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ee9c9500 1Bugfixes:
19aadacf 2* enabling an instance unit creates a pointless link, and
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3 the unit will be started with getty@getty.service:
4 $ systemctl enable getty@.service
5 ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service' '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@.service'
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7* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
8 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
9 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
10
a40593a0 11* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
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13* shorten the message to sane length:
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15 Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status display-manager.service' for details.
16
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17* systemctl --root=container/ set-default ... is totally borked.
18
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19* sd_bus_unref() is broken regarding self-references and "pseudo thread-safety".
20 See the comment in sd_bus_unref() for more..
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f38afcd0 22External:
7b4da18c 23
f38afcd0 24* Fedora: when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
466784c8 25 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
55d32caf 26
f38afcd0 27* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
bafb15ba 28
f38afcd0 29* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
bafb15ba 30
eb124a97 31Features:
154ff088 32
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33* add "M" as recursive version of "m" to tmpfiles, then use it for
34 chowning /run/log/journal (but not /var/log/journal), so that we
35 adjust the perms of journal files created before tmpfiles ran.
36
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37* expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
38
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39* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
40
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41* consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
42
43* sd-event: define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
44
6a3f892a 45* gpt-auto-generator:
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46 - Support LUKS for root devices
47 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 48 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 49
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50* improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
51 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
52 don't have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
53 the most common operations.
54
726a6e96 55* support transient mount units
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57* add an "input" group to udev logic and add all input devices to it
58
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59* machined: provide calls GetMachineByAddress() on the manager
60 interface to get the machine for a local IP address, and
61 GetAddress() on the Machine interface to get the Address for a
62 machine. Implement via forking off child process which quickly joins
63 the cotnainer and passes data to parent. Show this in "machinectl
64 status", and use it to implement NSS module to provide automatic
65 name resolution for containers.
66
67* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
68 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
69 when it is otherwise off
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71* MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
72
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73* "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
74 /proc/$PID/exe
75
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76* systemctl: support --recursive for list-sockets, list-timers,
77 ... too, not just for list-units.
7bb29549 78
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79* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
80 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
81 for ReusePort=
82
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83* socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
84 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
85 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
86 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
87 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
88
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89* New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
90
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91* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
92 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
93 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
94 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
95 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
96 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
97
ef417cfd 98* completions:
ef417cfd 99 - manager property enumeration was broken when systemd moved to /usr/lib/
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f38afcd0 101* cgroups:
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102 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
103 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
104 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
105 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
106 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
107 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
108 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 109
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110* transient units:
111 - allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
112 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
113 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
ebcf1f97 114
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115* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
116
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117* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
118
f38afcd0 119* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
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121* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
122
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123* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
124
94676f3e 125* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
6fd4d020 126
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127* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
128
af1082b0 129* socket-proxyd: Use sd-resolve to resolve the server address
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131* 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
132
7f79cd71 133* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 134
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135* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
136 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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137 path anyway.
138
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139* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
140
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141* given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
142 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
e10e429f 143 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
e1b7e7ec 144
6aaa8c2f 145* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 146
e1b7e7ec 147* 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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149* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
150
151* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
152
9444b1f2 153* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 154 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 155 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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156 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
157 check for that and suppress event handling.
9444b1f2 158
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159* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
160 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
161
6bb648a1 162* sd-bus:
eb01ba5d 163 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
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164 - systemd-bus-proxyd needs to enforce good old XML policy
165 - port exit-on-idle logic to byebye ioctl
166 - allow updating attach flags during runtime
167 - pid1: peek into activating message when activating a service
168 - introduce sd_bus_emit_object_added()/sd_bus_emit_object_removed() that automatically includes the build-in interfaces in the list
169 - constructors for bus messages should probably not be OK with a NULL bus pointer
170 - .busname units should not use get_user_creds()/get_cgroup_creds() but instead do NSS only in temporarily forked off child
f38afcd0 171 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 172 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
80caea6c 173 - kdbus: matches against source or destination pids for an "strace -p"-like feel. Problem: The PID info needs to be available in userspace too...
ab9716c2 174 - longer term: priority inheritance
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175 - dbus spec updates:
176 - kdbus mapping
177 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
178 - GVariant
bee7e928 179 - "const" properties (posted)
2ecfc64e 180 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 181 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
69727e6d 182 - test bloom filter generation indexes
0f3e07b7 183 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
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185* sd-event
12179984 186 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
eb01ba5d 187
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188* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
189 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
190 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
191
69af4503 192* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
e8a7a315 193
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194* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
195 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
196
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197* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
198
199* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
200
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201* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
202
203* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
204
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205* timedatectl: print a nicer message when enabling ntp fails because ntpd/chrony are not installed
206
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207* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
208
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209* test/:
210 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
211 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
b8b4d3dd 212
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213* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
214
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215* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
216 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
217 file.
218
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219* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
220 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
221 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
222 destination.
223
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224* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
225 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
226
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227* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
228
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229* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
230 need manual exponential loops after all
231
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232* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
233 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
234 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
235 is installed.
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237* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
238 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
239 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
240 that automatically.
241
e5ec62c5 242* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 243
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244* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
245
54c31a79 246* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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248* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
249
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250* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
251
252* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
253
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254* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
255
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256* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
257
356ce991 258* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 259
81d112a8 260* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 261
b44be3ec 262* EFI:
b44be3ec 263 - write man page for efi boot generator
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264 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
265 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 266 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 267
c0fe5db5 268* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 269
b44be3ec 270* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
e9fd44b7 271
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272* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
273 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 275* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 276
b44be3ec 277* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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279* logind:
280 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
281 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
282 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
283 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
284 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
e5ec62c5 285 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
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286 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
287 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
288 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
289 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
290 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
291 needs setuid().
e673ad04 292
b44be3ec 293* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 294
b44be3ec 295* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
e673ad04 296
b44be3ec 297* journal:
c06bf414 298 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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299 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
300 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
301 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
302 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
303 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
304 - journal: reuse XZ context
305 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
306 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
307 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
308 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
309 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
310 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
311 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 312 - 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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313 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
314 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
b44be3ec 315 - 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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316 - 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.
317 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
318 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 319 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 320 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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321 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
322 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
323 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
324 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
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325 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
326 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 327 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 328 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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329 - tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal, also do this for the journal fails contained in it
330 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
331 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
332 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
333 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
334 to syslog when it works again.
335 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
336 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
337 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
338 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
339 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
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341* document:
8b8f2591 342 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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343 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
344 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 345 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 346 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 347 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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348 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
349 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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350 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
351 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
352 - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
353 - man: add more examples to man pages
354 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
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356* systemctl:
357 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
358 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
359 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
360 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
361 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
362 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
363 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
364 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
365 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
366 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
367 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
368 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
369 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
f38afcd0 370 - rework wait filter to not require match callback
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371 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
372 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
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374* unit install:
375 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
376 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
377 - "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, but should
378 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
379 unit however should remove them all).
380 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
381 - systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
8b04b925 382
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383* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
384
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385* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
386
387* timer units:
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388 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
389 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
390 o DST changes
eb124a97 391 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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392 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
393 - 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
90e071d1 394 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
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396* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
397
398* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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399 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
400 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 401 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 402 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 403 user did not request anything like it.
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405* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
406 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
407 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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408 we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in
409 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
410 better supported alternative.
e707c494 411
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412* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
413
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414* 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().
415
416* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
417* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
418* fedup: generator
603cd8fe 419
f38afcd0 420* timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
6d0274f1 421
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422* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
423
b44be3ec 424* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 425
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426* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
427 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
428 - superset of tmpfiles model
429 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
430 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
431 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
432
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433* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
434 waiting for the timeout
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436* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
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438* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
439
b44be3ec 440* nspawn:
b44be3ec 441 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
b44be3ec 442 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
9e281251 443 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters
9cb74bcb 444 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
a56b63f4 445 - support taking a btrfs snapshot at startup and dropping it afterwards
af1082b0 446 - maybe: hookup nspawn and PrivateNetwork=yes with "ip netns"
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447 - generate predictable mac addresses for the netdev we create (host0), maybe based on guest's machine
448 name and machine-id of host (?)
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450* cryptsetup:
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451 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
452 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
453 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 454 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 455
424a19f8 456* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 457 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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459* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
460
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461* make timer units go away after they elapsed
462
8556879e 463* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 464 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
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466* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
467
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468* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
469
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470* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
471
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472* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
473
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474* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
475
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476* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
477
68f16003 478* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 479
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480* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
481
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482* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
483 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
484 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
485 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 486 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 487 but much rather a disconnect on success.
0790b9fe 488
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489* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
490
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491* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
492
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493* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
494
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495* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
496
88a6c589 497* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
8351ceae 498
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499* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
500 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
501
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502* introduce Type=pid-file
503
59cea26a 504* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 505
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506* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
507
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508* automount: implement expire:
509 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
510 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
511 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
512 - blocking, needs a thread
513 - run until -EAGAIN
514 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
515 - call umount
516 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
517 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
465349c0 518
e01a15b7 519* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 520
abd55b16 521* udev:
3f60bcb5 522 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
abd55b16 523 - move to LGPL
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525 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 526 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 527
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528* 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
529
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530* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
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532* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
533
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534* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
535
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536* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
537
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538* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
539
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540* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
541
542* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
543
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544* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
545
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546* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
547 needs to be auto-respawned?
548
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549* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
550
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552 - check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
553 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 554
b44be3ec 555* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
14e639ae 556
7f8aa671 557* hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
ff01d048 558
d3c7d7dd 559* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
72b9ed82 560
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561* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
562 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
563
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564* move PAM code into its own binary
565
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566* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
567 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
568
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569* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
570
7c697168 571* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 572
71092d70 573* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
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576 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
577 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
578
f38afcd0 579* support User= and Group= attributes for AF_UNIX sockets. (difficult, requires NSS from PID 1?)
a012ab52 580
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582 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
583
71092d70 584* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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586* readahead:
587 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
588 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
589 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
590 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
591 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
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593* add support for /bin/mount -s
594
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595* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
596
68c7d001 597* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 598 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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599 - enabling dbus services
600 - status update
7a2a0b90 601 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 602 - remote access
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603 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
604 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 605 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 606 - auto-restart
e707c494 607 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 608 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 609 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 610 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 611 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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613 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
614 - how to create your own target
615 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
616 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 617
44143309 618* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 619
71092d70 620* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 621
260abb78 622* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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624* Support --test based on current system state
625
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626* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
627
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630* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
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71092d70 632* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
246756ca 633
50f2a90d 634* io priority during initialization
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7ba97195 638* systemd-python:
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640 works with ^C
b04c8c83 641 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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644 - plot per-process IO utilization
645 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
646 - document initcall_debug
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647 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
648
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650 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
651 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
652 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 653
88e4d1d7 654* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 655 - add support for more attribute types
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656 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
657 - add support for multi-part messages (simply call the same callback repeatedly?)
88e4d1d7 658
0a4b9a07 659* networkd:
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660 - change from udev to rtnl being the main events we listen to devices on, udev will then simply
661 be used for synchronization
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662 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
663 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 664 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 665 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
5c1d3fc9 666 - add IPv4LL tests (inspire by DHCP)
5c1d3fc9 667 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
0a4b9a07 668
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670 - make sure ipv4ll and dhcp clients can handle changing mac addresses while running
671
2f8cd170 672External:
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cc9784c6 674* dbus:
3377af3e 675 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 676 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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679
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680* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
681
9096ad36 682* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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684* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
685 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
686 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
687 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
688 the RTC to sync up.
689
71092d70 690* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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694* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
695
696* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
697
698* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
699
700* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
701
d2bbca68 702* 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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704* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
705
706* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 707
4641a16b 708* 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 710Regularly:
874aa2cc 711
129126f3 712* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 713
129126f3 714* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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716* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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71092d70 720* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 721
4db17f29 722* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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725
9e5f3dbb 726Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 728* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)