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1Bugfixes:
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3* enabling an instance unit creates pointless link, and
4 the unit will be started with getty@getty.service:
5 $ systemctl enable getty@.service
6 ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service' '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@.service'
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8* check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
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10* swap units that are activated by one name but shown in the kernel under another are semi-broken
11
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12* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
13 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
14 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
15
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16* make polkit checks async
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a40593a0 18* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
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20* When we detect invalid UTF-8, we cant't use it in an error message:
21 log...("Path is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment: %s", rvalue);
22
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23* shorten the message to sane length:
24
25 Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status display-manager.service' for details.
26
466784c8 27Fedora 20:
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dc7adf20 29* external: ps should gain colums for slice and machine
7b4da18c 30
81d112a8 31* localed:
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32 - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps
33
55d32caf 34* when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
466784c8 35 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
55d32caf 36
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37CGroup Rework Completion:
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94bbc991 39* introduce "mainpid" for scopes (or maybe not?)
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41* implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?)
42
43* implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
44
45* handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
46
049b4474 47* introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
bafb15ba 48
eb124a97 49Features:
154ff088 50
d1b38fac 51* saproxy: Support multiple inherited sockets mapped using different proxies
ae25936d 52
d1b38fac 53* saproxy: Use a nonblocking alternative to getaddrinfo
ae25936d 54
d1b38fac 55* saproxy: Until we can start daemons directly, find a less ugly, less racy alternative than shell scripts for the second man page example.
ae25936d 56
d1b38fac 57* saproxy: Support starting daemons directly without requiring a shell script; update man pages
ae25936d 58
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59* "systemctl cat" or "systemctl view" command or or so, that cats the backing unit file of a service, plus its drop-ins and shows them in a pager
60
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61* 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
62
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63* Add a new Distribute=$NUMBER key to socket units that makes use of SO_REUSEPORT to distribute network traffic on $NUMBER instances
64
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65* tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal also do this for the journal fails contained in it
66
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67* we probably should replace the left-over uses of strv_append() and replace them by strv_push() or strv_extend()
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69* move config_parse_path_strv() out of conf-parser.c
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71* libdsystemd-bus should expose utf8 validation calls
72
7f79cd71 73* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 74
d2e2c03d 75* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink generate a clean
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76 error. Currently we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
77 path anyway.
78
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79* When a Type=forking service fails and needed another service that
80 service is not cleaned up again when it has StopWhenUnneeded=yes
81 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-July/012141.html
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83* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
84
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85* ensure scope units may be started only a single time
86
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87* better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
88
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89* systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
90
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91* for transient units, instead of writing out drop-ins for all properties consider serializing them in the normal serialization stream
92
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93* logind: when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects
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95* session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
96
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97* add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
98
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99* journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
100
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101* given that logind/machined now let PID 1 do all nasty work we can
102 probably reduce the capability set they retain substantially.
103
6aaa8c2f 104* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
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106* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
107
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108* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
109
e1b7e7ec 110* 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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112* 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
113
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114* when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop we should ratelimit that too.
115
c5757cc8 116* "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, should
69af4503 117 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
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118 unit however should remove them all).
119
120* journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
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122* systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
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124* journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
125 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
126 to syslog when it works again.
127
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128* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
129
130* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
131
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132* add a fixed dbus path for "my own unit", "my own session", ... to PID1, logind, ...
133
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134* service_coldplug() appears to reinstall the wrong stop timeout watch?
135
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136* transient units: allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
137
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138* how to reset dynamically changed attributes sanely?
139
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140* when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
141
4ad49000 142* journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
3d3ee759 143
9444b1f2 144* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 145 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 146 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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147 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
148 check for that and suppress event handling.
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150* when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
151 the hierarchies of child processes
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153* document logic of auto/noauto and fail/nofail in fstab in systemd.mount or systemd-fstab-generator man page
154
9444b1f2 155* we should properly escape ssh hostnames we add into dbus server strings
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157* something pulls in pcre as so dep into our daemons such as hostnamed.
158
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159* document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
160
a65f06bb 161* change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
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162 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
163 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
164 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
165
166* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
167 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
168
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169* libsystemd-bus:
170 - default policy (allow uid == 0 and our own uid)
171 - enforce alignment of pointers passed in
eb01ba5d 172 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
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173 - implement translator service
174 - port systemd to new library
175 - implement busname unit type in systemd
176 - move to gvariant
eb01ba5d 177 - merge busctl into systemctl or so?
e4ee6e5c 178 - synthesize sd_bus_message objects from kernel messages
c7819669 179 - properly implement name registry ioctls for kdbus
86312ab8 180 - implement monitor logic
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181 - longer term:
182 * priority queues
86312ab8 183 * priority inheritance
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185* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
186 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
187 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
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189* add an option to nspawn that uses seccomp to make socket(AF_NETLINK,
190 SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_AUDIT) fail the the appropriate error code that
191 makes the audit userspace to think auditing is not available in the
192 kernel.
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194* Introduce a way how we can kill the main process of a service with KillSignal, but all processes with SIGKILL later on
195 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952634
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69af4503 197* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses where the access mode of unit files is nonsensical.
19aa7c4f 198
69af4503 199* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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201* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
202 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
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204* if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
205 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
206 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
207 needs setuid().
208
209* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
210
211* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
212
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213* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
214
215* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
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4a449ed7 217* logind: add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
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219* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
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221* test/:
222 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
223 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
224 - remove all the duplicated code in test/
b8b4d3dd 225
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226* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
227
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228* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
229 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
230 file.
231
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232* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
233 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
234 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
235 destination.
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237* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
238 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
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240* add ConditionArchitecture= or so
241
242* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
243
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244* Support SO_REUSEPORT with socket activation:
245 - Let systemd maintain a pool of servers.
246 - Use for seamless upgrades, by running the new server before stopping the
247 old.
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249* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
250 need manual exponential loops after all
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252* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
253 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
254 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
255 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
256
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257* man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf
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259* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
260 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
261 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
262 that automatically.
263
69af4503 264* rework specifier logic so that we can distinguish OOM errors from other errors
487060c2 265
e5ec62c5 266* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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268* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
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54c31a79 270* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 271
8973790e 272* documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
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69af4503 274* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapse and the time the units ran last
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276* man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
277
278* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
279
69af4503 280* man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
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282* systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
283
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284* man: add more examples to man pages
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286* man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
287
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288* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
289
290* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
291
292* msgcatalog determine default language of entries from the catalog
293 file name. i.e. foobar.de_DE.catalog would set the default entry
294 name for the entries to de_DE if they aren't explicitly suffixed
295 individually.
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297* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
298
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299* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
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301* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
302 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
303 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
304 will be activated.
305
356ce991 306* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 307
81d112a8 308* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 309
b44be3ec 310* EFI:
b44be3ec 311 - write man page for efi boot generator
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312 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
313 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 314 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 315
c0fe5db5 316* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 317
b44be3ec 318* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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320* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
321 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 323* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 324
b44be3ec 325* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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328 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
329 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
330 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
331 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
332 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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333 - logind: non-local X11 server handling
334 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
b44be3ec 335 - pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree
eb124a97 336 - logind: GetSessionByPID() should accept 0 as PID value
e5ec62c5 337 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
e673ad04 338
b44be3ec 339* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 340
b44be3ec 341* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
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b44be3ec 343* journal:
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344 - do not use magic msync() in src/journal/journal-file.c, just call fsync()
345 <alxchk> poettering: looks like msync just calls vfs_fsync
346 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/mm/msync.c#n18
c06bf414 347 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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348 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
349 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
350 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
351 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
352 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
353 - journal: reuse XZ context
354 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
355 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
356 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
357 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
358 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
359 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
360 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 361 - 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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362 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
363 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
364 - journal: when rotating, copy over old acls/access mode
b44be3ec 365 - 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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366 - 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.
367 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
368 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 369 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 370 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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371 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
372 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
373 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
374 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
77a9e8de 375 - journalctl: expand tabs
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376 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
377 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
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378 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
379 - Port upower to use the journal for historical power information used in future calculations
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381* document:
382 - document unit_name_mangle()
383 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in
384 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
385 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
386 - Document word splitting syntax for ExecStart= and friends
387 - document that units from /etc override those from /usr and /run
388 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 389 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 390 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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392* systemctl:
393 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
394 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
395 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
396 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
397 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
398 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
399 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
400 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
401 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
402 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
403 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
404 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
405 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
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407* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
408
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409* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
410
411* timer units:
412 - configurable jitter for timer events
413 - timer events with system resume
414 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
415 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
416 o DST changes
eb124a97 417 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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419* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
420
421* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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422 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
423 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 424 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 425 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 426 user did not request anything like it.
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428* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
429 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
430 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
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432* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
433 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
434 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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435 we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in
436 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
437 better supported alternative.
e707c494 438
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439* figure out relation of --all and --full in the various tools
440
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441* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
442
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443* 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().
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445* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
446* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
447* fedup: generator
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b44be3ec 449* timedated:
b44be3ec 450 - timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
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452* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
453
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454* introduce generic AUGMENT_PID=, AUGMENT_DEVICE= fields
455
b44be3ec 456* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
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458* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
459 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
460 - superset of tmpfiles model
461 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
462 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
463 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
464
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465* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
466 waiting for the timeout
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468* high level net_prio setting in execution context
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470* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
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472* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
473
15abdb9a 474* refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful (or set taint?)
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477 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly
478 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
479 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
480 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
481 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
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483 lxc.network.type=phys mode, and pass through entire network
484 interfaces to the container
485 - nspawn: maybe add a way to drop additional caps, in addition to add additional caps
486 - nspawn: maybe explicitly reset loginuid?
3679d112 487 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
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489* cryptsetup:
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490 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
491 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
492 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 493 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
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424a19f8 497* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 498 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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500* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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8556879e 504* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 505 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
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508
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509* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
510
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511* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
512
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513* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
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515* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
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517* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
518
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519* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container
520
68f16003 521* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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523* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
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525* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
526 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
527 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
528 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 529 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 530 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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534* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
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536* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
537
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538* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
539
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540* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
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88a6c589 542* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
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545 - syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls
546 - syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs?
547 - syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS?
548 - syscall filter: port to libseccomp
549 - system-wide seccomp filter
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551* .device aliases need to be implemented with the "following" logic, probably.
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553* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
554 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
555
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556* introduce Type=pid-file
557
59cea26a 558* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 559
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560* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
561
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562* automount: implement expire:
563 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
564 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
565 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
566 - blocking, needs a thread
567 - run until -EAGAIN
568 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
569 - call umount
570 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
571 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
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574
e01a15b7 575* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 576
abd55b16 577* udev:
3f60bcb5 578 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
abd55b16 579 - move to LGPL
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581 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
b8217b7b 582
18b754d3 583* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording
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585* 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
586
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587* support container_ttys=
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589* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
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591* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
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593* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
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595* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
596
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597* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
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599* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
600
601* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
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603* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
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605* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
606 needs to be auto-respawned?
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608* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
609
de6c78f8 610* tmpfiles: apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 611
b44be3ec 612* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
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615
d3c7d7dd 616* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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618* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
619 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
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624 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
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626* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
627
7c697168 628* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 629
71092d70 630* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
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633 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
634 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
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639 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
640
71092d70 641* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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644 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
645 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
646 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
647 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
648 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
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650* add support for /bin/mount -s
651
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652* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
653
68c7d001 654* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 655 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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656 - enabling dbus services
657 - status update
7a2a0b90 658 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 659 - remote access
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660 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
661 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 662 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 663 - auto-restart
e707c494 664 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 665 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 666 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 667 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 668 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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670 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
671 - how to create your own target
672 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
673 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
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44143309 675* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 676
71092d70 677* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 678
260abb78 679* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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681* Support --test based on current system state
682
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683* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
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687* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
688
129126f3 689* port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID:
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690 - rpcbind (/var/run/rpcbind.sock!) HAVEPATCH
691 - cups HAVEPATCH
a625ac1a 692 - postfix, saslauthd
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693 - apache/samba
694 - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro)
695 - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!)
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71092d70 698* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
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50f2a90d 700* io priority during initialization
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7ba97195 704* systemd-python:
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706 works with ^C
b04c8c83 707 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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710 - plot per-process IO utilization
711 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
712 - document initcall_debug
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714
64eed40c 715* systemd-run is missing zsh completion scripts
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2f8cd170 717External:
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cc9784c6 719* dbus:
cc9784c6 720 - dbus --user
3377af3e 721 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
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723 - allow disabling of fd passing when connecting a AF_UNIX connection
3377af3e 724 - allow disabling of UID passing for AUTH EXTERNAL
b69d29ce 725 - always pass cred data along each message
b44be3ec 726 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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9096ad36 732* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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734* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
735 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
736 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
737 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
738 the RTC to sync up.
739
71092d70 740* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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744* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
745
746* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
747
748* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
749
750* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
751
d2bbca68 752* 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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754* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
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756* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 757
4641a16b 758* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
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129126f3 760Regularly:
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129126f3 762* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 763
129126f3 764* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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766* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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14212119 768* %m in printf() instead of strerror(errno);
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770* pahole
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71092d70 772* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
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4db17f29 774* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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9e5f3dbb 778Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 780* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)