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1Preparations for 218:
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3* cgroup delegation issues
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5* test-bus-kernel-bloom is borked
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7* systemctl status reports all services as runtime-enabled?
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afe3ab58 9Bugfixes:
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11* Should systemctl status \* work on all unit types, not just .service?
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13* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
14 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
15 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
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a40593a0 17* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
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afe3ab58 19* ExecStart with unicode characters fails in strv_split_quoted:
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21 [Service]
22 Environment=ONE='one' "TWO='two two' too" THREE=
23 ExecStart=/bin/python3 -c 'import sys;print(sys.argv)' $ONE $TWO $THREE
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3f85ef0f 25* MEMORY return code is overloaded for syntax errors in the command line.
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26 str_split_quoted() should return a real return code, so spawn_child can
27 report the failure properly.
afea8d38 28
f38afcd0 29External:
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f38afcd0 31* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
bafb15ba 32
f38afcd0 33* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
bafb15ba 34
81429136 35* Fedora: move kernel image to /usr/lib/modules/, kernel-install will take care of populating /boot
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37* Fedora: remove /etc/resolv.conf tmpfiles hack
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39* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
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41* When lz4 gets an API for lz4 command output, make use of it to
42 compress coredumps in a way compatible with /usr/bin/lz4.
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81429136 44Features:
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46* port libmount hookup to use API's own inotify interface, as soon as that is table in libmount
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48* bash completion for busctl, to make it truly useful
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50* journald: broken file systems are real (btrfs), we need to handle
51 SIGBUS in some way if we cannot write or read from the disk.
52 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151848
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54* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
55 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
56 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
57 do, for example)
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59* resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
60 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
61 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
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63* systemd-journal-upload (or a new, related tool): allow pushing out
64 journal messages onto the network in BSD syslog protocol,
65 continously. Default to some link-local IP mcast group, to make this
66 useful as a one-stop debugging tool.
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68* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
69 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
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71* as soon as we have kdbus, and sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
72 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
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74* set $REMOTE_IP (or $REMOTE_ADDR/$REMOTE_PORT) environment variable when doing per-connection socket activation. use format introduced by xinetd or CGI for this
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76* the install state probably shouldn't get confused by generated units, think dbus1/kdbus compat!
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78* in systemctl list-unit-files: show the install value the presets would suggest for a service in a third column
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80* we should try harder to collapse start jobs for swaps that end up being the same:
81 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-November/025359.html
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83* timedated should compensate on SetTime for the time spent in polkit
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85* figure out what to do with libmount and utab?
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87* We really should have a FOREACH macro to iterate through inotify events we read, similar to KDBUS_FOREACH_ITEM
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89* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
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91* sd-resolve: drop res_query wrapping, people should call via the bus to resolved instead
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93* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
94 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
95 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
96 returning from the "systemctl stop".
97
b568ef14 98* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
c2d5b3c9 99
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100* timesyncd + resolved: add ugly bus calls to set NTP and DNS servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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102* networkd-wait-online really should have a timeout by default
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104* add infrastructure to allocate dynamic/transient users and UID ranges, for use in user-namespaced containers, per-seat gdm login screens and gdm guest sessions
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106* machined: add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being removed or added to an existing machine
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108* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
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110* code cleanup: retire FOREACH_WORD_QUOTED, port to unquote_first_word() loops instead
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112* introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix?
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114* systemd --user should issue sd_notify() upon reaching basic.target, not on becoming idle
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116* configure.ac pretends dbus was optional but actually hardcodes use of dbus' pkg-config file to determine various dbus dirs such as policy and activation dirs
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118* consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions
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120* dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
121
122* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
123 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
124
25e773ee 125* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 126
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127* maybe provide an API to allow migration of foreign PIDs into existing scopes.
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129* maybe support a new very "soft" reboot mode, that simply kills all processes, disassembles everything, flushes /run and sysvipc, and then reexecs systemd again
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131* man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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133* man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
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135* "machinectl list" should probably show columns for OS version and IP addresses
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279f0366 137* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 138
7d4fb3b1 139* systemctl edit: add commented help text to the end, like git commit
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141* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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143* exponential backoff in timesyncd and resolved when we cannot reach a server
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145* tmpfiles: port to unquote_many_words(), similar to sysusers
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147* unquote_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that
148 currently uses FOREACH_WORD and friends. For example, most conf
149 parsing callbacks should use it.
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151* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
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153* systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
154 units are shown.
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b873d33e 156* networkd:
d61bb44a 157 - add LLDP client side support
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158 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
159 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
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160 - .network setting that allows overriding of the hostname to send to the dhcp server
161 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-July/021550.html
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162 - expose in the API the following bits:
163 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
164 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
165 - option 100, 101, timezone
166 - option 123, 144, geolocation
167 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
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168 - networkd's dhcp server should transparently pass on the DNS and
169 NTP server list it got from user configuration and its dhcp client
170 to clients. It should also pass on its own timezone information.
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171 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
172 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
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173 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
174 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
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9d6db739 176* resolved:
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177 - put networkd events and rtnl events at a higher priority, so that
178 we always process them before we process client requests
9d6db739 179 - DNSSEC
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180 - use base64 for key presentation?
181 - add display of private key types (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4034#appendix-A.1.1)?
151226ab 182 - add nice formatting of DNS timestamps
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183 - DNS
184 - search paths
9d6db739 185 - mDNS/DNS-SD
0f47ed0a 186 - avahi compat
9d6db739 187 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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188 - edns0
189 - dname
b6b63571 190 - cname on PTR (?)
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191 - maybe randomize DNS UDP source ports
192 - maybe compare query section of DNS replies
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194* Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
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196* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
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198* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
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a01647e5 200* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 201 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
a940778f 202 - fstab-generator: support systemd.volatile=yes|no|state on the kernel cmdline, too, similar to nspawn's --volatile=
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204* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
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206* timer units: actually add extra delays to timer units with high AccuracySec values, don't start them already when we are awake...
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208* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
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210* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
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212* mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied
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214* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
215 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 216
f598ac3e 217* Run most system services with cgroupfs read-only and procfs with a more secure mode (doesn't work, since the hidepid= option is per-pid-namespace, not per-mount)
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219* sd-event: generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
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221* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
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223* consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
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225* sd-event: define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
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6a3f892a 227* gpt-auto-generator:
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228 - Support LUKS for root devices
229 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 230 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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232* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
233 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
234 when it is otherwise off
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236* MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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238* "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
239 /proc/$PID/exe
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241* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
242 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
243 for ReusePort=
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245* socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
246 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
247 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
248 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
249 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
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251* New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
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253* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
254 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
255 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
256 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
257 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
258 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
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ef417cfd 260* completions:
ef417cfd 261 - manager property enumeration was broken when systemd moved to /usr/lib/
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f38afcd0 263* cgroups:
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264 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
265 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
266 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
267 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
268 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
269 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
270 the hierarchies of child processes
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272* transient units:
273 - allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
274 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
275 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
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277* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
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279* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
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f38afcd0 281* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
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283* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
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285* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
286
94676f3e 287* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
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289* 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
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7f79cd71 291* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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293* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
294 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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295 path anyway.
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297* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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6aaa8c2f 299* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 300
d28315e4 301* make sure gdm does not use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
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303* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
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305* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
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307* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
308 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
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6bb648a1 310* sd-bus:
4a02e686 311 - make dsrt happy, and change userspace header for kdbus to yyyyuta{tv}v
f9e00a9f 312 - kdbus: remove NameOwnerChanged kernel messages for monitors
e7100587 313 - kdbus: PID/TID goes missing for method calls from outside the PID namespace?
bca3e263 314 - kdbus: the kernel should not allow messages to be delivered that have a reply serial != 0, reply-expect unset, but no appropriate window
e8bbb7c7 315 - kdbus: timestamps on kernel's NameOwnerChanged messages?
e8bbb7c7 316 - kdbus' busnames.target should get pulled in by basic.target
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317 - Ignore .busname units on classic D-Bus boots, systemd-resolved cannot be started on kdbus
318 without the active policy and should get a Wants=org.freedesktop.resolve1.busname to
319 pull-in the policy.
320 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
9398f650 321 - kdbus: maybe add controlling tty and ppid metadata fields
57f2a947 322 - see if we can introduce a new sd_bus_get_owner_machine_id() call to retrieve the machine ID of the machine of the bus itself
d28315e4 323 - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
7973ca19 324 - introduce sd_bus_emit_object_added()/sd_bus_emit_object_removed() that automatically includes the build-in interfaces in the list
f38afcd0 325 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 326 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
dc17bcef 327 - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async?
80caea6c 328 - 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 329 - longer term: priority inheritance
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330 - dbus spec updates:
331 - kdbus mapping
332 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
333 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 334 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 335 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
69727e6d 336 - test bloom filter generation indexes
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337 - bus-proxy: when passing messages from kdbus, make sure we properly
338 handle the case where a large number of fds is appended that we
339 cannot pass into sendmsg() of the AF_UNIX sokcet (which only accepts
340 253 messages)
b568ef14 341 - kdbus: introduce a concept of "send-only" connections
0ad68f87 342 - kdbus: add counter for refused unicast messages that is passed out via the RECV ioctl. SImilar to the counter for dropped multicast messages we already have.
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344* sd-event
12179984 345 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 346 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
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348* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
349 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
350 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
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69af4503 352* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
e8a7a315 353
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354* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
355 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
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357* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
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359* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
360
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361* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
362
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363* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
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366 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
367 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
b8b4d3dd 368
b5c03638 369* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 370 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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371 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
372 destination.
373
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374* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
375 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
376
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377* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
378
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379* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
380 need manual exponential loops after all
381
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382* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
383 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
384 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
385 is installed.
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387* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
388 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
389 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
390 that automatically.
391
e5ec62c5 392* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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394* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
395
d28315e4 396* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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398* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
399
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400* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
401
402* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
403
356ce991 404* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 405
81d112a8 406* introduce ExecCondition= in services
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b44be3ec 408* EFI:
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409 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
410 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 411 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 412
c0fe5db5 413* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 414
b44be3ec 415* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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417* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
418 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 420* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 421
b44be3ec 422* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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424* logind:
425 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
426 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
427 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
428 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
429 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
e5ec62c5 430 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
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431 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
432 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
433 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
434 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
435 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
436 needs setuid().
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437 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
438 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
439 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
440 complete.
441 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
442 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
443 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
444 - logind: allow users to kill or lock their own sessions
445 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
446 - given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
447 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
448 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
b568ef14 449 - expose orientation sensors and tablet mode through logind
e673ad04 450
b44be3ec 451* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 452
b44be3ec 453* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
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b44be3ec 455* journal:
57f2a947 456 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
c06bf414 457 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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458 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
459 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
460 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 461 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
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462 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
463 - journal: reuse XZ context
464 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
465 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
466 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
467 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
468 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
469 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
470 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 471 - 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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472 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
473 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
b44be3ec 474 - 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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475 - 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.
476 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
477 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
f47ec8eb 478 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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479 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
480 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
481 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
482 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 483 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 484 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 485 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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486 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
487 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
488 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
489 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
490 to syslog when it works again.
491 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
492 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
493 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
d28315e4 494 so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
f38afcd0 495 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
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496 - optionally support running journald from the command line for testing purposes in external projects
497 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
498 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
499 journals in.
500 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
501 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
502 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
503 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
504 the most common operations.
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506* document:
8b8f2591 507 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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508 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
509 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 510 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 511 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 512 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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513 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
514 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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515 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
516 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
517 - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
518 - man: add more examples to man pages
519 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
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521* systemctl:
522 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
523 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
524 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
525 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
526 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
527 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
528 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
529 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 530 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
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531 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
532 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
533 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
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534 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
535 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
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537* unit install:
538 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
539 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
f38afcd0 540 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
8b04b925 541
b44be3ec 542* timer units:
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543 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
544 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
545 o DST changes
eb124a97 546 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
f38afcd0 547 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
d28315e4 548 - when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we will not support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200
90e071d1 549 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 550
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551* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
552
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553* 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().
554
555* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
d28315e4 556* fedup: do not delete initrd on switch-root
1cb88f2c 557* fedup: generator
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559* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
560
b44be3ec 561* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 562
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563* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
564 waiting for the timeout
dcfc4b2e 565
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567
d28315e4 568* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 569
b44be3ec 570* nspawn:
b44be3ec 571 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
9cb74bcb 572 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
a56b63f4 573 - support taking a btrfs snapshot at startup and dropping it afterwards
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574 - introduce machines.target to order after all nspawn instances
575 - systemd-nspawn@.service should fail if some nspawn arg is invalid, with Type=notify
576 - PID 1 doesn't apply nspawns devices cgroup policy
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578* cryptsetup:
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579 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
580 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
581 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 582 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 583
424a19f8 584* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 585 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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587* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
588
a1cccad1 589* make timer units go away after they elapsed
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591* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
592
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593* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
594
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595* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
596
68f16003 597* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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599* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
600 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
d28315e4 601 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
68f16003 602 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
d28315e4 603 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
68f16003 604 but much rather a disconnect on success.
0790b9fe 605
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606* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
607
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608* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
609
88a6c589 610* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
8351ceae 611
9946996c 612* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
d28315e4 613 verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
9946996c 614
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615* introduce Type=pid-file
616
59cea26a 617* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 618
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619* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
620
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621* automount: implement expire:
622 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
623 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
624 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
625 - blocking, needs a thread
626 - run until -EAGAIN
627 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
628 - call umount
629 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
630 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
465349c0 631
e01a15b7 632* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 633
abd55b16 634* udev:
abd55b16 635 - move to LGPL
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637 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 638 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 639
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640* 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
641
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642* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
643
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644* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
645
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646* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
647
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648* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
649
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650* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
651
652* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
653
70a44afe 654* default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
65c0cf71 655
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656* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
657 needs to be auto-respawned?
658
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659* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
660
f38afcd0 661* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 662 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 663
d28315e4 664* for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested
14e639ae 665
7f8aa671 666* hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
ff01d048 667
d3c7d7dd 668* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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670* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
671 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
672
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673* move PAM code into its own binary
674
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675* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
676 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
677
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678* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
679
55cdcbac 680* add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
8d0e38a2 681
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682* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
683 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
684 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
685
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686* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
687 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
688
71092d70 689* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 690
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691* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
692
68c7d001 693* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 694 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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695 - enabling dbus services
696 - status update
7a2a0b90 697 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 698 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 699 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 700 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 701 - auto-restart
e707c494 702 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 703 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 704 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 705 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 706 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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707 - calendar time events
708 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
709 - how to create your own target
710 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
711 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 712
44143309 713* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 714
260abb78 715* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
2791a8f8 716
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717* Support --test based on current system state
718
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719* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
720
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721* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
722
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723* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
724
71092d70 725* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
246756ca 726
7ba97195 727* systemd-python:
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729 works with ^C
b04c8c83 730 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
7ba97195 731
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733 - plot per-process IO utilization
734 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
735 - document initcall_debug
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736 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
737
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739 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
740 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
741 on Path= matching
8faf88e5 742 - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
af6f0d42 743
88e4d1d7 744* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 745 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 746 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 747
0a4b9a07 748* networkd:
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749 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
750 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 751 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 752 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
5c1d3fc9 753 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
798e174a 754 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
8477107d 755 - add more attribute support for SIT tunnel
1a941ac4 756 - work with non-ethernet devices
c9fa3670 757 - add support for more bond options
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759* networkd-wait-online:
760 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
8f5675cc 761
ac976532 762* dhcp:
424a8732 763 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 764 - export timezone information
99f9dd8d 765 - support RFC4702 (pass FQDN)
ac976532 766
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767* dhcp6:
768 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
769 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
770 - write more test cases
771 - implement and do duplicate address detection, see rfc 4862, 5.4.
772 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
773 - implement information request, see 1.2. and 18.1.5.
774 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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775 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
776 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
777 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
778 or interface down
779 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
780 this behavior
781
2f8cd170 782External:
74fe1fe3 783
cc9784c6 784* dbus:
3377af3e 785 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 786 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 787
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789
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791
9096ad36 792* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
06ae4bfe 793
71092d70 794* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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797
d28315e4 798* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and should not
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800* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
801
802* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
803
804* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
805
d2bbca68 806* 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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808* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
809
810* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 811
4641a16b 812* 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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817 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 818 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
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2c12a402 820
129126f3 821Regularly:
874aa2cc 822
129126f3 823* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 824
129126f3 825* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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827* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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830
d28315e4 831* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 832
4db17f29 833* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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836
9e5f3dbb 837Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 839* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)