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71092d70 1Bugfixes:
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2* check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
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4* swap units that are activated by one name but shown in the kernel under another are semi-broken
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6* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
7 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
8 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
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10* make polkit checks async
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a40593a0 12* 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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14* add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
15* make test in test/ work with separate output dir
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17* suppress log output on shutdown when "quiet" is used
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2d19f95c 19Fedora 19:
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2f8d077e 21* make anaconda write timeout=0 for encrypted devices
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23* external: maybe it is time to patch procps so that "ps" links to
24 libsystemd-logind to print a pretty service name, seat name, session
25 name in its output. Currently it only shows cgroup membership, but
0028da22 26 that's sometimes kinda hard to parse for a human.
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7e2c2bcf 28* cgroup attrs:
f0c15f28 29 - update dbus interface docs in wiki
7b4da18c 30
7b4da18c 31* kernel cmdline switch to turn off predictable network interface names
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b44be3ec 33* journal is not closed properly at shutdown when run in a container?
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35* localed:
36 - localectl: add listing support for X11 keymaps, by parsing /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst
37 - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps
38
eb124a97 39* logind: Class property should probably know "background" or so as value for cron jobs, and the inhibition checks should filter those out too.
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41* timer logic is confused by units which are skipped due to failing condition
42 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-February/008816.html
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44* timer logic is also confused if a service it triggers hasn't finished when the next timer elapses:
45 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-February/009021.html
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eb124a97 47Features:
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49* timedatectl needs to show whether NTP is available at all
50
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51* reduce caps of systemd-localed
52
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53* safe_atod() is too naive, as it is vulnerable to locale parameters, should be locale independent.
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55* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
56 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
57 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
58 that automatically.
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60* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
61
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62* rework specifier logic so that we can distuingish OOM errors from other errors
63
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64* systemd-inhibit: refuse taking delay locks
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66* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
67
54c31a79 68* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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70* tmpfiles: when traversing the tree, check for bind mount points with nametohandle()
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72* fedora: connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install], and maybe introduce timers.target
73
74* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
75
76* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapstion and the time the units ran last
77
78* man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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80* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
81
82* man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
83
84* systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
85
86* man: add a link to socket activation blog from systemd.socket(5)
87
88* systemctl status: show drop-in snippets for service files in addition to service file path themesevles.
89
90* man: add more examples to man pages
91
92* man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
93
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94* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
95
96* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
97
98* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on sucess and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
99
100* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
101
102* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
103
104* msgcatalog determine default language of entries from the catalog
105 file name. i.e. foobar.de_DE.catalog would set the default entry
106 name for the entries to de_DE if they aren't explicitly suffixed
107 individually.
108
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109* figure out what we do about hostnames/fqdn in hostnamectl/hostnamed
110
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111* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
112
113* unit_name_mangle() is currently not used on "systemctl enable" and friends, only on "systemctl start"
114
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115* ensure sd_journal_seek_monotonic actually works properly.
116
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117* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
118
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119* support --root= in msgcatalog compiler
120
990ffbe5 121* Honour "-" prefix for InaccessibleDirectories= and ReadOnlyDirectories= to
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122 suppress errors of the specified path doesn't exist
123
124* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
125 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
126 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
127 will be activated.
128
81d112a8 129* merge service_kill() logic into unit_kill_context() and unify the code paths
490b7e47 130
81d112a8 131* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 132
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133* EFI:
134 - fsck hookup for the ESP mount is missing
135 - write man page for efi boot generator
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136 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
137 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
138 - introduce bootctl (backed by systemd-bootd) to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 139
c0fe5db5 140* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 141
b44be3ec 142* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
e9fd44b7 143
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144* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
145 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 147* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 148
b44be3ec 149* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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151* logind:
152 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
153 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
154 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
155 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
156 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
157 - logind: spawn user@..service on login
158 - logind: non-local X11 server handling
159 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
160 - pam_systemd: try to get old session id from cgroup, if audit sessionid cannot be determined
161 - pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree
eb124a97 162 - logind: GetSessionByPID() should accept 0 as PID value
e673ad04 163
b44be3ec 164* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 165
b44be3ec 166* DeviceAllow/DeviceDeny: disallow everything by default, but whitelist /dev/zero, /dev/null and friends
e673ad04 167
b44be3ec 168* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
e673ad04 169
b44be3ec 170* journal:
c06bf414 171 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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172 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
173 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
174 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
175 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
176 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
177 - journal: reuse XZ context
178 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
179 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
180 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
181 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
182 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
183 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
184 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
185 - gatewayd: should run under its own UID
f47ec8eb 186 - 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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187 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
188 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
189 - journal: when rotating, copy over old acls/access mode
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190 - journal: send out marker messages every now and then, and immediately sync with fdatasync() afterwards, in order to have hourly guaranteed syncs.
191 - journal: when we haven't written anything in a while, sync to disk and mark file as offline, in order to be more often than not in a clean state
192 - 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.
193 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
194 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
195 - journal: When used on NFS make sure wake up sd_journal_wait() every 2s, to handle missing inotify
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196 - Introduce journalctl -b <nr> to show journal messages of a previous boot
197 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 198 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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199 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
200 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
201 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
202 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
203 - journalctl: show multiline log messages sanely, expand tabs, and show all valid utf8 messages
204 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
205 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
2e4015f3 206 - journalctl: make journalctl smarter, and actually check groups that have access to /var/log/journal before printing message about recomming group membership for journal access
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208* document:
209 - document unit_name_mangle()
210 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in
211 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
212 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
213 - Document word splitting syntax for ExecStart= and friends
214 - document that units from /etc override those from /usr and /run
215 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 216 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 217 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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219* systemctl:
220 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
221 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
222 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
223 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
224 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
225 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
226 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
227 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
228 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
229 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
230 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
231 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
232 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
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233 - add configuration/switches to use
234 freeze (http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git) and
235 standby (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57793) as suspend modes
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237* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
238
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239* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
240
241* timer units:
242 - configurable jitter for timer events
243 - timer events with system resume
244 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
245 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
246 o DST changes
eb124a97 247 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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249* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
250
251* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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252 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
253 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 254 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 255 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 256 user did not request anything like it.
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258* hwdb:
259 - implement conditional properties (dmi matches)
260 - hwdb --filter=ID_DRIVE_*
08f95888 261
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262* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
263 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
264 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
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266* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
267 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
268 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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269 we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in
270 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
271 better supported alternative.
e707c494 272
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273* figure out relation of --all and --full in the various tools
274
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275* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
276
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277* 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().
278
279* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
280* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
281* fedup: generator
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283* timedated:
284 - timedated: export boolean that clarifies whether NTP is even available
285 - timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
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287* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
288
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289* introduce generic AUGMENT_PID=, AUGMENT_DEVICE= fields
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b44be3ec 291* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 292
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293* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
294 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
295 - superset of tmpfiles model
296 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
297 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
298 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
299
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300* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
301 waiting for the timeout
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303* high level net_prio setting in execution context
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305* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
306
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307* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
308
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309* WorkingDirectory: support env var replacements like in ExecStart= so that people can use $HOME
310
15abdb9a 311* refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful (or set taint?)
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313* nspawn:
314 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly
315 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
316 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
317 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
318 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
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319 - nspawn: investigate whether we can support the same as LXC's
320 lxc.network.type=phys mode, and pass through entire network
321 interfaces to the container
322 - nspawn: maybe add a way to drop additional caps, in addition to add additional caps
323 - nspawn: maybe explicitly reset loginuid?
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324 - nspawn: move all containers to name=systemd:/containers/, and introduce externally visible names for containers
325 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
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327* cryptsetup:
328 - cryptsetup-generator: warn if the password files are world-readable
329 - cryptsetup-generator: add RequiresMountsFor= to cryptseup service files referencing a file, similar for devices
330 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
331 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
332 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
333 - when key file cannot be found, read it from kbd in cryptsetup
f8019684 334
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335* move debug shell to tty6 and make sure this doesn't break the gettys on tty6
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424a19f8 337* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 338 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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340* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
341
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342* make timer units go away after they elapsed
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8556879e 344* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 345 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
8556879e 346
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347* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
348
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349* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
350
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351* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
352
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353* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
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355* system.conf should have controls for cgroups
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357* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
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359* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
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361* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container
362
68f16003 363* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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365* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
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367* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
368 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
369 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
370 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 371 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 372 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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374* remember which condition failed for services, not just the fact that something failed
375
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376* use opterr = 0 for all getopt tools
377
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378* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
379
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380* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
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382* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
383
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384* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
385
88a6c589 386* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
8351ceae 387
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388* syscall filter:
389 - syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls
390 - syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs?
391 - syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS?
392 - syscall filter: port to libseccomp
393 - system-wide seccomp filter
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395* systemd-analyze: data collection tools should be lightweight (few dependencies); data analysis tools can be heavyweight
396
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397* .device aliases need to be implemented with the "following" logic, probably.
398
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399* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
400 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
401
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402* introduce Type=pid-file
403
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404* maybe allow services with ExecStop= set, but no ExecStart=?
405
59cea26a 406* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 407
94734142 408* support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
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410* drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields
411
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412* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
413
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414* move passno parsing to fstab generator
415
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416* automount: implement expire:
417 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
418 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
419 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
420 - blocking, needs a thread
421 - run until -EAGAIN
422 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
423 - call umount
424 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
425 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
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427* services which create their own subcgroups break cgroup-empty notification (needs to be fixed in the kernel)
428
e01a15b7 429* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 430
98ef27df 431* ConditionSecurity= should learn about IMA and SMACK
a0a38448 432
abd55b16 433* udev:
3f60bcb5 434 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
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435 - move to LGPL
436 - unify utf8 validator code with shared/
437 - kill scsi_id
438 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
b8217b7b 439
18b754d3 440* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording
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442* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
443
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444* 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
445
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446* support container_ttys=
447
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448* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
449
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450* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
451
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452* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
453
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454* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
455
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456* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
457
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458* figure out whether we should leave dbus around during shutdown
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abd55b16 460* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
680a1dbc 461
a6e87e90 462* dbus: move dbus to early boot
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464* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
465
466* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
467
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468* clean up session cgroups that remain after logout (think sshd), but eventually run empty
469
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470* when an instanced service exits, remove its parent cgroup too if possible.
471
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472* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
473
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474* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
475 needs to be auto-respawned?
476
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477* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
478
de6c78f8 479* tmpfiles: apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 480
b44be3ec 481* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
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483* hide PAM/TCPWrap options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
484
d3c7d7dd 485* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
72b9ed82 486
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487* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
488 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
489
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490* move PAM code into its own binary
491
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492* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
493 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
494
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495* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
496
7c697168 497* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 498
71092d70 499* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
8d0e38a2 500
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501* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
502 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
503 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
504
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505* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
506 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
507
71092d70 508* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 509
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511 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
512 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
513 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
514 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
515 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
b23de6af 516
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517* add support for /bin/mount -s
518
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519* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
520
68c7d001 521* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 522 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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523 - enabling dbus services
524 - status update
7a2a0b90 525 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 526 - remote access
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527 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
528 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 529 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 530 - auto-restart
e707c494 531 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 532 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 533 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 534 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 535 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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536 - calendar time events
537 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
538 - how to create your own target
539 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
540 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 541
44143309 542* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 543
71092d70 544* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 545
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547
260abb78 548* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
2791a8f8 549
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550* Support --test based on current system state
551
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552* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
553
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554* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
555
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556* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
557
129126f3 558* port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID:
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559 - rpcbind (/var/run/rpcbind.sock!) HAVEPATCH
560 - cups HAVEPATCH
a625ac1a 561 - postfix, saslauthd
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562 - apache/samba
563 - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro)
564 - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!)
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71092d70 567* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
246756ca 568
50f2a90d 569* io priority during initialization
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572
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574 - export sd_journal_get_catalog (in systemd.journal._reader)
575 - export sd_journal_get_catalog_for_message_id (in systemd.id128)
576 - allow reading of only select fields in systemd.journal._reader.Reader
577 - export sd_journal_test_cursor in systemd.journal._reader.Reader
578 - export sd_journal_get_usage in systemd.journal._reader.Reader
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580 be just "return self->j != NULL")
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582 works with ^C
583
2f8cd170 584External:
74fe1fe3 585
cc9784c6 586* dbus:
cc9784c6 587 - dbus --user
3377af3e 588 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
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589 - allow specification of socket mode/umask when allocating DBusServer
590 - allow disabling of fd passing when connecting a AF_UNIX connection
3377af3e 591 - allow disabling of UID passing for AUTH EXTERNAL
b69d29ce 592 - always pass cred data along each message
b44be3ec 593 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 594
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595* fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
596
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597* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
598
9096ad36 599* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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601* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
602 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
603 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
604 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
605 the RTC to sync up.
606
71092d70 607* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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b1ce67bf 609* bootchart:
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611 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
486bdbde 612 - document initcall_debug
b1ce67bf 613
129126f3 614Regularly:
874aa2cc 615
129126f3 616* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 617
129126f3 618* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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620* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
8c6db833 621
14212119 622* %m in printf() instead of strerror(errno);
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624* pahole
625
71092d70 626* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 627
4db17f29 628* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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9e5f3dbb 632Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 634* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)