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ee9c9500 1Bugfixes:
19aadacf 2* enabling an instance unit creates a pointless link, and
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3 the unit will be started with getty@getty.service:
4 $ systemctl enable getty@.service
5 ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service' '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@.service'
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7* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
8 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
9 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
10
a40593a0 11* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
20ffc4c4 12
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13* shorten the message to sane length:
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15 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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17* systemctl --root=container/ set-default ... is totally borked.
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f38afcd0 19External:
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f38afcd0 21* Fedora: when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
466784c8 22 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
55d32caf 23
f38afcd0 24* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
bafb15ba 25
f38afcd0 26* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
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28Preparation for 209:
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30* Review new libraries
31
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32* libsystemd-journal returns the object created as first param in sd_journal_new(), sd_bus_new() and suchlike as last...
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eb124a97 34Features:
154ff088 35
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36* generalize ConditionXYZ= logic and make it available in networkd's
37 .network, .netdev, .network files, too. This is particularly useful
38 to match on containers with ConditionVirtualization to
39 conditionalize network setups for containers
40
41* doc: remove documentation for .include, drop-in snippets are the
42 better replacement.
43
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44* Add a seccomp-based filter for socket() calls to limit services to
45 specific address families (for example: AF_UNIX), inspired by
46 Android's sandboxing
47
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48* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
49 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
50 for ReusePort=
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52* add a timelimit to generator invocation
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54* socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
55 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
56 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
57 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
58 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
59
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60* New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
61
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62* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
63 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
64 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
65 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
66 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
67 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
68
3333d748 69* machinectl bash completion is missing
708c143c 70* busctl bash and zsh completions are outdated
3333d748 71
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72* cgroups:
73 - implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?)
74 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
75 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
76 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
77 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
78 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
79 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
80 the hierarchies of child processes
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82* transient units:
83 - allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
84 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
85 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
ebcf1f97 86
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87* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
88
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89* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
90
f38afcd0 91* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
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93* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
94
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95* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
96
94676f3e 97* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
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99* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
100
af1082b0 101* socket-proxyd: Use sd-resolve to resolve the server address
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103* 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
104
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105* move config_parse_path_strv() out of conf-parser.c
106
7f79cd71 107* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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109* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
110 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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111 path anyway.
112
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113* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
114
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115* given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
116 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
e10e429f 117 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
e1b7e7ec 118
6aaa8c2f 119* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 120
e1b7e7ec 121* 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 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
9444b1f2 127* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 128 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 129 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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130 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
131 check for that and suppress event handling.
9444b1f2 132
19aadacf 133* something pulls in pcre as shared object dependency into our daemons such as hostnamed.
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135* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
136 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
137
6bb648a1 138* sd-bus:
eb01ba5d 139 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
86312ab8 140 - implement monitor logic
f38afcd0 141 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 142 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
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143 - systemd-bus-proxyd needs to enforce good old XML policy
144 - upload minimal kdbus policy into the kernel at boot
80caea6c 145 - kdbus: matches against source or destination pids for an "strace -p"-like feel. Problem: The PID info needs to be available in userspace too...
ab9716c2 146 - longer term: priority inheritance
452de75e 147 - check sender of response messages
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148 - dbus spec updates:
149 - kdbus mapping
150 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
151 - GVariant
bee7e928 152 - "const" properties (posted)
00586799 153 - port exit-on-idle logic to byebye ioctl
6a8b5fa4 154 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
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155 - allow updating attach flags during runtime
156 - pid1: peek into activating message when activating a service
69727e6d 157 - test bloom filter generation indexes
2fcb3af6 158 - introduce sd_bus_emit_object_added()/sd_bus_emit_object_removed() that automatically includes the build-in interfaces in the list
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159 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
160 - constructors for bus messages should probably not be OK with a NULL bus pointer
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162* sd-event
12179984 163 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
eb01ba5d 164
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165* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
166 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
167 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
168
69af4503 169* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
e8a7a315 170
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171* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
172 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
173
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174* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
175
176* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
177
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178* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
179
180* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
181
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182* timedatectl: print a nicer message when enabling ntp fails because ntpd/chrony are not installed
183
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184* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
185
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186* test/:
187 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
188 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
b8b4d3dd 189
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190* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
191
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192* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
193 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
194 file.
195
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196* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
197 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
198 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
199 destination.
200
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201* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
202 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
203
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204* add ConditionArchitecture= or so
205
206* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
207
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208* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
209 need manual exponential loops after all
210
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211* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
212 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
213 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
214 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
215
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216* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
217 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
218 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
219 that automatically.
220
e5ec62c5 221* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 222
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223* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
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54c31a79 225* 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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227* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
228
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229* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
230
231* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
232
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233* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
234
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235* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
236
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237* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
238 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
239 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
240 will be activated.
241
356ce991 242* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 243
81d112a8 244* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 245
b44be3ec 246* EFI:
b44be3ec 247 - write man page for efi boot generator
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248 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
249 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 250 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 251
c0fe5db5 252* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 253
b44be3ec 254* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
e9fd44b7 255
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256* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
257 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
3040728b 258
b44be3ec 259* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 260
b44be3ec 261* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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263* logind:
264 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
265 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
266 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
267 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
268 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
b44be3ec 269 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
e5ec62c5 270 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
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271 - when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects
272 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
273 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
274 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
275 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
276 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
277 needs setuid().
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b44be3ec 279* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 280
b44be3ec 281* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
e673ad04 282
b44be3ec 283* journal:
c06bf414 284 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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285 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
286 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
287 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
288 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
289 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
290 - journal: reuse XZ context
291 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
292 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
293 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
294 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
295 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
296 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
297 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 298 - 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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299 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
300 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
b44be3ec 301 - 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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302 - 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.
303 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
304 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 305 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 306 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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307 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
308 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
309 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
310 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
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311 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
312 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 313 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 314 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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315 - tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal, also do this for the journal fails contained in it
316 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
317 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
318 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
319 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
320 to syslog when it works again.
321 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
322 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
323 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
324 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
325 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
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327* document:
8b8f2591 328 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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329 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
330 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 331 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 332 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 333 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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334 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
335 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
336 - man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf
337 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
338 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
339 - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
340 - man: add more examples to man pages
341 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
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343* systemctl:
344 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
345 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
346 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
347 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
348 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
349 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
350 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
351 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
352 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
353 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
354 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
355 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
356 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
f38afcd0 357 - rework wait filter to not require match callback
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358 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
359 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
8b8f2591 360 - in systemctl list-timers show time triggering units ran last
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362* unit install:
363 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
364 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
365 - "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, but should
366 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
367 unit however should remove them all).
368 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
369 - systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
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371* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
372
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373* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
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375* timer units:
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376 - timer events with system resume
377 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
378 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
379 o DST changes
eb124a97 380 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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381 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
382 - 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
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383 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
384 - anacron-like feature
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386* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
387
388* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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389 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
390 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 391 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 392 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 393 user did not request anything like it.
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395* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
396 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
397 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
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399* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
400 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
401 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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402 we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in
403 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
404 better supported alternative.
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406* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
407
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408* 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().
409
410* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
411* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
412* fedup: generator
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f38afcd0 414* timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
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416* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
417
b44be3ec 418* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
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420* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
421 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
422 - superset of tmpfiles model
423 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
424 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
425 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
426
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427* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
428 waiting for the timeout
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430* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
431
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432* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
433
b44be3ec 434* nspawn:
86d0d519 435 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with /usr/bin/getent, so that NSS resolving works correctly
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436 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
437 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
438 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
439 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
3679d112 440 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
9cb74bcb 441 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
a56b63f4 442 - support taking a btrfs snapshot at startup and dropping it afterwards
af1082b0 443 - maybe: hookup nspawn and PrivateNetwork=yes with "ip netns"
af1082b0 444 - allow booting disk images with a GPT signature using the bootloaderspec partition uuids
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446* cryptsetup:
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447 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
448 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
449 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 450 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 451
424a19f8 452* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 453 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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455* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
456
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457* make timer units go away after they elapsed
458
8556879e 459* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 460 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
8556879e 461
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462* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
463
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464* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
465
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466* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
467
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468* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
469
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470* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
471
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472* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
473
68f16003 474* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 475
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476* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
477
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478* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
479 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
480 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
481 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 482 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 483 but much rather a disconnect on success.
0790b9fe 484
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485* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
486
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487* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
488
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489* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
490
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491* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
492
88a6c589 493* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
8351ceae 494
bcd02123 495* syscall filter: optionally don't enforce no new privs?
c66d36e5 496
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497* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
498 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
499
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500* introduce Type=pid-file
501
59cea26a 502* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 503
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504* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
505
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506* automount: implement expire:
507 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
508 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
509 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
510 - blocking, needs a thread
511 - run until -EAGAIN
512 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
513 - call umount
514 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
515 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
465349c0 516
e01a15b7 517* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 518
abd55b16 519* udev:
3f60bcb5 520 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
abd55b16 521 - move to LGPL
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522 - kill scsi_id
523 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
b8217b7b 524
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525* 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
526
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527* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
528
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529* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
530
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531* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
532
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533* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
534
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535* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
536
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537* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
538
539* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
540
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541* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
542
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543* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
544 needs to be auto-respawned?
545
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546* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
547
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548* tmpfiles:
549 - check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
550 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 551
b44be3ec 552* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
14e639ae 553
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555
d3c7d7dd 556* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
72b9ed82 557
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558* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
559 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
560
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561* move PAM code into its own binary
562
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563* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
564 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
565
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566* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
567
7c697168 568* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 569
71092d70 570* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
8d0e38a2 571
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572* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
573 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
574 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
575
f38afcd0 576* support User= and Group= attributes for AF_UNIX sockets. (difficult, requires NSS from PID 1?)
a012ab52 577
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578* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
579 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
580
71092d70 581* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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583* readahead:
584 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
585 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
586 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
587 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
588 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
b23de6af 589
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590* add support for /bin/mount -s
591
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592* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
593
68c7d001 594* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 595 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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596 - enabling dbus services
597 - status update
7a2a0b90 598 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 599 - remote access
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600 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
601 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 602 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 603 - auto-restart
e707c494 604 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 605 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 606 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 607 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 608 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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609 - calendar time events
610 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
611 - how to create your own target
612 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
613 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 614
44143309 615* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 616
71092d70 617* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 618
260abb78 619* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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622
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623* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
624
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625* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
626
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627* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
628
71092d70 629* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
246756ca 630
50f2a90d 631* io priority during initialization
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634
7ba97195 635* systemd-python:
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637 works with ^C
b04c8c83 638 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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640* bootchart:
641 - plot per-process IO utilization
642 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
643 - document initcall_debug
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644 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
645
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647 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
648 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
649 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 650
88e4d1d7 651* sd-rtnl:
32216660 652 - add support for exiting containers without reading them fully first
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654
0a4b9a07 655* networkd:
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656 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
657 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
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658 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
659
2f8cd170 660External:
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cc9784c6 662* dbus:
3377af3e 663 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 664 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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666* fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
667
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668* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
669
9096ad36 670* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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672* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
673 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
674 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
675 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
676 the RTC to sync up.
677
71092d70 678* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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681
682* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
683
684* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
685
686* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
687
688* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
689
d2bbca68 690* 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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692* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
693
694* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 695
4641a16b 696* 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 698Regularly:
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129126f3 700* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 701
129126f3 702* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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704* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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71092d70 708* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 709
4db17f29 710* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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9e5f3dbb 714Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 716* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)