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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.
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13* shorten the message to sane length:
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15 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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17* systemctl --root=container/ set-default ... is totally borked.
18
f38afcd0 19External:
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f38afcd0 21* Fedora: when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
466784c8 22 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
55d32caf 23
f38afcd0 24* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
bafb15ba 25
f38afcd0 26* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
bafb15ba 27
eb124a97 28Features:
154ff088 29
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30* make eparis happy: in the getty generator open ttys to run gettys on
31 first with O_NDELAY and check isatty() to filter out invalid ttys.
32
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33* MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
34
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35* man: move .link, .network and .netdev documentation into their own
36 man pages maybe called "systemd.link(5)", "systemd.network(5)" and
37 "systemd.netdev(5)" or so.
38
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39* extend device cgroup controller support to allow enabling groups of
40 device nodes, so that pts can be allowed in whole. For that,
41 introduce the syntax "block-XYZ" and "char-XYZ" in addition to the
42 existing "/dev/foobar", where XYZ then is looked up in /proc/devices
43 and mapped to one or more majors.
44
45* Add all pts device nodes to those allowed by default when the device
46 controller is used.
47
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48* "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
49 /proc/$PID/exe
50
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51* systemctl (and possibly related tools): support a new switch that
52 allows enumerating units in local containers recursively. "systemctl
53 list-units -R" or so should not only lists on the host, but also the
54 services in all containers in a pretty way, to give an overview of
55 the entire system. Also, maybe add "systemctl list-machines" which
56 works like "machinectl list" but includes information about the
57 health status of each registered machine. For that we should
58 probably implement something that encodes the system health status
59 in a single enum state, i.e. something like a system-wide state
60 starting → running → failed → stopping, that is based on the current
61 job queue and a check for failed services. Maybe then change
62 "systemctl status" without args to output this state along with a
63 selection of other data, such as the uptime or so.
64
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65* Add a seccomp-based filter for socket() calls to limit services to
66 specific address families (for example: AF_UNIX), inspired by
67 Android's sandboxing
68
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69* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
70 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
71 for ReusePort=
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73* add a timelimit to generator invocation
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75* socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
76 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
77 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
78 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
79 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
80
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81* New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
82
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83* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
84 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
85 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
86 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
87 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
88 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
89
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90* completions:
91 - busctl zsh completion is outdated
92 - systemd-nspawn -Z/-L/-q is missing for zsh
93 - systemd-nspawn completion is missing for bash
94 - manager property enumeration was broken when systemd moved to /usr/lib/
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96* cgroups:
97 - implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?)
98 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
99 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
100 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
101 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
102 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
103 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
104 the hierarchies of child processes
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106* transient units:
107 - allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
108 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
109 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
ebcf1f97 110
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111* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
112
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113* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
114
f38afcd0 115* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
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117* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
118
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119* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
120
94676f3e 121* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
6fd4d020 122
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123* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
124
af1082b0 125* socket-proxyd: Use sd-resolve to resolve the server address
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127* 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
128
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129* move config_parse_path_strv() out of conf-parser.c
130
7f79cd71 131* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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133* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
134 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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135 path anyway.
136
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137* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
138
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139* given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
140 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
e10e429f 141 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
e1b7e7ec 142
6aaa8c2f 143* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 144
e1b7e7ec 145* 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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147* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
148
149* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
150
9444b1f2 151* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 152 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 153 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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154 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
155 check for that and suppress event handling.
9444b1f2 156
19aadacf 157* something pulls in pcre as shared object dependency into our daemons such as hostnamed.
1f263d4d 158
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159* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
160 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
161
6bb648a1 162* sd-bus:
eb01ba5d 163 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
86312ab8 164 - implement monitor logic
f38afcd0 165 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 166 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
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167 - systemd-bus-proxyd needs to enforce good old XML policy
168 - upload minimal kdbus policy into the kernel at boot
80caea6c 169 - kdbus: matches against source or destination pids for an "strace -p"-like feel. Problem: The PID info needs to be available in userspace too...
ab9716c2 170 - longer term: priority inheritance
452de75e 171 - check sender of response messages
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172 - dbus spec updates:
173 - kdbus mapping
174 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
175 - GVariant
bee7e928 176 - "const" properties (posted)
00586799 177 - port exit-on-idle logic to byebye ioctl
6a8b5fa4 178 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
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179 - allow updating attach flags during runtime
180 - pid1: peek into activating message when activating a service
69727e6d 181 - test bloom filter generation indexes
2fcb3af6 182 - introduce sd_bus_emit_object_added()/sd_bus_emit_object_removed() that automatically includes the build-in interfaces in the list
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183 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
184 - constructors for bus messages should probably not be OK with a NULL bus pointer
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186* sd-event
12179984 187 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
eb01ba5d 188
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189* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
190 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
191 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
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.
197
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198* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
199
200* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
201
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202* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
203
204* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
205
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206* timedatectl: print a nicer message when enabling ntp fails because ntpd/chrony are not installed
207
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208* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
209
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210* test/:
211 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
212 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
b8b4d3dd 213
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214* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
215
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216* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
217 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
218 file.
219
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220* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
221 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
222 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
223 destination.
224
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225* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
226 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
227
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228* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
229
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230* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
231 need manual exponential loops after all
232
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233* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
234 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
235 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
236 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
237
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238* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
239 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
240 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
241 that automatically.
242
e5ec62c5 243* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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245* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
246
54c31a79 247* 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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249* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
250
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251* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
252
253* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
254
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255* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
256
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257* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
258
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259* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
260 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
261 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
262 will be activated.
263
356ce991 264* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 265
81d112a8 266* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 267
b44be3ec 268* EFI:
b44be3ec 269 - write man page for efi boot generator
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270 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
271 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 272 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 273
c0fe5db5 274* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 275
b44be3ec 276* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
e9fd44b7 277
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278* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
279 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 281* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 282
b44be3ec 283* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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285* logind:
286 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
287 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
288 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
289 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
290 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
b44be3ec 291 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
e5ec62c5 292 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
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293 - when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects
294 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
295 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
296 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
297 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
298 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
299 needs setuid().
e673ad04 300
b44be3ec 301* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 302
b44be3ec 303* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
e673ad04 304
b44be3ec 305* journal:
c06bf414 306 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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307 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
308 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
309 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
310 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
311 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
312 - journal: reuse XZ context
313 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
314 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
315 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
316 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
317 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
318 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
319 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 320 - 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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321 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
322 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
b44be3ec 323 - 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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324 - 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.
325 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
326 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 327 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 328 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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329 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
330 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
331 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
332 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
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333 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
334 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 335 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 336 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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337 - tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal, also do this for the journal fails contained in it
338 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
339 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
340 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
341 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
342 to syslog when it works again.
343 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
344 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
345 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
346 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
347 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
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349* document:
8b8f2591 350 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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351 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
352 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 353 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 354 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 355 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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356 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
357 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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358 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
359 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
360 - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
361 - man: add more examples to man pages
362 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
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364* systemctl:
365 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
366 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
367 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
368 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
369 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
370 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
371 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
372 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
373 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
374 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
375 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
376 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
377 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
f38afcd0 378 - rework wait filter to not require match callback
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379 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
380 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
8b8f2591 381 - in systemctl list-timers show time triggering units ran last
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383* unit install:
384 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
385 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
386 - "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, but should
387 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
388 unit however should remove them all).
389 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
390 - systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
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392* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
393
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394* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
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396* timer units:
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397 - timer events with system resume
398 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
399 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
400 o DST changes
eb124a97 401 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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402 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
403 - 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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404 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
405 - anacron-like feature
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407* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
408
409* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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410 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
411 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 412 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 413 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 414 user did not request anything like it.
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416* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
417 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
418 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
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420* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
421 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
422 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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423 we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in
424 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
425 better supported alternative.
e707c494 426
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427* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
428
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429* 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().
430
431* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
432* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
433* fedup: generator
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f38afcd0 435* timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
6d0274f1 436
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437* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
438
b44be3ec 439* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 440
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441* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
442 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
443 - superset of tmpfiles model
444 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
445 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
446 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
447
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448* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
449 waiting for the timeout
dcfc4b2e 450
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451* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
452
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453* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
454
b44be3ec 455* nspawn:
86d0d519 456 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with /usr/bin/getent, so that NSS resolving works correctly
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457 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
458 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
459 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
460 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
3679d112 461 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
9cb74bcb 462 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
a56b63f4 463 - support taking a btrfs snapshot at startup and dropping it afterwards
af1082b0 464 - maybe: hookup nspawn and PrivateNetwork=yes with "ip netns"
af1082b0 465 - allow booting disk images with a GPT signature using the bootloaderspec partition uuids
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467* cryptsetup:
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468 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
469 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
470 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 471 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 472
424a19f8 473* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 474 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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476* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
477
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478* make timer units go away after they elapsed
479
8556879e 480* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 481 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
8556879e 482
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483* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
484
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485* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
486
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487* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
488
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489* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
490
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491* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
492
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493* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
494
68f16003 495* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 496
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497* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
498
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499* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
500 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
501 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
502 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 503 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 504 but much rather a disconnect on success.
0790b9fe 505
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506* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
507
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508* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
509
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510* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
511
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512* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
513
88a6c589 514* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
8351ceae 515
bcd02123 516* syscall filter: optionally don't enforce no new privs?
c66d36e5 517
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518* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
519 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
520
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521* introduce Type=pid-file
522
59cea26a 523* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 524
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525* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
526
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527* automount: implement expire:
528 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
529 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
530 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
531 - blocking, needs a thread
532 - run until -EAGAIN
533 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
534 - call umount
535 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
536 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
465349c0 537
e01a15b7 538* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 539
abd55b16 540* udev:
3f60bcb5 541 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
abd55b16 542 - move to LGPL
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543 - kill scsi_id
544 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 545 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 546
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547* 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
548
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549* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
550
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551* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
552
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553* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
554
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555* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
556
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557* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
558
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559* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
560
561* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
562
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563* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
564
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565* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
566 needs to be auto-respawned?
567
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568* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
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570* tmpfiles:
571 - check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
572 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 573
b44be3ec 574* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
14e639ae 575
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576* hide PAM/TCPWrap options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
577
d3c7d7dd 578* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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580* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
581 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
582
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583* move PAM code into its own binary
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585* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
586 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
587
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588* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
589
7c697168 590* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 591
71092d70 592* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
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594* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
595 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
596 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
597
f38afcd0 598* support User= and Group= attributes for AF_UNIX sockets. (difficult, requires NSS from PID 1?)
a012ab52 599
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600* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
601 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
602
71092d70 603* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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605* readahead:
606 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
607 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
608 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
609 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
610 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
b23de6af 611
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612* add support for /bin/mount -s
613
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614* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
615
68c7d001 616* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 617 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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618 - enabling dbus services
619 - status update
7a2a0b90 620 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 621 - remote access
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622 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
623 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 624 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 625 - auto-restart
e707c494 626 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 627 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 628 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 629 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 630 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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632 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
633 - how to create your own target
634 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
635 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 636
44143309 637* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 638
71092d70 639* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 640
260abb78 641* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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643* Support --test based on current system state
644
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645* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
646
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647* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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649* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
650
71092d70 651* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
246756ca 652
50f2a90d 653* io priority during initialization
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656
7ba97195 657* systemd-python:
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659 works with ^C
b04c8c83 660 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
7ba97195 661
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663 - plot per-process IO utilization
664 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
665 - document initcall_debug
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666 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
667
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669 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
670 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
671 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 672
88e4d1d7 673* sd-rtnl:
32216660 674 - add support for exiting containers without reading them fully first
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675 - add support for more attribute types
676
0a4b9a07 677* networkd:
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678 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
679 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 680 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 681 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
0a4b9a07 682
2f8cd170 683External:
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cc9784c6 685* dbus:
3377af3e 686 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 687 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 688
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689* fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
690
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691* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
692
9096ad36 693* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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695* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
696 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
697 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
698 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
699 the RTC to sync up.
700
71092d70 701* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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704
705* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
706
707* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
708
709* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
710
711* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
712
d2bbca68 713* 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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715* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
716
717* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 718
4641a16b 719* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
19aa7c4f 720
129126f3 721Regularly:
874aa2cc 722
129126f3 723* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 724
129126f3 725* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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727* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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71092d70 731* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 732
4db17f29 733* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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9e5f3dbb 737Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 739* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)