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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Should systemctl status \* work on all unit types, not just .service?
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5* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
6 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
7 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
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a40593a0 9* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
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afe3ab58 11* ExecStart with unicode characters fails in strv_split_quoted:
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13 [Service]
14 Environment=ONE='one' "TWO='two two' too" THREE=
15 ExecStart=/bin/python3 -c 'import sys;print(sys.argv)' $ONE $TWO $THREE
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3f85ef0f 17* MEMORY return code is overloaded for syntax errors in the command line.
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18 str_split_quoted() should return a real return code, so spawn_child can
19 report the failure properly.
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f38afcd0 21External:
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f38afcd0 23* 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 25* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
bafb15ba 26
81429136 27* Fedora: move kernel image to /usr/lib/modules/, kernel-install will take care of populating /boot
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29* Fedora: remove /etc/resolv.conf tmpfiles hack
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31* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
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33* When lz4 gets an API for lz4 command output, make use of it to
34 compress coredumps in a way compatible with /usr/bin/lz4.
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81429136 36Features:
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38* sd-resolve: drop res_query wrapping, people should call via the bus to resolved instead
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40* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
41 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
42 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
43 returning from the "systemctl stop".
44
b568ef14 45* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
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47* timesyncd + resolved: add ugly bus calls to set NTP and DNS servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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49* networkd-wait-online really should have a timeout by default
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51* add infrastructure to allocate dynamic/transient users and UID ranges, for use in user-namespaced containers, per-seat gdm login screens and gdm guest sessions
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53* machined: add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being removed or added to an existing machine
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55* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
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57* code cleanup: retire FOREACH_WORD_QUOTED, port to unquote_first_word() loops instead
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59* introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix?
60
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61* systemd --user should issue sd_notify() upon reaching basic.target, not on becoming idle
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63* configure.ac pretends dbus was optional but actually hardcodes use of dbus' pkg-config file to determine various dbus dirs such as policy and activation dirs
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65* consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions
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67* dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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69* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
70 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
71
25e773ee 72* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
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74* maybe provide an API to allow migration of foreign PIDs into existing scopes.
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76* maybe support a new very "soft" reboot mode, that simply kills all processes, disassembles everything, flushes /run and sysvipc, and then reexecs systemd again
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78* man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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80* man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
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82* "machinectl list" should probably show columns for OS version and IP addresses
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279f0366 84* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
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86* 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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88* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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90* exponential backoff in timesyncd and resolved when we cannot reach a server
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92* tmpfiles: port to unquote_many_words(), similar to sysusers
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94* unquote_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that
95 currently uses FOREACH_WORD and friends. For example, most conf
96 parsing callbacks should use it.
97
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98* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
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100* systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
101 units are shown.
102
b873d33e 103* networkd:
d61bb44a 104 - add LLDP client side support
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105 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
106 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
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107 - .network setting that allows overriding of the hostname to send to the dhcp server
108 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-July/021550.html
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109 - expose in the API the following bits:
110 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
111 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
112 - option 100, 101, timezone
113 - option 123, 144, geolocation
114 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
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115 - networkd's dhcp server should transparently pass on the DNS and
116 NTP server list it got from user configuration and its dhcp client
117 to clients. It should also pass on its own timezone information.
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118 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
119 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
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120 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
121 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
b873d33e 122
9d6db739 123* resolved:
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124 - put networkd events and rtnl events at a higher priority, so that
125 we always process them before we process client requests
9d6db739 126 - DNSSEC
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127 - use base64 for key presentation?
128 - add display of private key types (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4034#appendix-A.1.1)?
151226ab 129 - add nice formatting of DNS timestamps
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130 - DNS
131 - search paths
9d6db739 132 - mDNS/DNS-SD
0f47ed0a 133 - avahi compat
9d6db739 134 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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135 - edns0
136 - dname
b6b63571 137 - cname on PTR (?)
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138 - maybe randomize DNS UDP source ports
139 - maybe compare query section of DNS replies
3f77a1b1 140
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141* Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
142
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143* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
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145* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
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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=
a01647e5 150
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151* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
152
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153* timer units: actually add extra delays to timer units with high AccuracySec values, don't start them already when we are awake...
154
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155* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
156
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157* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
158
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159* mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied
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161* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
162 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 163
f598ac3e 164* 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)
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166* sd-event: generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
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168* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
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170* consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
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172* sd-event: define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
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6a3f892a 174* gpt-auto-generator:
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175 - Support LUKS for root devices
176 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 177 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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179* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
180 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
181 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 182
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183* MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
184
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185* "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
186 /proc/$PID/exe
187
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188* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
189 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
190 for ReusePort=
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192* socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
193 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
194 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
195 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
196 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
197
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198* New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
199
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200* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
201 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
202 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
203 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
204 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
205 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
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ef417cfd 207* completions:
ef417cfd 208 - manager property enumeration was broken when systemd moved to /usr/lib/
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f38afcd0 210* cgroups:
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211 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
212 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
213 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
214 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
215 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
216 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
217 the hierarchies of child processes
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219* transient units:
220 - allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
221 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
222 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
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224* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
225
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226* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
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f38afcd0 228* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
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230* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
231
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232* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
233
94676f3e 234* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
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236* 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
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7f79cd71 238* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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240* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
241 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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242 path anyway.
243
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244* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
245
6aaa8c2f 246* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 247
d28315e4 248* make sure gdm does not use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
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250* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
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252* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
253
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254* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
255 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
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6bb648a1 257* sd-bus:
3c575b64 258 - kdbus: maybe add controlling tty and ppid metadata fields
57f2a947 259 - see if we can introduce a new sd_bus_get_owner_machine_id() call to retrieve the machine ID of the machine of the bus itself
d28315e4 260 - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
7973ca19 261 - systemd-bus-proxyd needs to enforce good old XML policy
7973ca19 262 - introduce sd_bus_emit_object_added()/sd_bus_emit_object_removed() that automatically includes the build-in interfaces in the list
dc17bcef 263 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
f38afcd0 264 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 265 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
dc17bcef 266 - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async?
80caea6c 267 - 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 268 - longer term: priority inheritance
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269 - dbus spec updates:
270 - kdbus mapping
271 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
272 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 273 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 274 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
69727e6d 275 - test bloom filter generation indexes
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276 - kdbus: peeking is subject to a race when we look at a message while the message is being migrated to the implementor's connection. Needs kernel fix, and then we need to invoke the FREE ioctl in busname_peek_message()
277 - kdbus: for some reason "busctl monitor" only shows metadata for signal msgs, never method call or method reply msgs
278 - kdbus: busnames.target should get pulled in by basic.target
279 - Ignore .busname units on classic D-Bus boots, systemd-resolved cannot be started on kdbus
280 without the active policy and should get a Wants=org.freedesktop.resolve1.busname to
281 pull-in the policy.
282 - bus-proxy: when passing messages from kdbus, make sure we properly
283 handle the case where a large number of fds is appended that we
284 cannot pass into sendmsg() of the AF_UNIX sokcet (which only accepts
285 253 messages)
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286 - kdbus: auxgroups is now uin32_t, we don't have to convert the array anymore while exposing it in the creds structure
287 - kdbus: introduce a concept of "send-only" connections
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289* sd-event
12179984 290 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 291 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
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293* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
294 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
295 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
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69af4503 297* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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299* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
300 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
301
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302* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
303
304* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
305
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306* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
307
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308* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
309
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310* test/:
311 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
312 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
b8b4d3dd 313
b5c03638 314* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 315 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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316 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
317 destination.
318
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319* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
320 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
321
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322* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
323
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324* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
325 need manual exponential loops after all
326
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327* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
328 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
329 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
330 is installed.
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332* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
333 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
334 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
335 that automatically.
336
e5ec62c5 337* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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339* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
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d28315e4 341* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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343* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
344
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345* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
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347* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
348
356ce991 349* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 350
81d112a8 351* introduce ExecCondition= in services
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b44be3ec 353* EFI:
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354 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
355 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 356 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 357
c0fe5db5 358* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 359
b44be3ec 360* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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362* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
363 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 365* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 366
b44be3ec 367* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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369* logind:
370 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
371 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
372 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
373 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
374 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
e5ec62c5 375 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
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376 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
377 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
378 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
379 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
380 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
381 needs setuid().
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382 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
383 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
384 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
385 complete.
386 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
387 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
388 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
389 - logind: allow users to kill or lock their own sessions
390 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
391 - given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
392 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
393 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
b568ef14 394 - expose orientation sensors and tablet mode through logind
e673ad04 395
b44be3ec 396* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
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b44be3ec 398* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
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b44be3ec 400* journal:
57f2a947 401 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
c06bf414 402 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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403 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
404 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
405 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 406 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
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407 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
408 - journal: reuse XZ context
409 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
410 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
411 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
412 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
413 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
414 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
415 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 416 - 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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417 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
418 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
b44be3ec 419 - 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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420 - 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.
421 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
422 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
f47ec8eb 423 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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424 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
425 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
426 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
427 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 428 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 429 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 430 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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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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441 - optionally support running journald from the command line for testing purposes in external projects
442 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
443 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
444 journals in.
445 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
446 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
447 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
448 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
449 the most common operations.
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451* document:
8b8f2591 452 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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453 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
454 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 455 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 456 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 457 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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458 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
459 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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460 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
461 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
462 - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
463 - man: add more examples to man pages
464 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
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466* systemctl:
467 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
468 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
469 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
470 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
471 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
472 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
473 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
474 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 475 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
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476 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
477 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
478 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
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479 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
480 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
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482* unit install:
483 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
484 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
f38afcd0 485 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
8b04b925 486
b44be3ec 487* timer units:
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488 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
489 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
490 o DST changes
eb124a97 491 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
f38afcd0 492 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
d28315e4 493 - 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 494 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 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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519 - introduce machines.target to order after all nspawn instances
520 - systemd-nspawn@.service should fail if some nspawn arg is invalid, with Type=notify
521 - PID 1 doesn't apply nspawns devices cgroup policy
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523* cryptsetup:
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524 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
525 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
526 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 527 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 528
424a19f8 529* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 530 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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532* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
533
a1cccad1 534* make timer units go away after they elapsed
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536* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
537
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538* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
539
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540* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
541
68f16003 542* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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544* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
545 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
d28315e4 546 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
68f16003 547 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
d28315e4 548 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
68f16003 549 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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551* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
552
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553* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
554
88a6c589 555* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
8351ceae 556
9946996c 557* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
d28315e4 558 verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
9946996c 559
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560* introduce Type=pid-file
561
59cea26a 562* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 563
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564* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
565
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566* automount: implement expire:
567 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
568 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
569 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
570 - blocking, needs a thread
571 - run until -EAGAIN
572 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
573 - call umount
574 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
575 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
465349c0 576
e01a15b7 577* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 578
abd55b16 579* udev:
abd55b16 580 - move to LGPL
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582 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 583 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
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585* 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
586
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587* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
588
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589* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
590
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591* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
592
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593* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
594
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595* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
596
597* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
598
70a44afe 599* default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
65c0cf71 600
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601* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
602 needs to be auto-respawned?
603
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604* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
605
f38afcd0 606* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 607 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 608
d28315e4 609* for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested
14e639ae 610
7f8aa671 611* hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
ff01d048 612
d3c7d7dd 613* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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615* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
616 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
617
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619
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620* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
621 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
622
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623* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
624
55cdcbac 625* add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
8d0e38a2 626
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627* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
628 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
629 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
630
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632 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
633
71092d70 634* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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636* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
637
68c7d001 638* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 639 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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640 - enabling dbus services
641 - status update
7a2a0b90 642 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 643 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 644 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 645 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 646 - auto-restart
e707c494 647 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 648 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 649 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 650 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 651 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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652 - calendar time events
653 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
654 - how to create your own target
655 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
656 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 657
44143309 658* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 659
260abb78 660* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
2791a8f8 661
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662* Support --test based on current system state
663
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664* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
665
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666* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
667
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668* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
669
71092d70 670* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
246756ca 671
7ba97195 672* systemd-python:
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674 works with ^C
b04c8c83 675 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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677* bootchart:
678 - plot per-process IO utilization
679 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
680 - document initcall_debug
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681 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
682
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683* udev-link-config:
684 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
685 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
686 on Path= matching
8faf88e5 687 - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
af6f0d42 688
88e4d1d7 689* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 690 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 691 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 692
0a4b9a07 693* networkd:
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694 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
695 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 696 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 697 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
5c1d3fc9 698 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
798e174a 699 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
8477107d 700 - add more attribute support for SIT tunnel
1a941ac4 701 - work with non-ethernet devices
c9fa3670 702 - add support for more bond options
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704* networkd-wait-online:
705 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
8f5675cc 706
ac976532 707* dhcp:
424a8732 708 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 709 - export timezone information
99f9dd8d 710 - support RFC4702 (pass FQDN)
ac976532 711
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712* dhcp6:
713 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
714 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
715 - write more test cases
716 - implement and do duplicate address detection, see rfc 4862, 5.4.
717 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
718 - implement information request, see 1.2. and 18.1.5.
719 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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720 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
721 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
722 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
723 or interface down
724 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
725 this behavior
726
2f8cd170 727External:
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cc9784c6 729* dbus:
3377af3e 730 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 731 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 732
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734
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736
9096ad36 737* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
06ae4bfe 738
71092d70 739* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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742
d28315e4 743* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and should not
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745* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
746
747* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
748
749* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
750
d2bbca68 751* 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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753* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
754
755* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 756
4641a16b 757* 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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760
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762 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
763 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
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129126f3 766Regularly:
874aa2cc 767
129126f3 768* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 769
129126f3 770* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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772* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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d28315e4 776* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 777
4db17f29 778* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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780* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
781
9e5f3dbb 782Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 784* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)