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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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f38afcd0 9* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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11* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
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13Janitorial Clean-ups:
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15* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
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17* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
18 semantics, like we do for device.c now
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20Features:
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22* add --copy-from and --copy-to command to systemd-dissect which copies stuff
23 in and out of a disk image
24
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25* add systemd.random_seed= on the kernel cmdline, taking some hex or base64
26 encoded data. During earliest boot, credit it to entropy. This is not useful
27 for general purpose systems, but certainly for testing environments in VMs
28 and such, as it allows us to boot up instantly with fully initialized entropy
29 pool even if RNG pass-thru is not available.
30
31* Support ProtectProc= or so, using: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11310197/
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33* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
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35* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
36 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
37
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38* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
39 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
40 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
41 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
42 anything like that.
43
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44* add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
45 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
46 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
47
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48* move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
49 these days
50
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51* nspawn: support time namespaces
52
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53* add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
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55* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
56 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
57
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58* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
59
60* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
61
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62* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
63 when it exits
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65* seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
66 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
67 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
68
69* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
70 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
71 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
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73* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
74 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
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76* make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
77 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
78 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
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80* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
81 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, firstboot, tmpfiles,
82 sysusers, systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl.
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84* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
85
86* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
87 specific service
88
89* seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
90
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91* per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
92 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
93 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
94 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
95 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
96 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
97 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
98 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
99
100* homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
101 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
102
103* homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
104 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
105
106* homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
107 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
108 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
109
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110* homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
111 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
112 signature
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114* homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
115 and insert a local signature instead.
116
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117* homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
118 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
119 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
15dd4515 120 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
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121 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
122
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123* homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
124
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125* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
126 exists and responds.
127
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128* homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
129 easily?
130
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131* when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
132 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
133 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
134 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
135 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
136
97cd52c1 137* cryptsetup/homed: also support FIDO2 HMAC password logic for unlocking
70e9d9a5 138 devices. (see: https://github.com/mjec/fido2-hmac-secret)
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140* systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
141 creates
142
86b52a39 143* homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
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144 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
145 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
146 hence we can make them quicker to work.
147
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148* bootctl:
149 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
150 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
151 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
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153* by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
154 allow so that systemd survives
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156* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
157 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
158
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159* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
160 systemd-makefs.service instead.
161
91fc013f 162* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 163 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
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165* unify on openssl:
166 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
167 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
168 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
169 - port importd over from libgcrypt
170 - when that's done: kill khash.c
171 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
172
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173* kill zenata, all hail weblate?
174
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175* when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
176
177* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
178 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
179
180* hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
181 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
182 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
183 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
184 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
185
492f91d8 186* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
86b52a39 187 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
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188 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
189 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
190
86b52a39 191* systemd-repart: optionally, allow specifying a path to initialize new
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192 partitions from, i.e. an fs image file or a source device node. This would
193 then turn systemd-repart into a simple installer: with a few .repart files
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194 you could replicate the host system on another device. a full installer would
195 then be: "systemd-repart /dev/sda && bootctl install /dev/sda &&
196 systemd-firstboot --image= …"
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198* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
199 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
200 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
201 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
202 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
203 automatically.
204
205* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
206 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
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208* systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
209 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
210
211* systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
212
213* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
214 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
215
216* systemd-repart: add specifier expansion, add especifier that refers to root
217 device node of current system, /usr device node, and matching verity, so that
218 an installer can be made a "copy" installer of the booted OS
219
2a4be3c5 220* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
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221 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
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223* systemd-repart: allow config of partition uuid
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225* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
226 realname substr searches in varlink API
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228* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
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2a4be3c5 230* userdb: allow existence checks
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f1eb0ccd 232* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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234* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
235 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
236 initrd had set.
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238* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
239 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
240 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
241 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
242 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
243 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
244
245* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
246 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
247 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
248
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249* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
250 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
251 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
252 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
253 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
254 source.
255
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256* figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
257 with immutable /usr
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259* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
260 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
261 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
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263* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
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265* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
266 the hibernation
267
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268* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
269 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
270 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
271 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
272 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
273 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
274 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
275 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
276 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
277 hibernation mode. (see
278 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
279 section 10.2.2.8 and
280 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
281 at the end).
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283* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
284 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
285 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
286 output for them.
287
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288* systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
289 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
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291* We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
292 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
293 constant vendor data.
294
c6526b8d 295* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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297* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
298 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
299
300* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
301 fallback in "machinectl shell"
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303* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
304 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
305 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
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307* homed:
308 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
309 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
310 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
311 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
312 - resize on login?
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313 - shrink fs on logout?
314 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
315 - create on activate?
316 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
317 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
318 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
319 systemd --user is shut down.
320 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
321 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk images (think: time machine)
86b52a39 322 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
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323 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
324 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
325 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
326 - description field for groups
327 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
328 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
329 - query password from kernel keyring first
330 - update even if record is "absent"
331 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
332 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
333 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
334 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
335 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
336 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
337
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338* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
339 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
340 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
341 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
342 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
343 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
344 exec().
345
346* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
347
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348* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
349 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
350
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351* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
352
353* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
354 gnome-bluetooth and friends
355
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356* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
357 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
358 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
359 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
360 cgroup.
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362* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
363 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
364 root.
365
366* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
367 is issued.
368
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369* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
370
371* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
372
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373* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
374 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
375 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 376
d238709c 377* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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378 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
379 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
380
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381* add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
382 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
383 ConfigurationDirectory=.
384
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385* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
386
d3584ec4 387* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
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389* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
390 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
391
06898123 392* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 393 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 394 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
06898123 395
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396* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
397
398* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
399 patching around
400
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401* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
402 log.c and sd-journal-send
403
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404* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
405
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406* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
407
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408* sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
409 can add in file system drivers and such
410
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411* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
412 non-zero "tries done" count
413
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414* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
415 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
416 it should skip the variant type string though.
417
418* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
419 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
420 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
421 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
422 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
423 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
424 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
425 CODE_FILE.
426
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427* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
428 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
429 some explanatory text online.
430
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431* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
432
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433* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
434 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
435 the slices, and the units attached to them.
436
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437* the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
438 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
bc130b68 439 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
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440 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
441 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
442 way)
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444* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
445 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
446 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
447
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448* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
449 original defaults before calling parse_config()
450
72d711ef 451* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
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453* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
454 Specifically:
455
456 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
457 properly)
e83419d0 458 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 459 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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461* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
462 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
463
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464* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
465 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
466 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
467 files and suchlike we operate on.
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469* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
470
471* add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
472
473* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
474 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
475
5da19043 476* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
5238e957 477 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
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478 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
479 numbers.
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481* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
482 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
483 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
484 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
485 unlinked from any dir.
486
bd1b3f75 487* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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490
491* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
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494 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
495 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
496 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
497 should reflink the image file itself.
498
499 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
500 specific paths only like this.
501
53c70a27 502* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 503 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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505 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
506 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
507
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508* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
509
510* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
511
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512* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
513 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
514
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515* teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
516 project quota
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518* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
519 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
520 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
521 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
522 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
523 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
524 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
525 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
526
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527* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
528 for root, but only then.
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530* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
531
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532* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
533 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
534
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535* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
536 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
537
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538* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
539 host-side interface pointing to the container.
540
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541* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
542 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
543 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
544 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
545 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
546
cb77e122 547* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 548
899feb72 549* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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552 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
553 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
554
5f7ecd61 555* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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557* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
558 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
559
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560* blog about fd store and restartable services
561
562* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
563
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564* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
565 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
566
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567* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
568 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
569 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
570 ID is available.
571
572* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
573 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
574 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
575
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576* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
577 parameters
578
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579* maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
580 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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582 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
583 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
584 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
585 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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588 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
589
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590* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
591 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
592 wait to retrieve their exit data.
593
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595 about it in the resource log message
596
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597* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
598 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
599
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600* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
601 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
602 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
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605 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
606
607 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
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610 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
611 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
612 logging.
613
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615 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
616 "convertible" form factor
617
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619 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
620 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
621 as MAINPID.
622
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624 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
625 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
626
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627* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
628 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
629
630* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
631 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
632 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
633 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
634 natural habitat.
635
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637 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
638 /usr is mounted into.
639
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640* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
641
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642* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
643
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644* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
645 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
646 relative to the configured default value.
647
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649
650* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
651
04397464 652* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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654* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
655
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656* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
657
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658* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
659
04397464 660* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 661
04397464 662* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 663
04397464 664* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 665
8ce9b83a 666* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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668* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
669 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
670 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
671
e40a326c 672* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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674* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
675
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676* mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
677 partitions
678
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679* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
680 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
681 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
682 mapping to work.
683
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684* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
685
686* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
687
688* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
689
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690* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
691 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
692
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693* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
694 reload the unit file anyway
695
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696* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
697 from the SIGBUS handler
698
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699* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
700
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701* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
702 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
703
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704* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
705
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706* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
707 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
708
f9bf1b8f 709* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 710 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 711 specifications.
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714
5ebbb45b 715* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
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717* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
718
a2088fd0 719* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 720 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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722 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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725
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726* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
727
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728* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
729 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
730 state.
731 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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734 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
735 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
736 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
737 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
738
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740 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
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742* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
743
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744* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
745 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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747* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
748 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
749 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
750 do, for example)
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753 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
754
e031c227 755* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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757
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758* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
759
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760* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
761 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
762 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
763 returning from the "systemctl stop".
764
b568ef14 765* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
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767* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
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770 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
771
25e773ee 772* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 773
279f0366 774* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 775
5238e957 776* systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
b42de08a 777 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
202aea45 778
720652b3 779* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 780
720652b3 781* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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784
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785* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
786 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
787
9d6db739 788* resolved:
9d6db739 789 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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791 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 792 - avahi compat
9d6db739 793 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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794 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
795 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
796 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 797 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 798 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 799
e25b5a8d 800* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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805
a01647e5 806* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 807 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
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809* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
810
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812
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813* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
814
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816 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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819
6a3f892a 820* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 821 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 822 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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825 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
826 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 827
f9bf1b8f 828* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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830* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
831 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
832 for ReusePort=
833
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835 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
836 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
837 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
838 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
839 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
840
f38afcd0 841* cgroups:
f38afcd0 842 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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844 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
845 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
846 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
847 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 848
f38afcd0 849* transient units:
f38afcd0 850 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
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852* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
853
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854* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
855
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856* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
857
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858* 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
859
7f79cd71 860* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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862* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
863 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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865
04397464 866* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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868* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
869
870* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
871
6bb648a1 872* sd-bus:
0d43ffef 873 - EBADSLT handling
fa607802 874 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
7212c608 875 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
57f2a947 876 - see if we can introduce a new sd_bus_get_owner_machine_id() call to retrieve the machine ID of the machine of the bus itself
f38afcd0 877 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 878 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
ab9716c2 879 - longer term: priority inheritance
df98a87b 880 - dbus spec updates:
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882 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 883 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 884 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
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886* sd-event
12179984 887 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 888 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
e25b5a8d 889 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
eb01ba5d 890
69af4503 891* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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893* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
894 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
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897
898* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
899
fff87a35 900* test/:
20d52ab6 901 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 902
b5c03638 903* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 904 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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906 destination.
907
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908* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
909 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
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912
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914 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
915 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
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918 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
919 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
920 is installed.
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923 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
924 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
925 that automatically.
926
e5ec62c5 927* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 928
ccddd104 929* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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932
356ce991 933* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
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937 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 938 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 939* bootctl
631427d6 940 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 941
c0fe5db5 942* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 943
b44be3ec 944* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 945
b44be3ec 946* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
e6c6e7af 947
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949 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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950 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
951 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
952 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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953 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
954 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
955 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
956 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
957 needs setuid().
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958 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
959 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
960 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
961 complete.
962 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
963 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
964 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
279f0366 965 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
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966 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
967 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
968 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
969 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
970 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
971 relogins
77b19caf 972 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 973
b44be3ec 974* journal:
57f2a947 975 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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976 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
977 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
978 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 979 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 980 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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981 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
982 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
983 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 984 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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985 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
986 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 987 - 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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988 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
989 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
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990 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
991 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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992 - 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.
993 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
994 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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995 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
996 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
997 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
998 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 999 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1000 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1001 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1002 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1003 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1004 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1005 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1006 to syslog when it works again.
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1007 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1008 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1009 journals in.
1010 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1011 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1012 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1013 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1014 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1015 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1016 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1017 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1018 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1019 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1020 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1021 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1022 operation.
1023 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1024 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1025 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1026 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1027 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1028 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1029 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1030 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1031 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
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1034 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1035 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1036 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1037
b44be3ec 1038* document:
8b8f2591 1039 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1040 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1041 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1042 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1043 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1044 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1045 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1046 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1047 - man: add more examples to man pages
1048 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1049 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1050
1051* systemctl:
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1052 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1053 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1054 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1055 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1056 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1057 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1058 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1059 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1060 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1061 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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1062
1063* unit install:
1064 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1065 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
8b04b925 1066
b44be3ec 1067* timer units:
b44be3ec 1068 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
b44be3ec 1069 o DST changes
90e071d1 1070 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 1071
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1072* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1073
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1074* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1075
b44be3ec 1076* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 1077
f59d1da8 1078* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
dcfc4b2e 1079
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1080* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1081
d28315e4 1082* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 1083
b44be3ec 1084* nspawn:
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1085 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1086 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1087 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1088 from the kernel's logs.
1089 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1090 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1091 interface be missing
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1092 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1093 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1094 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1095 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1096 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1097 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1098 PID 1...
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1099 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1100 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1101
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1102* dissect
1103 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1104 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1105
e25b5a8d 1106* machined:
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1107 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1108 removed or added to an existing machine
1109 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1110 difference host, via ssh
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1111 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1112 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1113 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1114 question
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1115 - "machinectl history"
1116 - "machinectl diff"
1117 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1118 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1119
b44be3ec 1120* cryptsetup:
b44be3ec 1121 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
5f1dac6b 1122 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 1123
424a19f8 1124* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 1125 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
424a19f8 1126
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1127* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1128
68f16003 1129* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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1131* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1132
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1133* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1134
abd55b16 1135* udev:
abd55b16 1136 - move to LGPL
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1137 - kill scsi_id
1138 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1139 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1140
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1141* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1142
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1143* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1144
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1145* coredump:
1146 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1147 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
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1148
1149* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1150
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1151* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1152 needs to be auto-respawned?
1153
f38afcd0 1154* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1155 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1156 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1157 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1158 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1159 calls follow symlinks.
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1161* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1162
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1163* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1164 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1165 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1166
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1167* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1168 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1169
71092d70 1170* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 1171
68c7d001 1172* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 1173 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
68c7d001 1174 - enabling dbus services
7a2a0b90 1175 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 1176 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 1177 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 1178 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 1179 - auto-restart
e707c494 1180 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 1181 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 1182 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 1183 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 1184 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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1185 - calendar time events
1186 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1187 - how to create your own target
1188 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1189 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 1190
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1191* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1192
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1193* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1194
e25b5a8d 1195* pid1:
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1196 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1197 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1198 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1199 that are not supported...
1200 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1201 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1202 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1203 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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1204 - move PAM code into its own binary
1205 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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1206 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1207 - Support --test based on current system state
1208 - 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().
1209 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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1210 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1211 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1212 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1213 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1214 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1215 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1216 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1217 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1218
1219* unit files:
1220 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1221 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1222 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1223 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1224 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1225 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1226 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1227 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
e25b5a8d 1228 - introduce Type=pid-file
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1229 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1230 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
e25b5a8d 1231 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
e5171296 1232 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
e25b5a8d 1233
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1234* udev-link-config:
1235 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1236 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1237 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1238
88e4d1d7 1239* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1240 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1241 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1242
0a4b9a07 1243* networkd:
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1244 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1245 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 1246 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 1247 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1248 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 1249 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1250 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1251 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1252 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 1253 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 1254 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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1255 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1256 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1257 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1258 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1259 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1260 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1261 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
e25b5a8d 1262 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1263
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1264* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1265
ac976532 1266* dhcp:
424a8732 1267 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1268
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1269* dhcp6:
1270 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1271 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1272 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1273 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1274 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1275 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1276 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1277 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1278 or interface down
1279 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1280 this behavior
4a77c53d 1281 - RouteTable= ?
37d8b536 1282
2f8cd170 1283External:
74fe1fe3 1284
cc9784c6 1285* dbus:
3377af3e 1286 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 1287 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 1288
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1289* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1290
71092d70 1291* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
14bd37fe 1292
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1293* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1294
d2bbca68 1295* 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=
8973790e 1296
8973790e 1297* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 1298
4641a16b 1299* 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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1301* register catalog database signature as file magic
1302
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1303* zsh shell completion:
1304 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 1305 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1cf3c30c 1306
90137b62 1307* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
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1308* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1309 after being started.
2c12a402 1310
129126f3 1311Regularly:
874aa2cc 1312
129126f3 1313* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 1314
129126f3 1315* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
5b6319dc 1316
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1317* pahole
1318
d28315e4 1319* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 1320
4db17f29 1321* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
88fae6e0 1322
d05c556b 1323* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
62353f69 1324String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment