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afe3ab58 3* verify that both resolved and timesyncd work OK without networkd around
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afe3ab58 5Bugfixes:
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7* Should systemctl status \* work on all unit types, not just .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.
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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.
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afe3ab58 15* ExecStart with unicode characters fails in strv_split_quoted:
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17 [Service]
18 Environment=ONE='one' "TWO='two two' too" THREE=
19 ExecStart=/bin/python3 -c 'import sys;print(sys.argv)' $ONE $TWO $THREE
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21* MEMORY return code is overloaded for syntax errors in the commandline.
22 str_split_quoted() should return a real return code, so spawn_child can
23 report the failure properly.
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f38afcd0 25External:
f38afcd0 26* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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f38afcd0 28* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
bafb15ba 29
81429136 30* Fedora: move kernel image to /usr/lib/modules/, kernel-install will take care of populating /boot
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32* Fedora: remove /etc/resolv.conf tmpfiles hack
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34* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
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36* When lz4 gets an API for lz4 command output, make use of it to
37 compress coredumps in a way compatible with /usr/bin/lz4.
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81429136 39Features:
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41* journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
42
43* introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix?
44
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45* systemd --user should issue sd_notify() upon reaching basic.target, not on becoming idle
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47* configure.ac pretends dbus was optional but actually hardcodes use of dbus' pkg-config file to determine various dbus dirs such as policy and activation dirs
48
49* consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions
50
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51* dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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53* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
54 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
55
f62531c5 56* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps?
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58* maybe provide an API to allow migration of foreign PIDs into existing scopes.
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60* kdbus: maybe rename "connection name" concept to something that doesn't reuse the word "name"?
61
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62* PID 1 doesn't apply nspawns devices cgroup policy
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64* rework journal-send.c to use memfds for large blobs if they are available instead of unlinked files in /tmp. Also, if we detect that the kernel knows memfds, refuse anything but sealed memfds.
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66* maybe support a new very "soft" reboot mode, that simply kills all processes, disassembles everything, flushes /run and sysvipc, and then reexecs systemd again
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68* man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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70* bus-proxy: when passing messages from kdbus, make sure we properly
71 handle the case where a large number of fds is appended that we
72 cannot pass into sendmsg() of the AF_UNIX sokcet (which only accepts
73 253 messages)
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75* busctl: add a pcap writer, using LINKTYPE_DBUS/231
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77* man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
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79* introduce machines.target to order after all nspawn instances
80
81* systemd-nspawn@.service should fail if some nspawn arg is invalid, with Type=notify
82
83* "machinectl list" should probably show columns for OS version and IP addresses
84
85* systemctl: if it fails, show log output?
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87* maybe add "systemctl edit" that copies unit files from /usr/lib/systemd/system to /etc/systemd/system and invokes vim on them
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89* maybe introduce AssertXYZ= similar to ConditionXYZ= that causes a unit to fail (instead of skipping it) if some condition is not true...
90
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91* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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93* exponential backoff in timesyncd and resolved when we cannot reach a server
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95* journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
96 journals in.
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98* tmpfiles: port to unquote_many_words(), similar to sysusers
99
100* unquote_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that
101 currently uses FOREACH_WORD and friends. For example, most conf
102 parsing callbacks should use it.
103
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104* logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
105 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
106 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
107 complete.
108
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109* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
110
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111* journald: allows specification of UID range for splitting up journal files
112
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113* systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
114 units are shown.
115
b873d33e 116* networkd:
d61bb44a 117 - add LLDP client side support
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118 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
119 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
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120 - .network setting that allows overriding of the hostname to send to the dhcp server
121 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-July/021550.html
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122 - expose in the API the following bits:
123 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
124 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
125 - option 100, 101, timezone
126 - option 123, 144, geolocation
127 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
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128 - networkd's dhcp server should transparently pass on the DNS and
129 NTP server list it got from user configuration and its dhcp client
130 to clients. It should also pass on its own timezone information.
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131 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
132 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
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133 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
134 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
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9d6db739 136* resolved:
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137 - put networkd events and rtnl events at a higher priority, so that
138 we always process them before we process client requests
9d6db739 139 - DNSSEC
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140 - use base64 for key presentation?
141 - add display of private key types (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4034#appendix-A.1.1)?
151226ab 142 - add nice formatting of DNS timestamps
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143 - DNS
144 - search paths
9d6db739 145 - mDNS/DNS-SD
0f47ed0a 146 - avahi compat
9d6db739 147 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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148 - edns0
149 - dname
b6b63571 150 - cname on PTR (?)
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152* Ignore .busname units on classic D-Bus boots, systemd-resolved cannot be started on kdbus
153 without the active policy and should get a Wants=org.freedesktop.resolve1.busname to
154 pull-in the policy.
155
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156* Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
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158* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
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fed515f0 160* logind: allow users to kill or lock their own sessions
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162* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
163
a01647e5 164* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 165 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
a940778f 166 - fstab-generator: support systemd.volatile=yes|no|state on the kernel cmdline, too, similar to nspawn's --volatile=
e8a152c6 167 - fstab-generator: add support for usr= in addition to root= on the kernel cmdline
a01647e5 168
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169* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
170
171* support setting empty environment variables with Environment= and EnvironmentFile=
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173* timer units: actually add extra delays to timer units with high AccuracySec values, don't start them already when we are awake...
174
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175* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
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177* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
178
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179* journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
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181* mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied
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183* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
184 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 185
f598ac3e 186* Run most system services with cgroupfs read-only and procfs with a more secure mode (doesn't work, since the hidepid= option is per-pid-namespace, not per-mount)
11fb37f1 187
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188* sd-event: generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
189
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190* expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
191
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192* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
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194* consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
195
196* sd-event: define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
197
6a3f892a 198* gpt-auto-generator:
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199 - Support LUKS for root devices
200 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 201 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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203* improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
204 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
d28315e4 205 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
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206 the most common operations.
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208* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
209 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
210 when it is otherwise off
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212* MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
213
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214* "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
215 /proc/$PID/exe
216
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217* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
218 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
219 for ReusePort=
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221* socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
222 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
223 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
224 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
225 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
226
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227* New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
228
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229* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
230 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
231 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
232 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
233 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
234 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
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ef417cfd 236* completions:
ef417cfd 237 - manager property enumeration was broken when systemd moved to /usr/lib/
3333d748 238
f38afcd0 239* cgroups:
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240 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
241 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
242 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
243 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
244 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
245 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
246 the hierarchies of child processes
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248* transient units:
249 - allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
250 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
251 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
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253* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
254
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255* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
256
f38afcd0 257* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
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259* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
260
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261* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
262
94676f3e 263* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
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265* 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
266
7f79cd71 267* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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269* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
270 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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271 path anyway.
272
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273* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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275* given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
276 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
e10e429f 277 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
e1b7e7ec 278
6aaa8c2f 279* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 280
d28315e4 281* make sure gdm does not use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
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283* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
284
285* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
286
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287* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
288 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
289
6bb648a1 290* sd-bus:
d28315e4 291 - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
7973ca19 292 - systemd-bus-proxyd needs to enforce good old XML policy
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293 - allow updating attach flags during runtime
294 - pid1: peek into activating message when activating a service
295 - introduce sd_bus_emit_object_added()/sd_bus_emit_object_removed() that automatically includes the build-in interfaces in the list
dc17bcef 296 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
f38afcd0 297 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 298 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
dc17bcef 299 - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async?
80caea6c 300 - 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 301 - longer term: priority inheritance
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302 - dbus spec updates:
303 - kdbus mapping
304 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
305 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 306 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 307 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
69727e6d 308 - test bloom filter generation indexes
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310* sd-event
12179984 311 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 312 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
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314* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
315 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
316 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
317
69af4503 318* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
e8a7a315 319
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320* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
321 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
322
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323* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
324
325* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
326
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327* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
328
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329* timedatectl: print a nicer message when enabling ntp fails because ntpd/chrony are not installed
330
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331* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
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334 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
335 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
b8b4d3dd 336
b5c03638 337* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 338 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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339 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
340 destination.
341
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342* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
343 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
344
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345* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
346
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347* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
348 need manual exponential loops after all
349
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350* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
351 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
352 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
353 is installed.
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355* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
356 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
357 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
358 that automatically.
359
e5ec62c5 360* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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362* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
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d28315e4 364* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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366* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
367
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368* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
369
370* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
371
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372* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
373
356ce991 374* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 375
81d112a8 376* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 377
b44be3ec 378* EFI:
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379 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
380 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 381 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 382
c0fe5db5 383* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 384
b44be3ec 385* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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387* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
388 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 390* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 391
b44be3ec 392* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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394* logind:
395 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
396 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
397 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
398 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
399 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
e5ec62c5 400 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
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401 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
402 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
403 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
404 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
405 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
406 needs setuid().
e673ad04 407
b44be3ec 408* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
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b44be3ec 410* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
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b44be3ec 412* journal:
c06bf414 413 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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414 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
415 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
416 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 417 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
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418 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
419 - journal: reuse XZ context
420 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
421 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
422 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
423 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
424 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
425 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
426 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 427 - 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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428 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
429 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
b44be3ec 430 - 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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431 - 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.
432 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
433 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 434 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 435 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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436 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
437 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
438 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
439 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
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440 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
441 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 442 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 443 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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444 - tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal, also do this for the journal fails contained in it
445 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
446 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
447 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
448 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
449 to syslog when it works again.
450 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
451 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
452 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
d28315e4 453 so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
f38afcd0 454 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
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456* document:
8b8f2591 457 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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458 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
459 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 460 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 461 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 462 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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463 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
464 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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465 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
466 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
467 - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
468 - man: add more examples to man pages
469 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
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471* systemctl:
472 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
473 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
474 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
475 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
476 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
477 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
478 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
479 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 480 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
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481 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
482 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
483 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
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484 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
485 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
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487* unit install:
488 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
489 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
f38afcd0 490 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
8b04b925 491
b44be3ec 492* timer units:
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494 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
495 o DST changes
eb124a97 496 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
f38afcd0 497 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
d28315e4 498 - when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we will not support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200
90e071d1 499 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
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501* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
502
503* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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504 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
505 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 506 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 507 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 508 user did not request anything like it.
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511
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512* 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().
513
514* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
d28315e4 515* fedup: do not delete initrd on switch-root
1cb88f2c 516* fedup: generator
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519
b44be3ec 520* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
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522* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
523 waiting for the timeout
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526
d28315e4 527* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 528
b44be3ec 529* nspawn:
b44be3ec 530 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
9cb74bcb 531 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
a56b63f4 532 - support taking a btrfs snapshot at startup and dropping it afterwards
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534* cryptsetup:
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535 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
536 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
537 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 538 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 539
424a19f8 540* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 541 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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543* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
544
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545* make timer units go away after they elapsed
546
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547* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
548
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549* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
550
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551* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
552
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553* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
554
68f16003 555* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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558 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
d28315e4 559 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
68f16003 560 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
d28315e4 561 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
68f16003 562 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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564* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
565
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567
88a6c589 568* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
8351ceae 569
9946996c 570* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
d28315e4 571 verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
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574
59cea26a 575* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
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577* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
578
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580 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
581 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
582 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
583 - blocking, needs a thread
584 - run until -EAGAIN
585 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
586 - call umount
587 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
588 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
465349c0 589
e01a15b7 590* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 591
abd55b16 592* udev:
abd55b16 593 - move to LGPL
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595 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 596 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
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598* 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
599
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603
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604* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
605
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606* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
607
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609
610* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
611
70a44afe 612* default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
65c0cf71 613
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615 needs to be auto-respawned?
616
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618
f38afcd0 619* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 620 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 621
d28315e4 622* for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested
14e639ae 623
7f8aa671 624* hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
ff01d048 625
d3c7d7dd 626* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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629 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
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634 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
635
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636* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
637
55cdcbac 638* add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
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641 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
642 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
643
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645 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
646
71092d70 647* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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650 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
651 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
652 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
653 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
654 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
b23de6af 655
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657
68c7d001 658* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 659 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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661 - status update
7a2a0b90 662 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 663 - remote access
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665 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 666 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 667 - auto-restart
e707c494 668 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 669 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 670 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 671 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 672 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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674 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
675 - how to create your own target
676 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
677 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
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44143309 679* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 680
260abb78 681* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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683* Support --test based on current system state
684
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685* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
686
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687* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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689* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
690
71092d70 691* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
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694
7ba97195 695* systemd-python:
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697 works with ^C
b04c8c83 698 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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701 - plot per-process IO utilization
702 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
703 - document initcall_debug
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705
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707 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
708 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
709 on Path= matching
8faf88e5 710 - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
af6f0d42 711
88e4d1d7 712* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 713 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 714 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 715
0a4b9a07 716* networkd:
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718 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 719 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 720 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
5c1d3fc9 721 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
798e174a 722 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
8477107d 723 - add more attribute support for SIT tunnel
1a941ac4 724 - work with non-ethernet devices
c9fa3670 725 - add support for more bond options
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728 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
8f5675cc 729
ac976532 730* dhcp:
424a8732 731 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 732 - export timezone information
99f9dd8d 733 - support RFC4702 (pass FQDN)
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736 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
737 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
738 - write more test cases
739 - implement and do duplicate address detection, see rfc 4862, 5.4.
740 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
741 - implement information request, see 1.2. and 18.1.5.
742 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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744 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
745 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
746 or interface down
747 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
748 this behavior
749
2f8cd170 750External:
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cc9784c6 752* dbus:
3377af3e 753 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 754 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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759
9096ad36 760* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
06ae4bfe 761
71092d70 762* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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d28315e4 766* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and should not
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768* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
769
770* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
771
772* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
773
d2bbca68 774* 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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776* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
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778* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
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4641a16b 780* 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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785 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
786 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
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129126f3 789Regularly:
874aa2cc 790
129126f3 791* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 792
129126f3 793* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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795* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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d28315e4 799* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 800
4db17f29 801* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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9e5f3dbb 805Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 807* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)