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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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f38afcd0 7External:
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f38afcd0 9* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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11Janitorial Clean-ups:
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13* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
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15* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
16 semantics, like we do for device.c now
17
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18Features:
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20* make use of the new statx mountid and rootmount fields in path_get_mnt_id()
21 and fd_is_mount_point()
22
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23* nspawn: move "incoming mount" directory to /run/host, move "inaccessible"
24 nodes to /run/host, move notify socket (for sd_notify() between payload and
25 container manager)
26
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27* cryptsetup: if keyfile specified in crypttab is AF_UNIX socket, connect to it
28 and read from it (like we do elsewhere with READ_FULL_FILE_CONNECT_SOCKET)
29
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30* repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
31
32* add /etc/integritytab, to support dm-integrity setups. In particular those
33 with HMAC as hash function, so that we can have a protected /home without
34 encryption (leaving encryption to the individual dirs/homed).
35
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36* complement root=, rootflags=, rootfstype= with rootsubdir= which allows
37 mounting a subdir of the root fs as actual root. This can be used as
38 fstype-agnostic version of btrfs' rootflags=subvol=foobar.
39
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40* add --copy-from and --copy-to command to systemd-dissect which copies stuff
41 in and out of a disk image
42
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43* Support ProtectProc= or so, using: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11310197/
44
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45* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
46
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47* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
48 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
49
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50* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
51 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
52 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
53 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
54 anything like that.
55
5c0102f8 56* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
cb713f16 57 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
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58 user's journal stream down but not the others.
59
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60* add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
61 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
62 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
63
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64* move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
65 these days
66
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67* nspawn: support time namespaces
68
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69* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
70 reading/writing files
71
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72* add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
73
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74* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
75 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
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77* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
78
79* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
80
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81* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
82 when it exits
83
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84* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
85 o turn into dlopen() deps:
86 - pcre2 (always) — irrelevant on Fedora, since dep by
87 libselinux, but should benefit Debian
88 - libpwquality (always) - only relevant for homed, and maybe soon
89 firstboot
90 - elfutils (always)
91 - p11-kit-trust (always)
92 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
93 - cryptsetup-libs (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not in systemd-cryptsetup)
94 - similar: libblkid
95 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
96 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
97 since they are so basic and our defaults)
98 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
99 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
100
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101* seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
102 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
103 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
104
105* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
106 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
107 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
108
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109* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
110 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
111
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112* make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
113 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
114 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
115
a6e1018d 116* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
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117 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, tmpfiles, sysusers,
118 systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn,
119 systemd-firstboot)
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121* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
122
123* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
124 specific service
125
126* seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
127
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128* per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
129 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
130 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
131 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
132 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
133 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
134 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
135 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
136
137* homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
138 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
139
140* homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
141 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
142
143* homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
144 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
145 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
146
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147* homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
148 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
149 signature
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151* homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
152 and insert a local signature instead.
153
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154* homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
155 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
156 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
15dd4515 157 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
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158 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
159
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160* homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
161
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162* homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
163 easily?
164
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165* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
166 exists and responds.
167
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168* when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
169 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
170 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
171 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
172 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
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174* cryptsetup: support FIDO2 tokens for deriving keys (i.e. do what homed can do
175 also in plain cryptsetup)
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177* systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
178 creates
179
86b52a39 180* homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
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181 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
182 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
183 hence we can make them quicker to work.
184
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185* bootctl:
186 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
187 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
188 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
189
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190* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
191 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
192 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
193
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194* by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
195 allow so that systemd survives
196
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197* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
198 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
199
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200* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
201 systemd-makefs.service instead.
202
91fc013f 203* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 204 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
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206* unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
207 confusion is gone)
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208 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
209 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
210 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
211 - port importd over from libgcrypt
212 - when that's done: kill khash.c
213 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
214
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215* kill zenata, all hail weblate?
216
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217* when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
218
219* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
220 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
221
222* hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
223 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
224 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
225 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
226 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
227
492f91d8 228* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
86b52a39 229 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
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230 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
231 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
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233* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
234 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
235 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
236 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
237 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
238 automatically.
239
240* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
241 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
242
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243* systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
244 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
245
246* systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
247
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248* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
249 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
250 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
251 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
252 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
253 fails to apply use the latter.
254
255* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
256 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
257
258* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
259 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
260
261* systemd-repart: add --size=auto for generating/resizing images of minimal
262 size, i.e. where the image file is sized exactly as large as necessary taking
263 SizeMin= into account, but not a single byte larger.
264
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265* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
266 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
267
2a4be3c5 268* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
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269 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
270
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271* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
272 realname substr searches in varlink API
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274* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
275
2a4be3c5 276* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 277
f1eb0ccd 278* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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280* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
281 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
282 initrd had set.
283
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284* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
285 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
286 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
287 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
288 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
289 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
290
291* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
292 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
293 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
294
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295* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
296 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
297 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
298 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
299 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
300 source.
301
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302* figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
303 with immutable /usr
304
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305* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
306 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
307 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
308
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309* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
310
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311* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
312 the hibernation
313
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314* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
315 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
316 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
317 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
318 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
319 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
320 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
321 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
322 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
323 hibernation mode. (see
324 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
325 section 10.2.2.8 and
326 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
327 at the end).
328
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329* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
330 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
331 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
332 output for them.
333
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334* systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
335 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
336
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337* We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
338 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
339 constant vendor data.
340
c6526b8d 341* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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343* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
344 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
345
346* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
347 fallback in "machinectl shell"
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349* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
350 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
351 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
352
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353* homed:
354 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
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355 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
356 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
357 - resize on login?
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358 - shrink fs on logout?
359 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
360 - create on activate?
361 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
362 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
363 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
364 systemd --user is shut down.
365 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
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366 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
367 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
86b52a39 368 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
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369 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
370 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
371 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
372 - description field for groups
373 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
374 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
375 - query password from kernel keyring first
376 - update even if record is "absent"
377 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
378 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
379 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
380 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
381 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
382 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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383 - introduce API for "making room", that grows/shrinks home directory
384 according to elastic parameters, discards blocks, and removes additional snapshots. Call it
385 either from UI when disk space gets low
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387* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
388 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
389 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
390 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
391 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
392 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
393 exec().
394
395* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
396
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397* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
398 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
399
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400* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
401
402* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
403 gnome-bluetooth and friends
404
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405* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
406 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
407 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
408 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
409 cgroup.
410
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411* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
412 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
413 root.
414
415* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
416 is issued.
417
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418* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
419
420* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
421
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422* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
423 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
424 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
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d238709c 426* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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427 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
428 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
429
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430* add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
431 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
432 ConfigurationDirectory=.
433
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434* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
435
d3584ec4 436* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
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438* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
439 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
440
06898123 441* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 442 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 443 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
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445* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
446
447* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
448 patching around
449
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450* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
451 log.c and sd-journal-send
452
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453* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
454
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455* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
456
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457* sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
458 can add in file system drivers and such
459
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460* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
461 non-zero "tries done" count
462
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463* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
464 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
465 it should skip the variant type string though.
466
467* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
468 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
469 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
470 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
471 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
472 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
473 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
474 CODE_FILE.
475
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476* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
477 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
478 some explanatory text online.
479
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480* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
481
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482* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
483 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
484 the slices, and the units attached to them.
485
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486* the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
487 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
bc130b68 488 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
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489 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
490 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
491 way)
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493* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
494 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
495 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
496
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497* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
498 original defaults before calling parse_config()
499
72d711ef 500* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
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503 Specifically:
504
505 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
506 properly)
e83419d0 507 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 508 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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510* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
511 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
512
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513* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
514 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
515 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
516 files and suchlike we operate on.
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518* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
519
520* add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
521
522* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
523 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
524
5da19043 525* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
5238e957 526 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
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527 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
528 numbers.
529
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530* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
531 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
532 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
533 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
534 unlinked from any dir.
535
bd1b3f75 536* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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539
540* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
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542* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
543 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
544 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
545 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
546 should reflink the image file itself.
547
548 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
549 specific paths only like this.
550
53c70a27 551* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 552 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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554 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
555 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
556
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557* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
558
559* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
560
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561* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
562 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
563
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564* teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
565 project quota
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567* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
568 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
569 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
570 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
571 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
572 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
573 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
574 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
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576* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
577 for root, but only then.
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579* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
580
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581* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
582 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
583
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584* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
585 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
586
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587* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
588 host-side interface pointing to the container.
589
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590* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
591 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
592 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
593 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
594 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
595
cb77e122 596* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 597
899feb72 598* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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600* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
601 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
602 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
603
5f7ecd61 604* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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606* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
607 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
608
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609* blog about fd store and restartable services
610
611* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
612
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613* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
614 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
615
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616* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
617 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
618 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
619 ID is available.
620
621* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
622 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
623 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
624
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625* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
626 parameters
627
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628* maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
629 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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630 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
631 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
632 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
633 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
634 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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636* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
637 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
638
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639* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
640 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
641 wait to retrieve their exit data.
642
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643* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
644 about it in the resource log message
645
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646* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
647 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
648
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649* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
650 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
651 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
652
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653* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
654 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
655
656 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
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658* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
659 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
660 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
661 logging.
662
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664 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
665 "convertible" form factor
666
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667* Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
668 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
669 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
670 as MAINPID.
671
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672* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
673 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
674 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
675
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676* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
677 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
678
679* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
680 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
681 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
682 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
683 natural habitat.
684
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685* gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
686 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
687 /usr is mounted into.
688
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689* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
690
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691* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
692
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693* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
694 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
695 relative to the configured default value.
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697* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
698
699* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
700
04397464 701* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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703* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
704
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705* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
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707* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
708
04397464 709* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
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04397464 711* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 712
04397464 713* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
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8ce9b83a 715* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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717* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
718 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
719 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
720
e40a326c 721* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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723* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
724
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725* mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
726 partitions
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728* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
729 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
730 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
731 mapping to work.
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734
735* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
736
737* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
738
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739* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
740 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
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742* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
743 reload the unit file anyway
744
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745* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
746 from the SIGBUS handler
747
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748* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
749
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750* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
751 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
752
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753* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
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755* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
756 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
757
f9bf1b8f 758* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 759 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 760 specifications.
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763
5ebbb45b 764* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
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766* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
767
a2088fd0 768* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 769 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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770 prefixed with /sys generally special.
771 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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773* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
774
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775* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
776
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777* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
778 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
779 state.
780 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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782* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
783 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
784 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
785 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
786 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
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788* networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
789 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
790
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791* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
792
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793* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
794 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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796* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
797 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
798 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
799 do, for example)
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801* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
802 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
803
e031c227 804* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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805 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
806
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807* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
808
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809* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
810 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
811 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
812 returning from the "systemctl stop".
813
b568ef14 814* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
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816* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
817
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818* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
819 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
820
25e773ee 821* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 822
279f0366 823* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 824
5238e957 825* systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
b42de08a 826 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
202aea45 827
720652b3 828* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 829
720652b3 830* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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832* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
833
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834* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
835 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
836
9d6db739 837* resolved:
9d6db739 838 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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840 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 841 - avahi compat
9d6db739 842 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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843 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
844 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
845 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 846 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 847 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 848
e25b5a8d 849* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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853* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
854
a01647e5 855* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 856 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
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858* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
859
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860* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
861
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862* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
863
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864* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
865 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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867* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
868
6a3f892a 869* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 870 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 871 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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873* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
874 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
875 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 876
f9bf1b8f 877* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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879* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
880 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
881 for ReusePort=
882
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883* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
884 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
885 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
886 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
887 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
888 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
889
f38afcd0 890* cgroups:
f38afcd0 891 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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893 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
894 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
895 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
896 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 897
f38afcd0 898* transient units:
f38afcd0 899 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
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901* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
902
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903* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
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905* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
906
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907* 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
908
7f79cd71 909* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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911* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
912 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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914
04397464 915* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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918
919* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
920
6bb648a1 921* sd-bus:
0d43ffef 922 - EBADSLT handling
fa607802 923 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
7212c608 924 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
57f2a947 925 - see if we can introduce a new sd_bus_get_owner_machine_id() call to retrieve the machine ID of the machine of the bus itself
f38afcd0 926 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 927 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
ab9716c2 928 - longer term: priority inheritance
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931 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 932 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 933 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
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935* sd-event
12179984 936 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 937 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
e25b5a8d 938 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
eb01ba5d 939
69af4503 940* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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943 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
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945* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
946
947* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
948
fff87a35 949* test/:
20d52ab6 950 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 951
b5c03638 952* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 953 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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954 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
955 destination.
956
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957* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
958 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
959
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960* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
961
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963 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
964 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
965
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966* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
967 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
968 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
969 is installed.
795607b2 970
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971* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
972 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
973 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
974 that automatically.
975
e5ec62c5 976* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 977
ccddd104 978* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 979
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980* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
981
356ce991 982* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 983
b44be3ec 984* EFI:
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985 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
986 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 987 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 988* bootctl
631427d6 989 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 990
c0fe5db5 991* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 992
b44be3ec 993* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 994
b44be3ec 995* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
e6c6e7af 996
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998 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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999 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1000 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1001 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1002 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1003 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1004 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1005 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1006 needs setuid().
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1007 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1008 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1009 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1010 complete.
1011 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1012 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1013 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
279f0366 1014 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
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1015 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1016 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1017 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1018 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1019 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1020 relogins
77b19caf 1021 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 1022
b44be3ec 1023* journal:
57f2a947 1024 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1025 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1026 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1027 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 1028 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1029 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1030 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1031 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1032 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1033 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1034 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1035 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1036 - 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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1037 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1038 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1039 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1040 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1041 - 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.
1042 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1043 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1044 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1045 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1046 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1047 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1048 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1049 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1050 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1051 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1052 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1053 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1054 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1055 to syslog when it works again.
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1056 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1057 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1058 journals in.
1059 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1060 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1061 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1062 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1063 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1064 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1065 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1066 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1067 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1068 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1069 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1070 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1071 operation.
1072 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1073 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1074 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1075 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1076 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1077 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1078 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1079 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1080 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1081 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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1084 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1085 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1086 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1087
b44be3ec 1088* document:
8b8f2591 1089 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1090 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1091 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1092 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1093 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1094 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1095 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1096 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1097 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1098 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 1099 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1100 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1101
1102* systemctl:
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1103 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1104 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1105 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1106 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1107 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1108 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1109 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1110 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1111 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1112 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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1114* unit install:
1115 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1116 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
8b04b925 1117
b44be3ec 1118* timer units:
b44be3ec 1119 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
b44be3ec 1120 o DST changes
90e071d1 1121 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 1122
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1123* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1124
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1125* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1126
b44be3ec 1127* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 1128
f59d1da8 1129* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
dcfc4b2e 1130
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1131* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1132
d28315e4 1133* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 1134
b44be3ec 1135* nspawn:
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1136 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1137 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1138 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1139 from the kernel's logs.
1140 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1141 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1142 interface be missing
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1143 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1144 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1145 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1146 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1147 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1148 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1149 PID 1...
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1150 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1151 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1152
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1153* dissect
1154 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1155 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1156
e25b5a8d 1157* machined:
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1158 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1159 removed or added to an existing machine
1160 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1161 difference host, via ssh
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1162 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1163 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1164 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1165 question
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1166 - "machinectl history"
1167 - "machinectl diff"
1168 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1169 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1170
b44be3ec 1171* cryptsetup:
b44be3ec 1172 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
5f1dac6b 1173 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 1174
424a19f8 1175* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 1176 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
424a19f8 1177
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1178* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1179
68f16003 1180* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 1181
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1182* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1183
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1184* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1185
abd55b16 1186* udev:
abd55b16 1187 - move to LGPL
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1188 - kill scsi_id
1189 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1190 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1191
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1192* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1193
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1194* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1195
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1196* coredump:
1197 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1198 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
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1199
1200* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1201
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1202* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1203 needs to be auto-respawned?
1204
f38afcd0 1205* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1206 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1207 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1208 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1209 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1210 calls follow symlinks.
1258097c 1211
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1212* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1213
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1214* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1215 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1216 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1217
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1218* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1219 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1220
71092d70 1221* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 1222
68c7d001 1223* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 1224 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
68c7d001 1225 - enabling dbus services
7a2a0b90 1226 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 1227 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 1228 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 1229 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 1230 - auto-restart
e707c494 1231 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 1232 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 1233 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 1234 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 1235 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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1236 - calendar time events
1237 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1238 - how to create your own target
1239 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1240 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 1241
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1242* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1243
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1244* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1245
e25b5a8d 1246* pid1:
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1247 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1248 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1249 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1250 that are not supported...
1251 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1252 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1253 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1254 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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1255 - move PAM code into its own binary
1256 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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1257 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1258 - Support --test based on current system state
1259 - 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().
1260 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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1261 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1262 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1263 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1264 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1265 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1266 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1267 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1268 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1269
1270* unit files:
1271 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1272 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1273 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1274 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1275 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1276 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1277 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1278 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
e25b5a8d 1279 - introduce Type=pid-file
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1280 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1281 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
e25b5a8d 1282 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
e5171296 1283 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
e25b5a8d 1284
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1285* udev-link-config:
1286 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1287 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1288 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1289
88e4d1d7 1290* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1291 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1292 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1293
0a4b9a07 1294* networkd:
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1295 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1296 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 1297 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 1298 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1299 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 1300 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1301 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1302 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1303 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 1304 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 1305 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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1306 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1307 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1308 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1309 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1310 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1311 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1312 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
e25b5a8d 1313 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1314
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1316
ac976532 1317* dhcp:
424a8732 1318 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1319
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1320* dhcp6:
1321 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1322 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1323 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1324 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1325 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1326 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1327 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1328 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1329 or interface down
1330 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1331 this behavior
4a77c53d 1332 - RouteTable= ?
37d8b536 1333
2f8cd170 1334External:
74fe1fe3 1335
cc9784c6 1336* dbus:
3377af3e 1337 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 1338 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 1339
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1340* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1341
71092d70 1342* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
14bd37fe 1343
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1344* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1345
d2bbca68 1346* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
8973790e 1347
8973790e 1348* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 1349
4641a16b 1350* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
19aa7c4f 1351
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1352* register catalog database signature as file magic
1353
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1354* zsh shell completion:
1355 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 1356 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1cf3c30c 1357
90137b62 1358* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
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1359* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1360 after being started.
2c12a402 1361
129126f3 1362Regularly:
874aa2cc 1363
129126f3 1364* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 1365
129126f3 1366* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
5b6319dc 1367
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1368* pahole
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d28315e4 1370* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 1371
4db17f29 1372* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
88fae6e0 1373
d05c556b 1374* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
62353f69 1375String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment