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71092d70 1Bugfixes:
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2* check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
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4* swap units that are activated by one name but shown in the kernel under another are semi-broken
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6* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
7 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
8 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
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10* make polkit checks async
11
a40593a0 12* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
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14* stop importing kernel exported env variables. The utterly broken logic in
15 the kernel exports every kernel command line option which is not recognized
16 as a built-in module option as an env variable. Systemd should not pass-on
17 that nonsense, a kernel command line option is a command line option not an
18 env variable:
19 $ cat /proc/252/environ
20 initrd=\6a9857a393724b7a981ebb5b8495b9ea\3.10.0-2.fc20.x86_64\initrd
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2d19f95c 22Fedora 19:
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24* external: maybe it is time to patch procps so that "ps" links to
25 libsystemd-logind to print a pretty service name, seat name, session
26 name in its output. Currently it only shows cgroup membership, but
0028da22 27 that's sometimes kinda hard to parse for a human.
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7e2c2bcf 29* cgroup attrs:
f0c15f28 30 - update dbus interface docs in wiki
7b4da18c 31
81d112a8 32* localed:
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33 - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps
34
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35* when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
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eb124a97 37Features:
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39* when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop we should ratelimit that too.
40
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41* move systemctl set-log-level to systemd-analyze?
42
374ec6ab 43* fix killing spree logic in systemd-user-sessions
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45* logind: implement session kill exceptions
46
47* fix machine regstration to forward property array
48
49* fix loginctl cgroup enumeration
50
51* move "systemctl dump" to systemd-analyze
52
53* introduce "mainpid" for scopes
54
55* add a fixed dbus path for "my own unit", "my own session", ... to PID1, logind, ...
56
57* add implicit slice for instantiated services
58
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59* service_coldplug() appears to reinstall the wrong stop timeout watch?
60
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61* transient units: allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
62
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63* make BlockIODeviceWeight=, BlockIODeviceBandwidth= runtime settable
64
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65* split up BlockIOWeight= and BlockIODeviceWeight=
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67* introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swapiness
68
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69* how to reset dynamically changed attributes sanely?
70
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71* when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
72
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73* implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?)
74
75* implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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77* handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
78
4ad49000 79* journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
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81* move systemctl dump to systemd-analyze
82
83* libsystemd-logind: sd_session_is_active() and friends: verify
84 validity of session name before appending it to a path
85
86* logind: when a PAM client calls ReleaseSession() start a timeout and
87 kill the session entirely after that is reached.
88
89* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
90 maybe we should stop doing auto-activiation of this after boot
91 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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93* when a service changes state make reflect that in the
94 RUNNING/LISTENING states of its socket
95
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96* when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
97 the hierarchies of child processes
98
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99* document logic of auto/noauto and fail/nofail in fstab in systemd.mount or systemd-fstab-generator man page
100
9444b1f2 101* we should properly escape ssh hostnames we add into dbus server strings
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102
103* something pulls in pcre as so dep into our daemons such as hostnamed.
104
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105* cgroup-agent: downgrade error messages
106
107* document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
108
109* chane systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
110 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
111 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
112 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
113
114* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
115 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
116
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117* libsystemd-journal:
118 - return ECHILD as soon as somebody tries to reuse a journal object across a fork()
119
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120* libsystemd-bus:
121 - default policy (allow uid == 0 and our own uid)
122 - enforce alignment of pointers passed in
eb01ba5d 123 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
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124 - implement translator service
125 - port systemd to new library
126 - implement busname unit type in systemd
127 - move to gvariant
eb01ba5d 128 - merge busctl into systemctl or so?
e4ee6e5c 129 - synthesize sd_bus_message objects from kernel messages
c7819669 130 - properly implement name registry ioctls for kdbus
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131 - get rid of object hash table, use decision tree everyhwere instead?
132 - implement monitor logic
133 - object vtable logic
134 - longer term:
135 * priority queues
86312ab8 136 * priority inheritance
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138* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
139 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
140 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
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142* add an option to nspawn that uses seccomp to make socket(AF_NETLINK,
143 SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_AUDIT) fail the the appropriate error code that
144 makes the audit userspace to think auditing is not available in the
145 kernel.
146
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147* Introduce a way how we can kill the main process of a service with KillSignal, but all processes with SIGKILL later on
148 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952634
149
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150* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses whern the acces mode of unit files is non-sensical.
151
aa96c6cb 152* investigate endianess issues of UUID vs. GUID
e8a7a315 153
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154* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
155 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
156
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157* if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
158 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
159 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
160 needs setuid().
161
162* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
163
164* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
165
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166* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
167
168* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
169
4a449ed7 170* logind: add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
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172* we need dynamic units
173
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174* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
175
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176* test/:
177 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
178 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
179 - remove all the duplicated code in test/
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181* suppress log output on shutdown when "quiet" is used
182
183* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
184
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185* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
186 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
187 file.
188
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189* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
190 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
191 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
192 destination.
193
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194* remove duplicate default deps logic from fstab-generator vs. mount.c
195
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196* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
197 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
198
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199* teach udev + logind's uaccess to somehow handle the "dead" device nodes from:
200 /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.devname
201 and apply ACLs to them if they have TAG=="uaccess" in udev rules.
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203* add ConditionArchitecture= or so
204
205* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
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207* we should log capabilities too
208
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209* Support SO_REUSEPORT with socket activation:
210 - Let systemd maintain a pool of servers.
211 - Use for seamless upgrades, by running the new server before stopping the
212 old.
213
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214* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
215 need manual exponential loops after all
216
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217* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
218 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
219 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
220 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
221
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222* man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf
223
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224* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
225 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
226 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
227 that automatically.
228
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229* rework specifier logic so that we can distuingish OOM errors from other errors
230
e5ec62c5 231* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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233* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
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54c31a79 235* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 236
8973790e 237* documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
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239* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapstion and the time the units ran last
240
241* man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
242
243* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
244
245* man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
246
247* systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
248
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249* man: add more examples to man pages
250
251* man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
252
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253* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
254
255* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
256
257* msgcatalog determine default language of entries from the catalog
258 file name. i.e. foobar.de_DE.catalog would set the default entry
259 name for the entries to de_DE if they aren't explicitly suffixed
260 individually.
261
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262* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
263
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264* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
265
990ffbe5 266* Honour "-" prefix for InaccessibleDirectories= and ReadOnlyDirectories= to
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267 suppress errors of the specified path doesn't exist
268
269* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
270 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
271 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
272 will be activated.
273
356ce991 274* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 275
81d112a8 276* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 277
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278* EFI:
279 - fsck hookup for the ESP mount is missing
280 - write man page for efi boot generator
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281 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
282 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
283 - introduce bootctl (backed by systemd-bootd) to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 284
c0fe5db5 285* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 286
b44be3ec 287* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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289* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
290 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 292* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 293
b44be3ec 294* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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296* logind:
297 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
298 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
299 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
300 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
301 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
302 - logind: spawn user@..service on login
303 - logind: non-local X11 server handling
304 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
b44be3ec 305 - pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree
eb124a97 306 - logind: GetSessionByPID() should accept 0 as PID value
e5ec62c5 307 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
e673ad04 308
b44be3ec 309* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 310
b44be3ec 311* DeviceAllow/DeviceDeny: disallow everything by default, but whitelist /dev/zero, /dev/null and friends
e673ad04 312
b44be3ec 313* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
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b44be3ec 315* journal:
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316 - do not use magic msync() in src/journal/journal-file.c, just call fsync()
317 <alxchk> poettering: looks like msync just calls vfs_fsync
318 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/mm/msync.c#n18
c06bf414 319 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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320 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
321 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
322 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
323 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
324 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
325 - journal: reuse XZ context
326 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
327 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
328 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
329 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
330 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
331 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
332 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 333 - 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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334 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
335 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
336 - journal: when rotating, copy over old acls/access mode
b44be3ec 337 - journal: send out marker messages every now and then, and immediately sync with fdatasync() afterwards, in order to have hourly guaranteed syncs.
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338 - 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.
339 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
340 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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341 - Introduce journalctl -b <nr> to show journal messages of a previous boot
342 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 343 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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344 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
345 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
346 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
347 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
348 - journalctl: show multiline log messages sanely, expand tabs, and show all valid utf8 messages
349 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
350 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
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351 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
352 - Port upower to use the journal for historical power information used in future calculations
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354* document:
355 - document unit_name_mangle()
356 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in
357 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
358 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
359 - Document word splitting syntax for ExecStart= and friends
360 - document that units from /etc override those from /usr and /run
361 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 362 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 363 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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365* systemctl:
366 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
367 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
368 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
369 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
370 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
371 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
372 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
373 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
374 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
375 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
376 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
377 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
378 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
8b04b925 379
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380* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
381
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382* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
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384* timer units:
385 - configurable jitter for timer events
386 - timer events with system resume
387 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
388 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
389 o DST changes
eb124a97 390 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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392* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
393
394* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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395 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
396 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 397 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 398 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 399 user did not request anything like it.
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401* hwdb:
402 - implement conditional properties (dmi matches)
403 - hwdb --filter=ID_DRIVE_*
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405* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
406 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
407 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
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409* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
410 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
411 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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412 we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in
413 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
414 better supported alternative.
e707c494 415
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416* figure out relation of --all and --full in the various tools
417
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418* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
419
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420* 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().
421
422* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
423* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
424* fedup: generator
603cd8fe 425
b44be3ec 426* timedated:
b44be3ec 427 - timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
6d0274f1 428
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429* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
430
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431* introduce generic AUGMENT_PID=, AUGMENT_DEVICE= fields
432
b44be3ec 433* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 434
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435* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
436 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
437 - superset of tmpfiles model
438 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
439 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
440 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
441
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442* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
443 waiting for the timeout
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445* high level net_prio setting in execution context
446
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447* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
448
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449* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
450
15abdb9a 451* refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful (or set taint?)
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453* nspawn:
454 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly
455 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
456 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
457 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
458 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
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459 - nspawn: investigate whether we can support the same as LXC's
460 lxc.network.type=phys mode, and pass through entire network
461 interfaces to the container
462 - nspawn: maybe add a way to drop additional caps, in addition to add additional caps
463 - nspawn: maybe explicitly reset loginuid?
3679d112 464 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
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466* cryptsetup:
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467 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
468 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
469 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 470 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 471
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472* move debug shell to tty6 and make sure this doesn't break the gettys on tty6
473
424a19f8 474* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 475 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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477* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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479* make timer units go away after they elapsed
480
8556879e 481* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 482 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
8556879e 483
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484* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
485
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486* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
487
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488* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
489
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490* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
491
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492* system.conf should have controls for cgroups
493
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494* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
495
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496* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
497
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498* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container
499
68f16003 500* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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502* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
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504* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
505 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
506 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
507 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 508 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 509 but much rather a disconnect on success.
0790b9fe 510
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511* remember which condition failed for services, not just the fact that something failed
512
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513* use opterr = 0 for all getopt tools
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515* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
516
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517* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
518
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519* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
520
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521* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
522
88a6c589 523* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
8351ceae 524
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526 - syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls
527 - syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs?
528 - syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS?
529 - syscall filter: port to libseccomp
530 - system-wide seccomp filter
c66d36e5 531
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532* .device aliases need to be implemented with the "following" logic, probably.
533
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534* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
535 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
536
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537* introduce Type=pid-file
538
59cea26a 539* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 540
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541* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
542
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543* move passno parsing to fstab generator
544
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545* automount: implement expire:
546 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
547 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
548 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
549 - blocking, needs a thread
550 - run until -EAGAIN
551 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
552 - call umount
553 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
554 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
465349c0 555
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556* services which create their own subcgroups break cgroup-empty notification (needs to be fixed in the kernel)
557
e01a15b7 558* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 559
abd55b16 560* udev:
3f60bcb5 561 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
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563 - unify utf8 validator code with shared/
564 - kill scsi_id
565 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
b8217b7b 566
18b754d3 567* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording
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569* when a service has the same env var set twice we actually store it twice and return that in systemctl show -p... We should only show the last setting
570
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571* support container_ttys=
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573* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
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575* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
576
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577* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
578
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579* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
580
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581* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
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583* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
584
585* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
586
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587* clean up session cgroups that remain after logout (think sshd), but eventually run empty
588
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589* when an instanced service exits, remove its parent cgroup too if possible.
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591* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
592
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593* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
594 needs to be auto-respawned?
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596* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
597
de6c78f8 598* tmpfiles: apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 599
b44be3ec 600* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
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603
d3c7d7dd 604* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
72b9ed82 605
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606* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
607 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
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609* move PAM code into its own binary
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611* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
612 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
613
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614* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
615
7c697168 616* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 617
71092d70 618* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
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620* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
621 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
622 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
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624* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
625 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
626
71092d70 627* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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630 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
631 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
632 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
633 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
634 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
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636* add support for /bin/mount -s
637
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638* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
639
68c7d001 640* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 641 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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642 - enabling dbus services
643 - status update
7a2a0b90 644 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 645 - remote access
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646 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
647 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 648 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 649 - auto-restart
e707c494 650 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 651 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 652 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 653 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 654 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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656 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
657 - how to create your own target
658 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
659 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 660
44143309 661* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 662
71092d70 663* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 664
260abb78 665* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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667* Support --test based on current system state
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669* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
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671* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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673* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
674
129126f3 675* port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID:
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676 - rpcbind (/var/run/rpcbind.sock!) HAVEPATCH
677 - cups HAVEPATCH
a625ac1a 678 - postfix, saslauthd
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679 - apache/samba
680 - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro)
681 - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!)
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682 - distccd
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71092d70 684* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
246756ca 685
50f2a90d 686* io priority during initialization
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689
7ba97195 690* systemd-python:
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692 works with ^C
b04c8c83 693 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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695* bootchart:
696 - plot per-process IO utilization
697 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
698 - document initcall_debug
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700
2f8cd170 701External:
74fe1fe3 702
cc9784c6 703* dbus:
cc9784c6 704 - dbus --user
3377af3e 705 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
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707 - allow disabling of fd passing when connecting a AF_UNIX connection
3377af3e 708 - allow disabling of UID passing for AUTH EXTERNAL
b69d29ce 709 - always pass cred data along each message
b44be3ec 710 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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715
9096ad36 716* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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718* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
719 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
720 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
721 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
722 the RTC to sync up.
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71092d70 724* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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728* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
729
730* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
731
732* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
733
734* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
735
d2bbca68 736* 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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738* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
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740* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 741
4641a16b 742* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
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129126f3 744Regularly:
874aa2cc 745
129126f3 746* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 747
129126f3 748* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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750* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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14212119 752* %m in printf() instead of strerror(errno);
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754* pahole
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71092d70 756* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 757
4db17f29 758* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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761
9e5f3dbb 762Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 764* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)