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71092d70 1Bugfixes:
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2* the running hwdb seems not to pick up updated database files without
3 an explicit: udevadm control --reload
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5* enabling an instance unit creates pointless link, and
6 the unit will be started with getty@getty.service:
7 $ systemctl enable getty@.service
8 ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service' '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@.service'
9
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10* check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
11
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12* swap units that are activated by one name but shown in the kernel under another are semi-broken
13
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14* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
15 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
16 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
17
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18* make polkit checks async
19
a40593a0 20* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
20ffc4c4 21
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22* ellipsize_mem must take into account multi-byte unicode characters, and
23 - make the resulting line the requested number of *characters*, not *bytes*,
24 - avoid truncuating multi-byte sequences in the middle.
25
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26* When we detect invalid UTF-8, we cant't use it in an error message:
27 log...("Path is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment: %s", rvalue);
28
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29* shorten the message to sane length:
30
31 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.
32
466784c8 33Fedora 20:
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dc7adf20 35* external: ps should gain colums for slice and machine
7b4da18c 36
81d112a8 37* localed:
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38 - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps
39
55d32caf 40* when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
466784c8 41 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
55d32caf 42
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43CGroup Rework Completion:
44
94bbc991 45* introduce "mainpid" for scopes (or maybe not?)
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47* implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?)
48
49* implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
50
51* handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
52
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53* make BlockIODeviceWeight=, BlockIODeviceBandwidth= runtime settable
54
049b4474 55* introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
bafb15ba 56
431c72dc 57* wiki: document new bus APIs of PID 1 (transient units, Reloading signal)
bafb15ba 58
eb124a97 59Features:
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61* backlight: properly handle multiple backlight devices for the same
62 hardware: at shutdown we should only save the backlight setting for
63 the "best" way to access the backlight. Strategy should be: at
64 shutdown, ignore all backlights that are connected to a non-eDP or
65 non-LVDS port, and then prefer the firmware device over platform
66 device over raw device per-PCI card. Delete all old data. At boot
67 simply apply whatever data we find. Also see
68 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libbacklight/tree/libbacklight.c#n194
69
70* rfkill: save/restore soft rfkill status across reboots
71
72* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
73
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74* ensure scope units may be started only a single time
75
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76* document that in instead of FsckPassNo= people should just add a manual dep to systemd-fsck@.service to their mount units.
77
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78* better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
79
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80* systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
81
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82* for transient units, instead of writing out drop-ins for all properties consider serializing them in the normal serialization stream
83
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84* logind: when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects
85
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86* session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
87
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88* add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
89
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90* journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
91
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92* given that logind/machined now let PID 1 do all nasty work we can
93 probably reduce the capability set they retain substantially.
94
6aaa8c2f 95* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
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97* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
98
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99* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
100
e1b7e7ec 101* make sure gdm doesn't use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
18d4e7c2 102
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103* 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
104
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105* when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop we should ratelimit that too.
106
c5757cc8 107* "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, should
69af4503 108 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
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109 unit however should remove them all).
110
111* journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
112
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113* systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
114
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115* journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
116 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
117 to syslog when it works again.
118
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119* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
120
121* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
122
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123* add a fixed dbus path for "my own unit", "my own session", ... to PID1, logind, ...
124
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125* service_coldplug() appears to reinstall the wrong stop timeout watch?
126
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127* transient units: allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
128
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129* how to reset dynamically changed attributes sanely?
130
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131* when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
132
4ad49000 133* journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
3d3ee759 134
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135* libsystemd-logind: sd_session_is_active() and friends: verify
136 validity of session name before appending it to a path
137
9444b1f2 138* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 139 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 140 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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141 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
142 check for that and suppress event handling.
9444b1f2 143
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144* when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
145 the hierarchies of child processes
146
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147* document logic of auto/noauto and fail/nofail in fstab in systemd.mount or systemd-fstab-generator man page
148
9444b1f2 149* we should properly escape ssh hostnames we add into dbus server strings
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151* something pulls in pcre as so dep into our daemons such as hostnamed.
152
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153* document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
154
a65f06bb 155* change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
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156 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
157 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
158 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
159
160* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
161 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
162
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163* libsystemd-bus:
164 - default policy (allow uid == 0 and our own uid)
165 - enforce alignment of pointers passed in
eb01ba5d 166 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
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167 - implement translator service
168 - port systemd to new library
169 - implement busname unit type in systemd
170 - move to gvariant
eb01ba5d 171 - merge busctl into systemctl or so?
e4ee6e5c 172 - synthesize sd_bus_message objects from kernel messages
c7819669 173 - properly implement name registry ioctls for kdbus
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174 - get rid of object hash table, use decision tree everyhwere instead?
175 - implement monitor logic
176 - object vtable logic
177 - longer term:
178 * priority queues
86312ab8 179 * priority inheritance
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181* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
182 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
183 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
184
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185* add an option to nspawn that uses seccomp to make socket(AF_NETLINK,
186 SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_AUDIT) fail the the appropriate error code that
187 makes the audit userspace to think auditing is not available in the
188 kernel.
189
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190* Introduce a way how we can kill the main process of a service with KillSignal, but all processes with SIGKILL later on
191 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952634
192
69af4503 193* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses where the access mode of unit files is nonsensical.
19aa7c4f 194
69af4503 195* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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197* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
198 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
199
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200* if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
201 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
202 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
203 needs setuid().
204
205* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
206
207* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
208
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209* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
210
211* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
212
4a449ed7 213* logind: add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
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215* we need dynamic units
216
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217* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
218
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219* test/:
220 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
221 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
222 - remove all the duplicated code in test/
b8b4d3dd 223
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224* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
225
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226* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
227 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
228 file.
229
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230* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
231 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
232 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
233 destination.
234
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235* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
236 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
237
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238* add ConditionArchitecture= or so
239
240* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
241
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242* Support SO_REUSEPORT with socket activation:
243 - Let systemd maintain a pool of servers.
244 - Use for seamless upgrades, by running the new server before stopping the
245 old.
246
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247* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
248 need manual exponential loops after all
249
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250* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
251 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
252 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
253 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
254
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255* man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf
256
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257* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
258 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
259 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
260 that automatically.
261
69af4503 262* rework specifier logic so that we can distinguish OOM errors from other errors
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e5ec62c5 264* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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266* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
267
54c31a79 268* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 269
8973790e 270* documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
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69af4503 272* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapse and the time the units ran last
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274* man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
275
276* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
277
69af4503 278* 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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280* systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
281
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282* man: add more examples to man pages
283
284* man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
285
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286* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
287
288* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
289
290* msgcatalog determine default language of entries from the catalog
291 file name. i.e. foobar.de_DE.catalog would set the default entry
292 name for the entries to de_DE if they aren't explicitly suffixed
293 individually.
294
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295* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
296
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297* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
298
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299* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
300 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
301 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
302 will be activated.
303
356ce991 304* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 305
81d112a8 306* introduce ExecCondition= in services
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308* EFI:
309 - fsck hookup for the ESP mount is missing
310 - write man page for efi boot generator
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311 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
312 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 313 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 314
c0fe5db5 315* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 316
b44be3ec 317* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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319* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
320 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 322* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 323
b44be3ec 324* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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326* logind:
327 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
328 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
329 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
330 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
331 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
332 - logind: spawn user@..service on login
333 - logind: non-local X11 server handling
334 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
b44be3ec 335 - pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree
eb124a97 336 - logind: GetSessionByPID() should accept 0 as PID value
e5ec62c5 337 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
e673ad04 338
b44be3ec 339* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 340
b44be3ec 341* DeviceAllow/DeviceDeny: disallow everything by default, but whitelist /dev/zero, /dev/null and friends
e673ad04 342
b44be3ec 343* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
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b44be3ec 345* journal:
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346 - do not use magic msync() in src/journal/journal-file.c, just call fsync()
347 <alxchk> poettering: looks like msync just calls vfs_fsync
348 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/mm/msync.c#n18
c06bf414 349 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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350 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
351 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
352 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
353 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
354 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
355 - journal: reuse XZ context
356 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
357 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
358 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
359 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
360 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
361 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
362 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 363 - 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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364 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
365 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
366 - journal: when rotating, copy over old acls/access mode
b44be3ec 367 - 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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368 - 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.
369 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
370 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 371 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 372 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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373 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
374 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
375 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
376 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
77a9e8de 377 - journalctl: expand tabs
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378 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
379 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
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380 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
381 - Port upower to use the journal for historical power information used in future calculations
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383* document:
384 - document unit_name_mangle()
385 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in
386 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
387 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
388 - Document word splitting syntax for ExecStart= and friends
389 - document that units from /etc override those from /usr and /run
390 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 391 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 392 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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394* systemctl:
395 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
396 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
397 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
398 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
399 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
400 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
401 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
402 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
403 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
404 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
405 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
406 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
407 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
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409* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
410
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411* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
412
413* timer units:
414 - configurable jitter for timer events
415 - timer events with system resume
416 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
417 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
418 o DST changes
eb124a97 419 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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421* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
422
423* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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424 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
425 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 426 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 427 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 428 user did not request anything like it.
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430* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
431 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
432 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
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434* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
435 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
436 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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437 we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in
438 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
439 better supported alternative.
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441* figure out relation of --all and --full in the various tools
442
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443* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
444
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445* 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().
446
447* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
448* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
449* fedup: generator
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b44be3ec 451* timedated:
b44be3ec 452 - timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
6d0274f1 453
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454* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
455
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456* introduce generic AUGMENT_PID=, AUGMENT_DEVICE= fields
457
b44be3ec 458* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
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460* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
461 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
462 - superset of tmpfiles model
463 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
464 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
465 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
466
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467* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
468 waiting for the timeout
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470* high level net_prio setting in execution context
471
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472* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
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474* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
475
15abdb9a 476* refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful (or set taint?)
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479 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly
480 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
481 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
482 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
483 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
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484 - nspawn: investigate whether we can support the same as LXC's
485 lxc.network.type=phys mode, and pass through entire network
486 interfaces to the container
487 - nspawn: maybe add a way to drop additional caps, in addition to add additional caps
488 - nspawn: maybe explicitly reset loginuid?
3679d112 489 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
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491* cryptsetup:
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492 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
493 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
494 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 495 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
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497* move debug shell to tty6 and make sure this doesn't break the gettys on tty6
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424a19f8 499* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 500 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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502* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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504* make timer units go away after they elapsed
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8556879e 506* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 507 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
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509* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
510
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511* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
512
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513* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
514
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515* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
516
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517* system.conf should have controls for cgroups
518
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519* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
520
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521* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
522
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523* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container
524
68f16003 525* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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527* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
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529* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
530 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
531 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
532 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 533 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 534 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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536* use opterr = 0 for all getopt tools
537
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538* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
539
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540* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
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542* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
543
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544* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
545
88a6c589 546* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
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549 - syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls
550 - syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs?
551 - syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS?
552 - syscall filter: port to libseccomp
553 - system-wide seccomp filter
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555* .device aliases need to be implemented with the "following" logic, probably.
556
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557* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
558 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
559
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560* introduce Type=pid-file
561
59cea26a 562* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
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564* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
565
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566* move passno parsing to fstab generator
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568* automount: implement expire:
569 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
570 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
571 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
572 - blocking, needs a thread
573 - run until -EAGAIN
574 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
575 - call umount
576 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
577 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
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579* services which create their own subcgroups break cgroup-empty notification (needs to be fixed in the kernel)
580
e01a15b7 581* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 582
abd55b16 583* udev:
3f60bcb5 584 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
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586 - unify utf8 validator code with shared/
587 - kill scsi_id
588 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
b8217b7b 589
18b754d3 590* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording
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592* 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
593
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594* support container_ttys=
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596* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
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598* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
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600* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
601
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602* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
603
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604* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
605
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606* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
607
608* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
609
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610* clean up session cgroups that remain after logout (think sshd), but eventually run empty
611
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612* when an instanced service exits, remove its parent cgroup too if possible.
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614* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
615
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616* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
617 needs to be auto-respawned?
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619* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
620
de6c78f8 621* tmpfiles: apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 622
b44be3ec 623* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
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626
d3c7d7dd 627* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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630 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
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635 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
636
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637* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
638
7c697168 639* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 640
71092d70 641* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
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644 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
645 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
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648
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649* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
650 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
651
71092d70 652* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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655 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
656 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
657 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
658 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
659 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
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661* add support for /bin/mount -s
662
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663* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
664
68c7d001 665* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 666 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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667 - enabling dbus services
668 - status update
7a2a0b90 669 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 670 - remote access
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671 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
672 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 673 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 674 - auto-restart
e707c494 675 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 676 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 677 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 678 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 679 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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681 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
682 - how to create your own target
683 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
684 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
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44143309 686* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 687
71092d70 688* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 689
260abb78 690* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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692* Support --test based on current system state
693
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694* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
695
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696* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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698* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
699
129126f3 700* port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID:
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701 - rpcbind (/var/run/rpcbind.sock!) HAVEPATCH
702 - cups HAVEPATCH
a625ac1a 703 - postfix, saslauthd
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704 - apache/samba
705 - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro)
706 - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!)
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71092d70 709* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
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50f2a90d 711* io priority during initialization
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7ba97195 715* systemd-python:
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717 works with ^C
b04c8c83 718 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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720* bootchart:
721 - plot per-process IO utilization
722 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
723 - document initcall_debug
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727
2f8cd170 728External:
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cc9784c6 730* dbus:
cc9784c6 731 - dbus --user
3377af3e 732 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
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734 - allow disabling of fd passing when connecting a AF_UNIX connection
3377af3e 735 - allow disabling of UID passing for AUTH EXTERNAL
b69d29ce 736 - always pass cred data along each message
b44be3ec 737 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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742
9096ad36 743* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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745* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
746 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
747 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
748 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
749 the RTC to sync up.
750
71092d70 751* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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755* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
756
757* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
758
759* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
760
761* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
762
d2bbca68 763* 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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765* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
766
767* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 768
4641a16b 769* 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 771Regularly:
874aa2cc 772
129126f3 773* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 774
129126f3 775* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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777* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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14212119 779* %m in printf() instead of strerror(errno);
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781* pahole
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71092d70 783* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 784
4db17f29 785* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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788
9e5f3dbb 789Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 791* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)