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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Should systemctl status \* work on all unit types, not just .service?
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5* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
6 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
7 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
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a40593a0 9* 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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afe3ab58 11* ExecStart with unicode characters fails in strv_split_quoted:
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13 [Service]
14 Environment=ONE='one' "TWO='two two' too" THREE=
15 ExecStart=/bin/python3 -c 'import sys;print(sys.argv)' $ONE $TWO $THREE
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17* MEMORY return code is overloaded for syntax errors in the commandline.
18 str_split_quoted() should return a real return code, so spawn_child can
19 report the failure properly.
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21* udev_set_log_priority should verify the value before saving it.
22
f38afcd0 23External:
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f38afcd0 25* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
bafb15ba 26
f38afcd0 27* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
bafb15ba 28
81429136 29* Fedora: move kernel image to /usr/lib/modules/, kernel-install will take care of populating /boot
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31* Fedora: remove /etc/resolv.conf tmpfiles hack
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33* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
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35* When lz4 gets an API for lz4 command output, make use of it to
36 compress coredumps in a way compatible with /usr/bin/lz4.
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81429136 38Features:
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40* optionally support running journald from the command line for testing purposes in external projects
41
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42* journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
43
44* introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix?
45
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46* systemd --user should issue sd_notify() upon reaching basic.target, not on becoming idle
47
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48* configure.ac pretends dbus was optional but actually hardcodes use of dbus' pkg-config file to determine various dbus dirs such as policy and activation dirs
49
50* consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions
51
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52* dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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54* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
55 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
56
f62531c5 57* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps?
b857e042 58
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59* maybe provide an API to allow migration of foreign PIDs into existing scopes.
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61* kdbus: maybe rename "connection name" concept to something that doesn't reuse the word "name"?
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63* PID 1 doesn't apply nspawns devices cgroup policy
64
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65* maybe support a new very "soft" reboot mode, that simply kills all processes, disassembles everything, flushes /run and sysvipc, and then reexecs systemd again
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67* man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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69* bus-proxy: when passing messages from kdbus, make sure we properly
70 handle the case where a large number of fds is appended that we
71 cannot pass into sendmsg() of the AF_UNIX sokcet (which only accepts
72 253 messages)
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74* man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
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76* introduce machines.target to order after all nspawn instances
77
78* systemd-nspawn@.service should fail if some nspawn arg is invalid, with Type=notify
79
80* "machinectl list" should probably show columns for OS version and IP addresses
81
82* systemctl: if it fails, show log output?
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84* maybe add "systemctl edit" that copies unit files from /usr/lib/systemd/system to /etc/systemd/system and invokes vim on them
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86* maybe introduce AssertXYZ= similar to ConditionXYZ= that causes a unit to fail (instead of skipping it) if some condition is not true...
87
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88* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
89
90* exponential backoff in timesyncd and resolved when we cannot reach a server
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92* journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
93 journals in.
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95* tmpfiles: port to unquote_many_words(), similar to sysusers
96
97* unquote_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that
98 currently uses FOREACH_WORD and friends. For example, most conf
99 parsing callbacks should use it.
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101* logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
102 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
103 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
104 complete.
105
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106* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
107
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108* journald: allows specification of UID range for splitting up journal files
109
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110* systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
111 units are shown.
112
b873d33e 113* networkd:
d61bb44a 114 - add LLDP client side support
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115 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
116 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
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117 - .network setting that allows overriding of the hostname to send to the dhcp server
118 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-July/021550.html
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119 - expose in the API the following bits:
120 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
121 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
122 - option 100, 101, timezone
123 - option 123, 144, geolocation
124 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
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125 - networkd's dhcp server should transparently pass on the DNS and
126 NTP server list it got from user configuration and its dhcp client
127 to clients. It should also pass on its own timezone information.
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128 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
129 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
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130 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
131 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
b873d33e 132
9d6db739 133* resolved:
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134 - put networkd events and rtnl events at a higher priority, so that
135 we always process them before we process client requests
9d6db739 136 - DNSSEC
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137 - use base64 for key presentation?
138 - add display of private key types (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4034#appendix-A.1.1)?
151226ab 139 - add nice formatting of DNS timestamps
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140 - DNS
141 - search paths
9d6db739 142 - mDNS/DNS-SD
0f47ed0a 143 - avahi compat
9d6db739 144 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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145 - edns0
146 - dname
b6b63571 147 - cname on PTR (?)
9d6db739 148
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149* Ignore .busname units on classic D-Bus boots, systemd-resolved cannot be started on kdbus
150 without the active policy and should get a Wants=org.freedesktop.resolve1.busname to
151 pull-in the policy.
152
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153* Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
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155* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
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fed515f0 157* logind: allow users to kill or lock their own sessions
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159* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
160
a01647e5 161* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 162 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
a940778f 163 - fstab-generator: support systemd.volatile=yes|no|state on the kernel cmdline, too, similar to nspawn's --volatile=
e8a152c6 164 - fstab-generator: add support for usr= in addition to root= on the kernel cmdline
a01647e5 165
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166* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
167
168* support setting empty environment variables with Environment= and EnvironmentFile=
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170* timer units: actually add extra delays to timer units with high AccuracySec values, don't start them already when we are awake...
171
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172* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
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174* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
175
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176* journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
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178* mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied
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180* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
181 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 182
f598ac3e 183* Run most system services with cgroupfs read-only and procfs with a more secure mode (doesn't work, since the hidepid= option is per-pid-namespace, not per-mount)
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185* sd-event: generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
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187* expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
188
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189* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
190
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191* consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
192
193* sd-event: define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
194
6a3f892a 195* gpt-auto-generator:
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196 - Support LUKS for root devices
197 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 198 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 199
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200* improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
201 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
d28315e4 202 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
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203 the most common operations.
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205* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
206 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
207 when it is otherwise off
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209* MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
210
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211* "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
212 /proc/$PID/exe
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214* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
215 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
216 for ReusePort=
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218* socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
219 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
220 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
221 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
222 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
223
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224* New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
225
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226* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
227 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
228 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
229 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
230 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
231 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
232
ef417cfd 233* completions:
ef417cfd 234 - manager property enumeration was broken when systemd moved to /usr/lib/
3333d748 235
f38afcd0 236* cgroups:
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237 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
238 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
239 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
240 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
241 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
242 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
243 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 244
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245* transient units:
246 - allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
247 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
248 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
ebcf1f97 249
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250* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
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252* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
253
f38afcd0 254* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
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256* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
257
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258* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
259
94676f3e 260* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
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262* 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
263
7f79cd71 264* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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266* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
267 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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268 path anyway.
269
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270* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
271
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272* given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
273 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
e10e429f 274 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
e1b7e7ec 275
6aaa8c2f 276* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 277
d28315e4 278* make sure gdm does not use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
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280* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
281
282* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
283
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284* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
285 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
286
6bb648a1 287* sd-bus:
d28315e4 288 - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
7973ca19 289 - systemd-bus-proxyd needs to enforce good old XML policy
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290 - allow updating attach flags during runtime
291 - pid1: peek into activating message when activating a service
292 - introduce sd_bus_emit_object_added()/sd_bus_emit_object_removed() that automatically includes the build-in interfaces in the list
dc17bcef 293 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
f38afcd0 294 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 295 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
dc17bcef 296 - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async?
80caea6c 297 - kdbus: matches against source or destination pids for an "strace -p"-like feel. Problem: The PID info needs to be available in userspace too...
ab9716c2 298 - longer term: priority inheritance
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299 - dbus spec updates:
300 - kdbus mapping
301 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
302 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 303 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 304 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
69727e6d 305 - test bloom filter generation indexes
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307* sd-event
12179984 308 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 309 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
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311* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
312 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
313 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
314
69af4503 315* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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317* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
318 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
319
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320* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
321
322* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
323
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324* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
325
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326* timedatectl: print a nicer message when enabling ntp fails because ntpd/chrony are not installed
327
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328* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
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331 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
332 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
b8b4d3dd 333
b5c03638 334* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 335 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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336 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
337 destination.
338
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339* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
340 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
341
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342* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
343
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344* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
345 need manual exponential loops after all
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347* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
348 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
349 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
350 is installed.
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352* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
353 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
354 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
355 that automatically.
356
e5ec62c5 357* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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359* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
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d28315e4 361* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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363* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
364
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365* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
366
367* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
368
356ce991 369* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 370
81d112a8 371* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 372
b44be3ec 373* EFI:
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374 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
375 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 376 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 377
c0fe5db5 378* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 379
b44be3ec 380* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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382* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
383 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 385* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 386
b44be3ec 387* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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389* logind:
390 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
391 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
392 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
393 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
394 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
e5ec62c5 395 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
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396 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
397 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
398 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
399 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
400 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
401 needs setuid().
e673ad04 402
b44be3ec 403* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 404
b44be3ec 405* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
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b44be3ec 407* journal:
29a6c2d0 408 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= field
c06bf414 409 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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410 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
411 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
412 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 413 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
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414 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
415 - journal: reuse XZ context
416 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
417 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
418 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
419 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
420 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
421 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
422 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 423 - 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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424 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
425 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
b44be3ec 426 - 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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427 - 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.
428 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
429 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
f47ec8eb 430 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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431 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
432 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
433 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
434 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
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435 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
436 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 437 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 438 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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439 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
440 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
441 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
442 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
443 to syslog when it works again.
444 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
445 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
446 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
d28315e4 447 so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
f38afcd0 448 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
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450* document:
8b8f2591 451 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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453 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 454 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 455 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 456 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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457 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
458 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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459 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
460 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
461 - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
462 - man: add more examples to man pages
463 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
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465* systemctl:
466 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
467 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
468 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
469 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
470 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
471 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
472 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
473 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 474 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
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475 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
476 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
477 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
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478 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
479 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
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481* unit install:
482 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
483 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
f38afcd0 484 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
8b04b925 485
b44be3ec 486* timer units:
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488 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
489 o DST changes
eb124a97 490 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
f38afcd0 491 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
d28315e4 492 - when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we will not support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200
90e071d1 493 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
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495* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
496
497* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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499 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 500 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 501 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 502 user did not request anything like it.
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507
508* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
d28315e4 509* fedup: do not delete initrd on switch-root
1cb88f2c 510* fedup: generator
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513
b44be3ec 514* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
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517 waiting for the timeout
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520
d28315e4 521* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
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b44be3ec 523* nspawn:
b44be3ec 524 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
9cb74bcb 525 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
a56b63f4 526 - support taking a btrfs snapshot at startup and dropping it afterwards
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530 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
531 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 532 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 533
424a19f8 534* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 535 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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537* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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542
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543* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
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545* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
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548
68f16003 549* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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552 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
d28315e4 553 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
68f16003 554 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
d28315e4 555 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
68f16003 556 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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561
88a6c589 562* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
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9946996c 564* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
d28315e4 565 verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
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568
59cea26a 569* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
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574 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
575 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
576 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
577 - blocking, needs a thread
578 - run until -EAGAIN
579 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
580 - call umount
581 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
582 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
465349c0 583
e01a15b7 584* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 585
abd55b16 586* udev:
abd55b16 587 - move to LGPL
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589 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 590 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
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599
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600* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
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603
604* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
605
70a44afe 606* default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
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609 needs to be auto-respawned?
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612
f38afcd0 613* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 614 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 615
d28315e4 616* for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested
14e639ae 617
7f8aa671 618* hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
ff01d048 619
d3c7d7dd 620* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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623 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
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628 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
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631
55cdcbac 632* add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
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635 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
636 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
637
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639 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
640
71092d70 641* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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644
68c7d001 645* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 646 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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648 - status update
7a2a0b90 649 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 650 - remote access
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652 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 653 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 654 - auto-restart
e707c494 655 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 656 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 657 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 658 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 659 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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661 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
662 - how to create your own target
663 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
664 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
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44143309 666* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 667
260abb78 668* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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676* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
677
71092d70 678* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
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684 works with ^C
b04c8c83 685 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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688 - plot per-process IO utilization
689 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
690 - document initcall_debug
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694 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
695 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
696 on Path= matching
8faf88e5 697 - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
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88e4d1d7 699* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 700 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 701 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 702
0a4b9a07 703* networkd:
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705 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 706 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 707 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
5c1d3fc9 708 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
798e174a 709 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
8477107d 710 - add more attribute support for SIT tunnel
1a941ac4 711 - work with non-ethernet devices
c9fa3670 712 - add support for more bond options
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715 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
8f5675cc 716
ac976532 717* dhcp:
424a8732 718 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 719 - export timezone information
99f9dd8d 720 - support RFC4702 (pass FQDN)
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723 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
724 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
725 - write more test cases
726 - implement and do duplicate address detection, see rfc 4862, 5.4.
727 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
728 - implement information request, see 1.2. and 18.1.5.
729 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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731 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
732 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
733 or interface down
734 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
735 this behavior
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2f8cd170 737External:
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cc9784c6 739* dbus:
3377af3e 740 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 741 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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9096ad36 747* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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71092d70 749* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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d28315e4 753* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and should not
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755* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
756
757* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
758
759* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
760
d2bbca68 761* 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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763* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
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765* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
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4641a16b 767* 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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772 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
773 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
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129126f3 776Regularly:
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129126f3 778* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
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129126f3 780* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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782* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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d28315e4 786* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 787
4db17f29 788* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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9e5f3dbb 792Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 794* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)