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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.
15
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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* When we detect invalid UTF-8, we cant't use it in an error message:
21 log...("Path is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment: %s", rvalue);
22
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23* shorten the message to sane length:
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25 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 27Fedora 20:
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dc7adf20 29* external: ps should gain colums for slice and machine
7b4da18c 30
81d112a8 31* localed:
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32 - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps
33
55d32caf 34* when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
466784c8 35 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
55d32caf 36
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37CGroup Rework Completion:
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94bbc991 39* introduce "mainpid" for scopes (or maybe not?)
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41* implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?)
42
43* implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
44
45* handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
46
049b4474 47* introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
bafb15ba 48
eb124a97 49Features:
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51* "systemctl cat" or "systemctl view" command or or so, that cats the backing unit file of a service, plus its drop-ins and shows them in a pager
52
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53* 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
54
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55* Add a new Distribute=$NUMBER key to socket units that makes use of SO_REUSEPORT to distribute network traffic on $NUMBER instances
56
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57* tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal also do this for the journal fails contained in it
58
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59* we probably should replace the left-over uses of strv_append() and replace them by strv_push() or strv_extend()
60
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61* move config_parse_path_strv() out of conf-parser.c
62
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63* libdsystemd-bus should expose utf8 validation calls
64
7f79cd71 65* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 66
d2e2c03d 67* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink generate a clean
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68 error. Currently we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
69 path anyway.
70
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71* When a Type=forking service fails and needed another service that
72 service is not cleaned up again when it has StopWhenUnneeded=yes
73 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-July/012141.html
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75* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
76
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77* ensure scope units may be started only a single time
78
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79* document that in instead of FsckPassNo= people should just add a manual dep to systemd-fsck@.service to their mount units.
80
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81* better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
82
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83* systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
84
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85* for transient units, instead of writing out drop-ins for all properties consider serializing them in the normal serialization stream
86
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87* logind: when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects
88
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89* session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
90
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91* add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
92
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93* journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
94
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95* given that logind/machined now let PID 1 do all nasty work we can
96 probably reduce the capability set they retain substantially.
97
6aaa8c2f 98* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
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100* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
101
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102* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
103
e1b7e7ec 104* 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 105
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106* 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
107
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108* when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop we should ratelimit that too.
109
c5757cc8 110* "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, should
69af4503 111 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
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112 unit however should remove them all).
113
114* journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
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116* systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
117
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118* journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
119 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
120 to syslog when it works again.
121
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122* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
123
124* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
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126* add a fixed dbus path for "my own unit", "my own session", ... to PID1, logind, ...
127
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128* service_coldplug() appears to reinstall the wrong stop timeout watch?
129
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130* transient units: allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
131
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132* how to reset dynamically changed attributes sanely?
133
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134* when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
135
4ad49000 136* journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
3d3ee759 137
9444b1f2 138* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 139 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 140 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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141 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
142 check for that and suppress event handling.
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144* when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
145 the hierarchies of child processes
146
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147* document logic of auto/noauto and fail/nofail in fstab in systemd.mount or systemd-fstab-generator man page
148
9444b1f2 149* we should properly escape ssh hostnames we add into dbus server strings
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151* something pulls in pcre as so dep into our daemons such as hostnamed.
152
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153* document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
154
a65f06bb 155* change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
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156 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
157 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
158 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
159
160* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
161 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
162
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163* libsystemd-bus:
164 - default policy (allow uid == 0 and our own uid)
165 - enforce alignment of pointers passed in
eb01ba5d 166 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
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167 - implement translator service
168 - port systemd to new library
169 - implement busname unit type in systemd
170 - move to gvariant
eb01ba5d 171 - merge busctl into systemctl or so?
e4ee6e5c 172 - synthesize sd_bus_message objects from kernel messages
c7819669 173 - properly implement name registry ioctls for kdbus
86312ab8 174 - implement monitor logic
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175 - longer term:
176 * priority queues
86312ab8 177 * priority inheritance
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179* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
180 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
181 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
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183* add an option to nspawn that uses seccomp to make socket(AF_NETLINK,
184 SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_AUDIT) fail the the appropriate error code that
185 makes the audit userspace to think auditing is not available in the
186 kernel.
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188* Introduce a way how we can kill the main process of a service with KillSignal, but all processes with SIGKILL later on
189 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952634
190
69af4503 191* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses where the access mode of unit files is nonsensical.
19aa7c4f 192
69af4503 193* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
e8a7a315 194
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195* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
196 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
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198* if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
199 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
200 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
201 needs setuid().
202
203* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
204
205* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
206
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207* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
208
209* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
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4a449ed7 211* 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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213* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
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215* test/:
216 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
217 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
218 - remove all the duplicated code in test/
b8b4d3dd 219
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220* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
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222* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
223 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
224 file.
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226* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
227 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
228 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
229 destination.
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231* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
232 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
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234* add ConditionArchitecture= or so
235
236* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
237
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238* Support SO_REUSEPORT with socket activation:
239 - Let systemd maintain a pool of servers.
240 - Use for seamless upgrades, by running the new server before stopping the
241 old.
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243* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
244 need manual exponential loops after all
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246* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
247 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
248 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
249 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
250
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251* man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf
252
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253* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
254 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
255 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
256 that automatically.
257
69af4503 258* rework specifier logic so that we can distinguish OOM errors from other errors
487060c2 259
e5ec62c5 260* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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262* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
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54c31a79 264* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 265
8973790e 266* documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
3679d112 267
69af4503 268* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapse and the time the units ran last
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270* man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
271
272* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
273
69af4503 274* 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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276* systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
277
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278* man: add more examples to man pages
279
280* man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
281
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282* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
283
284* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
285
286* msgcatalog determine default language of entries from the catalog
287 file name. i.e. foobar.de_DE.catalog would set the default entry
288 name for the entries to de_DE if they aren't explicitly suffixed
289 individually.
290
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291* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
292
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293* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
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295* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
296 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
297 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
298 will be activated.
299
356ce991 300* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 301
81d112a8 302* introduce ExecCondition= in services
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304* EFI:
305 - fsck hookup for the ESP mount is missing
306 - write man page for efi boot generator
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307 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
308 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 309 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 310
c0fe5db5 311* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 312
b44be3ec 313* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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315* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
316 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 318* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 319
b44be3ec 320* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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322* logind:
323 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
324 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
325 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
326 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
327 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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328 - logind: non-local X11 server handling
329 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
b44be3ec 330 - pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree
eb124a97 331 - logind: GetSessionByPID() should accept 0 as PID value
e5ec62c5 332 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
e673ad04 333
b44be3ec 334* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 335
b44be3ec 336* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
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b44be3ec 338* journal:
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339 - do not use magic msync() in src/journal/journal-file.c, just call fsync()
340 <alxchk> poettering: looks like msync just calls vfs_fsync
341 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/mm/msync.c#n18
c06bf414 342 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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343 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
344 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
345 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
346 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
347 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
348 - journal: reuse XZ context
349 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
350 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
351 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
352 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
353 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
354 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
355 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 356 - 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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357 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
358 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
359 - journal: when rotating, copy over old acls/access mode
b44be3ec 360 - 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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361 - 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.
362 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
363 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 364 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 365 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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366 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
367 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
368 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
369 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
77a9e8de 370 - journalctl: expand tabs
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371 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
372 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
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373 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
374 - Port upower to use the journal for historical power information used in future calculations
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376* document:
377 - document unit_name_mangle()
378 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in
379 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
380 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
381 - Document word splitting syntax for ExecStart= and friends
382 - document that units from /etc override those from /usr and /run
383 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 384 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 385 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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387* systemctl:
388 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
389 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
390 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
391 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
392 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
393 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
394 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
395 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
396 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
397 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
398 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
399 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
400 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
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402* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
403
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404* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
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406* timer units:
407 - configurable jitter for timer events
408 - timer events with system resume
409 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
410 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
411 o DST changes
eb124a97 412 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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414* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
415
416* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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417 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
418 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 419 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 420 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 421 user did not request anything like it.
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423* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
424 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
425 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
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427* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
428 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
429 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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430 we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in
431 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
432 better supported alternative.
e707c494 433
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434* figure out relation of --all and --full in the various tools
435
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436* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
437
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438* 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().
439
440* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
441* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
442* fedup: generator
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b44be3ec 444* timedated:
b44be3ec 445 - timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
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447* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
448
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449* introduce generic AUGMENT_PID=, AUGMENT_DEVICE= fields
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b44be3ec 451* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
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453* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
454 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
455 - superset of tmpfiles model
456 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
457 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
458 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
459
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460* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
461 waiting for the timeout
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463* high level net_prio setting in execution context
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465* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
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467* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
468
15abdb9a 469* refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful (or set taint?)
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472 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly
473 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
474 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
475 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
476 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
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478 lxc.network.type=phys mode, and pass through entire network
479 interfaces to the container
480 - nspawn: maybe add a way to drop additional caps, in addition to add additional caps
481 - nspawn: maybe explicitly reset loginuid?
3679d112 482 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
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484* cryptsetup:
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485 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
486 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
487 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 488 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
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424a19f8 492* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 493 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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495* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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497* make timer units go away after they elapsed
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8556879e 499* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 500 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
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502* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
503
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504* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
505
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506* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
507
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508* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
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510* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
511
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512* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
513
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514* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container
515
68f16003 516* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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518* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
519
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520* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
521 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
522 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
523 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 524 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 525 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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529* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
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531* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
532
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533* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
534
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535* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
536
88a6c589 537* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
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540 - syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls
541 - syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs?
542 - syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS?
543 - syscall filter: port to libseccomp
544 - system-wide seccomp filter
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546* .device aliases need to be implemented with the "following" logic, probably.
547
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548* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
549 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
550
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551* introduce Type=pid-file
552
59cea26a 553* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 554
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555* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
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557* move passno parsing to fstab generator
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559* automount: implement expire:
560 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
561 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
562 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
563 - blocking, needs a thread
564 - run until -EAGAIN
565 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
566 - call umount
567 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
568 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
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571
e01a15b7 572* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 573
abd55b16 574* udev:
3f60bcb5 575 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
abd55b16 576 - move to LGPL
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578 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
b8217b7b 579
18b754d3 580* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording
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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
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584* support container_ttys=
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586* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
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588* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
589
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590* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
591
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592* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
593
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594* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
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596* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
597
598* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
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600* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
601
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602* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
603 needs to be auto-respawned?
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605* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
606
de6c78f8 607* tmpfiles: apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 608
b44be3ec 609* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
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d3c7d7dd 613* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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615* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
616 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
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620* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
621 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
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623* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
624
7c697168 625* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 626
71092d70 627* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
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630 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
631 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
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636 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
637
71092d70 638* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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640* readahead:
641 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
642 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
643 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
644 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
645 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
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647* add support for /bin/mount -s
648
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649* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
650
68c7d001 651* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 652 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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653 - enabling dbus services
654 - status update
7a2a0b90 655 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 656 - remote access
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657 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
658 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 659 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 660 - auto-restart
e707c494 661 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 662 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 663 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 664 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 665 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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667 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
668 - how to create your own target
669 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
670 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
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44143309 672* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 673
71092d70 674* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 675
260abb78 676* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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678* Support --test based on current system state
679
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680* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
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682* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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684* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
685
129126f3 686* port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID:
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687 - rpcbind (/var/run/rpcbind.sock!) HAVEPATCH
688 - cups HAVEPATCH
a625ac1a 689 - postfix, saslauthd
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690 - apache/samba
691 - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro)
692 - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!)
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71092d70 695* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
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50f2a90d 697* io priority during initialization
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7ba97195 701* systemd-python:
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703 works with ^C
b04c8c83 704 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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706* bootchart:
707 - plot per-process IO utilization
708 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
709 - document initcall_debug
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710 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
711
64eed40c 712* systemd-run is missing zsh completion scripts
c9d954b2 713
2f8cd170 714External:
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cc9784c6 716* dbus:
cc9784c6 717 - dbus --user
3377af3e 718 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
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720 - allow disabling of fd passing when connecting a AF_UNIX connection
3377af3e 721 - allow disabling of UID passing for AUTH EXTERNAL
b69d29ce 722 - always pass cred data along each message
b44be3ec 723 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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9096ad36 729* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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731* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
732 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
733 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
734 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
735 the RTC to sync up.
736
71092d70 737* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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741* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
742
743* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
744
745* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
746
747* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
748
d2bbca68 749* 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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751* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
752
753* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 754
4641a16b 755* 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 757Regularly:
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129126f3 759* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 760
129126f3 761* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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763* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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14212119 765* %m in printf() instead of strerror(errno);
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767* pahole
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71092d70 769* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 770
4db17f29 771* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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9e5f3dbb 775Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 777* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)