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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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f38afcd0 7External:
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f38afcd0 9* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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11Janitorial Clean-ups:
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13* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
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15* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
16 semantics, like we do for device.c now
17
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18Features:
19
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20* make use of the new statx mountid and rootmount fields in path_get_mnt_id()
21 and fd_is_mount_point()
22
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23* make use of new loopback setup ioctl to setup loopback devices in one atomic
24 ioctl
25
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26* nspawn: move "incoming mount" directory to /run/host, move "inaccessible"
27 nodes to /run/host, move notify socket (for sd_notify() between payload and
28 container manager)
29
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30* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
31
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32* cryptsetup: if keyfile specified in crypttab is AF_UNIX socket, connect to it
33 and read from it (like we do elsewhere with READ_FULL_FILE_CONNECT_SOCKET)
34
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35* repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
36
37* add /etc/integritytab, to support dm-integrity setups. In particular those
38 with HMAC as hash function, so that we can have a protected /home without
39 encryption (leaving encryption to the individual dirs/homed).
40
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41* complement root=, rootflags=, rootfstype= with rootsubdir= which allows
42 mounting a subdir of the root fs as actual root. This can be used as
43 fstype-agnostic version of btrfs' rootflags=subvol=foobar.
44
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45* add --copy-from and --copy-to command to systemd-dissect which copies stuff
46 in and out of a disk image
47
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48* Support ProtectProc= or so, using: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11310197/
49
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50* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
51
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52* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
53 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
54
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55* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
56 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
57 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
58 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
59 anything like that.
60
5c0102f8 61* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
cb713f16 62 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
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63 user's journal stream down but not the others.
64
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65* add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
66 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
67 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
68
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69* move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
70 these days
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72* nspawn: support time namespaces
73
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74* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
75 reading/writing files
76
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77* add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
78
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79* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
80 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
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82* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
83
84* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
85
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86* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
87 when it exits
88
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89* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
90 o turn into dlopen() deps:
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91 - libpwquality (always) - only relevant for homed, and maybe soon
92 firstboot
93 - elfutils (always)
94 - p11-kit-trust (always)
95 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
96 - cryptsetup-libs (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not in systemd-cryptsetup)
97 - similar: libblkid
98 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
99 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
100 since they are so basic and our defaults)
101 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
102 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
103
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104* seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
105 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
106 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
107
108* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
109 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
110 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
111
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112* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
113 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
114
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115* make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
116 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
117 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
118
a6e1018d 119* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
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120 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, tmpfiles, sysusers,
121 systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn,
122 systemd-firstboot)
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124* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
125
126* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
127 specific service
128
129* seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
130
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131* per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
132 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
133 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
134 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
135 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
136 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
137 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
138 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
139
140* homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
141 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
142
143* homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
144 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
145
146* homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
147 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
148 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
149
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150* homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
151 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
152 signature
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154* homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
155 and insert a local signature instead.
156
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157* homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
158 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
159 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
15dd4515 160 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
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161 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
162
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163* homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
164
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165* homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
166 easily?
167
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168* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
169 exists and responds.
170
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171* when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
172 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
173 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
174 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
175 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
176
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177* cryptsetup: support FIDO2 tokens for deriving keys (i.e. do what homed can do
178 also in plain cryptsetup)
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180* systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
181 creates
182
86b52a39 183* homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
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184 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
185 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
186 hence we can make them quicker to work.
187
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188* bootctl:
189 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
190 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
191 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
192
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193* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
194 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
195 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
196
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197* by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
198 allow so that systemd survives
199
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200* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
201 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
202
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203* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
204 systemd-makefs.service instead.
205
91fc013f 206* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 207 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
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209* unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
210 confusion is gone)
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211 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
212 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
213 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
214 - port importd over from libgcrypt
215 - when that's done: kill khash.c
216 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
217
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218* kill zenata, all hail weblate?
219
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220* when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
221
222* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
223 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
224
225* hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
226 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
227 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
228 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
229 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
230
492f91d8 231* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
86b52a39 232 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
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233 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
234 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
235
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236* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
237 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
238 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
239 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
240 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
241 automatically.
242
243* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
244 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
245
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246* systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
247 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
248
249* systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
250
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251* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
252 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
253 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
254 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
255 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
256 fails to apply use the latter.
257
258* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
259 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
260
261* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
262 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
263
264* systemd-repart: add --size=auto for generating/resizing images of minimal
265 size, i.e. where the image file is sized exactly as large as necessary taking
266 SizeMin= into account, but not a single byte larger.
267
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268* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
269 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
270
2a4be3c5 271* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
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272 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
273
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274* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
275 realname substr searches in varlink API
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277* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
278
2a4be3c5 279* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 280
f1eb0ccd 281* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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283* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
284 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
285 initrd had set.
286
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287* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
288 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
289 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
290 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
291 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
292 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
293
294* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
295 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
296 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
297
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298* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
299 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
300 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
301 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
302 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
303 source.
304
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305* figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
306 with immutable /usr
307
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308* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
309 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
310 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
311
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312* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
313
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314* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
315 the hibernation
316
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317* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
318 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
319 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
320 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
321 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
322 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
323 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
324 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
325 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
326 hibernation mode. (see
327 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
328 section 10.2.2.8 and
329 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
330 at the end).
331
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332* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
333 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
334 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
335 output for them.
336
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337* systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
338 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
339
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340* We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
341 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
342 constant vendor data.
343
c6526b8d 344* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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346* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
347 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
348
349* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
350 fallback in "machinectl shell"
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352* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
353 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
354 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
355
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356* homed:
357 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
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358 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
359 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
360 - resize on login?
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361 - shrink fs on logout?
362 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
363 - create on activate?
364 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
365 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
366 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
367 systemd --user is shut down.
368 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
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369 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
370 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
86b52a39 371 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
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372 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
373 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
374 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
375 - description field for groups
376 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
377 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
378 - query password from kernel keyring first
379 - update even if record is "absent"
380 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
381 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
382 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
383 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
384 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
385 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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386 - introduce API for "making room", that grows/shrinks home directory
387 according to elastic parameters, discards blocks, and removes additional snapshots. Call it
388 either from UI when disk space gets low
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390* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
391 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
392 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
393 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
394 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
395 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
396 exec().
397
398* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
399
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400* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
401 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
402
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403* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
404
405* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
406 gnome-bluetooth and friends
407
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408* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
409 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
410 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
411 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
412 cgroup.
413
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414* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
415 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
416 root.
417
418* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
419 is issued.
420
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421* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
422
423* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
424
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425* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
426 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
427 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 428
d238709c 429* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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430 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
431 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
432
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433* add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
434 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
435 ConfigurationDirectory=.
436
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437* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
438
d3584ec4 439* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
fe1bff15 440
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441* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
442 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
443
06898123 444* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 445 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 446 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
06898123 447
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448* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
449
450* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
451 patching around
452
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453* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
454 log.c and sd-journal-send
455
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456* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
457
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458* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
459
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460* sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
461 can add in file system drivers and such
462
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463* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
464 non-zero "tries done" count
465
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466* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
467 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
468 it should skip the variant type string though.
469
470* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
471 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
472 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
473 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
474 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
475 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
476 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
477 CODE_FILE.
478
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479* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
480 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
481 some explanatory text online.
482
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484
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485* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
486 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
487 the slices, and the units attached to them.
488
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489* the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
490 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
bc130b68 491 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
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492 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
493 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
494 way)
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496* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
497 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
498 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
499
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500* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
501 original defaults before calling parse_config()
502
72d711ef 503* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
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506 Specifically:
507
508 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
509 properly)
e83419d0 510 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 511 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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513* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
514 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
515
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516* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
517 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
518 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
519 files and suchlike we operate on.
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521* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
522
523* add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
524
525* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
526 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
527
5da19043 528* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
5238e957 529 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
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530 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
531 numbers.
532
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533* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
534 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
535 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
536 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
537 unlinked from any dir.
538
bd1b3f75 539* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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542
543* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
544
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545* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
546 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
547 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
548 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
549 should reflink the image file itself.
550
551 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
552 specific paths only like this.
553
53c70a27 554* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 555 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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556 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
557 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
558 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
559
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560* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
561
562* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
563
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564* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
565 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
566
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567* teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
568 project quota
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570* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
571 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
572 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
573 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
574 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
575 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
576 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
577 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
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579* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
580 for root, but only then.
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582* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
583
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584* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
585 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
586
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587* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
588 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
589
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590* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
591 host-side interface pointing to the container.
592
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593* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
594 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
595 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
596 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
597 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
598
cb77e122 599* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 600
899feb72 601* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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603* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
604 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
605 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
606
5f7ecd61 607* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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609* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
610 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
611
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612* blog about fd store and restartable services
613
614* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
615
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616* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
617 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
618
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619* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
620 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
621 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
622 ID is available.
623
624* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
625 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
626 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
627
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628* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
629 parameters
630
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632 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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634 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
635 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
636 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
637 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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639* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
640 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
641
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642* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
643 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
644 wait to retrieve their exit data.
645
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647 about it in the resource log message
648
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649* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
650 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
651
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652* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
653 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
654 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
655
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657 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
658
659 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
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661* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
662 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
663 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
664 logging.
665
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667 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
668 "convertible" form factor
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670* Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
671 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
672 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
673 as MAINPID.
674
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675* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
676 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
677 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
678
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679* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
680 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
681
682* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
683 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
684 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
685 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
686 natural habitat.
687
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689 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
690 /usr is mounted into.
691
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692* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
693
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694* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
695
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696* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
697 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
698 relative to the configured default value.
699
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700* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
701
702* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
703
04397464 704* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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706* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
707
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708* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
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710* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
711
04397464 712* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
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04397464 714* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 715
04397464 716* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 717
8ce9b83a 718* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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720* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
721 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
722 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
723
e40a326c 724* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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726* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
727
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728* mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
729 partitions
730
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732 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
733 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
734 mapping to work.
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737
738* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
739
740* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
741
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742* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
743 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
744
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745* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
746 reload the unit file anyway
747
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748* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
749 from the SIGBUS handler
750
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751* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
752
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753* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
754 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
755
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756* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
757
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758* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
759 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
760
f9bf1b8f 761* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 762 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 763 specifications.
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766
5ebbb45b 767* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
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769* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
770
a2088fd0 771* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 772 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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773 prefixed with /sys generally special.
774 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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776* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
777
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778* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
779
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780* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
781 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
782 state.
783 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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785* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
786 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
787 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
788 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
789 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
790
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792 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
793
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794* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
795
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796* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
797 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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799* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
800 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
801 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
802 do, for example)
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805 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
806
e031c227 807* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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810* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
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812* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
813 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
814 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
815 returning from the "systemctl stop".
816
b568ef14 817* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
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821* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
822 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
823
25e773ee 824* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 825
279f0366 826* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 827
5238e957 828* systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
b42de08a 829 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
202aea45 830
720652b3 831* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
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720652b3 833* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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836
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837* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
838 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
839
9d6db739 840* resolved:
9d6db739 841 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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843 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 844 - avahi compat
9d6db739 845 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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846 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
847 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
848 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 849 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 850 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 851
e25b5a8d 852* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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856* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
857
a01647e5 858* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 859 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
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861* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
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863* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
864
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865* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
866
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867* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
868 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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870* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
871
6a3f892a 872* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 873 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 874 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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876* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
877 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
878 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 879
f9bf1b8f 880* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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882* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
883 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
884 for ReusePort=
885
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886* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
887 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
888 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
889 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
890 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
891 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
892
f38afcd0 893* cgroups:
f38afcd0 894 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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896 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
897 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
898 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
899 the hierarchies of child processes
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f38afcd0 901* transient units:
f38afcd0 902 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
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904* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
905
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906* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
907
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908* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
909
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910* 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
911
7f79cd71 912* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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915 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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917
04397464 918* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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920* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
921
922* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
923
6bb648a1 924* sd-bus:
0d43ffef 925 - EBADSLT handling
fa607802 926 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
7212c608 927 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
57f2a947 928 - see if we can introduce a new sd_bus_get_owner_machine_id() call to retrieve the machine ID of the machine of the bus itself
f38afcd0 929 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 930 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
ab9716c2 931 - longer term: priority inheritance
df98a87b 932 - dbus spec updates:
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934 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 935 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 936 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
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938* sd-event
12179984 939 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 940 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
e25b5a8d 941 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
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943 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
944 here:
945 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
eb01ba5d 946
69af4503 947* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
e8a7a315 948
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949* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
950 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
951
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952* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
953
954* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
955
fff87a35 956* test/:
20d52ab6 957 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 958
b5c03638 959* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 960 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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961 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
962 destination.
963
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964* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
965 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
966
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967* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
968
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969* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
970 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
971 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
972
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973* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
974 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
975 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
976 is installed.
795607b2 977
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978* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
979 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
980 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
981 that automatically.
982
e5ec62c5 983* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 984
ccddd104 985* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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987* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
988
356ce991 989* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 990
b44be3ec 991* EFI:
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992 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
993 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 994 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 995* bootctl
631427d6 996 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 997
c0fe5db5 998* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 999
b44be3ec 1000* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 1001
b44be3ec 1002* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
e6c6e7af 1003
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1005 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1006 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1007 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1008 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1009 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1010 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1011 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1012 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1013 needs setuid().
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1014 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1015 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1016 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1017 complete.
1018 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1019 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1020 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
279f0366 1021 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
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1022 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1023 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1024 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1025 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1026 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1027 relogins
77b19caf 1028 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 1029
b44be3ec 1030* journal:
57f2a947 1031 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1032 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1033 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1034 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 1035 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1036 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1037 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1038 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1039 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1040 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1041 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1042 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1043 - 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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1044 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1045 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1046 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1047 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1048 - 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.
1049 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1050 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1051 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1052 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1053 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1054 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1055 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1056 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1057 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1058 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1059 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1060 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1061 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1062 to syslog when it works again.
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1063 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1064 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1065 journals in.
1066 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1067 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1068 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1069 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1070 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1071 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1072 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1073 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1074 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1075 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1076 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1077 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1078 operation.
1079 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1080 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1081 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1082 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1083 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1084 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1085 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1086 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1087 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1088 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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1091 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1092 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1093 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1094
b44be3ec 1095* document:
8b8f2591 1096 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1097 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1098 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1099 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1100 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1101 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1102 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1103 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1104 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1105 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 1106 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1107 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1109* systemctl:
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1110 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1111 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1112 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1113 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1114 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1115 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1116 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1117 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1118 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1119 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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1121* unit install:
1122 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1123 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
8b04b925 1124
b44be3ec 1125* timer units:
b44be3ec 1126 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
b44be3ec 1127 o DST changes
90e071d1 1128 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 1129
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1130* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1131
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1132* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1133
b44be3ec 1134* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 1135
f59d1da8 1136* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
dcfc4b2e 1137
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1138* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1139
d28315e4 1140* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 1141
b44be3ec 1142* nspawn:
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1143 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1144 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1145 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1146 from the kernel's logs.
1147 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1148 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1149 interface be missing
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1150 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1151 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1152 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1153 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1154 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1155 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1156 PID 1...
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1157 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1158 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1159
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1160* dissect
1161 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1162 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1163
e25b5a8d 1164* machined:
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1165 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1166 removed or added to an existing machine
1167 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1168 difference host, via ssh
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1169 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1170 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1171 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1172 question
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1173 - "machinectl history"
1174 - "machinectl diff"
1175 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1176 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1177
b44be3ec 1178* cryptsetup:
b44be3ec 1179 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
5f1dac6b 1180 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 1181
424a19f8 1182* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 1183 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
424a19f8 1184
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1185* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1186
68f16003 1187* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 1188
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1189* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1190
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1191* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1192
abd55b16 1193* udev:
abd55b16 1194 - move to LGPL
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1195 - kill scsi_id
1196 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1197 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1198
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1199* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1200
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1201* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1202
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1203* coredump:
1204 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1205 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
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1206
1207* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1208
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1209* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1210 needs to be auto-respawned?
1211
f38afcd0 1212* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1213 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1214 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1215 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1216 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1217 calls follow symlinks.
1258097c 1218
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1219* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1220
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1221* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1222 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1223 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1224
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1225* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1226 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1227
71092d70 1228* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 1229
68c7d001 1230* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 1231 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
68c7d001 1232 - enabling dbus services
7a2a0b90 1233 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 1234 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 1235 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 1236 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 1237 - auto-restart
e707c494 1238 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 1239 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 1240 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 1241 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 1242 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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1243 - calendar time events
1244 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1245 - how to create your own target
1246 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1247 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 1248
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1249* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1250
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1251* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1252
e25b5a8d 1253* pid1:
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1254 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1255 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1256 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1257 that are not supported...
1258 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1259 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1260 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1261 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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1262 - move PAM code into its own binary
1263 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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1264 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1265 - Support --test based on current system state
1266 - 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().
1267 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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1268 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1269 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1270 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1271 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1272 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1273 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1274 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1275 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1276
1277* unit files:
1278 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1279 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1280 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1281 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1282 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1283 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1284 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1285 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
e25b5a8d 1286 - introduce Type=pid-file
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1287 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1288 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
e25b5a8d 1289 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
e5171296 1290 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
e25b5a8d 1291
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1292* udev-link-config:
1293 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1294 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1295 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1296
88e4d1d7 1297* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1298 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1299 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1300
0a4b9a07 1301* networkd:
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1302 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1303 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 1304 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 1305 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1306 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 1307 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1308 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1309 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1310 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 1311 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 1312 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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1313 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1314 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1315 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1316 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1317 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1318 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1319 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
e25b5a8d 1320 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1321
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1323
ac976532 1324* dhcp:
424a8732 1325 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1326
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1327* dhcp6:
1328 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1329 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1330 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1331 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1332 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1333 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1334 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1335 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1336 or interface down
1337 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1338 this behavior
4a77c53d 1339 - RouteTable= ?
37d8b536 1340
2f8cd170 1341External:
74fe1fe3 1342
cc9784c6 1343* dbus:
3377af3e 1344 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 1345 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 1346
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1347* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1348
71092d70 1349* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
14bd37fe 1350
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1351* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1352
d2bbca68 1353* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
8973790e 1354
8973790e 1355* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 1356
4641a16b 1357* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
19aa7c4f 1358
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1359* register catalog database signature as file magic
1360
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1361* zsh shell completion:
1362 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 1363 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1cf3c30c 1364
90137b62 1365* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
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ZJS
1366* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1367 after being started.
2c12a402 1368
129126f3 1369Regularly:
874aa2cc 1370
129126f3 1371* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 1372
129126f3 1373* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
5b6319dc 1374
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1375* pahole
1376
d28315e4 1377* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 1378
4db17f29 1379* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
88fae6e0 1380
d05c556b 1381* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
62353f69 1382String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment