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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
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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* drop sd_bus_message_set_priority() from sd-bus API and documentation as much
23 as we can, it's a kdbus left-over and unlikely to come back on AF_UNIX, since
24 it's not really implementable there.
25
97cd52c1 26* cryptsetup/homed: also support FIDO2 HMAC password logic for unlocking
70e9d9a5 27 devices. (see: https://github.com/mjec/fido2-hmac-secret)
97cd52c1 28
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29* systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
30 creates
31
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32* homed/userdb: distuingish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
33 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
34 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
35 hence we can make them quicker to work.
36
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37* bootctl:
38 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
39 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
40 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
41
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42* by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
43 allow so that systemd survives
44
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45* honour specifiers in unit files that resolve to some very basic
46 /etc/os-release data, such as ID, VERSION_ID, BUILD_ID, VARIANT_ID.
47
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48* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
49 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
50
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51* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
52 systemd-makefs.service instead.
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54* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
55 with matches, then actviate app thorugh that passing socket oveer
56
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57* unify on openssl:
58 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
59 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
60 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
61 - port importd over from libgcrypt
62 - when that's done: kill khash.c
63 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
64
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65* kill zenata, all hail weblate?
66
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67* when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
68
69* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
70 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
71
72* hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
73 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
74 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
75 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
76 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
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78* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
79 that only covere the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
80 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
81 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
82
83* systemd-repart: optionally, allow specifiying a path to initialize new
84 partitions from, i.e. an fs image file or a source device node. This would
85 then turn systemd-repart into a simple installer: with a few .repart files
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86 you could replicate the host system on another device. a full installer would
87 then be: "systemd-repart /dev/sda && bootctl install /dev/sda &&
88 systemd-firstboot --image= …"
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90* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
91 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
92 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
93 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
94 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
95 automatically.
96
97* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
98 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
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100* systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
101 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
102
103* systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
104
105* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
106 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
107
108* systemd-repart: add specifier expansion, add especifier that refers to root
109 device node of current system, /usr device node, and matching verity, so that
110 an installer can be made a "copy" installer of the booted OS
111
2a4be3c5 112* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
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113 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
114
115* systemd-repart: when no configuration is found, exit early do not check
116 partition table, so that it is safe to run in the initrd on any system
117
118* systemd-repart: allow config of partition uuid
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120* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
121 realname substr searches in varlink API
006c44c1 122
2a4be3c5 123* userdb: allow existence checks
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125* pid: activation by journal search expression
126
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127* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
128 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
129 initrd had set.
130
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131* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
132 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
133 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
134 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
135 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
136 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
137
138* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
139 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
140 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
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142* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
143 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
144 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
145 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
146 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
147 source.
148
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149* figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
150 with immutable /usr
151
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152* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
153 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
154 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
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156* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
157
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158* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
159 the hibernation
160
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161* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
162 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
163 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
164 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
165 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
166 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
167 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
168 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
169 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
170 hibernation mode. (see
171 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
172 section 10.2.2.8 and
173 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
174 at the end).
175
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176* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
177 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
178 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
179 output for them.
180
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181* systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
182 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
183
184* systemd-firstboot: add --force mode that replaces existing configuration.
185
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186* We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
187 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
188 constant vendor data.
189
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190* maybe add kernel cmdline params: 1) to force first-boot mode + 2) to force
191 random seed crediting
192
193* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
194 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
195
196* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
197 fallback in "machinectl shell"
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199* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
200 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
201 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
202
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203* homed:
204 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
205 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
206 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
207 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
208 - resize on login?
209 - fstrim on logout?
210 - shrink fs on logout?
211 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
212 - create on activate?
213 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
214 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
215 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
216 systemd --user is shut down.
217 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
218 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk images (think: time machine)
219 - distuingish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
220 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
221 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
222 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
223 - description field for groups
224 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
225 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
226 - query password from kernel keyring first
227 - update even if record is "absent"
228 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
229 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
230 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
231 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
232 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
233 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
234
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235* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
236 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
237 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
238 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
239 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
240 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
241 exec().
242
243* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
244
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245* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
246 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
247
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248* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
249
250* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
251 gnome-bluetooth and friends
252
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253* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
254 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
255 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
256 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
257 cgroup.
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259* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
260 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
261 root.
262
263* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
264 is issued.
265
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266* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
267
268* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
269
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270* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
271 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
272 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 273
d238709c 274* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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275 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
276 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
277
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278* add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
279 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
280 ConfigurationDirectory=.
281
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282* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
283
d3584ec4 284* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
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286* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
287 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
288
06898123 289* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 290 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 291 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
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293* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
294
295* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
296 patching around
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298* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
299 log.c and sd-journal-send
300
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301* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
302
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303* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
304
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305* sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
306 can add in file system drivers and such
307
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308* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
309 non-zero "tries done" count
310
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311* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
312 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
313 it should skip the variant type string though.
314
315* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
316 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
317 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
318 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
319 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
320 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
321 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
322 CODE_FILE.
323
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324* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
325 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
326 some explanatory text online.
327
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328* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
329
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330* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
331 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
332 the slices, and the units attached to them.
333
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334* the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
335 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
bc130b68 336 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
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337 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
338 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
339 way)
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341* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
342 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
343 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
344
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345* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
346 original defaults before calling parse_config()
347
72d711ef 348* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
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350* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
351 Specifically:
352
353 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
354 properly)
e83419d0 355 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 356 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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358* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
359 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
360
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361* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
362 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
363 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
364 files and suchlike we operate on.
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366* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
367
368* add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
369
370* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
371 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
372
5da19043 373* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
5238e957 374 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
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375 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
376 numbers.
377
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378* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
379 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
380 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
381 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
382 unlinked from any dir.
383
bd1b3f75 384* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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386* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
387
388* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
389
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390* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
391 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
392 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
393 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
394 should reflink the image file itself.
395
396 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
397 specific paths only like this.
398
53c70a27 399* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 400 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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401 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
402 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
403 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
404
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405* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
406
407* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
408
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409* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
410 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
411
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412* teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
413 project quota
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415* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
416 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
417 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
418 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
419 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
420 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
421 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
422 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
423
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424* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
425 for root, but only then.
586a8e93 426
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427* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
428
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429* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
430 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
431
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432* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
433 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
434
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435* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
436 host-side interface pointing to the container.
437
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438* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
439 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
440 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
441 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
442 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
443
cb77e122 444* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 445
899feb72 446* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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448* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
449 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
450 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
451
5f7ecd61 452* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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454* maybe use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (i.e. the env var the reproducible builds folks
455 introduced) as the RTC epoch, instead of the mtime of NEWS.
456
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457* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
458 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
459
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460* blog about fd store and restartable services
461
462* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
463
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464* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
465 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
466
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467* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
468 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
469 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
470 ID is available.
471
472* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
473 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
474 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
475
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476* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
477 parameters
478
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479* maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
480 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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481 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
482 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
483 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
484 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
485 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
6fc373ee 486
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487* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
488 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
489
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490* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
491 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
492 wait to retrieve their exit data.
493
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494* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
495 about it in the resource log message
496
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497* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
498 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
499
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500* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
501 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
502 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
503
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504* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
505 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
506
507 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
508
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509* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
510 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
511 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
512 logging.
513
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514* hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
515 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
516 "convertible" form factor
517
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518* Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
519 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
520 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
521 as MAINPID.
522
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523* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
524 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
525 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
526
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527* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
528 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
529
530* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
531 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
532 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
533 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
534 natural habitat.
535
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536* gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
537 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
538 /usr is mounted into.
539
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540* 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
541
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542* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
543
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544* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
545 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
546 relative to the configured default value.
547
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548* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
549
550* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
551
04397464 552* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
d82047be 553
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554* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
555
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556* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
557
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558* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
559
04397464 560* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 561
04397464 562* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 563
04397464 564* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 565
8ce9b83a 566* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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568* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
569 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
570 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
571
e40a326c 572* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 573
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574* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
575
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576* mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
577 partitions
578
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579* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
580 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
581 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
582 mapping to work.
583
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584* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
585
586* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
587
588* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
589
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590* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
591 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
592
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593* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
594 reload the unit file anyway
595
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596* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
597 from the SIGBUS handler
598
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599* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
600
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601* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
602 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
603
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604* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
605
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606* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
607 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
608
f9bf1b8f 609* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 610 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 611 specifications.
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613* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
614
5ebbb45b 615* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
03364e47 616
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617* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
618
a2088fd0 619* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 620 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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621 prefixed with /sys generally special.
622 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
623
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624* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
625
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626* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
627
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628* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
629 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
630 state.
631 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
632
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633* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
634 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
635 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
636 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
637 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
638
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639* networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
640 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
641
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642* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
643
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644* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
645 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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647* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
648 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
649 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
650 do, for example)
651
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652* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
653 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
654
e031c227 655* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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656 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
657
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658* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
659
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660* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
661 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
662 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
663 returning from the "systemctl stop".
664
b568ef14 665* 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 666
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667* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
668
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669* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
670 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
671
25e773ee 672* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 673
279f0366 674* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 675
5238e957 676* systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
b42de08a 677 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
202aea45 678
720652b3 679* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 680
720652b3 681* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 682
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683* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
684
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685* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
686 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
687
9d6db739 688* resolved:
9d6db739 689 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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690 - service registration
691 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 692 - avahi compat
9d6db739 693 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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694 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
695 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
696 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 697 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 698 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 699
e25b5a8d 700* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 701
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702* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
703
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704* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
705
a01647e5 706* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 707 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
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709* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
710
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711* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
712
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713* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
714
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715* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
716 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 717
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718* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
719
6a3f892a 720* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 721 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 722 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 723
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724* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
725 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
726 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 727
f9bf1b8f 728* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 729
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730* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
731 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
732 for ReusePort=
733
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734* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
735 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
736 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
737 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
738 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
739 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
740
f38afcd0 741* cgroups:
f38afcd0 742 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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743 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
744 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
745 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
746 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
747 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 748
f38afcd0 749* transient units:
f38afcd0 750 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 751
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752* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
753
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754* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
755
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756* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
757
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758* 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
759
7f79cd71 760* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 761
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762* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
763 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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764 path anyway.
765
04397464 766* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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768* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
769
770* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
771
6bb648a1 772* sd-bus:
0d43ffef 773 - EBADSLT handling
fa607802 774 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
7212c608 775 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
57f2a947 776 - 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 777 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 778 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
ab9716c2 779 - longer term: priority inheritance
df98a87b 780 - dbus spec updates:
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781 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
782 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 783 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 784 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
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785
786* sd-event
12179984 787 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 788 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
e25b5a8d 789 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
eb01ba5d 790
69af4503 791* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
e8a7a315 792
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793* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
794 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
795
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796* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
797
798* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
799
fff87a35 800* test/:
20d52ab6 801 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 802
b5c03638 803* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 804 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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805 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
806 destination.
807
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808* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
809 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
810
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811* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
812
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813* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
814 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
815 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
816 is installed.
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818* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
819 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
820 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
821 that automatically.
822
e5ec62c5 823* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 824
ccddd104 825* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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827* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
828
356ce991 829* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 830
b44be3ec 831* EFI:
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832 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
833 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 834 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 835* bootctl
631427d6 836 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 837
c0fe5db5 838* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 839
b44be3ec 840* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 841
b44be3ec 842* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
e6c6e7af 843
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844* logind:
845 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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846 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
847 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
848 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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849 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
850 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
851 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
852 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
853 needs setuid().
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854 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
855 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
856 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
857 complete.
858 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
859 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
860 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
279f0366 861 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
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862 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
863 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
864 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
865 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
866 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
867 relogins
77b19caf 868 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 869
b44be3ec 870* journal:
57f2a947 871 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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872 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
873 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
874 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 875 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 876 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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877 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
878 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
879 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 880 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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881 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
882 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 883 - 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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884 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
885 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
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886 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
887 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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888 - 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.
889 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
890 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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891 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
892 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
893 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
894 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 895 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 896 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 897 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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898 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
899 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
900 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
901 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
902 to syslog when it works again.
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903 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
904 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
905 journals in.
906 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
907 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
908 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
909 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
910 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 911 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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912 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
913 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
914 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
915 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
916 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
917 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
918 operation.
919 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
920 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
921 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
922 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 923 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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924 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
925 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
926 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
927 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
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930 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
931 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
932 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
933
b44be3ec 934* document:
8b8f2591 935 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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936 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
937 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 938 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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939 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
940 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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941 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
942 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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943 - man: add more examples to man pages
944 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 945 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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947* systemctl:
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948 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
949 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
950 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
951 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
952 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
953 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
954 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 955 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 956 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 957 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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959* unit install:
960 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
961 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
8b04b925 962
b44be3ec 963* timer units:
b44be3ec 964 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
b44be3ec 965 o DST changes
90e071d1 966 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 967
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968* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
969
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970* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
971
b44be3ec 972* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 973
f59d1da8 974* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
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977
d28315e4 978* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 979
b44be3ec 980* nspawn:
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981 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
982 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
983 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
984 from the kernel's logs.
985 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
986 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
987 interface be missing
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988 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
989 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
990 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
991 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
992 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
993 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
994 PID 1...
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995 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
996 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 997
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999 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1000 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1001
e25b5a8d 1002* machined:
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1003 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1004 removed or added to an existing machine
1005 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1006 difference host, via ssh
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1007 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1008 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1009 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1010 question
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1011 - "machinectl history"
1012 - "machinectl diff"
1013 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1014 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1015
b44be3ec 1016* cryptsetup:
b44be3ec 1017 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
5f1dac6b 1018 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 1019
424a19f8 1020* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 1021 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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1024
68f16003 1025* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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1027* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1028
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1030
abd55b16 1031* udev:
abd55b16 1032 - move to LGPL
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1033 - kill scsi_id
1034 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1035 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1036
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1037* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1038
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1039* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1040
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1041* coredump:
1042 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1043 - 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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1045* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1046
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1047* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1048 needs to be auto-respawned?
1049
f38afcd0 1050* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1051 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1052 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1053 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1054 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1055 calls follow symlinks.
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1058
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1060 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1061 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1062
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1063* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1064 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1065
71092d70 1066* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 1067
68c7d001 1068* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 1069 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
68c7d001 1070 - enabling dbus services
7a2a0b90 1071 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 1072 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 1073 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 1074 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 1075 - auto-restart
e707c494 1076 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 1077 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 1078 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 1079 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 1080 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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1081 - calendar time events
1082 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1083 - how to create your own target
1084 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1085 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
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1087* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1088
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1089* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1090
e25b5a8d 1091* pid1:
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1092 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1093 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1094 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1095 that are not supported...
1096 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1097 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1098 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1099 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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1100 - move PAM code into its own binary
1101 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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1102 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1103 - Support --test based on current system state
1104 - 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().
1105 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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1106 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1107 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1108 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1109 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1110 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1111 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1112 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1113 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1114
1115* unit files:
1116 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1117 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1118 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1119 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1120 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1121 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1122 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1123 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
e25b5a8d 1124 - introduce Type=pid-file
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1125 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1126 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
e25b5a8d 1127 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
e5171296 1128 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
e25b5a8d 1129
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1131 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1132 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1133 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1134
88e4d1d7 1135* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1136 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1137 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1138
0a4b9a07 1139* networkd:
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1140 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1141 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 1142 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 1143 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
5c1d3fc9 1144 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
798e174a 1145 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1146 - work with non-Ethernet devices
c9fa3670 1147 - add support for more bond options
e25b5a8d 1148 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1149 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1150 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1151 - expose in the API the following bits:
1152 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
1153 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
1154 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1155 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1156 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1157 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1158 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1159 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1160 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1161 - allow DUID/IAID to be customized, see issue #394.
e25b5a8d 1162 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1163
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1164* networkd-wait-online:
1165 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
8f5675cc 1166
ac976532 1167* dhcp:
424a8732 1168 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1169
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1170* dhcp6:
1171 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1172 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1173 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1174 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1175 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1176 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1177 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1178 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1179 or interface down
1180 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1181 this behavior
4a77c53d 1182 - RouteTable= ?
37d8b536 1183
2f8cd170 1184External:
74fe1fe3 1185
cc9784c6 1186* dbus:
3377af3e 1187 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 1188 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 1189
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1191
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1193
9096ad36 1194* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
06ae4bfe 1195
71092d70 1196* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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1199
d2bbca68 1200* 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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1202* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
1203
1204* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 1205
4641a16b 1206* 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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1209
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1210* zsh shell completion:
1211 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 1212 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1cf3c30c 1213
90137b62 1214* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
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1215* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1216 after being started.
2c12a402 1217
129126f3 1218Regularly:
874aa2cc 1219
129126f3 1220* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 1221
129126f3 1222* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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1225
d28315e4 1226* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 1227
4db17f29 1228* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
88fae6e0 1229
d05c556b 1230* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
62353f69 1231String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment