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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* busctl prints errors to stdout:
8 busctl tree org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1
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f38afcd0 10External:
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f38afcd0 12* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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14* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
15
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16Janitorial Clean-ups:
17
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18* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
19
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20* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
21 semantics, like we do for device.c now
22
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23Features:
24
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25* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
26 exists and responds.
27
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28* homed: add homed.conf setting DefaultStorage= or so
29
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30* homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
31 easily?
32
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33* journalctl --image= which is like --root= but operates on disk images
34
35* when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
36 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
37 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
38 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
39 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
40
97cd52c1 41* cryptsetup/homed: also support FIDO2 HMAC password logic for unlocking
70e9d9a5 42 devices. (see: https://github.com/mjec/fido2-hmac-secret)
97cd52c1 43
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44* systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
45 creates
46
86b52a39 47* homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
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48 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
49 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
50 hence we can make them quicker to work.
51
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52* bootctl:
53 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
54 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
55 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
56
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57* by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
58 allow so that systemd survives
59
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60* honour specifiers in unit files that resolve to some very basic
61 /etc/os-release data, such as ID, VERSION_ID, BUILD_ID, VARIANT_ID.
62
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63* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
64 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
65
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66* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
67 systemd-makefs.service instead.
68
91fc013f 69* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 70 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
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72* unify on openssl:
73 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
74 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
75 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
76 - port importd over from libgcrypt
77 - when that's done: kill khash.c
78 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
79
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80* kill zenata, all hail weblate?
81
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82* when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
83
84* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
85 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
86
87* hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
88 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
89 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
90 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
91 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
92
492f91d8 93* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
86b52a39 94 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
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95 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
96 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
97
86b52a39 98* systemd-repart: optionally, allow specifying a path to initialize new
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99 partitions from, i.e. an fs image file or a source device node. This would
100 then turn systemd-repart into a simple installer: with a few .repart files
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101 you could replicate the host system on another device. a full installer would
102 then be: "systemd-repart /dev/sda && bootctl install /dev/sda &&
103 systemd-firstboot --image= …"
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105* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
106 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
107 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
108 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
109 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
110 automatically.
111
112* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
113 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
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115* systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
116 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
117
118* systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
119
120* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
121 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
122
123* systemd-repart: add specifier expansion, add especifier that refers to root
124 device node of current system, /usr device node, and matching verity, so that
125 an installer can be made a "copy" installer of the booted OS
126
2a4be3c5 127* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
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128 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
129
130* systemd-repart: when no configuration is found, exit early do not check
131 partition table, so that it is safe to run in the initrd on any system
132
133* systemd-repart: allow config of partition uuid
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135* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
136 realname substr searches in varlink API
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2a4be3c5 138* userdb: allow existence checks
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140* pid: activation by journal search expression
141
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142* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
143 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
144 initrd had set.
145
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146* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
147 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
148 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
149 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
150 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
151 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
152
153* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
154 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
155 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
156
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157* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
158 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
159 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
160 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
161 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
162 source.
163
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164* figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
165 with immutable /usr
166
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167* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
168 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
169 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
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171* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
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173* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
174 the hibernation
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176* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
177 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
178 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
179 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
180 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
181 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
182 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
183 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
184 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
185 hibernation mode. (see
186 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
187 section 10.2.2.8 and
188 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
189 at the end).
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191* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
192 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
193 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
194 output for them.
195
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196* systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
197 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
198
199* systemd-firstboot: add --force mode that replaces existing configuration.
200
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201* We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
202 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
203 constant vendor data.
204
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205* maybe add kernel cmdline params: 1) to force first-boot mode + 2) to force
206 random seed crediting
207
208* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
209 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
210
211* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
212 fallback in "machinectl shell"
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214* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
215 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
216 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
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218* homed:
219 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
220 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
221 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
222 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
223 - resize on login?
224 - fstrim on logout?
225 - shrink fs on logout?
226 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
227 - create on activate?
228 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
229 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
230 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
231 systemd --user is shut down.
232 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
233 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk images (think: time machine)
86b52a39 234 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
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235 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
236 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
237 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
238 - description field for groups
239 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
240 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
241 - query password from kernel keyring first
242 - update even if record is "absent"
243 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
244 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
245 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
246 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
247 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
248 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
249
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250* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
251 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
252 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
253 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
254 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
255 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
256 exec().
257
258* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
259
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260* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
261 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
262
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263* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
264
265* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
266 gnome-bluetooth and friends
267
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268* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
269 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
270 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
271 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
272 cgroup.
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274* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
275 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
276 root.
277
278* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
279 is issued.
280
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281* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
282
283* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
284
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285* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
286 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
287 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 288
d238709c 289* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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290 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
291 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
292
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293* add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
294 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
295 ConfigurationDirectory=.
296
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297* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
298
d3584ec4 299* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
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301* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
302 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
303
06898123 304* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 305 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 306 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
06898123 307
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308* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
309
310* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
311 patching around
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313* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
314 log.c and sd-journal-send
315
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316* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
317
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318* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
319
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320* sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
321 can add in file system drivers and such
322
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323* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
324 non-zero "tries done" count
325
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326* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
327 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
328 it should skip the variant type string though.
329
330* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
331 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
332 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
333 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
334 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
335 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
336 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
337 CODE_FILE.
338
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339* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
340 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
341 some explanatory text online.
342
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343* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
344
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345* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
346 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
347 the slices, and the units attached to them.
348
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349* the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
350 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
bc130b68 351 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
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352 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
353 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
354 way)
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356* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
357 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
358 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
359
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360* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
361 original defaults before calling parse_config()
362
72d711ef 363* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
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365* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
366 Specifically:
367
368 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
369 properly)
e83419d0 370 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 371 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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373* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
374 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
375
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376* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
377 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
378 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
379 files and suchlike we operate on.
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381* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
382
383* add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
384
385* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
386 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
387
5da19043 388* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
5238e957 389 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
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390 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
391 numbers.
392
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393* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
394 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
395 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
396 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
397 unlinked from any dir.
398
bd1b3f75 399* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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401* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
402
403* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
404
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405* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
406 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
407 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
408 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
409 should reflink the image file itself.
410
411 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
412 specific paths only like this.
413
53c70a27 414* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 415 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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416 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
417 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
418 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
419
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420* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
421
422* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
423
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424* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
425 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
426
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427* teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
428 project quota
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430* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
431 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
432 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
433 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
434 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
435 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
436 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
437 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
438
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439* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
440 for root, but only then.
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442* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
443
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444* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
445 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
446
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447* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
448 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
449
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450* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
451 host-side interface pointing to the container.
452
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453* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
454 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
455 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
456 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
457 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
458
cb77e122 459* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 460
899feb72 461* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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463* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
464 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
465 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
466
5f7ecd61 467* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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469* maybe use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (i.e. the env var the reproducible builds folks
470 introduced) as the RTC epoch, instead of the mtime of NEWS.
471
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472* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
473 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
474
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475* blog about fd store and restartable services
476
477* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
478
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479* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
480 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
481
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482* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
483 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
484 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
485 ID is available.
486
487* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
488 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
489 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
490
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491* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
492 parameters
493
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494* maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
495 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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496 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
497 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
498 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
499 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
500 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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502* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
503 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
504
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505* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
506 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
507 wait to retrieve their exit data.
508
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509* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
510 about it in the resource log message
511
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512* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
513 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
514
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515* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
516 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
517 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
518
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519* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
520 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
521
522 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
523
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524* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
525 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
526 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
527 logging.
528
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529* hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
530 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
531 "convertible" form factor
532
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533* Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
534 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
535 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
536 as MAINPID.
537
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538* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
539 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
540 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
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542* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
543 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
544
545* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
546 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
547 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
548 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
549 natural habitat.
550
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552 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
553 /usr is mounted into.
554
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555* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
556
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557* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
558
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559* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
560 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
561 relative to the configured default value.
562
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563* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
564
565* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
566
04397464 567* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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570
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571* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
572
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573* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
574
04397464 575* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 576
04397464 577* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 578
04397464 579* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 580
8ce9b83a 581* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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583* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
584 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
585 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
586
e40a326c 587* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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589* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
590
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591* mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
592 partitions
593
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594* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
595 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
596 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
597 mapping to work.
598
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599* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
600
601* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
602
603* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
604
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605* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
606 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
607
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608* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
609 reload the unit file anyway
610
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611* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
612 from the SIGBUS handler
613
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614* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
615
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616* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
617 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
618
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620
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622 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
623
f9bf1b8f 624* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 625 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 626 specifications.
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629
5ebbb45b 630* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
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632* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
633
a2088fd0 634* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 635 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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636 prefixed with /sys generally special.
637 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
638
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639* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
640
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641* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
642
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643* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
644 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
645 state.
646 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
647
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648* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
649 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
650 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
651 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
652 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
653
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654* networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
655 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
656
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657* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
658
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659* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
660 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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662* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
663 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
664 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
665 do, for example)
666
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668 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
669
e031c227 670* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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671 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
672
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673* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
674
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675* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
676 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
677 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
678 returning from the "systemctl stop".
679
b568ef14 680* 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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682* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
683
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684* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
685 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
686
25e773ee 687* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 688
279f0366 689* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 690
5238e957 691* systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
b42de08a 692 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
202aea45 693
720652b3 694* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 695
720652b3 696* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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698* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
699
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700* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
701 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
702
9d6db739 703* resolved:
9d6db739 704 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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706 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 707 - avahi compat
9d6db739 708 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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709 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
710 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
711 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 712 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 713 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 714
e25b5a8d 715* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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717* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
718
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719* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
720
a01647e5 721* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 722 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
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724* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
725
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726* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
727
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728* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
729
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730* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
731 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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734
6a3f892a 735* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 736 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 737 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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739* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
740 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
741 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 742
f9bf1b8f 743* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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745* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
746 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
747 for ReusePort=
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749* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
750 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
751 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
752 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
753 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
754 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
755
f38afcd0 756* cgroups:
f38afcd0 757 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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758 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
759 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
760 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
761 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
762 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 763
f38afcd0 764* transient units:
f38afcd0 765 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
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767* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
768
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769* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
770
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771* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
772
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773* 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
774
7f79cd71 775* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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777* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
778 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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780
04397464 781* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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783* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
784
785* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
786
6bb648a1 787* sd-bus:
0d43ffef 788 - EBADSLT handling
fa607802 789 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
7212c608 790 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
57f2a947 791 - 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
f38afcd0 792 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 793 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
ab9716c2 794 - longer term: priority inheritance
df98a87b 795 - dbus spec updates:
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797 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 798 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 799 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
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801* sd-event
12179984 802 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 803 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
e25b5a8d 804 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
eb01ba5d 805
69af4503 806* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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808* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
809 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
810
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812
813* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
814
fff87a35 815* test/:
20d52ab6 816 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 817
b5c03638 818* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 819 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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820 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
821 destination.
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823* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
824 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
825
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826* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
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829 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
830 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
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833 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
834 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
835 is installed.
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838 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
839 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
840 that automatically.
841
e5ec62c5 842* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 843
ccddd104 844* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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846* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
847
356ce991 848* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
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b44be3ec 850* EFI:
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852 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 853 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 854* bootctl
631427d6 855 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 856
c0fe5db5 857* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 858
b44be3ec 859* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 860
b44be3ec 861* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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864 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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865 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
866 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
867 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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868 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
869 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
870 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
871 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
872 needs setuid().
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874 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
875 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
876 complete.
877 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
878 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
879 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
279f0366 880 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
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881 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
882 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
883 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
884 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
885 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
886 relogins
77b19caf 887 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 888
b44be3ec 889* journal:
57f2a947 890 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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892 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
893 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 894 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 895 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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897 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
898 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 899 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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901 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 902 - 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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903 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
904 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
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905 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
906 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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907 - 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.
908 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
909 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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910 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
911 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
912 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
913 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 914 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 915 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 916 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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918 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
919 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
920 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
921 to syslog when it works again.
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923 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
924 journals in.
925 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
926 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
927 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
928 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
929 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 930 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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931 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
932 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
933 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
934 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
935 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
936 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
937 operation.
938 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
939 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
940 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
941 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 942 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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943 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
944 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
945 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
946 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
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949 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
950 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
951 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
952
b44be3ec 953* document:
8b8f2591 954 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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955 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
956 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 957 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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958 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
959 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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960 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
961 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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962 - man: add more examples to man pages
963 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 964 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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966* systemctl:
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967 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
968 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
969 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
970 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
971 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
972 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
973 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 974 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 975 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 976 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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978* unit install:
979 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
980 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
8b04b925 981
b44be3ec 982* timer units:
b44be3ec 983 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
b44be3ec 984 o DST changes
90e071d1 985 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 986
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987* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
988
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989* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
990
b44be3ec 991* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 992
f59d1da8 993* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
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995* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
996
d28315e4 997* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 998
b44be3ec 999* nspawn:
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1000 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1001 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1002 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1003 from the kernel's logs.
1004 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1005 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1006 interface be missing
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1007 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1008 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1009 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1010 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1011 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1012 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1013 PID 1...
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1014 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1015 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1016
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1018 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1019 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1020
e25b5a8d 1021* machined:
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1022 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1023 removed or added to an existing machine
1024 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1025 difference host, via ssh
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1026 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1027 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1028 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1029 question
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1030 - "machinectl history"
1031 - "machinectl diff"
1032 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1033 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1034
b44be3ec 1035* cryptsetup:
b44be3ec 1036 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
5f1dac6b 1037 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 1038
424a19f8 1039* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 1040 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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1042* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1043
68f16003 1044* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 1045
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1046* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1047
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1048* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1049
abd55b16 1050* udev:
abd55b16 1051 - move to LGPL
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1052 - kill scsi_id
1053 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1054 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1055
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1056* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1057
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1058* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1059
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1060* coredump:
1061 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1062 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
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1064* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1065
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1066* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1067 needs to be auto-respawned?
1068
f38afcd0 1069* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1070 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1071 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1072 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1073 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1074 calls follow symlinks.
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1076* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1077
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1078* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1079 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1080 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1081
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1082* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1083 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1084
71092d70 1085* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 1086
68c7d001 1087* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 1088 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
68c7d001 1089 - enabling dbus services
7a2a0b90 1090 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 1091 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 1092 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 1093 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 1094 - auto-restart
e707c494 1095 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 1096 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 1097 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 1098 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 1099 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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1100 - calendar time events
1101 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1102 - how to create your own target
1103 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1104 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 1105
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1106* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1107
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1108* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1109
e25b5a8d 1110* pid1:
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1111 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1112 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1113 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1114 that are not supported...
1115 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1116 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1117 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1118 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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1119 - move PAM code into its own binary
1120 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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1121 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1122 - Support --test based on current system state
1123 - 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().
1124 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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1125 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1126 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1127 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1128 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1129 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1130 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1131 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1132 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1133
1134* unit files:
1135 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1136 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1137 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1138 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1139 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1140 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1141 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1142 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
e25b5a8d 1143 - introduce Type=pid-file
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1144 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1145 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
e25b5a8d 1146 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
e5171296 1147 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
e25b5a8d 1148
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1150 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1151 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1152 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1153
88e4d1d7 1154* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1155 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1156 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1157
0a4b9a07 1158* networkd:
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1159 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1160 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 1161 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 1162 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
5c1d3fc9 1163 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
798e174a 1164 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1165 - work with non-Ethernet devices
c9fa3670 1166 - add support for more bond options
e25b5a8d 1167 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1168 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1169 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1170 - expose in the API the following bits:
1171 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
38b38500 1172 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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1173 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1174 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1175 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1176 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1177 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1178 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1179 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1180 - allow DUID/IAID to be customized, see issue #394.
e25b5a8d 1181 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1182
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1183* networkd-wait-online:
1184 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
8f5675cc 1185
ac976532 1186* dhcp:
424a8732 1187 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1188
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1189* dhcp6:
1190 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1191 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1192 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1193 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1194 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1195 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1196 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1197 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1198 or interface down
1199 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1200 this behavior
4a77c53d 1201 - RouteTable= ?
37d8b536 1202
2f8cd170 1203External:
74fe1fe3 1204
cc9784c6 1205* dbus:
3377af3e 1206 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 1207 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 1208
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1209* fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
1210
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1211* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1212
9096ad36 1213* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
06ae4bfe 1214
71092d70 1215* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
14bd37fe 1216
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1217* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1218
d2bbca68 1219* 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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1221* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
1222
1223* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 1224
4641a16b 1225* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
19aa7c4f 1226
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1227* register catalog database signature as file magic
1228
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1229* zsh shell completion:
1230 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 1231 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1cf3c30c 1232
90137b62 1233* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
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1234* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1235 after being started.
2c12a402 1236
129126f3 1237Regularly:
874aa2cc 1238
129126f3 1239* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 1240
129126f3 1241* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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1244
d28315e4 1245* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 1246
4db17f29 1247* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
88fae6e0 1248
d05c556b 1249* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
62353f69 1250String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment