465 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
466 - superset of tmpfiles model
467 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
468 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
469 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
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471* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
472 waiting for the timeout
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474* high level net_prio setting in execution context
475
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476* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
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478* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
479
15abdb9a 480* refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful (or set taint?)
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483 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly
484 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
485 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
486 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
487 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
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488 - nspawn: investigate whether we can support the same as LXC's
489 lxc.network.type=phys mode, and pass through entire network
490 interfaces to the container
491 - nspawn: maybe add a way to drop additional caps, in addition to add additional caps
492 - nspawn: maybe explicitly reset loginuid?
3679d112 493 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
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495* cryptsetup:
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496 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
497 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
498 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 499 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
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501* move debug shell to tty6 and make sure this doesn't break the gettys on tty6
502
424a19f8 503* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 504 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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506* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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508* make timer units go away after they elapsed
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8556879e 510* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 511 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
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513* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
514
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515* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
516
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517* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
518
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519* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
520
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521* system.conf should have controls for cgroups
522
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523* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
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525* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
526
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527* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container
528
68f16003 529* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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531* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
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533* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
534 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
535 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
536 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 537 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 538 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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540* use opterr = 0 for all getopt tools
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542* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
543
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544* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
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546* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
547
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548* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
549
88a6c589 550* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
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553 - syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls
554 - syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs?
555 - syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS?
556 - syscall filter: port to libseccomp
557 - system-wide seccomp filter
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559* .device aliases need to be implemented with the "following" logic, probably.
560
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561* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
562 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
563
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564* introduce Type=pid-file
565
59cea26a 566* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
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568* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
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570* move passno parsing to fstab generator
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572* automount: implement expire:
573 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
574 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
575 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
576 - blocking, needs a thread
577 - run until -EAGAIN
578 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
579 - call umount
580 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
581 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
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584
e01a15b7 585* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 586
abd55b16 587* udev:
3f60bcb5 588 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
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589 - move to LGPL
590 - unify utf8 validator code with shared/
591 - kill scsi_id
592 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
b8217b7b 593
18b754d3 594* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording
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596* 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
597
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598* support container_ttys=
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600* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
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602* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
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604* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
605
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606* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
607
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608* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
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610* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
611
612* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
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614* clean up session cgroups that remain after logout (think sshd), but eventually run empty
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616* when an instanced service exits, remove its parent cgroup too if possible.
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618* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
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620* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
621 needs to be auto-respawned?
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623* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
624
de6c78f8 625* tmpfiles: apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
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b44be3ec 627* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
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d3c7d7dd 631* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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633* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
634 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
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638* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
639 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
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641* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
642
7c697168 643* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 644
71092d70 645* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
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648 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
649 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
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653* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
654 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
655
71092d70 656* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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659 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
660 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
661 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
662 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
663 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
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665* add support for /bin/mount -s
666
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667* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
668
68c7d001 669* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 670 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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671 - enabling dbus services
672 - status update
7a2a0b90 673 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 674 - remote access
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675 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
676 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 677 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 678 - auto-restart
e707c494 679 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 680 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 681 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 682 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 683 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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685 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
686 - how to create your own target
687 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
688 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
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44143309 690* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 691
71092d70 692* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 693
260abb78 694* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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696* Support --test based on current system state
697
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698* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
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700* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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702* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
703
129126f3 704* port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID:
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705 - rpcbind (/var/run/rpcbind.sock!) HAVEPATCH
706 - cups HAVEPATCH
a625ac1a 707 - postfix, saslauthd
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708 - apache/samba
709 - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro)
710 - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!)
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712
71092d70 713* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
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50f2a90d 715* io priority during initialization
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718
7ba97195 719* systemd-python:
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721 works with ^C
b04c8c83 722 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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725 - plot per-process IO utilization
726 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
727 - document initcall_debug
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2f8cd170 732External:
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cc9784c6 734* dbus:
cc9784c6 735 - dbus --user
3377af3e 736 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
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738 - allow disabling of fd passing when connecting a AF_UNIX connection
3377af3e 739 - allow disabling of UID passing for AUTH EXTERNAL
b69d29ce 740 - always pass cred data along each message
b44be3ec 741 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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9096ad36 747* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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749* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
750 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
751 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
752 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
753 the RTC to sync up.
754
71092d70 755* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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759* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
760
761* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
762
763* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
764
765* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
766
d2bbca68 767* 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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769* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
770
771* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 772
4641a16b 773* 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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129126f3 775Regularly:
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129126f3 777* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 778
129126f3 779* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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781* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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785* pahole
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71092d70 787* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 788
4db17f29 789* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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792
9e5f3dbb 793Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 795* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)