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ee9c9500 1Bugfixes:
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2* Should systemctl status \* work on all unit types, not just .service?
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5 the unit will be started with getty@getty.service:
6 $ systemctl enable getty@.service
7 ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service' '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@.service'
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9* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
10 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
11 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
12
a40593a0 13* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
20ffc4c4 14
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15* shorten the message to sane length:
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17 Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status display-manager.service' for details.
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19* systemctl --root=container/ set-default ... is totally borked.
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21* sd_bus_unref() is broken regarding self-references and "pseudo thread-safety".
22 See the comment in sd_bus_unref() for more..
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f38afcd0 24External:
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f38afcd0 26* Fedora: when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
466784c8 27 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
55d32caf 28
f38afcd0 29* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
bafb15ba 30
f38afcd0 31* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
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eb124a97 33Features:
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35* Add timeout to early-boot, and shut down the system if it is hit. Solves the laptop-in-bag problem and is useful for embedded cases
36
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37* sd-resolve: add callback api
38
39* ImmutableSystem=yes/no or so to mount /usr, /boot read-only/invisible, and leave /var and /etc writable
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41* InaccessibleHome=yes/no or so to hide /home and /run/user from a service
42
43* Run most system services with cgroupfs read-only and procfs with a more secure mode
44
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45* sd-event: generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
46
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47* add "M" as recursive version of "m" to tmpfiles, then use it for
48 chowning /run/log/journal (but not /var/log/journal), so that we
49 adjust the perms of journal files created before tmpfiles ran.
50
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51* expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
52
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53* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
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55* consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
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57* sd-event: define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
58
6a3f892a 59* gpt-auto-generator:
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60 - Support LUKS for root devices
61 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 62 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 63
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64* improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
65 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
66 don't have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
67 the most common operations.
68
726a6e96 69* support transient mount units
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71* add an "input" group to udev logic and add all input devices to it
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73* machined: provide calls GetMachineByAddress() on the manager
74 interface to get the machine for a local IP address, and
75 GetAddress() on the Machine interface to get the Address for a
76 machine. Implement via forking off child process which quickly joins
77 the cotnainer and passes data to parent. Show this in "machinectl
78 status", and use it to implement NSS module to provide automatic
79 name resolution for containers.
80
81* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
82 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
83 when it is otherwise off
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85* MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
86
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87* "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
88 /proc/$PID/exe
89
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90* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
91 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
92 for ReusePort=
93
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94* socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
95 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
96 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
97 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
98 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
99
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100* New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
101
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102* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
103 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
104 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
105 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
106 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
107 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
108
ef417cfd 109* completions:
ef417cfd 110 - manager property enumeration was broken when systemd moved to /usr/lib/
3333d748 111
f38afcd0 112* cgroups:
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113 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
114 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
115 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
116 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
117 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
118 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
119 the hierarchies of child processes
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121* transient units:
122 - allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
123 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
124 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
ebcf1f97 125
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126* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
127
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128* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
129
f38afcd0 130* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
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132* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
133
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134* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
135
94676f3e 136* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
6fd4d020 137
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138* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
139
af1082b0 140* socket-proxyd: Use sd-resolve to resolve the server address
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142* 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
143
7f79cd71 144* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 145
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146* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
147 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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148 path anyway.
149
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150* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
151
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152* given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
153 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
e10e429f 154 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
e1b7e7ec 155
6aaa8c2f 156* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 157
e1b7e7ec 158* 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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160* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
161
162* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
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9444b1f2 164* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 165 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 166 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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167 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
168 check for that and suppress event handling.
9444b1f2 169
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170* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
171 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
172
6bb648a1 173* sd-bus:
e30fa16e 174 - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async
eb01ba5d 175 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
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176 - systemd-bus-proxyd needs to enforce good old XML policy
177 - port exit-on-idle logic to byebye ioctl
178 - allow updating attach flags during runtime
179 - pid1: peek into activating message when activating a service
180 - introduce sd_bus_emit_object_added()/sd_bus_emit_object_removed() that automatically includes the build-in interfaces in the list
181 - constructors for bus messages should probably not be OK with a NULL bus pointer
182 - .busname units should not use get_user_creds()/get_cgroup_creds() but instead do NSS only in temporarily forked off child
f38afcd0 183 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 184 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
80caea6c 185 - 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 186 - longer term: priority inheritance
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187 - dbus spec updates:
188 - kdbus mapping
189 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
190 - GVariant
bee7e928 191 - "const" properties (posted)
2ecfc64e 192 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 193 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
69727e6d 194 - test bloom filter generation indexes
0f3e07b7 195 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
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197* sd-event
12179984 198 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
eb01ba5d 199
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200* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
201 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
202 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
203
69af4503 204* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
e8a7a315 205
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206* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
207 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
208
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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...
216
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217* timedatectl: print a nicer message when enabling ntp fails because ntpd/chrony are not installed
218
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219* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
220
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221* test/:
222 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
223 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
b8b4d3dd 224
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225* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
226
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227* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
228 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
229 file.
230
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231* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
232 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
233 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
234 destination.
235
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236* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
237 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
238
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239* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
240
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241* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
242 need manual exponential loops after all
243
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244* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
245 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
246 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
247 is installed.
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249* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
250 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
251 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
252 that automatically.
253
e5ec62c5 254* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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256* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
257
54c31a79 258* 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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260* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
261
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262* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
263
264* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
265
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266* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
267
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268* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
269
356ce991 270* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 271
81d112a8 272* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 273
b44be3ec 274* EFI:
b44be3ec 275 - write man page for efi boot generator
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276 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
277 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 278 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 279
c0fe5db5 280* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 281
b44be3ec 282* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
e9fd44b7 283
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284* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
285 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 287* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 288
b44be3ec 289* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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291* logind:
292 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
293 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
294 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
295 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
296 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
e5ec62c5 297 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
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298 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
299 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
300 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
301 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
302 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
303 needs setuid().
e673ad04 304
b44be3ec 305* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 306
b44be3ec 307* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
e673ad04 308
b44be3ec 309* journal:
c06bf414 310 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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311 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
312 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
313 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
314 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
315 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
316 - journal: reuse XZ context
317 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
318 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
319 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
320 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
321 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
322 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
323 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 324 - 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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325 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
326 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
b44be3ec 327 - 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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328 - 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.
329 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
330 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 331 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 332 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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333 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
334 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
335 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
336 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
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337 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
338 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 339 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 340 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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341 - tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal, also do this for the journal fails contained in it
342 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
343 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
344 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
345 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
346 to syslog when it works again.
347 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
348 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
349 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
350 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
351 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
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353* document:
8b8f2591 354 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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355 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
356 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 357 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 358 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 359 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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360 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
361 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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362 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
363 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
364 - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
365 - man: add more examples to man pages
366 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
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368* systemctl:
369 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
370 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
371 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
372 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
373 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
374 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
375 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
376 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
377 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
378 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
379 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
380 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
381 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
f38afcd0 382 - rework wait filter to not require match callback
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383 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
384 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
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386* unit install:
387 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
388 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
389 - "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, but should
390 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
391 unit however should remove them all).
392 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
393 - systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
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395* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
396
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397* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
398
399* timer units:
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400 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
401 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
402 o DST changes
eb124a97 403 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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404 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
405 - 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 406 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
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408* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
409
410* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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411 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
412 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 413 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 414 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 415 user did not request anything like it.
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417* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
418 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
419 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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420 we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in
421 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
422 better supported alternative.
e707c494 423
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424* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
425
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426* 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().
427
428* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
429* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
430* fedup: generator
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f38afcd0 432* timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
6d0274f1 433
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434* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
435
b44be3ec 436* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 437
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438* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
439 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
440 - superset of tmpfiles model
441 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
442 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
443 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
444
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445* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
446 waiting for the timeout
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448* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
449
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450* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
451
b44be3ec 452* nspawn:
b44be3ec 453 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
b44be3ec 454 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
9e281251 455 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters
9cb74bcb 456 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
a56b63f4 457 - support taking a btrfs snapshot at startup and dropping it afterwards
af1082b0 458 - maybe: hookup nspawn and PrivateNetwork=yes with "ip netns"
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459 - generate predictable mac addresses for the netdev we create (host0), maybe based on guest's machine
460 name and machine-id of host (?)
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462* cryptsetup:
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463 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
464 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
465 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 466 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 467
424a19f8 468* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 469 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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471* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
472
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473* make timer units go away after they elapsed
474
8556879e 475* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 476 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
8556879e 477
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478* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
479
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480* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
481
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482* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
483
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484* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
485
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486* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
487
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488* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
489
68f16003 490* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 491
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492* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
493
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494* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
495 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
496 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
497 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 498 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 499 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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501* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
502
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503* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
504
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505* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
506
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507* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
508
88a6c589 509* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
8351ceae 510
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511* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
512 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
513
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514* introduce Type=pid-file
515
59cea26a 516* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 517
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518* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
519
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520* automount: implement expire:
521 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
522 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
523 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
524 - blocking, needs a thread
525 - run until -EAGAIN
526 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
527 - call umount
528 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
529 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
465349c0 530
e01a15b7 531* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 532
abd55b16 533* udev:
3f60bcb5 534 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
abd55b16 535 - move to LGPL
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536 - kill scsi_id
537 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 538 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 539
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540* 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
541
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542* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
543
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544* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
545
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546* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
547
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548* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
549
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550* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
551
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552* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
553
554* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
555
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556* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
557
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558* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
559 needs to be auto-respawned?
560
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561* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
562
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563* tmpfiles:
564 - check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
565 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 566
b44be3ec 567* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
14e639ae 568
7f8aa671 569* hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
ff01d048 570
d3c7d7dd 571* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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573* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
574 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
575
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576* move PAM code into its own binary
577
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578* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
579 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
580
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581* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
582
7c697168 583* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 584
71092d70 585* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
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587* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
588 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
589 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
590
f38afcd0 591* support User= and Group= attributes for AF_UNIX sockets. (difficult, requires NSS from PID 1?)
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594 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
595
71092d70 596* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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598* readahead:
599 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
600 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
601 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
602 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
603 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
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605* add support for /bin/mount -s
606
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607* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
608
68c7d001 609* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 610 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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611 - enabling dbus services
612 - status update
7a2a0b90 613 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 614 - remote access
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615 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
616 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 617 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 618 - auto-restart
e707c494 619 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 620 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 621 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 622 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 623 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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625 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
626 - how to create your own target
627 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
628 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
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44143309 630* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 631
71092d70 632* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 633
260abb78 634* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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636* Support --test based on current system state
637
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638* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
639
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640* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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642* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
643
71092d70 644* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
246756ca 645
50f2a90d 646* io priority during initialization
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649
7ba97195 650* systemd-python:
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652 works with ^C
b04c8c83 653 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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656 - plot per-process IO utilization
657 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
658 - document initcall_debug
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659 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
660
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661* udev-link-config:
662 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
663 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
664 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 665
88e4d1d7 666* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 667 - add support for more attribute types
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668 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
669 - add support for multi-part messages (simply call the same callback repeatedly?)
88e4d1d7 670
0a4b9a07 671* networkd:
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672 - change from udev to rtnl being the main events we listen to devices on, udev will then simply
673 be used for synchronization
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674 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
675 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 676 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 677 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
5c1d3fc9 678 - add IPv4LL tests (inspire by DHCP)
5c1d3fc9 679 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
0a4b9a07 680
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681* sd-network:
682 - make sure ipv4ll and dhcp clients can handle changing mac addresses while running
683
2f8cd170 684External:
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cc9784c6 686* dbus:
3377af3e 687 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 688 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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690* fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
691
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692* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
693
9096ad36 694* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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696* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
697 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
698 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
699 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
700 the RTC to sync up.
701
71092d70 702* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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705
706* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
707
708* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
709
710* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
711
712* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
713
d2bbca68 714* 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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716* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
717
718* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 719
4641a16b 720* 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 724Regularly:
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129126f3 726* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 727
129126f3 728* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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730* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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71092d70 734* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 735
4db17f29 736* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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9e5f3dbb 740Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 742* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)