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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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f38afcd0 7External:
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f38afcd0 9* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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11Janitorial Clean-ups:
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13* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
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15* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
16 semantics, like we do for device.c now
17
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18Features:
19
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20* add --copy-from and --copy-to command to systemd-dissect which copies stuff
21 in and out of a disk image
22
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23* Support ProtectProc= or so, using: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11310197/
24
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25* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
26
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27* add loud warning to the logs (with catalog entry) if systemd-udev-settle is
28 pulled into the boot process
29
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30* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
31 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
32
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33* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
34 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
35 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
36 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
37 anything like that.
38
5c0102f8 39* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
cb713f16 40 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
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41 user's journal stream down but not the others.
42
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43* add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
44 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
45 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
46
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47* move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
48 these days
49
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50* nspawn: support time namespaces
51
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52* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
53 reading/writing files
54
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55* add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
56
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57* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
58 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
59
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60* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
61
62* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
63
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64* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
65 when it exits
66
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67* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
68 o turn into dlopen() deps:
69 - pcre2 (always) — irrelevant on Fedora, since dep by
70 libselinux, but should benefit Debian
71 - libpwquality (always) - only relevant for homed, and maybe soon
72 firstboot
73 - elfutils (always)
74 - p11-kit-trust (always)
75 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
76 - cryptsetup-libs (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not in systemd-cryptsetup)
77 - similar: libblkid
78 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
79 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
80 since they are so basic and our defaults)
81 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
82 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
83
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84* seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
85 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
86 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
87
88* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
89 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
90 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
91
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92* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
93 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
94
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95* make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
96 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
97 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
98
a6e1018d 99* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
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100 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, tmpfiles, sysusers,
101 systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn,
102 systemd-firstboot)
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104* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
105
106* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
107 specific service
108
109* seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
110
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111* per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
112 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
113 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
114 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
115 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
116 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
117 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
118 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
119
120* homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
121 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
122
123* homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
124 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
125
126* homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
127 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
128 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
129
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130* homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
131 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
132 signature
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134* homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
135 and insert a local signature instead.
136
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137* homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
138 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
139 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
15dd4515 140 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
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141 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
142
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143* homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
144
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145* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
146 exists and responds.
147
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148* homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
149 easily?
150
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151* when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
152 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
153 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
154 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
155 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
156
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157* cryptsetup: support FIDO2 tokens for deriving keys (i.e. do what homed can do
158 also in plain cryptsetup)
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160* systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
161 creates
162
86b52a39 163* homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
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164 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
165 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
166 hence we can make them quicker to work.
167
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168* bootctl:
169 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
170 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
171 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
172
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173* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
174 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
175 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
176
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177* by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
178 allow so that systemd survives
179
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180* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
181 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
182
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183* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
184 systemd-makefs.service instead.
185
91fc013f 186* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 187 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
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189* unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
190 confusion is gone)
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191 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
192 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
193 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
194 - port importd over from libgcrypt
195 - when that's done: kill khash.c
196 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
197
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198* kill zenata, all hail weblate?
199
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200* when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
201
202* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
203 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
204
205* hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
206 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
207 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
208 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
209 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
210
492f91d8 211* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
86b52a39 212 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
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213 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
214 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
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216* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
217 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
218 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
219 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
220 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
221 automatically.
222
223* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
224 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
225
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226* systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
227 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
228
229* systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
230
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231* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
232 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
233 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
234 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
235 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
236 fails to apply use the latter.
237
238* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
239 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
240
241* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
242 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
243
244* systemd-repart: add --size=auto for generating/resizing images of minimal
245 size, i.e. where the image file is sized exactly as large as necessary taking
246 SizeMin= into account, but not a single byte larger.
247
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248* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
249 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
250
2a4be3c5 251* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
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252 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
253
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254* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
255 realname substr searches in varlink API
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257* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
258
2a4be3c5 259* userdb: allow existence checks
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f1eb0ccd 261* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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263* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
264 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
265 initrd had set.
266
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267* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
268 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
269 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
270 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
271 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
272 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
273
274* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
275 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
276 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
277
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278* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
279 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
280 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
281 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
282 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
283 source.
284
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285* figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
286 with immutable /usr
287
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288* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
289 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
290 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
291
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292* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
293
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294* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
295 the hibernation
296
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297* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
298 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
299 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
300 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
301 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
302 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
303 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
304 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
305 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
306 hibernation mode. (see
307 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
308 section 10.2.2.8 and
309 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
310 at the end).
311
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312* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
313 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
314 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
315 output for them.
316
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317* systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
318 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
319
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320* We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
321 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
322 constant vendor data.
323
c6526b8d 324* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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326* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
327 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
328
329* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
330 fallback in "machinectl shell"
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332* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
333 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
334 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
335
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336* homed:
337 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
338 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
339 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
340 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
341 - resize on login?
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342 - shrink fs on logout?
343 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
344 - create on activate?
345 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
346 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
347 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
348 systemd --user is shut down.
349 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
350 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk images (think: time machine)
86b52a39 351 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
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352 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
353 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
354 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
355 - description field for groups
356 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
357 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
358 - query password from kernel keyring first
359 - update even if record is "absent"
360 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
361 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
362 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
363 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
364 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
365 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
366
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367* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
368 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
369 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
370 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
371 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
372 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
373 exec().
374
375* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
376
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377* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
378 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
379
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380* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
381
382* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
383 gnome-bluetooth and friends
384
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385* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
386 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
387 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
388 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
389 cgroup.
390
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391* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
392 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
393 root.
394
395* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
396 is issued.
397
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398* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
399
400* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
401
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402* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
403 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
404 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
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d238709c 406* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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407 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
408 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
409
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410* add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
411 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
412 ConfigurationDirectory=.
413
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414* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
415
d3584ec4 416* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
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418* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
419 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
420
06898123 421* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 422 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 423 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
06898123 424
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425* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
426
427* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
428 patching around
429
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430* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
431 log.c and sd-journal-send
432
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433* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
434
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435* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
436
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437* sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
438 can add in file system drivers and such
439
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440* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
441 non-zero "tries done" count
442
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443* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
444 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
445 it should skip the variant type string though.
446
447* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
448 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
449 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
450 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
451 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
452 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
453 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
454 CODE_FILE.
455
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456* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
457 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
458 some explanatory text online.
459
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460* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
461
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462* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
463 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
464 the slices, and the units attached to them.
465
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466* the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
467 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
bc130b68 468 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
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469 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
470 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
471 way)
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473* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
474 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
475 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
476
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477* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
478 original defaults before calling parse_config()
479
72d711ef 480* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
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482* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
483 Specifically:
484
485 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
486 properly)
e83419d0 487 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 488 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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490* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
491 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
492
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493* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
494 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
495 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
496 files and suchlike we operate on.
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498* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
499
500* add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
501
502* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
503 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
504
5da19043 505* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
5238e957 506 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
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507 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
508 numbers.
509
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510* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
511 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
512 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
513 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
514 unlinked from any dir.
515
bd1b3f75 516* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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518* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
519
520* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
521
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522* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
523 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
524 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
525 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
526 should reflink the image file itself.
527
528 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
529 specific paths only like this.
530
53c70a27 531* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 532 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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533 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
534 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
535 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
536
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537* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
538
539* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
540
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541* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
542 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
543
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544* teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
545 project quota
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547* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
548 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
549 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
550 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
551 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
552 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
553 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
554 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
555
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556* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
557 for root, but only then.
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559* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
560
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561* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
562 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
563
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564* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
565 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
566
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567* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
568 host-side interface pointing to the container.
569
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570* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
571 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
572 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
573 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
574 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
575
cb77e122 576* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 577
899feb72 578* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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580* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
581 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
582 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
583
5f7ecd61 584* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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586* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
587 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
588
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589* blog about fd store and restartable services
590
591* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
592
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593* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
594 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
595
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596* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
597 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
598 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
599 ID is available.
600
601* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
602 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
603 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
604
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605* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
606 parameters
607
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608* maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
609 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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610 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
611 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
612 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
613 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
614 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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616* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
617 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
618
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620 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
621 wait to retrieve their exit data.
622
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624 about it in the resource log message
625
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626* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
627 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
628
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629* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
630 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
631 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
632
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634 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
635
636 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
637
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638* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
639 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
640 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
641 logging.
642
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644 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
645 "convertible" form factor
646
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647* Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
648 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
649 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
650 as MAINPID.
651
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652* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
653 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
654 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
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656* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
657 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
658
659* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
660 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
661 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
662 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
663 natural habitat.
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666 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
667 /usr is mounted into.
668
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669* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
670
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671* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
672
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673* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
674 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
675 relative to the configured default value.
676
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677* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
678
679* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
680
04397464 681* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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683* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
684
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685* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
686
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687* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
688
04397464 689* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 690
04397464 691* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 692
04397464 693* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 694
8ce9b83a 695* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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697* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
698 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
699 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
700
e40a326c 701* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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703* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
704
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705* mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
706 partitions
707
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708* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
709 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
710 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
711 mapping to work.
712
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713* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
714
715* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
716
717* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
718
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719* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
720 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
721
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722* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
723 reload the unit file anyway
724
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725* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
726 from the SIGBUS handler
727
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728* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
729
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730* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
731 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
732
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735* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
736 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
737
f9bf1b8f 738* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 739 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 740 specifications.
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743
5ebbb45b 744* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
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746* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
747
a2088fd0 748* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 749 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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750 prefixed with /sys generally special.
751 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
752
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753* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
754
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755* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
756
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757* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
758 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
759 state.
760 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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762* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
763 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
764 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
765 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
766 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
767
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769 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
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771* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
772
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773* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
774 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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776* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
777 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
778 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
779 do, for example)
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781* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
782 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
783
e031c227 784* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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785 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
786
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787* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
788
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789* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
790 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
791 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
792 returning from the "systemctl stop".
793
b568ef14 794* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
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796* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
797
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798* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
799 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
800
25e773ee 801* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 802
279f0366 803* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 804
5238e957 805* systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
b42de08a 806 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
202aea45 807
720652b3 808* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 809
720652b3 810* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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812* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
813
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814* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
815 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
816
9d6db739 817* resolved:
9d6db739 818 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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820 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 821 - avahi compat
9d6db739 822 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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823 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
824 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
825 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 826 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 827 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 828
e25b5a8d 829* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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833* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
834
a01647e5 835* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 836 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
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838* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
839
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840* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
841
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842* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
843
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844* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
845 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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847* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
848
6a3f892a 849* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 850 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 851 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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853* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
854 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
855 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 856
f9bf1b8f 857* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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859* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
860 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
861 for ReusePort=
862
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863* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
864 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
865 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
866 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
867 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
868 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
869
f38afcd0 870* cgroups:
f38afcd0 871 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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872 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
873 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
874 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
875 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
876 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 877
f38afcd0 878* transient units:
f38afcd0 879 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
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881* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
882
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883* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
884
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885* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
886
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887* 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
888
7f79cd71 889* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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891* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
892 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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894
04397464 895* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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897* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
898
899* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
900
6bb648a1 901* sd-bus:
0d43ffef 902 - EBADSLT handling
fa607802 903 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
7212c608 904 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
57f2a947 905 - see if we can introduce a new sd_bus_get_owner_machine_id() call to retrieve the machine ID of the machine of the bus itself
f38afcd0 906 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 907 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
ab9716c2 908 - longer term: priority inheritance
df98a87b 909 - dbus spec updates:
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911 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 912 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 913 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
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915* sd-event
12179984 916 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 917 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
e25b5a8d 918 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
eb01ba5d 919
69af4503 920* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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923 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
924
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925* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
926
927* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
928
fff87a35 929* test/:
20d52ab6 930 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 931
b5c03638 932* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 933 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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935 destination.
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937* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
938 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
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940* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
941
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942* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
943 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
944 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
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946* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
947 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
948 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
949 is installed.
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951* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
952 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
953 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
954 that automatically.
955
e5ec62c5 956* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 957
ccddd104 958* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 959
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960* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
961
356ce991 962* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 963
b44be3ec 964* EFI:
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965 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
966 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 967 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 968* bootctl
631427d6 969 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 970
c0fe5db5 971* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 972
b44be3ec 973* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 974
b44be3ec 975* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
e6c6e7af 976
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978 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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979 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
980 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
981 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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982 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
983 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
984 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
985 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
986 needs setuid().
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987 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
988 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
989 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
990 complete.
991 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
992 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
993 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
279f0366 994 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
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995 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
996 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
997 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
998 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
999 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1000 relogins
77b19caf 1001 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 1002
b44be3ec 1003* journal:
57f2a947 1004 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1005 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1006 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1007 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 1008 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1009 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1010 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1011 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1012 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1013 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1014 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1015 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1016 - 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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1017 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1018 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
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1019 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
1020 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1021 - 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.
1022 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1023 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1024 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1025 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1026 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1027 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1028 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1029 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1030 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1031 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1032 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1033 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1034 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1035 to syslog when it works again.
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1036 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1037 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1038 journals in.
1039 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1040 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1041 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1042 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1043 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1044 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1045 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1046 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1047 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1048 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1049 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1050 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1051 operation.
1052 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1053 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1054 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1055 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1056 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1057 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1058 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1059 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1060 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
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1063 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1064 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1065 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1066
b44be3ec 1067* document:
8b8f2591 1068 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1069 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1070 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1071 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1072 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1073 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1074 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1075 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1076 - man: add more examples to man pages
1077 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1078 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1079
1080* systemctl:
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1081 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1082 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1083 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1084 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1085 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1086 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1087 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1088 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1089 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1090 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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1091
1092* unit install:
1093 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1094 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
8b04b925 1095
b44be3ec 1096* timer units:
b44be3ec 1097 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
b44be3ec 1098 o DST changes
90e071d1 1099 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 1100
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1101* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1102
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1103* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1104
b44be3ec 1105* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 1106
f59d1da8 1107* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
dcfc4b2e 1108
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1109* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1110
d28315e4 1111* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 1112
b44be3ec 1113* nspawn:
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1114 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1115 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1116 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1117 from the kernel's logs.
1118 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1119 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1120 interface be missing
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1121 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1122 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1123 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1124 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1125 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1126 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1127 PID 1...
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1128 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1129 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1130
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1131* dissect
1132 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1133 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1134
e25b5a8d 1135* machined:
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1136 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1137 removed or added to an existing machine
1138 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1139 difference host, via ssh
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1140 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1141 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1142 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1143 question
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1144 - "machinectl history"
1145 - "machinectl diff"
1146 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1147 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1148
b44be3ec 1149* cryptsetup:
b44be3ec 1150 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
5f1dac6b 1151 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 1152
424a19f8 1153* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 1154 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
424a19f8 1155
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1156* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1157
68f16003 1158* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 1159
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1160* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1161
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1162* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1163
abd55b16 1164* udev:
abd55b16 1165 - move to LGPL
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1166 - kill scsi_id
1167 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1168 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1169
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1170* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1171
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1172* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1173
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1174* coredump:
1175 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1176 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
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1177
1178* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1179
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1180* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1181 needs to be auto-respawned?
1182
f38afcd0 1183* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1184 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1185 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1186 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1187 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1188 calls follow symlinks.
1258097c 1189
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1190* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1191
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1192* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1193 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1194 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1195
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1196* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1197 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1198
71092d70 1199* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 1200
68c7d001 1201* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 1202 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
68c7d001 1203 - enabling dbus services
7a2a0b90 1204 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 1205 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 1206 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 1207 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 1208 - auto-restart
e707c494 1209 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 1210 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 1211 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 1212 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 1213 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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1214 - calendar time events
1215 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1216 - how to create your own target
1217 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1218 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 1219
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1220* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1221
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1222* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1223
e25b5a8d 1224* pid1:
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1225 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1226 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1227 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1228 that are not supported...
1229 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1230 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1231 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1232 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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1233 - move PAM code into its own binary
1234 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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1235 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1236 - Support --test based on current system state
1237 - 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().
1238 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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1239 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1240 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1241 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1242 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1243 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1244 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1245 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1246 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1247
1248* unit files:
1249 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1250 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1251 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1252 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1253 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1254 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1255 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1256 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
e25b5a8d 1257 - introduce Type=pid-file
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1258 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1259 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
e25b5a8d 1260 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
e5171296 1261 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
e25b5a8d 1262
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1263* udev-link-config:
1264 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1265 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1266 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1267
88e4d1d7 1268* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1269 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1270 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1271
0a4b9a07 1272* networkd:
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1273 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1274 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 1275 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 1276 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1277 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 1278 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1279 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1280 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1281 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 1282 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 1283 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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1284 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1285 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1286 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1287 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1288 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1289 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1290 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
e25b5a8d 1291 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1292
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1293* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1294
ac976532 1295* dhcp:
424a8732 1296 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1297
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1298* dhcp6:
1299 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1300 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1301 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1302 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1303 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1304 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1305 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1306 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1307 or interface down
1308 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1309 this behavior
4a77c53d 1310 - RouteTable= ?
37d8b536 1311
2f8cd170 1312External:
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cc9784c6 1314* dbus:
3377af3e 1315 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 1316 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 1317
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1318* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1319
71092d70 1320* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
14bd37fe 1321
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1322* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1323
d2bbca68 1324* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
8973790e 1325
8973790e 1326* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 1327
4641a16b 1328* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
19aa7c4f 1329
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1330* register catalog database signature as file magic
1331
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1332* zsh shell completion:
1333 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 1334 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1cf3c30c 1335
90137b62 1336* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
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1337* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1338 after being started.
2c12a402 1339
129126f3 1340Regularly:
874aa2cc 1341
129126f3 1342* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 1343
129126f3 1344* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
5b6319dc 1345
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1346* pahole
1347
d28315e4 1348* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 1349
4db17f29 1350* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
88fae6e0 1351
d05c556b 1352* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
62353f69 1353String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment