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ee9c9500 1Bugfixes:
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2* Re-enable "fsck -l" when it is ready:
3 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79576#c5
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5* Should systemctl status \* work on all unit types, not just .service?
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7* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
8 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
9 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
10
a40593a0 11* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
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13After killing 'systemd --user', systemctl restart user@... fails.
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15ExecStart 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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f38afcd0 21External:
f38afcd0 22* 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 24* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
bafb15ba 25
81429136 26* Fedora: move kernel image to /usr/lib/modules/, kernel-install will take care of populating /boot
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28* Fedora: remove /etc/resolv.conf tmpfiles hack
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30* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
31
32* When lz4 gets an API for lz4 command output, make use of it to
33 compress coredumps in a way compatible with /usr/bin/lz4.
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81429136 35Features:
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37* maybe support a new very "soft" reboot mode, that simply kills all processes, disassembles everything, flushes /run and sysvipc, and then reexecs systemd again
38
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39* man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
40
41* systemctl isolate should use ".target" as completion suffix, not ".service"
42
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43* bus-proxy: when passing messages from kdbus, make sure we properly
44 handle the case where a large number of fds is appended that we
45 cannot pass into sendmsg() of the AF_UNIX sokcet (which only accepts
46 253 messages)
47
48* check for validity of ucred fields in bus-proxy, like we do in journald
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50* busctl: add a pcap writer, using LINKTYPE_DBUS/231
51
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52* man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
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54* introduce machines.target to order after all nspawn instances
55
56* systemd-nspawn@.service should fail if some nspawn arg is invalid, with Type=notify
57
58* "machinectl list" should probably show columns for OS version and IP addresses
59
60* systemctl: if it fails, show log output?
61
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62* 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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64* dbus: add new message hdr field for allowing interactive auth, write spec for it. update dbus spec to mandate that unknown flags *must* be ignored...
65
66* maybe introduce AssertXYZ= similar to ConditionXYZ= that causes a unit to fail (instead of skipping it) if some condition is not true...
67
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68* remove multi-seat-x now
69
70* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
71
72* exponential backoff in timesyncd and resolved when we cannot reach a server
73
d74f9e8e 74* apply start timeout during the "initializing" manager state only,
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75 instead of both "initializing" and "starting". maybe rename the
76 timeout to "initialization-timeout" then or so?
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78* journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
79 journals in.
80
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81* tmpfiles: port to unquote_many_words(), similar to sysusers
82
83* unquote_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that
84 currently uses FOREACH_WORD and friends. For example, most conf
85 parsing callbacks should use it.
86
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87* logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
88 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
89 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
90 complete.
91
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92* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
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94* remove readahead in 217
95
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96* journald: allows specification of UID range for splitting up journal files
97
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98* systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
99 units are shown.
100
b873d33e 101* networkd:
d61bb44a 102 - add LLDP client side support
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103 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
104 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
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105 - .network setting that allows overriding of the hostname to send to the dhcp server
106 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-July/021550.html
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107 - expose in the API the following bits:
108 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
109 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
110 - option 100, 101, timezone
111 - option 123, 144, geolocation
112 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
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113 - networkd's dhcp server should transparently pass on the DNS and
114 NTP server list it got from user configuration and its dhcp client
115 to clients. It should also pass on its own timezone information.
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116 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
117 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
b873d33e 118
9d6db739 119* resolved:
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120 - put networkd events and rtnl events at a higher priority, so that
121 we always process them before we process client requests
9d6db739 122 - DNSSEC
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123 - use base64 for key presentation?
124 - add display of private key types (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4034#appendix-A.1.1)?
151226ab 125 - add nice formatting of DNS timestamps
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126 - DNS
127 - search paths
9d6db739 128 - mDNS/DNS-SD
0f47ed0a 129 - avahi compat
9d6db739 130 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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131 - edns0
132 - dname
b6b63571 133 - cname on PTR (?)
9d6db739 134
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135* Ignore .busname units on classic D-Bus boots, systemd-resolved cannot be started on kdbus
136 without the active policy and should get a Wants=org.freedesktop.resolve1.busname to
137 pull-in the policy.
138
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139* Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
140
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141* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
142
fed515f0 143* logind: allow users to kill or lock their own sessions
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145* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
146
a01647e5 147* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 148 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
a940778f 149 - fstab-generator: support systemd.volatile=yes|no|state on the kernel cmdline, too, similar to nspawn's --volatile=
e8a152c6 150 - fstab-generator: add support for usr= in addition to root= on the kernel cmdline
a01647e5 151
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152* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
153
154* support setting empty environment variables with Environment= and EnvironmentFile=
155
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156* timer units: actually add extra delays to timer units with high AccuracySec values, don't start them already when we are awake...
157
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158* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
159
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160* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
161
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162* journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
163
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164* set NOTIFY_SOCKET also for control processes
165
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166* mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied
167
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168* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
169 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 170
f598ac3e 171* 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 172
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173* sd-event: generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
174
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175* expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
176
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177* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
178
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179* consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
180
181* sd-event: define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
182
6a3f892a 183* gpt-auto-generator:
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184 - Support LUKS for root devices
185 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 186 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 187
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188* improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
189 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
d28315e4 190 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
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191 the most common operations.
192
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193* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
194 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
195 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 196
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197* MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
198
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199* "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
200 /proc/$PID/exe
201
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202* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
203 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
204 for ReusePort=
205
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206* socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
207 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
208 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
209 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
210 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
211
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212* New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
213
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214* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
215 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
216 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
217 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
218 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
219 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
220
ef417cfd 221* completions:
ef417cfd 222 - manager property enumeration was broken when systemd moved to /usr/lib/
3333d748 223
f38afcd0 224* cgroups:
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225 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
226 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
227 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
228 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
229 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
230 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
231 the hierarchies of child processes
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233* transient units:
234 - allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
235 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
236 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
ebcf1f97 237
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238* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
239
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240* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
241
f38afcd0 242* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
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244* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
245
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246* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
247
94676f3e 248* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
6fd4d020 249
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250* 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
251
7f79cd71 252* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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254* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
255 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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256 path anyway.
257
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258* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
259
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260* given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
261 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
e10e429f 262 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
e1b7e7ec 263
6aaa8c2f 264* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 265
d28315e4 266* make sure gdm does not use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
18d4e7c2 267
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268* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
269
270* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
271
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272* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
273 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
274
6bb648a1 275* sd-bus:
d28315e4 276 - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
7973ca19 277 - systemd-bus-proxyd needs to enforce good old XML policy
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278 - allow updating attach flags during runtime
279 - pid1: peek into activating message when activating a service
280 - introduce sd_bus_emit_object_added()/sd_bus_emit_object_removed() that automatically includes the build-in interfaces in the list
dc17bcef 281 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
f38afcd0 282 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 283 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
dc17bcef 284 - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async?
80caea6c 285 - 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 286 - longer term: priority inheritance
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287 - dbus spec updates:
288 - kdbus mapping
289 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
290 - GVariant
bee7e928 291 - "const" properties (posted)
2ecfc64e 292 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 293 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
69727e6d 294 - test bloom filter generation indexes
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296* sd-event
12179984 297 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 298 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
eb01ba5d 299
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300* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
301 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
302 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
303
69af4503 304* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
e8a7a315 305
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306* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
307 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
308
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309* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
310
311* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
312
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313* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
314
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315* timedatectl: print a nicer message when enabling ntp fails because ntpd/chrony are not installed
316
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317* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
318
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320 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
321 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
b8b4d3dd 322
b5c03638 323* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 324 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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325 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
326 destination.
327
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328* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
329 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
330
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331* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
332
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333* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
334 need manual exponential loops after all
335
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336* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
337 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
338 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
339 is installed.
795607b2 340
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341* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
342 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
343 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
344 that automatically.
345
e5ec62c5 346* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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348* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
349
d28315e4 350* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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352* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
353
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354* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
355
356* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
357
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358* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
359
356ce991 360* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 361
81d112a8 362* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 363
b44be3ec 364* EFI:
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365 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
366 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 367 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 368
c0fe5db5 369* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 370
b44be3ec 371* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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373* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
374 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 376* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 377
b44be3ec 378* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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380* logind:
381 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
382 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
383 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
384 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
385 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
e5ec62c5 386 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
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387 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
388 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
389 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
390 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
391 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
392 needs setuid().
e673ad04 393
b44be3ec 394* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 395
b44be3ec 396* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
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b44be3ec 398* journal:
c06bf414 399 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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400 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
401 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
402 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 403 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
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404 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
405 - journal: reuse XZ context
406 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
407 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
408 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
409 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
410 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
411 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
412 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 413 - 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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414 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
415 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
b44be3ec 416 - 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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417 - 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.
418 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
419 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 420 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 421 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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422 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
423 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
424 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
425 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
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426 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
427 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 428 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 429 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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430 - tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal, also do this for the journal fails contained in it
431 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
432 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
433 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
434 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
435 to syslog when it works again.
436 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
437 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
438 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
d28315e4 439 so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
f38afcd0 440 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
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442* document:
8b8f2591 443 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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444 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
445 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 446 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 447 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 448 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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449 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
450 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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451 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
452 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
453 - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
454 - man: add more examples to man pages
455 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
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457* systemctl:
458 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
459 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
460 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
461 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
462 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
463 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
464 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
465 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 466 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
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467 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
468 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
469 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
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470 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
471 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
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473* unit install:
474 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
475 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
f38afcd0 476 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
8b04b925 477
b44be3ec 478* timer units:
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479 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
480 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
481 o DST changes
eb124a97 482 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
f38afcd0 483 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
d28315e4 484 - 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 485 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
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487* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
488
489* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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490 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
491 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 492 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 493 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 494 user did not request anything like it.
c55b1b59 495
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496* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
497
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498* 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().
499
500* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
d28315e4 501* fedup: do not delete initrd on switch-root
1cb88f2c 502* fedup: generator
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504* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
505
b44be3ec 506* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 507
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508* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
509 waiting for the timeout
dcfc4b2e 510
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511* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
512
d28315e4 513* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 514
b44be3ec 515* nspawn:
b44be3ec 516 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
9cb74bcb 517 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
a56b63f4 518 - support taking a btrfs snapshot at startup and dropping it afterwards
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520* cryptsetup:
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521 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
522 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
523 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 524 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 525
424a19f8 526* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 527 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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529* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
530
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531* make timer units go away after they elapsed
532
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533* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
534
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535* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
536
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537* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
538
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539* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
540
68f16003 541* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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543* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
544 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
d28315e4 545 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
68f16003 546 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
d28315e4 547 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
68f16003 548 but much rather a disconnect on success.
0790b9fe 549
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550* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
551
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552* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
553
88a6c589 554* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
8351ceae 555
9946996c 556* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
d28315e4 557 verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
9946996c 558
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559* introduce Type=pid-file
560
59cea26a 561* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 562
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563* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
564
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565* automount: implement expire:
566 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
567 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
568 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
569 - blocking, needs a thread
570 - run until -EAGAIN
571 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
572 - call umount
573 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
574 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
465349c0 575
e01a15b7 576* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 577
abd55b16 578* udev:
abd55b16 579 - move to LGPL
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580 - kill scsi_id
581 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 582 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
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584* 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
585
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586* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
587
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588* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
589
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590* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
591
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592* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
593
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594* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
595
596* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
597
70a44afe 598* default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
65c0cf71 599
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600* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
601 needs to be auto-respawned?
602
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603* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
604
f38afcd0 605* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 606 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 607
d28315e4 608* for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested
14e639ae 609
7f8aa671 610* hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
ff01d048 611
d3c7d7dd 612* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
72b9ed82 613
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614* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
615 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
616
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617* move PAM code into its own binary
618
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619* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
620 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
621
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622* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
623
55cdcbac 624* add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
8d0e38a2 625
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626* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
627 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
628 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
629
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630* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
631 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
632
71092d70 633* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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635* readahead:
636 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
637 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
638 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
639 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
640 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
b23de6af 641
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642* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
643
68c7d001 644* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 645 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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646 - enabling dbus services
647 - status update
7a2a0b90 648 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 649 - remote access
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650 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
651 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 652 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 653 - auto-restart
e707c494 654 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 655 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 656 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 657 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 658 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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660 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
661 - how to create your own target
662 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
663 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
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44143309 665* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 666
260abb78 667* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
2791a8f8 668
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669* Support --test based on current system state
670
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671* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
672
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673* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
674
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675* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
676
71092d70 677* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
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679* drop cap bounding set in readahead and other services
680
7ba97195 681* systemd-python:
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683 works with ^C
b04c8c83 684 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
7ba97195 685
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686* bootchart:
687 - plot per-process IO utilization
688 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
689 - document initcall_debug
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690 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
691
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692* udev-link-config:
693 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
694 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
695 on Path= matching
8faf88e5 696 - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
af6f0d42 697
88e4d1d7 698* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 699 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 700 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 701
0a4b9a07 702* networkd:
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704 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 705 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 706 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
5c1d3fc9 707 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
798e174a 708 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
8477107d 709 - add more attribute support for SIT tunnel
1a941ac4 710 - work with non-ethernet devices
c9fa3670 711 - add support for more bond options
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713* networkd-wait-online:
714 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
8f5675cc 715
ac976532 716* dhcp:
424a8732 717 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 718 - export timezone information
99f9dd8d 719 - support RFC4702 (pass FQDN)
ac976532 720
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721* dhcp6:
722 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
723 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
724 - write more test cases
725 - implement and do duplicate address detection, see rfc 4862, 5.4.
726 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
727 - implement information request, see 1.2. and 18.1.5.
728 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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729 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
730 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
731 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
732 or interface down
733 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
734 this behavior
735
2f8cd170 736External:
74fe1fe3 737
cc9784c6 738* dbus:
3377af3e 739 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 740 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 741
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743
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744* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
745
9096ad36 746* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
06ae4bfe 747
71092d70 748* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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750* drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields
751
d28315e4 752* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and should not
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754* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
755
756* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
757
758* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
759
d2bbca68 760* 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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762* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
763
764* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 765
4641a16b 766* 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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770* zsh shell completion: <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently
771 does not
772
129126f3 773Regularly:
874aa2cc 774
129126f3 775* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 776
129126f3 777* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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779* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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d28315e4 783* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 784
4db17f29 785* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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788
9e5f3dbb 789Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 791* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)