]> git.ipfire.org Git - thirdparty/systemd.git/blame - TODO
bus-proxy: allow getpeersec() to fail
[thirdparty/systemd.git] / TODO
CommitLineData
ee9c9500 1Bugfixes:
c343be28
KS
2* Re-enable "fsck -l" when it is ready:
3 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79576#c5
4
b3ae710c
ZJS
5* Should systemctl status \* work on all unit types, not just .service?
6
f957632b
KS
7* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
8 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
9 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
10
a40593a0 11* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
20ffc4c4 12
d19e85f0
ZJS
13After killing 'systemd --user', systemctl restart user@... fails.
14
15ExecStart with unicode characters fails in strv_split_quoted:
16
17 [Service]
18 Environment=ONE='one' "TWO='two two' too" THREE=
19 ExecStart=/bin/python3 -c 'import sys;print(sys.argv)' $ONE $TWO $THREE
20
f38afcd0 21External:
f38afcd0 22* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
bafb15ba 23
f38afcd0 24* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
bafb15ba 25
81429136 26* Fedora: move kernel image to /usr/lib/modules/, kernel-install will take care of populating /boot
e7b4d43e 27
58f55364
LP
28* Fedora: remove /etc/resolv.conf tmpfiles hack
29
83a1ff25
ZJS
30* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
31
32* When lz4 gets an API for lz4 command output, make use of it to
33 compress coredumps in a way compatible with /usr/bin/lz4.
34
81429136 35Features:
fbe1a1a9 36
706d9750
LP
37* man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
38
39* systemctl isolate should use ".target" as completion suffix, not ".service"
40
402696d7
LP
41* bus-proxy: when passing messages from kdbus, make sure we properly
42 handle the case where a large number of fds is appended that we
43 cannot pass into sendmsg() of the AF_UNIX sokcet (which only accepts
44 253 messages)
45
46* check for validity of ucred fields in bus-proxy, like we do in journald
47
c7eff5ec
LP
48* busctl: add a pcap writer, using LINKTYPE_DBUS/231
49
3bcde97e
LP
50* man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
51
533bb267
LP
52* introduce machines.target to order after all nspawn instances
53
54* systemd-nspawn@.service should fail if some nspawn arg is invalid, with Type=notify
55
56* "machinectl list" should probably show columns for OS version and IP addresses
57
58* systemctl: if it fails, show log output?
59
202aea45
LP
60* maybe add "systemctl edit" that copies unit files from /usr/lib/systemd/system to /etc/systemd/system and invokes vim on them
61
8dac15b6
LP
62* dbus: add new message hdr field for allowing interactive auth, write spec for it. update dbus spec to mandate that unknown flags *must* be ignored...
63
64* maybe introduce AssertXYZ= similar to ConditionXYZ= that causes a unit to fail (instead of skipping it) if some condition is not true...
65
42aeb14a
LP
66* remove multi-seat-x now
67
68* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
69
70* exponential backoff in timesyncd and resolved when we cannot reach a server
71
d74f9e8e 72* apply start timeout during the "initializing" manager state only,
42aeb14a
LP
73 instead of both "initializing" and "starting". maybe rename the
74 timeout to "initialization-timeout" then or so?
d74f9e8e 75
8a0dec98
LP
76* journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
77 journals in.
78
14a32924
LP
79* tmpfiles: port to unquote_many_words(), similar to sysusers
80
81* unquote_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that
82 currently uses FOREACH_WORD and friends. For example, most conf
83 parsing callbacks should use it.
84
9da465df
LP
85* logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
86 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
87 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
88 complete.
89
563b1bdc
LP
90* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
91
563b1bdc
LP
92* remove readahead in 217
93
ca70bec9
LP
94* journald: allows specification of UID range for splitting up journal files
95
5dcf9838
LP
96* systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
97 units are shown.
98
b873d33e 99* networkd:
d61bb44a 100 - add LLDP client side support
ed220efd
LP
101 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
102 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
41488fe9
LP
103 - .network setting that allows overriding of the hostname to send to the dhcp server
104 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-July/021550.html
41488fe9
LP
105 - expose in the API the following bits:
106 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
107 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
108 - option 100, 101, timezone
109 - option 123, 144, geolocation
110 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
ca70bec9
LP
111 - networkd's dhcp server should transparently pass on the DNS and
112 NTP server list it got from user configuration and its dhcp client
113 to clients. It should also pass on its own timezone information.
1dbe0a6e
LP
114 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
115 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
b873d33e 116
9d6db739 117* resolved:
1dbe0a6e
LP
118 - put networkd events and rtnl events at a higher priority, so that
119 we always process them before we process client requests
9d6db739 120 - DNSSEC
ff3d6560
ZJS
121 - use base64 for key presentation?
122 - add display of private key types (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4034#appendix-A.1.1)?
151226ab 123 - add nice formatting of DNS timestamps
23c4091d
LP
124 - DNS
125 - search paths
9d6db739 126 - mDNS/DNS-SD
0f47ed0a 127 - avahi compat
9d6db739 128 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
bc075489
LP
129 - edns0
130 - dname
b6b63571 131 - cname on PTR (?)
9d6db739 132
3f77a1b1
KS
133* Ignore .busname units on classic D-Bus boots, systemd-resolved cannot be started on kdbus
134 without the active policy and should get a Wants=org.freedesktop.resolve1.busname to
135 pull-in the policy.
136
e2a69298
LP
137* Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
138
2834ffe7
LP
139* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
140
fed515f0 141* logind: allow users to kill or lock their own sessions
22981162 142
a940778f
LP
143* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
144
a01647e5 145* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 146 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
a940778f 147 - fstab-generator: support systemd.volatile=yes|no|state on the kernel cmdline, too, similar to nspawn's --volatile=
e8a152c6 148 - fstab-generator: add support for usr= in addition to root= on the kernel cmdline
a01647e5 149
3de03738
LP
150* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
151
152* support setting empty environment variables with Environment= and EnvironmentFile=
153
2b1c3767
LP
154* timer units: actually add extra delays to timer units with high AccuracySec values, don't start them already when we are awake...
155
37efac5d
LP
156* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
157
7348b3ad
LP
158* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
159
f55b9bdf
LP
160* journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
161
f55b9bdf
LP
162* set NOTIFY_SOCKET also for control processes
163
e107ed18
LP
164* mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied
165
81429136
KS
166* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
167 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 168
f598ac3e 169* 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)
11fb37f1 170
01083ad0
LP
171* sd-event: generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
172
b107b705
LP
173* expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
174
edb2935c
LP
175* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
176
769918ec
LP
177* consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
178
179* sd-event: define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
180
6a3f892a 181* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9
LP
182 - Support LUKS for root devices
183 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 184 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 185
efc141b8
LP
186* improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
187 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
d28315e4 188 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
efc141b8
LP
189 the most common operations.
190
65026403
LP
191* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
192 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
193 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 194
eda8f067
LP
195* MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
196
d4fdc205
LP
197* "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
198 /proc/$PID/exe
199
af1082b0
LP
200* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
201 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
202 for ReusePort=
203
488ad3b3
LP
204* socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
205 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
206 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
207 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
208 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
209
47c94a96
LP
210* New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
211
09ecd746
LP
212* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
213 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
214 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
215 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
216 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
217 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
218
ef417cfd 219* completions:
ef417cfd 220 - manager property enumeration was broken when systemd moved to /usr/lib/
3333d748 221
f38afcd0 222* cgroups:
f38afcd0
LP
223 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
224 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
225 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
226 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
227 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
228 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
229 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 230
f38afcd0
LP
231* transient units:
232 - allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
233 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
234 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
ebcf1f97 235
47c94a96
LP
236* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
237
718db961
LP
238* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
239
f38afcd0 240* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
718db961
LP
241
242* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
243
966204e0
LP
244* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
245
94676f3e 246* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
6fd4d020 247
41644622
LP
248* 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
249
7f79cd71 250* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 251
19aadacf
JE
252* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
253 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
df5f6971
LP
254 path anyway.
255
fcba531e
LP
256* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
257
8b8f2591
ZJS
258* given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
259 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
e10e429f 260 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
e1b7e7ec 261
6aaa8c2f 262* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 263
d28315e4 264* make sure gdm does not use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
18d4e7c2 265
bdeeb6b5
LP
266* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
267
268* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
269
4e09014d
LP
270* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
271 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
272
6bb648a1 273* sd-bus:
d28315e4 274 - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
7973ca19 275 - systemd-bus-proxyd needs to enforce good old XML policy
7973ca19
LP
276 - allow updating attach flags during runtime
277 - pid1: peek into activating message when activating a service
278 - introduce sd_bus_emit_object_added()/sd_bus_emit_object_removed() that automatically includes the build-in interfaces in the list
dc17bcef 279 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
f38afcd0 280 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 281 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
dc17bcef 282 - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async?
80caea6c 283 - 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 284 - longer term: priority inheritance
df98a87b
LP
285 - dbus spec updates:
286 - kdbus mapping
287 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
288 - GVariant
bee7e928 289 - "const" properties (posted)
2ecfc64e 290 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 291 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
69727e6d 292 - test bloom filter generation indexes
f38afcd0
LP
293
294* sd-event
12179984 295 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 296 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
eb01ba5d 297
154ff088
LP
298* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
299 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
300 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
301
69af4503 302* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
e8a7a315 303
461bd8e4
LP
304* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
305 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
306
ab8e074c
LP
307* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
308
309* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
310
b454b112
LP
311* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
312
06db8540
LP
313* timedatectl: print a nicer message when enabling ntp fails because ntpd/chrony are not installed
314
4ff49cb6
LP
315* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
316
fff87a35
ZJS
317* test/:
318 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
319 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
b8b4d3dd 320
b5c03638 321* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 322 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
b5c03638
LP
323 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
324 destination.
325
eece8c6f
LP
326* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
327 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
328
356ce991
LP
329* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
330
09f727ee
LP
331* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
332 need manual exponential loops after all
333
c1446921
LP
334* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
335 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
336 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
337 is installed.
795607b2 338
0be8342c
LP
339* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
340 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
341 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
342 that automatically.
343
e5ec62c5 344* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 345
826872b6
LP
346* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
347
d28315e4 348* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 349
3679d112
LP
350* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
351
3679d112
LP
352* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
353
354* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
355
cbb77121
LP
356* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
357
356ce991 358* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 359
81d112a8 360* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 361
b44be3ec 362* EFI:
b44be3ec
LP
363 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
364 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 365 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 366
c0fe5db5 367* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 368
b44be3ec 369* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
e9fd44b7 370
b44be3ec
LP
371* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
372 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
3040728b 373
b44be3ec 374* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 375
b44be3ec 376* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
e6c6e7af 377
b44be3ec
LP
378* logind:
379 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
380 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
381 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
382 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
383 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
e5ec62c5 384 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
f38afcd0
LP
385 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
386 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
387 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
388 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
389 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
390 needs setuid().
e673ad04 391
b44be3ec 392* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 393
b44be3ec 394* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
e673ad04 395
b44be3ec 396* journal:
c06bf414 397 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
b44be3ec
LP
398 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
399 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
400 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 401 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec
LP
402 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
403 - journal: reuse XZ context
404 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
405 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
406 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
407 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
408 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
409 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
410 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 411 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
b44be3ec
LP
412 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
413 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
b44be3ec 414 - journal: send out marker messages every now and then, and immediately sync with fdatasync() afterwards, in order to have hourly guaranteed syncs.
b44be3ec
LP
415 - 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.
416 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
417 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 418 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 419 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
b44be3ec
LP
420 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
421 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
422 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
423 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec
LP
424 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
425 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 426 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 427 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
f38afcd0
LP
428 - tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal, also do this for the journal fails contained in it
429 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
430 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
431 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
432 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
433 to syslog when it works again.
434 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
435 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
436 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
d28315e4 437 so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
f38afcd0 438 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
b44be3ec
LP
439
440* document:
8b8f2591 441 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
b44be3ec
LP
442 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
443 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 444 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 445 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 446 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
f38afcd0
LP
447 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
448 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
f38afcd0
LP
449 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
450 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
451 - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
452 - man: add more examples to man pages
453 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
b44be3ec
LP
454
455* systemctl:
456 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
457 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
458 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
459 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
460 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
461 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
462 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
463 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 464 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec
LP
465 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
466 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
467 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
f38afcd0
LP
468 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
469 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0
LP
470
471* unit install:
472 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
473 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
f38afcd0 474 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
8b04b925 475
b44be3ec 476* timer units:
b44be3ec
LP
477 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
478 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
479 o DST changes
eb124a97 480 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
f38afcd0 481 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
d28315e4 482 - 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 483 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23
KS
484
485* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
486
487* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
f6113d42
KS
488 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
489 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 490 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 491 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 492 user did not request anything like it.
c55b1b59 493
a19554ed
LP
494* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
495
1cb88f2c
LP
496* 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().
497
498* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
d28315e4 499* fedup: do not delete initrd on switch-root
1cb88f2c 500* fedup: generator
603cd8fe 501
a7a3f28b
LP
502* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
503
b44be3ec 504* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 505
9ee58bdd
KS
506* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
507 waiting for the timeout
dcfc4b2e 508
71ef24d0
LP
509* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
510
d28315e4 511* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 512
b44be3ec 513* nspawn:
b44be3ec 514 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
9cb74bcb 515 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
a56b63f4 516 - support taking a btrfs snapshot at startup and dropping it afterwards
b44be3ec
LP
517
518* cryptsetup:
b44be3ec
LP
519 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
520 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
521 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 522 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 523
424a19f8 524* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 525 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
424a19f8
LP
526
527* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
528
a1cccad1
LP
529* make timer units go away after they elapsed
530
8556879e
LP
531* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
532
4a30847b
LP
533* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
534
5e8b2883
LP
535* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
536
38a60d71
LP
537* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
538
68f16003 539* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 540
68f16003
LP
541* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
542 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
d28315e4 543 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
68f16003 544 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
d28315e4 545 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
68f16003 546 but much rather a disconnect on success.
0790b9fe 547
fd4d89b2
LP
548* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
549
47ae7201
LP
550* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
551
88a6c589 552* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
8351ceae 553
9946996c 554* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
d28315e4 555 verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
9946996c 556
3471bedc
LP
557* introduce Type=pid-file
558
59cea26a 559* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 560
5b40d337
LP
561* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
562
d3a3f222
KS
563* automount: implement expire:
564 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
565 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
566 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
567 - blocking, needs a thread
568 - run until -EAGAIN
569 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
570 - call umount
571 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
572 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
465349c0 573
e01a15b7 574* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 575
abd55b16 576* udev:
abd55b16 577 - move to LGPL
abd55b16
KS
578 - kill scsi_id
579 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 580 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 581
169c4f65
LP
582* 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
583
fb0864e7
LP
584* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
585
7f110ff9
LP
586* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
587
d0e5a333
LP
588* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
589
d0e5a333
LP
590* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
591
87a8baa3
LP
592* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
593
594* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
595
70a44afe 596* default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
65c0cf71 597
f957632b
KS
598* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
599 needs to be auto-respawned?
600
ad740100
LP
601* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
602
f38afcd0 603* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 604 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 605
d28315e4 606* for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested
14e639ae 607
7f8aa671 608* hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
ff01d048 609
d3c7d7dd 610* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
72b9ed82 611
1d6702e8
LP
612* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
613 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
614
71092d70
LP
615* move PAM code into its own binary
616
1258097c
LP
617* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
618 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
619
a4c279f8
LP
620* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
621
55cdcbac 622* add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
8d0e38a2 623
f28f1daf
LP
624* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
625 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
626 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
627
88a07670
LP
628* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
629 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
630
71092d70 631* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 632
b44be3ec
LP
633* readahead:
634 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
635 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
636 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
637 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
638 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
b23de6af 639
9534ce54
LP
640* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
641
68c7d001 642* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 643 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
68c7d001
LP
644 - enabling dbus services
645 - status update
7a2a0b90 646 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 647 - remote access
5d0fcd7c
LP
648 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
649 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 650 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 651 - auto-restart
e707c494 652 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 653 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 654 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 655 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 656 - refreshed, longer missions statement
3679d112
LP
657 - calendar time events
658 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
659 - how to create your own target
660 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
661 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 662
44143309 663* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 664
260abb78 665* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
2791a8f8 666
a8f11321
LP
667* Support --test based on current system state
668
21bdae12
LP
669* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
670
c32e0c40
LP
671* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
672
59fee421
LP
673* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
674
71092d70 675* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
246756ca 676
9534ce54
LP
677* drop cap bounding set in readahead and other services
678
7ba97195 679* systemd-python:
7ba97195
ZJS
680 - figure out a simple way to wait for journal events in a way that
681 works with ^C
b04c8c83 682 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
7ba97195 683
8973790e
LP
684* bootchart:
685 - plot per-process IO utilization
686 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
687 - document initcall_debug
8973790e
LP
688 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
689
af6f0d42
TG
690* udev-link-config:
691 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
692 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
693 on Path= matching
8faf88e5 694 - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
af6f0d42 695
88e4d1d7 696* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 697 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 698 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 699
0a4b9a07 700* networkd:
c74ecd71
TG
701 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
702 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 703 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 704 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
5c1d3fc9 705 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
798e174a 706 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
8477107d 707 - add more attribute support for SIT tunnel
1a941ac4 708 - work with non-ethernet devices
c9fa3670 709 - add support for more bond options
155e8b9a 710
473dfd7b
TG
711* networkd-wait-online:
712 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
8f5675cc 713
ac976532 714* dhcp:
424a8732 715 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 716 - export timezone information
99f9dd8d 717 - support RFC4702 (pass FQDN)
ac976532 718
37d8b536
PF
719* dhcp6:
720 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
721 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
722 - write more test cases
723 - implement and do duplicate address detection, see rfc 4862, 5.4.
724 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
725 - implement information request, see 1.2. and 18.1.5.
726 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
727 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
728 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
729 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
730 or interface down
731 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
732 this behavior
733
2f8cd170 734External:
74fe1fe3 735
cc9784c6 736* dbus:
3377af3e 737 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 738 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 739
71092d70
LP
740* fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
741
74fe1fe3
LP
742* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
743
9096ad36 744* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
06ae4bfe 745
71092d70 746* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
14bd37fe 747
8973790e
LP
748* drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields
749
d28315e4 750* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and should not
8973790e
LP
751
752* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
753
754* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
755
756* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
757
d2bbca68 758* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
8973790e
LP
759
760* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
761
762* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 763
4641a16b 764* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
19aa7c4f 765
baf167ee
ZJS
766* register catalog database signature as file magic
767
2c12a402
ZJS
768* zsh shell completion: <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently
769 does not
770
129126f3 771Regularly:
874aa2cc 772
129126f3 773* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 774
129126f3 775* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
5b6319dc
LP
776
777* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
8c6db833 778
444a79d3
LP
779* pahole
780
d28315e4 781* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 782
4db17f29 783* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
88fae6e0 784
d05c556b
ZJS
785* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
786
9e5f3dbb 787Scheduled for removal or fixing:
a3a3e5b6 788
9e5f3dbb 789* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)