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1Bugfixes:
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19aadacf 3* enabling an instance unit creates a pointless link, and
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4 the unit will be started with getty@getty.service:
5 $ systemctl enable getty@.service
6 ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service' '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@.service'
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8* check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
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10* swap units that are activated by one name but shown in the kernel under another are semi-broken
11
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12* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
13 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
14 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
15
a40593a0 16* 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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19aadacf 18* When we detect invalid UTF-8, we cannot use it in an error message:
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19 log...("Path is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment: %s", rvalue);
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21* shorten the message to sane length:
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23 Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status display-manager.service' for details.
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466784c8 25Fedora 20:
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dc7adf20 27* external: ps should gain colums for slice and machine
7b4da18c 28
81d112a8 29* localed:
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30 - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps
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55d32caf 32* when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
466784c8 33 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
55d32caf 34
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35CGroup Rework Completion:
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94bbc991 37* introduce "mainpid" for scopes (or maybe not?)
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39* implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?)
40
41* implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
42
43* handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
44
049b4474 45* introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
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eb124a97 47Features:
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49* journalctl: support -M to read journal of containers and determine journal directory from root directory of container
50
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51* tmpfiles: to make sure we don't delete unpacked tarballs with old timestamps right-away never delete stuff that is inside a directory with a new mtime
52
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53* "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
54 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
55
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56* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
57
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58* remove NSS usage from PID 1 (notably the specifiers)
59
a427c13d 60* socket-proxyd:
fd201fda 61 - Support multiple inherited sockets mapped to different remote hosts
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62 - Use a nonblocking alternative to getaddrinfo
63 - Until we can start daemons directly, find a less ugly, less racy alternative than shell scripts for the second man page example.
64 - Support starting daemons directly without requiring a shell script; update man pages
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66* optimize the cgroup propagation bits, especially unit_get_members_mask(), cgroup_context_get_mask()
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68* "systemctl cat" or "systemctl view" command or or so, that cats the backing unit file of a service, plus its drop-ins and shows them in a pager
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70* 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
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72* Add a new Distribute=$NUMBER key to socket units that makes use of SO_REUSEPORT to distribute network traffic on $NUMBER instances
73
19aadacf 74* tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal, also do this for the journal fails contained in it
7f79cd71 75
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76* we probably should replace the left-over uses of strv_append() and replace them by strv_push() or strv_extend()
77
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78* move config_parse_path_strv() out of conf-parser.c
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80* libdsystemd-bus should expose utf8 validation calls
81
7f79cd71 82* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 83
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84* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
85 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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86 path anyway.
87
19aadacf 88* When a Type=forking service fails and needed another service, that
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89 service is not cleaned up again when it has StopWhenUnneeded=yes
90 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-July/012141.html
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92* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
93
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94* ensure scope units may be started only a single time
95
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96* better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
97
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98* systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
99
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100* for transient units, instead of writing out drop-ins for all properties consider serializing them in the normal serialization stream
101
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102* logind: when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects
103
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104* session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
105
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106* add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
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108* journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
109
19aadacf 110* given that logind/machined now let PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
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111 probably reduce the capability set they retain substantially.
112
6aaa8c2f 113* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
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115* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
116
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117* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
118
e1b7e7ec 119* make sure gdm doesn't use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
18d4e7c2 120
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121* when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we won't support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200
122
19aadacf 123* when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
fa7deadb 124
19aadacf 125* "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, but should
69af4503 126 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
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127 unit however should remove them all).
128
129* journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
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131* systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
132
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133* journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
134 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
135 to syslog when it works again.
136
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137* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
138
139* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
140
19aadacf 141* service_coldplug() appears to reinstall the wrong stop timeout watch.
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143* transient units: allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
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145* how to reset dynamically changed attributes sanely?
146
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147* when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
148
4ad49000 149* journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
3d3ee759 150
9444b1f2 151* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 152 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 153 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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154 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
155 check for that and suppress event handling.
9444b1f2 156
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157* when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
158 the hierarchies of child processes
159
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160* document logic of auto/noauto and fail/nofail in fstab in systemd.mount or systemd-fstab-generator man page
161
19aadacf 162* something pulls in pcre as shared object dependency into our daemons such as hostnamed.
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164* document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
165
a65f06bb 166* change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
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167 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
168 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
169 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
170
171* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
172 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
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174* libsystemd-bus:
175 - default policy (allow uid == 0 and our own uid)
176 - enforce alignment of pointers passed in
eb01ba5d 177 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
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178 - implement translator service
179 - port systemd to new library
180 - implement busname unit type in systemd
181 - move to gvariant
eb01ba5d 182 - merge busctl into systemctl or so?
e4ee6e5c 183 - synthesize sd_bus_message objects from kernel messages
c7819669 184 - properly implement name registry ioctls for kdbus
86312ab8 185 - implement monitor logic
07459db6 186 - properly map matches with well-known names against messages with unique names
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187 - longer term:
188 * priority queues
86312ab8 189 * priority inheritance
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191* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
192 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
193 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
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195* add an option to nspawn that uses seccomp to make socket(AF_NETLINK,
196 SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_AUDIT) fail the the appropriate error code that
197 makes the audit userspace to think auditing is not available in the
198 kernel.
199
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200* Introduce a way how we can kill the main process of a service with KillSignal, but all processes with SIGKILL later on
201 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952634
202
69af4503 203* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses where the access mode of unit files is nonsensical.
19aa7c4f 204
69af4503 205* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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207* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
208 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
209
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210* if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
211 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
212 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
213 needs setuid().
214
215* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
216
217* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
218
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219* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
220
221* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
222
4a449ed7 223* 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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225* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
226
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227* test/:
228 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
229 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
889a9042 230 - qemu wrapper script: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg72389.html
b8b4d3dd 231
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232* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
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234* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
235 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
236 file.
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238* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
239 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
240 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
241 destination.
242
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243* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
244 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
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246* add ConditionArchitecture= or so
247
248* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
249
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250* Support SO_REUSEPORT with socket activation:
251 - Let systemd maintain a pool of servers.
252 - Use for seamless upgrades, by running the new server before stopping the
253 old.
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255* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
256 need manual exponential loops after all
257
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258* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
259 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
260 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
261 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
262
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263* man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf
264
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265* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
266 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
267 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
268 that automatically.
269
69af4503 270* rework specifier logic so that we can distinguish OOM errors from other errors
487060c2 271
e5ec62c5 272* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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274* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
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54c31a79 276* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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8973790e 278* documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
3679d112 279
69af4503 280* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapse and the time the units ran last
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282* man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
283
284* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
285
69af4503 286* man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
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288* systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
289
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290* man: add more examples to man pages
291
292* man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
293
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294* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
295
296* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
297
298* msgcatalog determine default language of entries from the catalog
299 file name. i.e. foobar.de_DE.catalog would set the default entry
300 name for the entries to de_DE if they aren't explicitly suffixed
301 individually.
302
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303* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
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305* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
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307* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
308 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
309 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
310 will be activated.
311
356ce991 312* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 313
81d112a8 314* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 315
b44be3ec 316* EFI:
b44be3ec 317 - write man page for efi boot generator
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318 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
319 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 320 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 321
c0fe5db5 322* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 323
b44be3ec 324* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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326* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
327 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 329* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 330
b44be3ec 331* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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333* logind:
334 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
335 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
336 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
337 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
338 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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339 - logind: non-local X11 server handling
340 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
b44be3ec 341 - pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree
e5ec62c5 342 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
e673ad04 343
b44be3ec 344* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 345
b44be3ec 346* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
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b44be3ec 348* journal:
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349 - do not use magic msync() in src/journal/journal-file.c, just call fsync()
350 <alxchk> poettering: looks like msync just calls vfs_fsync
351 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/mm/msync.c#n18
c06bf414 352 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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353 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
354 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
355 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
356 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
357 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
358 - journal: reuse XZ context
359 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
360 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
361 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
362 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
363 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
364 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
365 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 366 - 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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367 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
368 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
369 - journal: when rotating, copy over old acls/access mode
b44be3ec 370 - 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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371 - 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.
372 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
373 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 374 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 375 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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376 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
377 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
378 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
379 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
77a9e8de 380 - journalctl: expand tabs
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381 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
382 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
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383 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
384 - Port upower to use the journal for historical power information used in future calculations
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386* document:
387 - document unit_name_mangle()
388 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in
389 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
390 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
391 - Document word splitting syntax for ExecStart= and friends
392 - document that units from /etc override those from /usr and /run
393 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 394 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 395 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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397* systemctl:
398 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
399 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
400 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
401 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
402 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
403 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
404 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
405 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
406 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
407 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
408 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
409 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
410 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
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412* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
413
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414* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
415
416* timer units:
417 - configurable jitter for timer events
90e071d1 418 - Adjust timers to be triggered at the same time as sd-event timers
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419 - timer events with system resume
420 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
421 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
422 o DST changes
eb124a97 423 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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424 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
425 - anacron-like feature
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427* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
428
429* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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430 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
431 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 432 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 433 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 434 user did not request anything like it.
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436* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
437 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
438 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
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440* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
441 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
442 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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443 we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in
444 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
445 better supported alternative.
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447* figure out relation of --all and --full in the various tools
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449* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
450
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451* 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().
452
453* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
454* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
455* fedup: generator
603cd8fe 456
b44be3ec 457* timedated:
b44be3ec 458 - timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
6d0274f1 459
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460* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
461
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462* introduce generic AUGMENT_PID=, AUGMENT_DEVICE= fields
463
b44be3ec 464* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
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466* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
467 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
468 - superset of tmpfiles model
469 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
470 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
471 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
472
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473* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
474 waiting for the timeout
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476* high level net_prio setting in execution context
477
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478* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
479
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480* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
481
15abdb9a 482* refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful (or set taint?)
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484* nspawn:
485 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly
486 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
487 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
488 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
489 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
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490 - nspawn: investigate whether we can support the same as LXC's
491 lxc.network.type=phys mode, and pass through entire network
492 interfaces to the container
493 - nspawn: maybe add a way to drop additional caps, in addition to add additional caps
494 - nspawn: maybe explicitly reset loginuid?
3679d112 495 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
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497* cryptsetup:
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498 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
499 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
500 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 501 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 502
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503* move debug shell to tty6 and make sure this doesn't break the gettys on tty6
504
424a19f8 505* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 506 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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508* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
509
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510* make timer units go away after they elapsed
511
8556879e 512* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 513 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
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515* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
516
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517* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
518
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519* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
520
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521* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
522
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523* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
524
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525* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
526
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527* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container
528
68f16003 529* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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531* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
532
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533* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
534 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
535 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
536 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 537 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 538 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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540* use opterr = 0 for all getopt tools
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542* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
543
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544* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
545
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546* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
547
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548* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
549
88a6c589 550* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
8351ceae 551
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553 - syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls
554 - syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs?
555 - syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS?
556 - syscall filter: port to libseccomp
557 - system-wide seccomp filter
c66d36e5 558
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559* .device aliases need to be implemented with the "following" logic, probably.
560
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561* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
562 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
563
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564* introduce Type=pid-file
565
59cea26a 566* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 567
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568* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
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570* automount: implement expire:
571 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
572 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
573 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
574 - blocking, needs a thread
575 - run until -EAGAIN
576 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
577 - call umount
578 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
579 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
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581* services which create their own subcgroups break cgroup-empty notification (needs to be fixed in the kernel)
582
e01a15b7 583* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 584
abd55b16 585* udev:
3f60bcb5 586 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
abd55b16 587 - move to LGPL
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588 - kill scsi_id
589 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
b8217b7b 590
18b754d3 591* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording
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593* 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
594
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595* support container_ttys=
596
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597* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
598
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599* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
600
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601* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
602
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603* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
604
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605* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
606
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607* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
608
609* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
610
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611* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
612
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613* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
614 needs to be auto-respawned?
615
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616* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
617
de6c78f8 618* tmpfiles: apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 619
b44be3ec 620* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
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623
d3c7d7dd 624* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
72b9ed82 625
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626* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
627 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
628
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632 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
633
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634* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
635
7c697168 636* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 637
71092d70 638* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
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640* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
641 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
642 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
643
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644* support User= and Group= attributes for AF_UNIX sockets.
645
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646* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
647 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
648
71092d70 649* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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651* readahead:
652 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
653 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
654 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
655 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
656 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
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658* add support for /bin/mount -s
659
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660* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
661
68c7d001 662* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 663 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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664 - enabling dbus services
665 - status update
7a2a0b90 666 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 667 - remote access
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668 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
669 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 670 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 671 - auto-restart
e707c494 672 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 673 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 674 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 675 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 676 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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677 - calendar time events
678 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
679 - how to create your own target
680 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
681 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 682
44143309 683* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 684
71092d70 685* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 686
260abb78 687* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
2791a8f8 688
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689* Support --test based on current system state
690
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691* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
692
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693* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
694
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695* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
696
129126f3 697* port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID:
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698 - rpcbind (/var/run/rpcbind.sock!) HAVEPATCH
699 - cups HAVEPATCH
a625ac1a 700 - postfix, saslauthd
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701 - apache/samba
702 - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro)
703 - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!)
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704 - distccd
705
71092d70 706* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
246756ca 707
50f2a90d 708* io priority during initialization
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711
7ba97195 712* systemd-python:
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714 works with ^C
b04c8c83 715 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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717* bootchart:
718 - plot per-process IO utilization
719 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
720 - document initcall_debug
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721 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
722
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724 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
725 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
726 on Path= matching
727 - NamePolicy= replace the current naming rules
728 - MACPolicy= support 'firmware', 'synthetic' and 'random'
729 - Check if Driver= is broken, or just my driver (bcma)
730
2f8cd170 731External:
74fe1fe3 732
cc9784c6 733* dbus:
cc9784c6 734 - dbus --user
3377af3e 735 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
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737 - allow disabling of fd passing when connecting a AF_UNIX connection
3377af3e 738 - allow disabling of UID passing for AUTH EXTERNAL
b69d29ce 739 - always pass cred data along each message
b44be3ec 740 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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743
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744* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
745
9096ad36 746* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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748* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
749 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
750 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
751 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
752 the RTC to sync up.
753
71092d70 754* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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757
758* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
759
760* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
761
762* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
763
764* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
765
d2bbca68 766* 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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768* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
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770* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 771
4641a16b 772* 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 774Regularly:
874aa2cc 775
129126f3 776* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 777
129126f3 778* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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780* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
8c6db833 781
14212119 782* %m in printf() instead of strerror(errno);
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784* pahole
785
71092d70 786* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 787
4db17f29 788* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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791
9e5f3dbb 792Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 794* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)