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ee9c9500 1Bugfixes:
dbb642af 2* check :no-sender logic after PID conversion
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19aadacf 4* enabling an instance unit creates a pointless link, and
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5 the unit will be started with getty@getty.service:
6 $ systemctl enable getty@.service
7 ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service' '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@.service'
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9* check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
10
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11* swap units that are activated by one name but shown in the kernel under another are semi-broken
12
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13* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
14 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
15 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
16
a40593a0 17* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
20ffc4c4 18
19aadacf 19* When we detect invalid UTF-8, we cannot use it in an error message:
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20 log...("Path is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment: %s", rvalue);
21
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22* shorten the message to sane length:
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24 Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status display-manager.service' for details.
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466784c8 26Fedora 20:
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dc7adf20 28* external: ps should gain colums for slice and machine
7b4da18c 29
81d112a8 30* localed:
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31 - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps
32
55d32caf 33* when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
466784c8 34 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
55d32caf 35
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36CGroup Rework Completion:
37
94bbc991 38* introduce "mainpid" for scopes (or maybe not?)
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40* implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?)
41
42* implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
43
44* handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
45
049b4474 46* introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
bafb15ba 47
eb124a97 48Features:
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50* increase journal files by a few MB each time, instead of piecemeal
51
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52* add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
53
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54* systemctl: rework wait filter to not require match callback
55
56* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
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58* bus: access policy as vtable flag
59
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60* journalctl: support -M to read journal of containers and determine journal directory from root directory of container
61
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62* tmpfiles: to make sure we don't delete unpacked tarballs with old timestamps right-away never delete stuff that is inside a directory with a new mtime
63
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64* "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
65 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
66
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67* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
68
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69* remove NSS usage from PID 1 (notably the specifiers)
70
a427c13d 71* socket-proxyd:
fd201fda 72 - Support multiple inherited sockets mapped to different remote hosts
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73 - Use a nonblocking alternative to getaddrinfo
74 - Until we can start daemons directly, find a less ugly, less racy alternative than shell scripts for the second man page example.
75 - Support starting daemons directly without requiring a shell script; update man pages
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77* optimize the cgroup propagation bits, especially unit_get_members_mask(), cgroup_context_get_mask()
78
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79* "systemctl cat" or "systemctl view" command or or so, that cats the backing unit file of a service, plus its drop-ins and shows them in a pager
80
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81* 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
82
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83* Add a new Distribute=$NUMBER key to socket units that makes use of SO_REUSEPORT to distribute network traffic on $NUMBER instances
84
19aadacf 85* tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal, also do this for the journal fails contained in it
7f79cd71 86
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87* we probably should replace the left-over uses of strv_append() and replace them by strv_push() or strv_extend()
88
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89* move config_parse_path_strv() out of conf-parser.c
90
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91* libdsystemd-bus should expose utf8 validation calls
92
7f79cd71 93* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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95* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
96 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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97 path anyway.
98
19aadacf 99* When a Type=forking service fails and needed another service, that
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100 service is not cleaned up again when it has StopWhenUnneeded=yes
101 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-July/012141.html
102
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103* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
104
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105* ensure scope units may be started only a single time
106
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107* better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
108
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109* systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
110
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111* for transient units, instead of writing out drop-ins for all properties consider serializing them in the normal serialization stream
112
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113* logind: when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects
114
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115* session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
116
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117* add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
118
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119* journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
120
19aadacf 121* given that logind/machined now let PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
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122 probably reduce the capability set they retain substantially.
123
6aaa8c2f 124* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 125
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126* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
127
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128* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
129
e1b7e7ec 130* make sure gdm doesn't use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
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132* when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we won't support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200
133
19aadacf 134* when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
fa7deadb 135
19aadacf 136* "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, but should
69af4503 137 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
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138 unit however should remove them all).
139
140* journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
141
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142* systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
143
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144* journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
145 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
146 to syslog when it works again.
147
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148* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
149
150* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
151
19aadacf 152* service_coldplug() appears to reinstall the wrong stop timeout watch.
6c12b52e 153
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154* transient units: allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
155
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156* how to reset dynamically changed attributes sanely?
157
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158* when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
159
4ad49000 160* journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
3d3ee759 161
9444b1f2 162* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 163 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 164 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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165 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
166 check for that and suppress event handling.
9444b1f2 167
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168* when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
169 the hierarchies of child processes
170
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171* document logic of auto/noauto and fail/nofail in fstab in systemd.mount or systemd-fstab-generator man page
172
19aadacf 173* something pulls in pcre as shared object dependency into our daemons such as hostnamed.
1f263d4d 174
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175* document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
176
a65f06bb 177* change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
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178 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
179 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
180 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
181
182* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
183 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
184
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185* libsystemd-bus:
186 - default policy (allow uid == 0 and our own uid)
187 - enforce alignment of pointers passed in
eb01ba5d 188 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
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189 - implement translator service
190 - port systemd to new library
191 - implement busname unit type in systemd
192 - move to gvariant
eb01ba5d 193 - merge busctl into systemctl or so?
e4ee6e5c 194 - synthesize sd_bus_message objects from kernel messages
c7819669 195 - properly implement name registry ioctls for kdbus
86312ab8 196 - implement monitor logic
07459db6 197 - properly map matches with well-known names against messages with unique names
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198 - longer term:
199 * priority queues
86312ab8 200 * priority inheritance
eb01ba5d 201
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202* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
203 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
204 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
205
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206* add an option to nspawn that uses seccomp to make socket(AF_NETLINK,
207 SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_AUDIT) fail the the appropriate error code that
208 makes the audit userspace to think auditing is not available in the
209 kernel.
210
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211* Introduce a way how we can kill the main process of a service with KillSignal, but all processes with SIGKILL later on
212 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952634
213
69af4503 214* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses where the access mode of unit files is nonsensical.
19aa7c4f 215
69af4503 216* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
e8a7a315 217
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218* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
219 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
220
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221* if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
222 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
223 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
224 needs setuid().
225
226* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
227
228* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
229
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230* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
231
232* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
233
4a449ed7 234* logind: add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
75512303 235
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236* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
237
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238* test/:
239 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
240 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
889a9042 241 - qemu wrapper script: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg72389.html
b8b4d3dd 242
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243* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
244
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245* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
246 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
247 file.
248
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249* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
250 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
251 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
252 destination.
253
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254* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
255 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
256
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257* add ConditionArchitecture= or so
258
259* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
260
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261* Support SO_REUSEPORT with socket activation:
262 - Let systemd maintain a pool of servers.
263 - Use for seamless upgrades, by running the new server before stopping the
264 old.
265
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266* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
267 need manual exponential loops after all
268
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269* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
270 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
271 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
272 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
273
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274* man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf
275
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276* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
277 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
278 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
279 that automatically.
280
69af4503 281* rework specifier logic so that we can distinguish OOM errors from other errors
487060c2 282
e5ec62c5 283* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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285* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
286
54c31a79 287* 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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8973790e 289* documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
3679d112 290
69af4503 291* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapse and the time the units ran last
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293* man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
294
295* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
296
69af4503 297* man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
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299* systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
300
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301* man: add more examples to man pages
302
303* man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
304
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305* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
306
307* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
308
309* msgcatalog determine default language of entries from the catalog
310 file name. i.e. foobar.de_DE.catalog would set the default entry
311 name for the entries to de_DE if they aren't explicitly suffixed
312 individually.
313
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314* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
315
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316* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
317
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318* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
319 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
320 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
321 will be activated.
322
356ce991 323* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 324
81d112a8 325* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 326
b44be3ec 327* EFI:
b44be3ec 328 - write man page for efi boot generator
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329 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
330 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 331 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 332
c0fe5db5 333* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 334
b44be3ec 335* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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337* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
338 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 340* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 341
b44be3ec 342* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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344* logind:
345 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
346 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
347 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
348 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
349 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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350 - logind: non-local X11 server handling
351 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
b44be3ec 352 - pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree
e5ec62c5 353 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
e673ad04 354
b44be3ec 355* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 356
b44be3ec 357* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
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b44be3ec 359* journal:
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360 - do not use magic msync() in src/journal/journal-file.c, just call fsync()
361 <alxchk> poettering: looks like msync just calls vfs_fsync
362 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/mm/msync.c#n18
c06bf414 363 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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364 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
365 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
366 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
367 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
368 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
369 - journal: reuse XZ context
370 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
371 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
372 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
373 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
374 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
375 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
376 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 377 - 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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378 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
379 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
380 - journal: when rotating, copy over old acls/access mode
b44be3ec 381 - 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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382 - 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.
383 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
384 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 385 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 386 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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387 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
388 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
389 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
390 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
77a9e8de 391 - journalctl: expand tabs
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392 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
393 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
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394 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
395 - Port upower to use the journal for historical power information used in future calculations
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397* document:
398 - document unit_name_mangle()
399 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in
400 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
401 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
402 - Document word splitting syntax for ExecStart= and friends
403 - document that units from /etc override those from /usr and /run
404 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 405 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 406 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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408* systemctl:
409 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
410 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
411 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
412 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
413 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
414 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
415 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
416 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
417 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
418 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
419 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
420 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
421 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
8b04b925 422
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423* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
424
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425* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
426
427* timer units:
428 - configurable jitter for timer events
90e071d1 429 - Adjust timers to be triggered at the same time as sd-event timers
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430 - timer events with system resume
431 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
432 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
433 o DST changes
eb124a97 434 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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435 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
436 - anacron-like feature
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438* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
439
440* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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441 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
442 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 443 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 444 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 445 user did not request anything like it.
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447* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
448 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
449 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
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452 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
453 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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455 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
456 better supported alternative.
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460* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
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462* 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().
463
464* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
465* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
466* fedup: generator
603cd8fe 467
b44be3ec 468* timedated:
b44be3ec 469 - timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
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471* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
472
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473* introduce generic AUGMENT_PID=, AUGMENT_DEVICE= fields
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b44be3ec 475* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
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478 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
479 - superset of tmpfiles model
480 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
481 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
482 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
483
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484* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
485 waiting for the timeout
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487* high level net_prio setting in execution context
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489* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
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491* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
492
15abdb9a 493* refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful (or set taint?)
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496 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly
497 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
498 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
499 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
500 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
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502 lxc.network.type=phys mode, and pass through entire network
503 interfaces to the container
504 - nspawn: maybe add a way to drop additional caps, in addition to add additional caps
505 - nspawn: maybe explicitly reset loginuid?
3679d112 506 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
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508* cryptsetup:
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510 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
511 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 512 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
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515
424a19f8 516* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 517 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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519* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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8556879e 523* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 524 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
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527
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528* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
529
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530* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
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532* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
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534* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
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536* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
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538* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container
539
68f16003 540* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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542* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
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545 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
546 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
547 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 548 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 549 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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553* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
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555* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
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557* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
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559* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
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88a6c589 561* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
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564 - syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls
565 - syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs?
566 - syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS?
567 - syscall filter: port to libseccomp
568 - system-wide seccomp filter
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572* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
573 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
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576
59cea26a 577* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
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581* automount: implement expire:
582 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
583 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
584 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
585 - blocking, needs a thread
586 - run until -EAGAIN
587 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
588 - call umount
589 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
590 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
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593
e01a15b7 594* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 595
abd55b16 596* udev:
3f60bcb5 597 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
abd55b16 598 - move to LGPL
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600 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
b8217b7b 601
18b754d3 602* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording
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604* 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
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612* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
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614* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
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616* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
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620* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
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624* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
625 needs to be auto-respawned?
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627* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
628
de6c78f8 629* tmpfiles: apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
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b44be3ec 631* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
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d3c7d7dd 635* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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637* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
638 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
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643 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
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645* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
646
7c697168 647* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
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71092d70 649* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
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652 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
653 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
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658 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
659
71092d70 660* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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663 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
664 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
665 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
666 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
667 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
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672
68c7d001 673* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 674 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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676 - status update
7a2a0b90 677 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 678 - remote access
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680 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 681 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 682 - auto-restart
e707c494 683 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 684 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 685 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 686 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 687 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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689 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
690 - how to create your own target
691 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
692 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
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44143309 694* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 695
71092d70 696* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 697
260abb78 698* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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707
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710 - cups HAVEPATCH
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713 - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro)
714 - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!)
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71092d70 717* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
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50f2a90d 719* io priority during initialization
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725 works with ^C
b04c8c83 726 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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729 - plot per-process IO utilization
730 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
731 - document initcall_debug
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735 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
736 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
737 on Path= matching
738 - NamePolicy= replace the current naming rules
739 - MACPolicy= support 'firmware', 'synthetic' and 'random'
740 - Check if Driver= is broken, or just my driver (bcma)
741
2f8cd170 742External:
74fe1fe3 743
cc9784c6 744* dbus:
cc9784c6 745 - dbus --user
3377af3e 746 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
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748 - allow disabling of fd passing when connecting a AF_UNIX connection
3377af3e 749 - allow disabling of UID passing for AUTH EXTERNAL
b69d29ce 750 - always pass cred data along each message
b44be3ec 751 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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756
9096ad36 757* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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759* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
760 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
761 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
762 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
763 the RTC to sync up.
764
71092d70 765* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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769* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
770
771* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
772
773* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
774
775* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
776
d2bbca68 777* 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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779* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
780
781* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 782
4641a16b 783* 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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129126f3 785Regularly:
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129126f3 787* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 788
129126f3 789* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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791* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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795* pahole
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71092d70 797* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
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4db17f29 799* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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9e5f3dbb 803Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 805* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)