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ee9c9500 1Bugfixes:
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2* Re-enable "fsck -l" when it is ready:
3 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79576#c5
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5* Should systemctl status \* work on all unit types, not just .service?
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7* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
8 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
9 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
10
a40593a0 11* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
20ffc4c4 12
f38afcd0 13External:
f38afcd0 14* Fedora: when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
466784c8 15 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
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f38afcd0 17* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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f38afcd0 19* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
bafb15ba 20
81429136 21* Fedora: move kernel image to /usr/lib/modules/, kernel-install will take care of populating /boot
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23* Fedora: remove /etc/resolv.conf tmpfiles hack
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81429136 25Features:
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27* journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
28 journals in.
29
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30* tmpfiles: port to unquote_many_words(), similar to sysusers
31
32* unquote_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that
33 currently uses FOREACH_WORD and friends. For example, most conf
34 parsing callbacks should use it.
35
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36* logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
37 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
38 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
39 complete.
40
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41* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
42
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43* remove readahead in 217
44
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45* journald: allows specification of UID range for splitting up journal files
46
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47* systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
48 units are shown.
49
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50* sd-event:
51 - make it possible to embedd our event loop into foreign event loops
52 by passing out the epoll fd and providing three functions that fit
53 into GSource nicely.
f6e81de4 54
b873d33e 55* networkd:
d61bb44a 56 - add LLDP client side support
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57 - ipv4ll with multiple interfaces doesn't work when both dhcp and
58 ipv4ll is used. for some reasons the kernel will currently pick an
59 ipv4ll source address to reach non-ipv4ll gateways.
60 - dhcp and ipv4ll should probably be skipped for "lo" devices, even
61 if the user has a catchall .network file installed, that might
62 theoretically match it.
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63 - we probably should introduce a new operational state that
64 indicates that we are trying to acquire some configuration for a
65 link but haven't acquired any yet. Just to inform the admin that
66 networkd cares about an interface, but is still in progress..
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67 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
68 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
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69 - .network setting that allows overriding of the hostname to send to the dhcp server
70 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-July/021550.html
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71 - add per-network Domains= settings, with a special syntax Domains=*
72 for routing all non-otherwise routed traffic to this link
73 - add UseDomains= setting to [DHCP] to add dhcp supplied domains to
74 per-interface Domains= list.
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75 - expose in the API the following bits:
76 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
77 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
78 - option 100, 101, timezone
79 - option 123, 144, geolocation
80 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
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81 - networkd's dhcp server should transparently pass on the DNS and
82 NTP server list it got from user configuration and its dhcp client
83 to clients. It should also pass on its own timezone information.
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84 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
85 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
b873d33e 86
9d6db739 87* resolved:
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88 - put networkd events and rtnl events at a higher priority, so that
89 we always process them before we process client requests
9d6db739 90 - DNSSEC
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91 - use base64 for key presentation?
92 - add display of private key types (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4034#appendix-A.1.1)?
151226ab 93 - add nice formatting of DNS timestamps
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94 - DNS
95 - search paths
9d6db739 96 - mDNS/DNS-SD
0f47ed0a 97 - avahi compat
9d6db739 98 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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99 - edns0
100 - dname
b6b63571 101 - cname on PTR (?)
9d6db739 102
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103* Ignore .busname units on classic D-Bus boots, systemd-resolved cannot be started on kdbus
104 without the active policy and should get a Wants=org.freedesktop.resolve1.busname to
105 pull-in the policy.
106
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107* Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
108
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109* the resolv.conf tmpfiles line should be covered by ENABLE_NETWORKD...
110
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111* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
112
fed515f0 113* logind: allow users to kill or lock their own sessions
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115* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
116
a01647e5 117* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 118 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
a940778f 119 - fstab-generator: support systemd.volatile=yes|no|state on the kernel cmdline, too, similar to nspawn's --volatile=
e8a152c6 120 - fstab-generator: add support for usr= in addition to root= on the kernel cmdline
a01647e5 121
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122* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
123
124* support setting empty environment variables with Environment= and EnvironmentFile=
125
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126* timer units: actually add extra delays to timer units with high AccuracySec values, don't start them already when we are awake...
127
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128* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
129
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130* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
131
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132* journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
133
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134* set NOTIFY_SOCKET also for control processes
135
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136* mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied
137
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138* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
139 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 140
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141* Add timeout to early-boot, and shut down the system if it is hit. Solves the laptop-in-bag problem and is useful for embedded cases
142
f598ac3e 143* Run most system services with cgroupfs read-only and procfs with a more secure mode (doesn't work, since the hidepid= option is per-pid-namespace, not per-mount)
11fb37f1 144
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145* sd-event: generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
146
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147* expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
148
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149* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
150
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151* consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
152
153* sd-event: define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
154
6a3f892a 155* gpt-auto-generator:
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156 - Support LUKS for root devices
157 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 158 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 159
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160* improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
161 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
d28315e4 162 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
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163 the most common operations.
164
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165* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
166 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
167 when it is otherwise off
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169* MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
170
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171* "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
172 /proc/$PID/exe
173
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174* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
175 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
176 for ReusePort=
177
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178* socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
179 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
180 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
181 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
182 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
183
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184* New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
185
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186* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
187 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
188 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
189 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
190 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
191 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
192
ef417cfd 193* completions:
ef417cfd 194 - manager property enumeration was broken when systemd moved to /usr/lib/
3333d748 195
f38afcd0 196* cgroups:
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197 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
198 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
199 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
200 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
201 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
202 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
203 the hierarchies of child processes
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205* transient units:
206 - allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
207 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
208 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
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210* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
211
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212* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
213
f38afcd0 214* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
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216* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
217
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218* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
219
94676f3e 220* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
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222* 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
223
7f79cd71 224* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 225
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226* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
227 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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228 path anyway.
229
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230* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
231
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232* given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
233 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
e10e429f 234 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
e1b7e7ec 235
6aaa8c2f 236* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 237
d28315e4 238* make sure gdm does not use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
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240* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
241
242* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
243
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244* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
245 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
246
6bb648a1 247* sd-bus:
d28315e4 248 - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
7973ca19 249 - systemd-bus-proxyd needs to enforce good old XML policy
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250 - allow updating attach flags during runtime
251 - pid1: peek into activating message when activating a service
252 - introduce sd_bus_emit_object_added()/sd_bus_emit_object_removed() that automatically includes the build-in interfaces in the list
dc17bcef 253 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
f38afcd0 254 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 255 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
dc17bcef 256 - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async?
80caea6c 257 - kdbus: matches against source or destination pids for an "strace -p"-like feel. Problem: The PID info needs to be available in userspace too...
ab9716c2 258 - longer term: priority inheritance
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259 - dbus spec updates:
260 - kdbus mapping
261 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
262 - GVariant
bee7e928 263 - "const" properties (posted)
2ecfc64e 264 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 265 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
69727e6d 266 - test bloom filter generation indexes
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268* sd-event
12179984 269 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
eb01ba5d 270
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271* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
272 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
273 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
274
69af4503 275* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
e8a7a315 276
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277* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
278 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
279
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280* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
281
282* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
283
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284* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
285
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286* timedatectl: print a nicer message when enabling ntp fails because ntpd/chrony are not installed
287
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288* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
289
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290* test/:
291 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
292 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
b8b4d3dd 293
b5c03638 294* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 295 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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296 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
297 destination.
298
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299* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
300 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
301
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302* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
303
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304* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
305 need manual exponential loops after all
306
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307* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
308 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
309 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
310 is installed.
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312* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
313 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
314 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
315 that automatically.
316
e5ec62c5 317* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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319* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
320
d28315e4 321* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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323* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
324
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325* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
326
327* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
328
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329* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
330
356ce991 331* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 332
81d112a8 333* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 334
b44be3ec 335* EFI:
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336 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
337 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 338 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 339
c0fe5db5 340* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 341
b44be3ec 342* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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344* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
345 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 347* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 348
b44be3ec 349* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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351* logind:
352 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
353 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
354 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
355 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
356 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
e5ec62c5 357 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
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358 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
359 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
360 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
361 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
362 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
363 needs setuid().
e673ad04 364
b44be3ec 365* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 366
b44be3ec 367* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
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b44be3ec 369* journal:
c06bf414 370 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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371 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
372 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
373 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 374 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
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375 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
376 - journal: reuse XZ context
377 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
378 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
379 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
380 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
381 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
382 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
383 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 384 - 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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385 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
386 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
b44be3ec 387 - 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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388 - 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.
389 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
390 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 391 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 392 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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393 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
394 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
395 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
396 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
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397 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
398 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 399 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 400 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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401 - tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal, also do this for the journal fails contained in it
402 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
403 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
404 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
405 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
406 to syslog when it works again.
407 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
408 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
409 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
d28315e4 410 so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
f38afcd0 411 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
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413* document:
8b8f2591 414 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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415 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
416 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 417 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 418 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 419 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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420 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
421 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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422 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
423 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
424 - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
425 - man: add more examples to man pages
426 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
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428* systemctl:
429 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
430 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
431 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
432 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
433 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
434 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
435 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
436 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 437 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
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438 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
439 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
440 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
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441 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
442 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
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444* unit install:
445 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
446 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
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447 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
448 - systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
8b04b925 449
b44be3ec 450* timer units:
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451 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
452 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
453 o DST changes
eb124a97 454 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
f38afcd0 455 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
d28315e4 456 - when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we will not support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200
90e071d1 457 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
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459* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
460
461* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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462 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
463 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 464 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 465 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 466 user did not request anything like it.
c55b1b59 467
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468* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
469
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470* 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().
471
472* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
d28315e4 473* fedup: do not delete initrd on switch-root
1cb88f2c 474* fedup: generator
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476* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
477
b44be3ec 478* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 479
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480* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
481 waiting for the timeout
dcfc4b2e 482
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483* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
484
d28315e4 485* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 486
b44be3ec 487* nspawn:
b44be3ec 488 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
9cb74bcb 489 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
a56b63f4 490 - support taking a btrfs snapshot at startup and dropping it afterwards
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492* cryptsetup:
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493 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
494 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
495 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 496 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 497
424a19f8 498* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 499 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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501* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
502
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503* make timer units go away after they elapsed
504
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505* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
506
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507* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
508
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509* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
510
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511* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
512
68f16003 513* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 514
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515* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
516 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
d28315e4 517 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
68f16003 518 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
d28315e4 519 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
68f16003 520 but much rather a disconnect on success.
0790b9fe 521
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522* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
523
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524* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
525
88a6c589 526* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
8351ceae 527
9946996c 528* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
d28315e4 529 verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
9946996c 530
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531* introduce Type=pid-file
532
59cea26a 533* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 534
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535* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
536
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537* automount: implement expire:
538 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
539 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
540 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
541 - blocking, needs a thread
542 - run until -EAGAIN
543 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
544 - call umount
545 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
546 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
465349c0 547
e01a15b7 548* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 549
abd55b16 550* udev:
3f60bcb5 551 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
abd55b16 552 - move to LGPL
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553 - kill scsi_id
554 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 555 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 556
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557* 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
558
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559* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
560
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561* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
562
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563* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
564
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565* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
566
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567* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
568
569* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
570
70a44afe 571* default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
65c0cf71 572
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573* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
574 needs to be auto-respawned?
575
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576* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
577
f38afcd0 578* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 579 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 580
d28315e4 581* for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested
14e639ae 582
7f8aa671 583* hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
ff01d048 584
d3c7d7dd 585* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
72b9ed82 586
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587* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
588 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
589
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590* move PAM code into its own binary
591
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592* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
593 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
594
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595* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
596
55cdcbac 597* add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
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599* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
600 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
601 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
602
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603* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
604 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
605
71092d70 606* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 607
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608* readahead:
609 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
610 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
611 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
612 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
613 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
b23de6af 614
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615* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
616
68c7d001 617* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 618 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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619 - enabling dbus services
620 - status update
7a2a0b90 621 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 622 - remote access
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623 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
624 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 625 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 626 - auto-restart
e707c494 627 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 628 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 629 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 630 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 631 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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632 - calendar time events
633 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
634 - how to create your own target
635 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
636 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 637
44143309 638* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 639
260abb78 640* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
2791a8f8 641
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642* Support --test based on current system state
643
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644* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
645
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646* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
647
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648* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
649
71092d70 650* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
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652* drop cap bounding set in readahead and other services
653
7ba97195 654* systemd-python:
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656 works with ^C
b04c8c83 657 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
7ba97195 658
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659* bootchart:
660 - plot per-process IO utilization
661 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
662 - document initcall_debug
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663 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
664
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665* udev-link-config:
666 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
667 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
668 on Path= matching
8faf88e5 669 - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
af6f0d42 670
88e4d1d7 671* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 672 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 673 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 674
0a4b9a07 675* networkd:
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676 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
677 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 678 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 679 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
5c1d3fc9 680 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
798e174a 681 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
8477107d 682 - add more attribute support for SIT tunnel
1a941ac4 683 - work with non-ethernet devices
c9fa3670 684 - add support for more bond options
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686* networkd-wait-online:
687 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
8f5675cc 688
ac976532 689* dhcp:
424a8732 690 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 691 - export timezone information
99f9dd8d 692 - support RFC4702 (pass FQDN)
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694* dhcp6:
695 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
696 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
697 - write more test cases
698 - implement and do duplicate address detection, see rfc 4862, 5.4.
699 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
700 - implement information request, see 1.2. and 18.1.5.
701 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
702 - implement elapsed time option
703 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
704 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
705 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
706 or interface down
707 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
708 this behavior
709
2f8cd170 710External:
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cc9784c6 712* dbus:
3377af3e 713 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 714 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 715
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716* fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
717
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718* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
719
9096ad36 720* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
06ae4bfe 721
71092d70 722* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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725
d28315e4 726* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and should not
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728* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
729
730* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
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732* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
733
d2bbca68 734* 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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736* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
737
738* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 739
4641a16b 740* 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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744* zsh shell completion: <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently
745 does not
746
129126f3 747Regularly:
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129126f3 749* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 750
129126f3 751* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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753* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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755* pahole
756
d28315e4 757* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 758
4db17f29 759* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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761* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
762
9e5f3dbb 763Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 765* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)