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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* create /var/log/journal/
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25* external: maybe it is time to patch procps so that "ps" links to
26 libsystemd-logind to print a pretty service name, seat name, session
27 name in its output. Currently it only shows cgroup membership, but
0028da22 28 that's sometimes kinda hard to parse for a human.
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7e2c2bcf 30* cgroup attrs:
f0c15f28 31 - update dbus interface docs in wiki
7b4da18c 32
7b4da18c 33* kernel cmdline switch to turn off predictable network interface names
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b44be3ec 35* journal is not closed properly at shutdown when run in a container?
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37* localed:
38 - localectl: add listing support for X11 keymaps, by parsing /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst
39 - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps
40
eb124a97 41* 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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43* timer logic is confused by units which are skipped due to failing condition
44 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-February/008816.html
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46* timer logic is also confused if a service it triggers hasn't finished when the next timer elapses:
47 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-February/009021.html
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eb124a97 49Features:
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51* safe_atod() is too naive, as it is vulnerable to locale parameters, should be locale independent.
52
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53* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
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55* rework specifier logic so that we can distuingish OOM errors from other errors
56
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57* systemd-inhibit: refuse taking delay locks
58
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59* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
60
54c31a79 61* 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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63* tmpfiles: when traversing the tree, check for bind mount points with nametohandle()
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65* fedora: connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install], and maybe introduce timers.target
66
67* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
68
69* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapstion and the time the units ran last
70
71* man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
72
73* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
74
75* man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
76
77* systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
78
79* man: add a link to socket activation blog from systemd.socket(5)
80
81* systemctl status: show drop-in snippets for service files in addition to service file path themesevles.
82
83* man: add more examples to man pages
84
85* man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
86
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87* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
88
89* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
90
91* 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=
92
93* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
94
95* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
96
97* msgcatalog determine default language of entries from the catalog
98 file name. i.e. foobar.de_DE.catalog would set the default entry
99 name for the entries to de_DE if they aren't explicitly suffixed
100 individually.
101
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102* figure out what we do about hostnames/fqdn in hostnamectl/hostnamed
103
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104* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
105
106* unit_name_mangle() is currently not used on "systemctl enable" and friends, only on "systemctl start"
107
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108* ensure sd_journal_seek_monotonic actually works properly.
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110* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
111
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112* support --root= in msgcatalog compiler
113
990ffbe5 114* Honour "-" prefix for InaccessibleDirectories= and ReadOnlyDirectories= to
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115 suppress errors of the specified path doesn't exist
116
117* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
118 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
119 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
120 will be activated.
121
81d112a8 122* merge service_kill() logic into unit_kill_context() and unify the code paths
490b7e47 123
81d112a8 124* introduce ExecCondition= in services
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126* EFI:
127 - fsck hookup for the ESP mount is missing
128 - write man page for efi boot generator
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129 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
130 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
131 - introduce bootctl (backed by systemd-bootd) to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 132
c0fe5db5 133* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 134
b44be3ec 135* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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137* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
138 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 140* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 141
b44be3ec 142* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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144* logind:
145 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
146 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
147 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
148 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
149 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
150 - logind: spawn user@..service on login
151 - logind: non-local X11 server handling
152 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
153 - pam_systemd: try to get old session id from cgroup, if audit sessionid cannot be determined
154 - pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree
eb124a97 155 - logind: GetSessionByPID() should accept 0 as PID value
e673ad04 156
b44be3ec 157* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 158
b44be3ec 159* DeviceAllow/DeviceDeny: disallow everything by default, but whitelist /dev/zero, /dev/null and friends
e673ad04 160
b44be3ec 161* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
e673ad04 162
b44be3ec 163* journal:
c06bf414 164 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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165 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
166 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
167 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
168 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
169 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
170 - journal: reuse XZ context
171 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
172 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
173 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
174 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
175 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
176 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
177 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
178 - gatewayd: should run under its own UID
f47ec8eb 179 - 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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180 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
181 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
182 - journal: when rotating, copy over old acls/access mode
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183 - journal: send out marker messages every now and then, and immediately sync with fdatasync() afterwards, in order to have hourly guaranteed syncs.
184 - 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
185 - 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.
186 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
187 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
188 - journal: When used on NFS make sure wake up sd_journal_wait() every 2s, to handle missing inotify
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189 - Introduce journalctl -b <nr> to show journal messages of a previous boot
190 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 191 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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192 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
193 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
194 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
195 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
196 - journalctl: show multiline log messages sanely, expand tabs, and show all valid utf8 messages
197 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
198 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
199
200* document:
201 - document unit_name_mangle()
202 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in
203 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
204 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
205 - Document word splitting syntax for ExecStart= and friends
206 - document that units from /etc override those from /usr and /run
207 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 208 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 209 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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211* systemctl:
212 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
213 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
214 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
215 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
216 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
217 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
218 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
219 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
220 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
221 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
222 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
223 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
224 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
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225 - add configuration/switches to use
226 freeze (http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git) and
227 standby (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57793) as suspend modes
8b04b925 228
b44be3ec 229* When shutdown.target is queued begin with an asynchronous sync()?
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231* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
232
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233* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
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235* timer units:
236 - configurable jitter for timer events
237 - timer events with system resume
238 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
239 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
240 o DST changes
eb124a97 241 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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243* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
244
245* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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246 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
247 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 248 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 249 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 250 user did not request anything like it.
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252* hwdb:
253 - implement conditional properties (dmi matches)
254 - hwdb --filter=ID_DRIVE_*
08f95888 255
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256* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
257 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
258 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
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260* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
261 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
262 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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263 we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in
264 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
265 better supported alternative.
e707c494 266
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267* figure out relation of --all and --full in the various tools
268
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269* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
270
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271* 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().
272
273* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
274* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
275* fedup: generator
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277* timedated:
278 - timedated: export boolean that clarifies whether NTP is even available
279 - timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
6d0274f1 280
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281* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
282
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283* introduce generic AUGMENT_PID=, AUGMENT_DEVICE= fields
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b44be3ec 285* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 286
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287* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
288 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
289 - superset of tmpfiles model
290 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
291 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
292 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
293
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294* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
295 waiting for the timeout
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297* high level net_prio setting in execution context
298
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299* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
300
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301* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
302
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303* WorkingDirectory: support env var replacements like in ExecStart= so that people can use $HOME
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15abdb9a 305* refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful (or set taint?)
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307* nspawn:
308 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly
309 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
310 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
311 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
312 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
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313 - nspawn: investigate whether we can support the same as LXC's
314 lxc.network.type=phys mode, and pass through entire network
315 interfaces to the container
316 - nspawn: maybe add a way to drop additional caps, in addition to add additional caps
317 - nspawn: maybe explicitly reset loginuid?
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318 - nspawn: move all containers to name=systemd:/containers/, and introduce externally visible names for containers
319 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
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321* cryptsetup:
322 - cryptsetup-generator: warn if the password files are world-readable
323 - cryptsetup-generator: add RequiresMountsFor= to cryptseup service files referencing a file, similar for devices
324 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
325 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
326 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
327 - when key file cannot be found, read it from kbd in cryptsetup
f8019684 328
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329* move debug shell to tty6 and make sure this doesn't break the gettys on tty6
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424a19f8 331* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 332 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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334* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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336* make timer units go away after they elapsed
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8556879e 338* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 339 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
8556879e 340
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341* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
342
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343* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
344
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345* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
346
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347* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
348
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349* system.conf should have controls for cgroups
350
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351* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
352
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353* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
354
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355* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container
356
68f16003 357* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 358
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359* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
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361* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
362 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
363 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
364 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 365 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 366 but much rather a disconnect on success.
0790b9fe 367
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368* remember which condition failed for services, not just the fact that something failed
369
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370* use opterr = 0 for all getopt tools
371
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372* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
373
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374* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
375
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376* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
377
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378* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
379
88a6c589 380* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
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382* syscall filter:
383 - syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls
384 - syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs?
385 - syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS?
386 - syscall filter: port to libseccomp
387 - system-wide seccomp filter
c66d36e5 388
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389* systemd-analyze: data collection tools should be lightweight (few dependencies); data analysis tools can be heavyweight
390
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391* .device aliases need to be implemented with the "following" logic, probably.
392
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393* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
394 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
395
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396* introduce Type=pid-file
397
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398* maybe allow services with ExecStop= set, but no ExecStart=?
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59cea26a 400* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 401
94734142 402* support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f1a8e221 403
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404* drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields
405
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406* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
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408* move passno parsing to fstab generator
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410* automount: implement expire:
411 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
412 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
413 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
414 - blocking, needs a thread
415 - run until -EAGAIN
416 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
417 - call umount
418 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
419 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
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421* services which create their own subcgroups break cgroup-empty notification (needs to be fixed in the kernel)
422
e01a15b7 423* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 424
98ef27df 425* ConditionSecurity= should learn about IMA and SMACK
a0a38448 426
abd55b16 427* udev:
3f60bcb5 428 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
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429 - move to LGPL
430 - unify utf8 validator code with shared/
431 - kill scsi_id
432 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
b8217b7b 433
18b754d3 434* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording
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436* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
437
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438* 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
439
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440* support container_ttys=
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442* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
443
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444* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
445
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446* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
447
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448* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
449
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450* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
451
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452* figure out whether we should leave dbus around during shutdown
453
abd55b16 454* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
680a1dbc 455
a6e87e90 456* dbus: move dbus to early boot
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458* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
459
460* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
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462* clean up session cgroups that remain after logout (think sshd), but eventually run empty
463
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464* when an instanced service exits, remove its parent cgroup too if possible.
465
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466* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
467
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468* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
469 needs to be auto-respawned?
470
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471* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
472
de6c78f8 473* tmpfiles: apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 474
b44be3ec 475* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
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477* hide PAM/TCPWrap options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
478
d3c7d7dd 479* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
72b9ed82 480
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481* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
482 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
483
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484* move PAM code into its own binary
485
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486* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
487 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
488
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489* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
490
7c697168 491* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 492
71092d70 493* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
8d0e38a2 494
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495* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
496 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
497 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
498
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500 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
501
71092d70 502* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 503
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505 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
506 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
507 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
508 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
509 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
b23de6af 510
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511* add support for /bin/mount -s
512
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513* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
514
68c7d001 515* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 516 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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517 - enabling dbus services
518 - status update
7a2a0b90 519 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 520 - remote access
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521 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
522 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 523 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 524 - auto-restart
e707c494 525 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 526 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 527 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 528 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 529 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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530 - calendar time events
531 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
532 - how to create your own target
533 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
534 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 535
44143309 536* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 537
71092d70 538* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
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260abb78 542* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
2791a8f8 543
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544* Support --test based on current system state
545
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546* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
547
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548* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
549
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550* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
551
129126f3 552* port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID:
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553 - rpcbind (/var/run/rpcbind.sock!) HAVEPATCH
554 - cups HAVEPATCH
a625ac1a 555 - postfix, saslauthd
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556 - apache/samba
557 - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro)
558 - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!)
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560
71092d70 561* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
246756ca 562
50f2a90d 563* io priority during initialization
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568 - export sd_journal_get_catalog (in systemd.journal._reader)
569 - export sd_journal_get_catalog_for_message_id (in systemd.id128)
570 - allow reading of only select fields in systemd.journal._reader.Reader
571 - export sd_journal_test_cursor in systemd.journal._reader.Reader
572 - export sd_journal_get_usage in systemd.journal._reader.Reader
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573 - add systemd.journal._reader._Reader.closed attribute (it can
574 be just "return self->j != NULL")
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575 - figure out a simple way to wait for journal events in a way that
576 works with ^C
577
2f8cd170 578External:
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cc9784c6 580* dbus:
cc9784c6 581 - dbus --user
3377af3e 582 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
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584 - allow disabling of fd passing when connecting a AF_UNIX connection
3377af3e 585 - allow disabling of UID passing for AUTH EXTERNAL
b69d29ce 586 - always pass cred data along each message
b44be3ec 587 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 588
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590
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591* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
592
9096ad36 593* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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595* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
596 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
597 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
598 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
599 the RTC to sync up.
600
71092d70 601* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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b1ce67bf 603* bootchart:
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605 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
486bdbde 606 - document initcall_debug
b1ce67bf 607
129126f3 608Regularly:
874aa2cc 609
129126f3 610* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 611
129126f3 612* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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614* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
8c6db833 615
14212119 616* %m in printf() instead of strerror(errno);
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618* pahole
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71092d70 620* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 621
4db17f29 622* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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625
9e5f3dbb 626Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 628* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)