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1Bugfixes:
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3* enabling an instance unit creates pointless link, and
4 the unit will be started with getty@getty.service:
5 $ systemctl enable getty@.service
6 ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service' '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@.service'
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8* check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
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10* swap units that are activated by one name but shown in the kernel under another are semi-broken
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12* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
13 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
14 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
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16* make polkit checks async
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a40593a0 18* 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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20* ellipsize_mem must take into account multi-byte unicode characters, and
21 - make the resulting line the requested number of *characters*, not *bytes*,
22 - avoid truncuating multi-byte sequences in the middle.
23
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24* When we detect invalid UTF-8, we cant't use it in an error message:
25 log...("Path is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment: %s", rvalue);
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27* shorten the message to sane length:
28
29 Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status display-manager.service' for details.
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466784c8 31Fedora 20:
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dc7adf20 33* external: ps should gain colums for slice and machine
7b4da18c 34
81d112a8 35* localed:
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36 - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps
37
55d32caf 38* when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
466784c8 39 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
55d32caf 40
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41CGroup Rework Completion:
42
94bbc991 43* introduce "mainpid" for scopes (or maybe not?)
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45* implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?)
46
47* implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
48
49* handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
50
049b4474 51* introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
bafb15ba 52
278d4bcf 53* wiki: guidelines how to make use of new cgroup apis
bafb15ba 54
eb124a97 55Features:
154ff088 56
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57* we probably should replace the left-over uses of strv_append() and replace them by strv_push() or strv_extend()
58
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59* move config_parse_path_strv() out of conf-parser.c
60
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61* libdsystemd-bus should expose utf8 validation calls
62
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63* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition
64
d2e2c03d 65* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink generate a clean
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66 error. Currently we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
67 path anyway.
68
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69* When a Type=forking service fails and needed another service that
70 service is not cleaned up again when it has StopWhenUnneeded=yes
71 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-July/012141.html
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73* backlight: properly handle multiple backlight devices for the same
74 hardware: at shutdown we should only save the backlight setting for
75 the "best" way to access the backlight. Strategy should be: at
76 shutdown, ignore all backlights that are connected to a non-eDP or
77 non-LVDS port, and then prefer the firmware device over platform
78 device over raw device per-PCI card. Delete all old data. At boot
79 simply apply whatever data we find. Also see
80 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libbacklight/tree/libbacklight.c#n194
81
82* rfkill: save/restore soft rfkill status across reboots
83
84* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
85
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86* ensure scope units may be started only a single time
87
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88* document that in instead of FsckPassNo= people should just add a manual dep to systemd-fsck@.service to their mount units.
89
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90* better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
91
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92* systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
93
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94* for transient units, instead of writing out drop-ins for all properties consider serializing them in the normal serialization stream
95
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96* logind: when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects
97
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98* session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
99
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100* add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
101
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102* journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
103
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104* given that logind/machined now let PID 1 do all nasty work we can
105 probably reduce the capability set they retain substantially.
106
6aaa8c2f 107* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
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109* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
110
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111* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
112
e1b7e7ec 113* make sure gdm doesn't use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
18d4e7c2 114
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115* when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we won't support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200
116
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117* when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop we should ratelimit that too.
118
c5757cc8 119* "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, should
69af4503 120 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
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121 unit however should remove them all).
122
123* journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
124
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125* systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
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127* journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
128 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
129 to syslog when it works again.
130
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131* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
132
133* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
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135* add a fixed dbus path for "my own unit", "my own session", ... to PID1, logind, ...
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137* service_coldplug() appears to reinstall the wrong stop timeout watch?
138
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139* transient units: allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
140
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141* how to reset dynamically changed attributes sanely?
142
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143* when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
144
4ad49000 145* journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
3d3ee759 146
9444b1f2 147* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 148 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 149 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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150 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
151 check for that and suppress event handling.
9444b1f2 152
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153* when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
154 the hierarchies of child processes
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156* document logic of auto/noauto and fail/nofail in fstab in systemd.mount or systemd-fstab-generator man page
157
9444b1f2 158* we should properly escape ssh hostnames we add into dbus server strings
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160* something pulls in pcre as so dep into our daemons such as hostnamed.
161
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162* document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
163
a65f06bb 164* change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
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165 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
166 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
167 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
168
169* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
170 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
171
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172* libsystemd-bus:
173 - default policy (allow uid == 0 and our own uid)
174 - enforce alignment of pointers passed in
eb01ba5d 175 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
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176 - implement translator service
177 - port systemd to new library
178 - implement busname unit type in systemd
179 - move to gvariant
eb01ba5d 180 - merge busctl into systemctl or so?
e4ee6e5c 181 - synthesize sd_bus_message objects from kernel messages
c7819669 182 - properly implement name registry ioctls for kdbus
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183 - get rid of object hash table, use decision tree everyhwere instead?
184 - implement monitor logic
185 - object vtable logic
186 - longer term:
187 * priority queues
86312ab8 188 * priority inheritance
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190* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
191 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
192 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
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194* add an option to nspawn that uses seccomp to make socket(AF_NETLINK,
195 SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_AUDIT) fail the the appropriate error code that
196 makes the audit userspace to think auditing is not available in the
197 kernel.
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199* Introduce a way how we can kill the main process of a service with KillSignal, but all processes with SIGKILL later on
200 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952634
201
69af4503 202* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses where the access mode of unit files is nonsensical.
19aa7c4f 203
69af4503 204* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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206* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
207 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
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209* if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
210 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
211 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
212 needs setuid().
213
214* 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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216* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
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218* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
219
220* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
221
4a449ed7 222* logind: add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
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224* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
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226* test/:
227 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
228 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
229 - remove all the duplicated code in test/
b8b4d3dd 230
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231* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
232
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233* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
234 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
235 file.
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237* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
238 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
239 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
240 destination.
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242* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
243 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
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245* add ConditionArchitecture= or so
246
247* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
248
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249* Support SO_REUSEPORT with socket activation:
250 - Let systemd maintain a pool of servers.
251 - Use for seamless upgrades, by running the new server before stopping the
252 old.
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254* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
255 need manual exponential loops after all
256
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257* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
258 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
259 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
260 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
261
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262* man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf
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264* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
265 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
266 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
267 that automatically.
268
69af4503 269* rework specifier logic so that we can distinguish OOM errors from other errors
487060c2 270
e5ec62c5 271* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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273* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
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54c31a79 275* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 276
8973790e 277* documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
3679d112 278
69af4503 279* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapse and the time the units ran last
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281* man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
282
283* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
284
69af4503 285* man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
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287* systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
288
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289* man: add more examples to man pages
290
291* man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
292
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293* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
294
295* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
296
297* msgcatalog determine default language of entries from the catalog
298 file name. i.e. foobar.de_DE.catalog would set the default entry
299 name for the entries to de_DE if they aren't explicitly suffixed
300 individually.
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302* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
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304* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
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306* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
307 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
308 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
309 will be activated.
310
356ce991 311* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 312
81d112a8 313* introduce ExecCondition= in services
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315* EFI:
316 - fsck hookup for the ESP mount is missing
317 - write man page for efi boot generator
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318 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
319 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 320 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 321
c0fe5db5 322* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 323
b44be3ec 324* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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326* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
327 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 329* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 330
b44be3ec 331* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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333* logind:
334 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
335 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
336 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
337 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
338 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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339 - logind: non-local X11 server handling
340 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
b44be3ec 341 - pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree
eb124a97 342 - logind: GetSessionByPID() should accept 0 as PID value
e5ec62c5 343 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
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b44be3ec 345* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 346
b44be3ec 347* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
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b44be3ec 349* journal:
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350 - do not use magic msync() in src/journal/journal-file.c, just call fsync()
351 <alxchk> poettering: looks like msync just calls vfs_fsync
352 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/mm/msync.c#n18
c06bf414 353 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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354 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
355 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
356 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
357 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
358 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
359 - journal: reuse XZ context
360 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
361 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
362 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
363 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
364 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
365 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
366 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 367 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
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368 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
369 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
370 - journal: when rotating, copy over old acls/access mode
b44be3ec 371 - journal: send out marker messages every now and then, and immediately sync with fdatasync() afterwards, in order to have hourly guaranteed syncs.
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372 - journal-send.c, log.c: when the log socket is clogged, and we drop, count this and write a message about this when it gets unclogged again.
373 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
374 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 375 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 376 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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377 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
378 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
379 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
380 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
77a9e8de 381 - journalctl: expand tabs
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382 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
383 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
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384 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
385 - Port upower to use the journal for historical power information used in future calculations
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387* document:
388 - document unit_name_mangle()
389 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in
390 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
391 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
392 - Document word splitting syntax for ExecStart= and friends
393 - document that units from /etc override those from /usr and /run
394 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 395 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 396 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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398* systemctl:
399 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
400 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
401 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
402 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
403 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
404 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
405 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
406 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
407 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
408 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
409 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
410 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
411 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
8b04b925 412
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413* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
414
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415* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
416
417* timer units:
418 - configurable jitter for timer events
419 - timer events with system resume
420 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
421 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
422 o DST changes
eb124a97 423 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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425* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
426
427* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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428 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
429 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 430 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 431 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 432 user did not request anything like it.
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434* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
435 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
436 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
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438* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
439 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
440 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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441 we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in
442 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
443 better supported alternative.
e707c494 444
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445* figure out relation of --all and --full in the various tools
446
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447* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
448
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449* If we show an error about a unit (such as not showing up) and it has no Description string, then show a description string generated form the reverse of unit_name_mangle().
450
451* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
452* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
453* fedup: generator
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b44be3ec 455* timedated:
b44be3ec 456 - timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
6d0274f1 457
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458* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
459
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460* introduce generic AUGMENT_PID=, AUGMENT_DEVICE= fields
461
b44be3ec 462* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
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464* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
465 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
466 - superset of tmpfiles model
467 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
468 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
469 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
470
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471* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
472 waiting for the timeout
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474* high level net_prio setting in execution context
475
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476* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
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478* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
479
15abdb9a 480* refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful (or set taint?)
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483 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly
484 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
485 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
486 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
487 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
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488 - nspawn: investigate whether we can support the same as LXC's
489 lxc.network.type=phys mode, and pass through entire network
490 interfaces to the container
491 - nspawn: maybe add a way to drop additional caps, in addition to add additional caps
492 - nspawn: maybe explicitly reset loginuid?
3679d112 493 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
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495* cryptsetup:
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496 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
497 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
498 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 499 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
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501* move debug shell to tty6 and make sure this doesn't break the gettys on tty6
502
424a19f8 503* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 504 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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506* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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508* make timer units go away after they elapsed
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8556879e 510* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 511 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
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513* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
514
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515* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
516
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517* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
518
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519* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
520
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521* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
522
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523* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
524
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525* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container
526
68f16003 527* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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529* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
530
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531* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
532 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
533 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
534 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 535 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 536 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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538* use opterr = 0 for all getopt tools
539
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540* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
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542* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
543
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544* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
545
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546* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
547
88a6c589 548* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
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550* syscall filter:
551 - syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls
552 - syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs?
553 - syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS?
554 - syscall filter: port to libseccomp
555 - system-wide seccomp filter
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557* .device aliases need to be implemented with the "following" logic, probably.
558
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559* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
560 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
561
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562* introduce Type=pid-file
563
59cea26a 564* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 565
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566* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
567
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568* move passno parsing to fstab generator
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570* automount: implement expire:
571 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
572 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
573 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
574 - blocking, needs a thread
575 - run until -EAGAIN
576 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
577 - call umount
578 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
579 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
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581* services which create their own subcgroups break cgroup-empty notification (needs to be fixed in the kernel)
582
e01a15b7 583* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 584
abd55b16 585* udev:
3f60bcb5 586 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
abd55b16 587 - move to LGPL
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589 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
b8217b7b 590
18b754d3 591* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording
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593* 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
594
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595* support container_ttys=
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597* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
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599* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
600
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601* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
602
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603* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
604
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605* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
606
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607* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
608
609* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
610
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611* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
612
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613* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
614 needs to be auto-respawned?
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616* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
617
de6c78f8 618* tmpfiles: apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 619
b44be3ec 620* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
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d3c7d7dd 624* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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626* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
627 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
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631* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
632 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
633
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634* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
635
7c697168 636* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 637
71092d70 638* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
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640* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
641 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
642 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
643
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645
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646* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
647 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
648
71092d70 649* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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651* readahead:
652 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
653 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
654 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
655 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
656 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
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658* add support for /bin/mount -s
659
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660* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
661
68c7d001 662* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 663 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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664 - enabling dbus services
665 - status update
7a2a0b90 666 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 667 - remote access
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668 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
669 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 670 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 671 - auto-restart
e707c494 672 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 673 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 674 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 675 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 676 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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677 - calendar time events
678 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
679 - how to create your own target
680 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
681 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 682
44143309 683* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 684
71092d70 685* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 686
260abb78 687* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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689* Support --test based on current system state
690
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691* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
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693* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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695* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
696
129126f3 697* port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID:
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698 - rpcbind (/var/run/rpcbind.sock!) HAVEPATCH
699 - cups HAVEPATCH
a625ac1a 700 - postfix, saslauthd
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701 - apache/samba
702 - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro)
703 - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!)
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705
71092d70 706* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
246756ca 707
50f2a90d 708* io priority during initialization
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711
7ba97195 712* systemd-python:
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714 works with ^C
b04c8c83 715 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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717* bootchart:
718 - plot per-process IO utilization
719 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
720 - document initcall_debug
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721 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
722
64eed40c 723* systemd-run is missing zsh completion scripts
c9d954b2 724
2f8cd170 725External:
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cc9784c6 727* dbus:
cc9784c6 728 - dbus --user
3377af3e 729 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
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731 - allow disabling of fd passing when connecting a AF_UNIX connection
3377af3e 732 - allow disabling of UID passing for AUTH EXTERNAL
b69d29ce 733 - always pass cred data along each message
b44be3ec 734 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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739
9096ad36 740* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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742* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
743 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
744 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
745 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
746 the RTC to sync up.
747
71092d70 748* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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751
752* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
753
754* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
755
756* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
757
758* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
759
d2bbca68 760* 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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762* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
763
764* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 765
4641a16b 766* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
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129126f3 768Regularly:
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129126f3 770* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 771
129126f3 772* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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774* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
8c6db833 775
14212119 776* %m in printf() instead of strerror(errno);
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778* pahole
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71092d70 780* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 781
4db17f29 782* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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785
9e5f3dbb 786Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 788* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)