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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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f38afcd0 7External:
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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
16
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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
19
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20Features:
21
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22* homed/userdb: distuingish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
23 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
24 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
25 hence we can make them quicker to work.
26
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27* bootctl:
28 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
29 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
30 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
31
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32* by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
33 allow so that systemd survives
34
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35* when dissecting images, warn about unrecognized partition flags
36
37* honour specifiers in unit files that resolve to some very basic
38 /etc/os-release data, such as ID, VERSION_ID, BUILD_ID, VARIANT_ID.
39
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40* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
41 with matches, then actviate app thorugh that passing socket oveer
42
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43* unify on openssl:
44 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
45 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
46 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
47 - port importd over from libgcrypt
48 - when that's done: kill khash.c
49 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
50
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51* kill zenata, all hail weblate?
52
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53* when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
54
55* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
56 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
57
58* hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
59 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
60 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
61 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
62 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
63
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64* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
65 that only covere the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
66 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
67 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
68
69* systemd-repart: optionally, allow specifiying a path to initialize new
70 partitions from, i.e. an fs image file or a source device node. This would
71 then turn systemd-repart into a simple installer: with a few .repart files
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72 you could replicate the host system on another device. a full installer would
73 then be: "systemd-repart /dev/sda && bootctl install /dev/sda &&
74 systemd-firstboot --image= …"
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76* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
77 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
78 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
79 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
80 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
81 automatically.
82
83* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
84 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
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86* systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
87 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
88
89* systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
90
91* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
92 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
93
94* systemd-repart: add specifier expansion, add especifier that refers to root
95 device node of current system, /usr device node, and matching verity, so that
96 an installer can be made a "copy" installer of the booted OS
97
98* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existance and
99 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
100
101* systemd-repart: when no configuration is found, exit early do not check
102 partition table, so that it is safe to run in the initrd on any system
103
104* systemd-repart: allow config of partition uuid
105
106* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API
107
108* userdb: allow existance checks
109
110* pid: activation by journal search expression
111
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112* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
113 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
114 initrd had set.
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116* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
117 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
118 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
119 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
120 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
121 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
122
123* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
124 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
125 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
126
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127* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
128 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
129 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
130 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
131 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
132 source.
133
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134* figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
135 with immutable /usr
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137* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
138 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
139 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
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141* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
142
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143* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
144 the hibernation
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146* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
147 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
148 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
149 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
150 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
151 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
152 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
153 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
154 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
155 hibernation mode. (see
156 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
157 section 10.2.2.8 and
158 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
159 at the end).
160
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161* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
162 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
163 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
164 output for them.
165
166* dissector: invoke fsck on the file systems we encounter, after all ext4 is
167 still pretty popular (and we mount the ESP too with it after all, which is
168 fat)
169
170* systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
171 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
172
173* systemd-firstboot: add --force mode that replaces existing configuration.
174
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175* We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
176 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
177 constant vendor data.
178
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179* maybe add kernel cmdline params: 1) to force first-boot mode + 2) to force
180 random seed crediting
181
182* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
183 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
184
185* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
186 fallback in "machinectl shell"
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188* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
189 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
190 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
191
192* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
193 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
194 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
195 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
196 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
197 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
198 exec().
199
200* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
201
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202* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
203 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
204
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205* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
206
207* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
208 gnome-bluetooth and friends
209
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210* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
211 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
212 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
213 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
214 cgroup.
215
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216* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
217 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
218 root.
219
220* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
221 is issued.
222
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223* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
224
225* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
226
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227* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
228 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
229 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 230
d238709c 231* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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232 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
233 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
234
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235* add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
236 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
237 ConfigurationDirectory=.
238
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239* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
240
d3584ec4 241* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
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243* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
244 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
245
06898123 246* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 247 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 248 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
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250* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
251
252* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
253 patching around
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255* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
256 log.c and sd-journal-send
257
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258* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
259
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260* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
261
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262* sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
263 can add in file system drivers and such
264
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265* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
266 non-zero "tries done" count
267
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268* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
269 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
270 it should skip the variant type string though.
271
272* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
273 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
274 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
275 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
276 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
277 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
278 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
279 CODE_FILE.
280
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281* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
282 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
283 some explanatory text online.
284
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285* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
286
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287* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
288 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
289 the slices, and the units attached to them.
290
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291* the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
292 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
293 enqeue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
294 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
295 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
296 way)
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298* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
299 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
300 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
301
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302* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
303 original defaults before calling parse_config()
304
72d711ef 305* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
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307* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
308 Specifically:
309
310 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
311 properly)
e83419d0 312 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 313 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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315* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
316 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
317
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318* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
319 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
320 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
321 files and suchlike we operate on.
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323* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
324
325* add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
326
327* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
328 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
329
5da19043 330* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
5238e957 331 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
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332 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
333 numbers.
334
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335* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
336 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
337 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
338 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
339 unlinked from any dir.
340
bd1b3f75 341* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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343* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
344
345* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
346
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347* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
348 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
349 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
350 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
351 should reflink the image file itself.
352
353 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
354 specific paths only like this.
355
53c70a27 356* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 357 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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358 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
359 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
360 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
361
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362* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
363
364* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
365
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366* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
367 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
368
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369* teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
370 project quota
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372* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
373 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
374 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
375 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
376 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
377 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
378 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
379 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
380
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381* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
382 for root, but only then.
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384* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
385
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386* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
387 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
388
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389* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
390 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
391
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392* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
393 host-side interface pointing to the container.
394
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395* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
396 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
397 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
398 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
399 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
400
cb77e122 401* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 402
899feb72 403* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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405* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
406 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
407 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
408
5f7ecd61 409* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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411* maybe use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (i.e. the env var the reproducible builds folks
412 introduced) as the RTC epoch, instead of the mtime of NEWS.
413
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414* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
415 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
416
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417* blog about fd store and restartable services
418
419* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
420
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421* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
422 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
423
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424* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
425 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
426 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
427 ID is available.
428
429* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
430 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
431 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
432
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433* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
434 parameters
435
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436* maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
437 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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438 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
439 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
440 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
441 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
442 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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444* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
445 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
446
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447* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
448 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
449 wait to retrieve their exit data.
450
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451* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
452 about it in the resource log message
453
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454* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
455 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
456
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457* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
458 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
459 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
460
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461* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
462 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
463
464 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
465
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466* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
467 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
468 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
469 logging.
470
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471* hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
472 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
473 "convertible" form factor
474
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475* Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
476 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
477 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
478 as MAINPID.
479
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480* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
481 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
482 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
483
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484* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
485 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
486
487* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
488 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
489 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
490 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
491 natural habitat.
492
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493* maybe add gpt-partition-based user management: each user gets his own
494 LUKS-encrypted GPT partition with a new GPT type. A small nss module
495 enumerates users via udev partition enumeration. UIDs are assigned in a fixed
496 way: the partition index is added as offset to some fixed base uid. User name
497 is stored in GPT partition name. A PAM module authenticates the user via the
498 LUKS partition password. Benefits: strong per-user security, compatibility
499 with stateless/read-only/verity-enabled root. (other idea: do this based on
500 loopback files in /home, without GPT involvement)
501
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503 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
504 /usr is mounted into.
505
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506* 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
507
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508* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
509
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510* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
511 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
512 relative to the configured default value.
513
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514* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
515
516* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
517
04397464 518* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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520* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
521
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522* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
523
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524* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
525
04397464 526* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 527
04397464 528* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 529
04397464 530* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 531
8ce9b83a 532* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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534* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
535 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
536 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
537
e40a326c 538* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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540* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
541
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542* mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
543 partitions
544
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545* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
546 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
547 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
548 mapping to work.
549
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550* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
551
552* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
553
554* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
555
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556* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
557 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
558
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559* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
560 reload the unit file anyway
561
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562* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
563 from the SIGBUS handler
564
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565* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
566
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567* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
568 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
569
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570* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
571
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572* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
573 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
574
f9bf1b8f 575* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 576 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 577 specifications.
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580
5ebbb45b 581* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
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583* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
584
a2088fd0 585* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 586 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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587 prefixed with /sys generally special.
588 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
589
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590* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
591
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592* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
593
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594* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
595 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
596 state.
597 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
598
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599* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
600 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
601 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
602 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
603 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
604
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605* networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
606 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
607
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608* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
609
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610* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
611 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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613* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
614 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
615 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
616 do, for example)
617
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618* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
619 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
620
e031c227 621* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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622 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
623
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624* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
625
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626* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
627 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
628 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
629 returning from the "systemctl stop".
630
b568ef14 631* 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
c2d5b3c9 632
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633* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
634
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635* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
636 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
637
25e773ee 638* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 639
279f0366 640* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 641
5238e957 642* systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
b42de08a 643 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
202aea45 644
720652b3 645* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 646
720652b3 647* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 648
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649* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
650
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651* systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
652 units are shown.
653
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654* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
655 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
656
9d6db739 657* resolved:
9d6db739 658 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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659 - service registration
660 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 661 - avahi compat
9d6db739 662 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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663 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
664 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
665 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 666 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 667 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 668
e25b5a8d 669* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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671* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
672
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673* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
674
a01647e5 675* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 676 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
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678* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
679
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680* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
681
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682* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
683
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684* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
685 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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687* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
688
6a3f892a 689* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 690 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 691 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 692
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693* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
694 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
695 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 696
f9bf1b8f 697* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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699* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
700 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
701 for ReusePort=
702
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703* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
704 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
705 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
706 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
707 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
708 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
709
f38afcd0 710* cgroups:
f38afcd0 711 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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712 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
713 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
714 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
715 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
716 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 717
f38afcd0 718* transient units:
f38afcd0 719 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
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721* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
722
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723* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
724
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725* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
726
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727* 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
728
7f79cd71 729* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 730
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731* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
732 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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733 path anyway.
734
04397464 735* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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737* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
738
739* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
740
6bb648a1 741* sd-bus:
0d43ffef 742 - EBADSLT handling
fa607802 743 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
7212c608 744 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
57f2a947 745 - 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 746 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 747 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
ab9716c2 748 - longer term: priority inheritance
df98a87b 749 - dbus spec updates:
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751 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 752 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 753 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
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755* sd-event
12179984 756 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 757 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
e25b5a8d 758 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
eb01ba5d 759
69af4503 760* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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762* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
763 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
764
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765* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
766
767* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
768
fff87a35 769* test/:
20d52ab6 770 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 771
b5c03638 772* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 773 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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774 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
775 destination.
776
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777* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
778 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
779
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780* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
781
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782* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
783 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
784 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
785 is installed.
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787* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
788 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
789 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
790 that automatically.
791
e5ec62c5 792* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 793
ccddd104 794* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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796* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
797
356ce991 798* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
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b44be3ec 800* EFI:
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801 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
802 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 803 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 804* bootctl
631427d6 805 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 806
c0fe5db5 807* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 808
b44be3ec 809* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 810
b44be3ec 811* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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814 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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815 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
816 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
817 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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818 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
819 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
820 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
821 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
822 needs setuid().
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823 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
824 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
825 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
826 complete.
827 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
828 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
829 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
279f0366 830 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
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831 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
832 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
833 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
834 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
835 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
836 relogins
e673ad04 837
b44be3ec 838* journal:
57f2a947 839 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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840 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
841 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
842 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 843 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 844 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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845 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
846 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
847 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 848 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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850 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 851 - 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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852 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
853 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
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854 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
855 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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856 - 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.
857 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
858 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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859 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
860 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
861 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
862 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 863 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 864 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 865 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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866 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
867 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
868 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
869 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
870 to syslog when it works again.
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871 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
872 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
d28315e4 873 so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
f38afcd0 874 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
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875 - optionally support running journald from the command line for testing purposes in external projects
876 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
877 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
878 journals in.
879 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
880 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
881 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
882 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
883 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 884 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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885 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
886 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
887 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
888 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
889 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
890 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
891 operation.
892 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
893 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
894 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
895 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 896 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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897 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
898 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
899 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
900 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
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903 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
904 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
905 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
906
b44be3ec 907* document:
8b8f2591 908 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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909 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
910 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 911 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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912 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
913 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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914 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
915 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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916 - man: add more examples to man pages
917 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 918 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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920* systemctl:
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921 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
922 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
923 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
924 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
925 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
926 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
927 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 928 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 929 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 930 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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932* unit install:
933 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
934 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
8b04b925 935
b44be3ec 936* timer units:
b44be3ec 937 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
b44be3ec 938 o DST changes
90e071d1 939 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 940
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941* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
942
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943* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
944
b44be3ec 945* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 946
f59d1da8 947* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
dcfc4b2e 948
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949* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
950
d28315e4 951* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 952
b44be3ec 953* nspawn:
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954 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
955 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
956 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
957 from the kernel's logs.
958 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
959 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
960 interface be missing
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961 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
962 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
963 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
964 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
965 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
966 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
967 PID 1...
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968 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
969 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 970
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971* dissect
972 - refuse mounting over a mount point
973 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
974
e25b5a8d 975* machined:
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976 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
977 removed or added to an existing machine
978 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
979 difference host, via ssh
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980 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
981 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
982 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
983 question
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984 - "machinectl history"
985 - "machinectl diff"
986 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
987 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
988
b44be3ec 989* cryptsetup:
b44be3ec 990 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
5f1dac6b 991 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 992
424a19f8 993* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 994 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
424a19f8 995
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996* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
997
68f16003 998* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 999
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1000* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1001
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1002* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1003
abd55b16 1004* udev:
abd55b16 1005 - move to LGPL
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1006 - kill scsi_id
1007 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1008 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1009
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1010* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1011
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1012* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1013
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1014* coredump:
1015 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1016 - 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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1017
1018* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1019
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1020* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1021 needs to be auto-respawned?
1022
f38afcd0 1023* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1024 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1025 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1026 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1027 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1028 calls follow symlinks.
1258097c 1029
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1030* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1031
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1032* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1033 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1034 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1035
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1036* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1037 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1038
71092d70 1039* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 1040
68c7d001 1041* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 1042 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
68c7d001 1043 - enabling dbus services
7a2a0b90 1044 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 1045 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 1046 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 1047 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 1048 - auto-restart
e707c494 1049 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 1050 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 1051 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 1052 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 1053 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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1054 - calendar time events
1055 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1056 - how to create your own target
1057 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1058 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 1059
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1060* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1061
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1062* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1063
e25b5a8d 1064* pid1:
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1065 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1066 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1067 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1068 that are not supported...
1069 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1070 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1071 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1072 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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1073 - move PAM code into its own binary
1074 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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1075 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1076 - Support --test based on current system state
1077 - 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().
1078 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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1079 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1080 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1081 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1082 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1083 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1084 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1085 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1086 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1087
1088* unit files:
1089 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1090 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1091 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1092 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1093 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1094 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1095 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1096 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
e25b5a8d 1097 - introduce Type=pid-file
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1098 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1099 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
e25b5a8d 1100 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
e5171296 1101 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
e25b5a8d 1102
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1103* udev-link-config:
1104 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1105 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1106 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1107
88e4d1d7 1108* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1109 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1110 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1111
0a4b9a07 1112* networkd:
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1113 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1114 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 1115 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 1116 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
5c1d3fc9 1117 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
798e174a 1118 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1119 - work with non-Ethernet devices
c9fa3670 1120 - add support for more bond options
e25b5a8d 1121 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1122 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1123 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1124 - expose in the API the following bits:
1125 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
1126 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
1127 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1128 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1129 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1130 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1131 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1132 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1133 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1134 - allow DUID/IAID to be customized, see issue #394.
e25b5a8d 1135 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1136
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1137* networkd-wait-online:
1138 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
8f5675cc 1139
ac976532 1140* dhcp:
424a8732 1141 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1142
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1143* dhcp6:
1144 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1145 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1146 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1147 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1148 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1149 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1150 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1151 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1152 or interface down
1153 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1154 this behavior
4a77c53d 1155 - RouteTable= ?
37d8b536 1156
2f8cd170 1157External:
74fe1fe3 1158
cc9784c6 1159* dbus:
3377af3e 1160 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 1161 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 1162
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1163* fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
1164
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1165* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1166
9096ad36 1167* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
06ae4bfe 1168
71092d70 1169* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
14bd37fe 1170
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1171* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1172
d2bbca68 1173* 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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1174
1175* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
1176
1177* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 1178
4641a16b 1179* 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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1181* register catalog database signature as file magic
1182
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1183* zsh shell completion:
1184 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 1185 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1cf3c30c 1186
90137b62 1187* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
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1188* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1189 after being started.
2c12a402 1190
129126f3 1191Regularly:
874aa2cc 1192
129126f3 1193* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 1194
129126f3 1195* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
5b6319dc 1196
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1197* pahole
1198
d28315e4 1199* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 1200
4db17f29 1201* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
88fae6e0 1202
d05c556b 1203* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
62353f69 1204String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment