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ee9c9500 1Bugfixes:
19aadacf 2* enabling an instance unit creates a pointless link, and
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3 the unit will be started with getty@getty.service:
4 $ systemctl enable getty@.service
5 ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service' '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@.service'
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7* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
8 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
9 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
10
a40593a0 11* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
20ffc4c4 12
19aadacf 13* When we detect invalid UTF-8, we cannot use it in an error message:
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14 log...("Path is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment: %s", rvalue);
15
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16* shorten the message to sane length:
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18 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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20* systemctl --root=container/ set-default ... is totally borked.
21
f38afcd0 22External:
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f38afcd0 24* ps should gain colums for slice
81d112a8 25
f38afcd0 26* Fedora: when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
466784c8 27 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
55d32caf 28
f38afcd0 29* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
bafb15ba 30
f38afcd0 31* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
bafb15ba 32
eb124a97 33Features:
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35* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
36 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
37 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
38 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
39 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
40 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
41
3333d748 42* machinectl bash completion is missing
708c143c 43* busctl bash and zsh completions are outdated
3333d748 44
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45* Introduce PrivateDevices=yes/no which works like PrivateTmp= but for /dev setting up a tmpfs for it that only includes /dev/null, /dev/zero, /dev/random, /dev/urandom, but nothing else.
46
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47* libsystemd-journal returns the object created as first param in sd_journal_new(), sd_bus_new() and suchlike as last...
48
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49* cgroups:
50 - implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?)
51 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
52 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
53 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
54 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
55 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
56 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
57 the hierarchies of child processes
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59* transient units:
60 - allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
61 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
62 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
ebcf1f97 63
08cd1552 64* code cleanup
08cd1552 65 - we probably should replace the left-over uses of strv_append() and replace them by strv_push() or strv_extend()
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67* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
68
69* move libasyncns into systemd as libsystemd-asyncns
70
f38afcd0 71* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
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73* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
74
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75* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
76
94676f3e 77* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
6fd4d020 78
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79* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
80
f38afcd0 81* socket-proxyd:Use a nonblocking alternative to getaddrinfo
41644622 82
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83* 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
84
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85* Add a new Distribute=$NUMBER key to socket units that makes use of SO_REUSEPORT to distribute network traffic on $NUMBER instances
86
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87* move config_parse_path_strv() out of conf-parser.c
88
7f79cd71 89* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 90
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91* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
92 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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93 path anyway.
94
19aadacf 95* When a Type=forking service fails and needed another service, that
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96 service is not cleaned up again when it has StopWhenUnneeded=yes
97 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-July/012141.html
98
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99* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
100
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101* given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
102 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
e10e429f 103 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
e1b7e7ec 104
6aaa8c2f 105* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 106
e1b7e7ec 107* make sure gdm doesn't use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
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109* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
110
111* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
112
9444b1f2 113* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 114 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 115 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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116 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
117 check for that and suppress event handling.
9444b1f2 118
19aadacf 119* something pulls in pcre as shared object dependency into our daemons such as hostnamed.
1f263d4d 120
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121* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
122 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
123
eb01ba5d 124* libsystemd-bus:
883b3690 125 - let the activator peek the peer connection with KDBUS_CMD_MSG_SRC and log it
eb01ba5d 126 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
86312ab8 127 - implement monitor logic
f38afcd0 128 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
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129 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
130 - SD_BUS_COMMENT() macro for inclusion in vtables, syntax inspired by gdbus
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131 - systemd-bus-proxyd needs to enforce good old XML policy
132 - upload minimal kdbus policy into the kernel at boot
80caea6c 133 - kdbus: matches against source or destination pids for an "strace -p"-like feel. Problem: The PID info needs to be available in userspace too...
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134 - longer term:
135 * priority queues
136 * priority inheritance
452de75e 137 - check sender of response messages
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138 - dbus spec updates:
139 - kdbus mapping
140 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
141 - GVariant
bee7e928 142 - "const" properties (posted)
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143 - port exit-on-idle logic to byebye ioctl
144 - make use of "drop" ioctl in pid 1 bus activation
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145 - bus proxy: override unique id sender for messages from driver to match the well-known name
146 - bus driver: GetNameOwner() for "org.freedesktop.DBus" should return "org.freedesktop.DBus"
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148* sd-event
12179984 149 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
eb01ba5d 150
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151* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
152 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
153 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
154
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155* Introduce a way how we can kill the main process of a service with KillSignal, but all processes with SIGKILL later on
156 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952634
157
69af4503 158* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses where the access mode of unit files is nonsensical.
19aa7c4f 159
69af4503 160* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
e8a7a315 161
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162* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
163 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
164
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165* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
166
167* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
168
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169* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
170
171* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
172
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173* timedatectl: print a nicer message when enabling ntp fails because ntpd/chrony are not installed
174
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175* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
176
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177* test/:
178 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
179 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
b8b4d3dd 180
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181* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
182
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183* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
184 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
185 file.
186
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187* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
188 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
189 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
190 destination.
191
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192* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
193 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
194
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195* add ConditionArchitecture= or so
196
197* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
198
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199* Support SO_REUSEPORT with socket activation:
200 - Let systemd maintain a pool of servers.
201 - Use for seamless upgrades, by running the new server before stopping the
202 old.
203
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204* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
205 need manual exponential loops after all
206
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207* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
208 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
209 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
210 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
211
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212* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
213 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
214 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
215 that automatically.
216
e5ec62c5 217* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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219* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
220
54c31a79 221* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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223* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
224
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225* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
226
227* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
228
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229* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
230
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231* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
232
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233* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
234 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
235 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
236 will be activated.
237
356ce991 238* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 239
81d112a8 240* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 241
b44be3ec 242* EFI:
b44be3ec 243 - write man page for efi boot generator
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244 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
245 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 246 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 247
c0fe5db5 248* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 249
b44be3ec 250* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
e9fd44b7 251
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252* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
253 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 255* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 256
b44be3ec 257* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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259* logind:
260 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
261 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
262 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
263 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
264 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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265 - logind: non-local X11 server handling
266 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
b44be3ec 267 - pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree
e5ec62c5 268 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
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269 - when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects
270 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
271 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
272 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
273 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
274 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
275 needs setuid().
e673ad04 276
b44be3ec 277* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 278
b44be3ec 279* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
e673ad04 280
b44be3ec 281* journal:
c06bf414 282 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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283 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
284 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
285 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
286 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
287 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
288 - journal: reuse XZ context
289 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
290 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
291 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
292 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
293 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
294 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
295 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 296 - 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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297 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
298 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
b44be3ec 299 - 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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300 - 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.
301 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
302 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 303 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 304 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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305 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
306 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
307 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
308 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
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309 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
310 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 311 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 312 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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313 - tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal, also do this for the journal fails contained in it
314 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
315 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
316 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
317 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
318 to syslog when it works again.
319 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
320 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
321 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
322 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
323 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
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325* document:
8b8f2591 326 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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327 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
328 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 329 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 330 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 331 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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332 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
333 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
334 - man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf
335 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
336 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
337 - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
338 - man: add more examples to man pages
339 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
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341* systemctl:
342 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
343 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
344 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
345 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
346 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
347 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
348 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
349 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
350 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
351 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
352 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
353 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
354 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
f38afcd0 355 - rework wait filter to not require match callback
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356 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
357 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
8b8f2591 358 - in systemctl list-timers show time triggering units ran last
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360* unit install:
361 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
362 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
363 - "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, but should
364 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
365 unit however should remove them all).
366 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
367 - systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
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369* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
370
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371* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
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373* timer units:
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374 - timer events with system resume
375 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
376 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
377 o DST changes
eb124a97 378 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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379 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
380 - when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we won't support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200
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381 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
382 - anacron-like feature
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384* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
385
386* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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387 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
388 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 389 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 390 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 391 user did not request anything like it.
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393* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
394 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
395 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
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397* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
398 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
399 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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400 we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in
401 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
402 better supported alternative.
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404* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
405
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406* 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().
407
408* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
409* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
410* fedup: generator
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f38afcd0 412* timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
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414* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
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b44be3ec 416* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 417
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418* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
419 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
420 - superset of tmpfiles model
421 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
422 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
423 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
424
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425* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
426 waiting for the timeout
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428* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
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430* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
431
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432* nspawn:
433 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly
434 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
435 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
436 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
437 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
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438 - nspawn: investigate whether we can support the same as LXC's
439 lxc.network.type=phys mode, and pass through entire network
440 interfaces to the container
eb124a97 441 - nspawn: maybe explicitly reset loginuid?
3679d112 442 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
9cb74bcb 443 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
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444 - add an option to nspawn that uses seccomp to make socket(AF_NETLINK,
445 SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_AUDIT) fail the the appropriate error code that
446 makes the audit userspace to think auditing is not available in the
447 kernel.
a56b63f4 448 - support taking a btrfs snapshot at startup and dropping it afterwards
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450* cryptsetup:
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451 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
452 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
453 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 454 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 455
424a19f8 456* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 457 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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459* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
460
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461* make timer units go away after they elapsed
462
8556879e 463* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 464 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
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466* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
467
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468* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
469
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470* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
471
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472* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
473
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474* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
475
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476* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
477
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478* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container
479
68f16003 480* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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482* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
483
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484* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
485 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
486 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
487 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 488 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 489 but much rather a disconnect on success.
0790b9fe 490
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491* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
492
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493* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
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495* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
496
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497* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
498
88a6c589 499* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
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502 - syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls
503 - syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs?
504 - syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS?
505 - syscall filter: port to libseccomp
506 - system-wide seccomp filter
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508* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
509 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
510
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511* introduce Type=pid-file
512
59cea26a 513* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 514
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515* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
516
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517* automount: implement expire:
518 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
519 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
520 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
521 - blocking, needs a thread
522 - run until -EAGAIN
523 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
524 - call umount
525 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
526 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
465349c0 527
e01a15b7 528* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 529
abd55b16 530* udev:
3f60bcb5 531 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
abd55b16 532 - move to LGPL
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534 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
b8217b7b 535
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536* 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
537
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538* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
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540* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
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542* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
543
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544* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
545
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546* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
547
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548* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
549
550* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
551
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553
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554* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
555 needs to be auto-respawned?
556
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557* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
558
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559* tmpfiles:
560 - check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
561 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 562
b44be3ec 563* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
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d3c7d7dd 567* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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570 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
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574* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
575 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
576
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577* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
578
7c697168 579* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 580
71092d70 581* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
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584 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
585 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
586
f38afcd0 587* support User= and Group= attributes for AF_UNIX sockets. (difficult, requires NSS from PID 1?)
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590 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
591
71092d70 592* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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595 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
596 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
597 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
598 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
599 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
b23de6af 600
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601* add support for /bin/mount -s
602
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603* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
604
68c7d001 605* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 606 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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607 - enabling dbus services
608 - status update
7a2a0b90 609 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 610 - remote access
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611 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
612 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 613 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 614 - auto-restart
e707c494 615 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 616 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 617 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 618 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 619 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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621 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
622 - how to create your own target
623 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
624 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 625
44143309 626* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 627
71092d70 628* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 629
260abb78 630* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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632* Support --test based on current system state
633
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634* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
635
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636* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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638* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
639
129126f3 640* port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID:
a625ac1a 641 - postfix, saslauthd
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643 - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro)
644 - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!)
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646
71092d70 647* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
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50f2a90d 649* io priority during initialization
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7ba97195 653* systemd-python:
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655 works with ^C
b04c8c83 656 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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659 - plot per-process IO utilization
660 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
661 - document initcall_debug
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662 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
663
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665 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
666 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
667 on Path= matching
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668 - Check if Driver= is broken, or just my driver (bcma)
669
88e4d1d7 670* sd-rtnl:
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671 - improve container support, and add support for entering containers when reading
672 - add support for more attribute types
673
0a4b9a07 674* networkd:
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675 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
676 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
677 - allow opting out of receiving DNS servers over DHCPv4
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678 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
679
2f8cd170 680External:
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cc9784c6 682* dbus:
3377af3e 683 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 684 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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686* fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
687
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688* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
689
9096ad36 690* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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692* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
693 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
694 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
695 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
696 the RTC to sync up.
697
71092d70 698* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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701
702* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
703
704* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
705
706* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
707
708* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
709
d2bbca68 710* 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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712* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
713
714* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
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4641a16b 716* 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 718Regularly:
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129126f3 720* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
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129126f3 722* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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724* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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71092d70 728* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 729
4db17f29 730* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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9e5f3dbb 734Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 736* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)