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1 Bugfixes:
2
3 * Should systemctl status \* work on all unit types, not just .service?
4
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.
8
9 * ExecStart with unicode characters fails in strv_split_extract:
10
11 [Service]
12 Environment=ONE='one' "TWO='two two' too" THREE=
13 ExecStart=/bin/python3 -c 'import sys;print(sys.argv)' $ONE $TWO $THREE
14
15 * When systemctl --host is used, underlying ssh connection can remain open.
16 bus_close does not kill children?
17
18 External:
19
20 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
21
22 * wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
23
24 Janitorial Clean-ups:
25
26 * code cleanup: retire FOREACH_WORD_QUOTED, port to extract_first_word() loops instead
27
28 * replace manual readdir() loops with FOREACH_DIRENT or FOREACH_DIRENT_ALL
29
30 * Get rid of the last strerror() invocations in favour of %m and strerror_r()
31
32 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
33
34 Features:
35
36 * ProtectKernelLogs= (drops CAP_SYSLOG, add seccomp for syslog() syscall, and DeviceAllow to /dev/kmsg) in service files
37
38 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
39
40 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
41
42 * ProtectDevices= should also take iopl/ioperm/pciaccess away
43
44 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
45
46 * PrivateUsers= which maps the all user ids except root and the one specified
47 in User= to nobody
48
49 * Add AllocateUser= for allowing dynamic user ids per-service
50
51 * Add DataDirectory=, CacheDirectory= and LogDirectory= to match
52 RuntimeDirectory=, and create it as necessary when starting a service, owned by the right user.
53
54 * Add BindDirectory= for allowing arbitrary, private bind mounts for services
55
56 * Beef up RootDirectory= to use namespacing/bind mounts as soon as fs
57 namespaces are enabled by the service
58
59 * Add RootImage= for mounting a disk image or file as root directory
60
61 * RestrictNamespaces= or so in services (taking away the ability to create namespaces, with setns, unshare, clone)
62
63 * nspawn: make /proc/sys/net writable?
64
65 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
66
67 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
68
69 * expose the "privileged" flag of ExecCommand on the bus, and open it up to
70 transient units
71
72 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
73 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
74
75 * check if DeviceAllow= should split first, resolve specifiers later
76
77 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
78 reload the unit file anyway
79
80 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
81 from the SIGBUS handler
82
83 * when using UTF8, ellipsize with "…" rather than "...", so that we can show more contents before truncating
84
85 * move specifier expansion from service_spawn() into load-fragment.c
86
87 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
88
89 * resolved: when routing queries, make sure only look for the *longest* suffix...
90
91 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
92 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
93
94 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
95
96 * add systemctl stop --job-mode=triggering that follows TRIGGERED_BY deps and adds them to the same transaction
97
98 * Maybe add a way how users can "pin" units into memory, so that they are not subject to automatic GC?
99
100 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
101 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
102
103 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
104 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
105 specifications.
106
107 * do something about "/control" subcgroups in the unified cgroup hierarchy
108
109 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
110
111 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller (only after the cpuset controller got ported to the unified hierarchy)
112
113 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
114
115 * consider throwing a warning if a service declares it wants to be "Before=" a .device unit.
116
117 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
118 as we have for debugfs. for exmaple, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
119 prefixed with /sys generally special.
120 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
121
122 * man: document that unless you use StandardError=null the shell >/dev/stderr won't work in shell scripts in services
123
124 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
125
126 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
127
128 * mounting and unmounting mount points manually with different source
129 devices will result in collected on all devices used.
130 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030225.html
131
132 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
133 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
134 state.
135 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
136
137 * Maybe add support for the equivalent of "ethtool advertise" to .link files?
138 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030112.html
139
140 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
141 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
142 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
143 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
144 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
145
146 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
147 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
148
149 * Rework systemctl's GetAll property parsing to use the generic bus_map_all_properties() API
150
151 * implement a per-service firewall based on net_cls
152
153 * Port various tools to make use of verbs.[ch], where applicable: busctl,
154 bootctl, coredumpctl, hostnamectl, localectl, systemd-analyze, timedatectl
155
156 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
157
158 * sysfs set api in libudev is not const
159
160 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
161 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
162
163 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
164 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
165 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
166 do, for example)
167
168 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
169 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
170
171 * as soon as we have kdbus, and sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
172 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
173
174 * in systemctl list-unit-files: show the install value the presets would suggest for a service in a third column
175
176 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
177
178 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
179 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
180 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
181 returning from the "systemctl stop".
182
183 * firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
184
185 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
186
187 * introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix?
188
189 * systemd --user should issue sd_notify() upon reaching basic.target, not on becoming idle
190
191 * consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions
192
193 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
194 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
195
196 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
197
198 * maybe provide an API to allow migration of foreign PIDs into existing scopes.
199
200 * man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
201
202 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
203
204 * systemctl edit: use equvalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
205 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
206
207 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
208
209 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
210
211 * extract_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that
212 currently uses FOREACH_WORD and friends. For example, most conf
213 parsing callbacks should use it.
214
215 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
216
217 * systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
218 units are shown.
219
220 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
221 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
222
223 * resolved:
224 - mDNS/DNS-SD
225 - service registration
226 - service/domain/types browsing
227 - avahi compat
228 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
229 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
230 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
231 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
232 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
233 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
234
235 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
236
237 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
238
239 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
240
241 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
242 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
243 - fstab-generator: support systemd.volatile=yes|no|state on the kernel cmdline, too, similar to nspawn's --volatile=
244
245 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
246
247 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
248
249 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
250
251 * mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied
252
253 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
254 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
255
256 * Run most system services with cgroupfs read-only and procfs with a more secure mode (doesn't work, since the hidepid= option is per-pid-namespace, not per-mount)
257
258 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
259
260 * gpt-auto-generator:
261 - Support LUKS for root devices
262 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
263 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
264
265 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
266 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
267 when it is otherwise off
268
269 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
270
271 * "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
272 /proc/$PID/exe
273
274 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
275 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
276 for ReusePort=
277
278 * socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
279 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
280 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
281 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
282 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
283
284 * New service property: maximum CPU runtime for a service
285
286 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
287 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
288 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
289 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
290 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
291 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
292
293 * cgroups:
294 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
295 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
296 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
297 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
298 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
299 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
300 the hierarchies of child processes
301
302 * transient units:
303 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
304 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
305
306 * Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
307
308 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
309
310 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
311
312 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
313
314 * 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
315
316 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
317
318 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
319 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
320 path anyway.
321
322 * refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
323
324 * btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
325
326 * make sure gdm does not use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
327
328 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
329
330 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
331
332 * allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
333 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
334
335 * sd-bus:
336 - EBADSLT handling
337 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
338 - kdbus: process fd=-1 for incoming msgs
339 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
340 - kdbus: maybe add controlling tty metadata fields
341 - see if we can introduce a new sd_bus_get_owner_machine_id() call to retrieve the machine ID of the machine of the bus itself
342 - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
343 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
344 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
345 - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async?
346 - kdbus: matches against source or destination pids for an "strace -p"-like feel. Problem: The PID info needs to be available in userspace too...
347 - longer term: priority inheritance
348 - dbus spec updates:
349 - kdbus mapping
350 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
351 - GVariant
352 - path escaping
353 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
354 - test bloom filter generation indexes
355 - kdbus: introduce a concept of "send-only" connections
356 - kdbus: add counter for refused unicast messages that is passed out via the RECV ioctl. SImilar to the counter for dropped multicast messages we already have.
357
358 * sd-event
359 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
360 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
361 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
362 - generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
363 - maybe add support for inotify events
364
365 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
366
367 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
368 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
369
370 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
371
372 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
373
374 * maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
375
376 * cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
377
378 * test/:
379 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
380 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
381
382 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
383 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
384 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
385 destination.
386
387 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
388 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
389
390 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
391
392 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
393 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
394 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
395 is installed.
396
397 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
398 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
399 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
400 that automatically.
401
402 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
403
404 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
405
406 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
407
408 * think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
409
410 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
411
412 * introduce ExecCondition= in services
413
414 * EFI:
415 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
416 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
417 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
418
419 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
420
421 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
422
423 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
424
425 * logind:
426 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
427 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
428 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
429 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
430 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
431 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
432 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
433 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
434 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
435 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
436 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
437 needs setuid().
438 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
439 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
440 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
441 complete.
442 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
443 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
444 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
445 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
446 - given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
447 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
448 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
449 - expose orientation sensors and tablet mode through logind
450 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
451 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
452 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
453 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
454 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
455 relogins
456
457 * exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
458
459 * service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
460
461 * journal:
462 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
463 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
464 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
465 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
466 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
467 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
468 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
469 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
470 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
471 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
472 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
473 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
474 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
475 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
476 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
477 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
478 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
479 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
480 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
481 - 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.
482 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
483 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
484 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
485 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
486 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
487 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
488 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
489 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
490 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
491 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
492 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
493 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
494 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
495 to syslog when it works again.
496 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
497 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
498 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
499 so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
500 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
501 - optionally support running journald from the command line for testing purposes in external projects
502 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
503 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
504 journals in.
505 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
506 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
507 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
508 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
509 the most common operations.
510 - journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted
511 commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
512 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
513 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
514 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
515 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
516 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
517 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
518 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
519 operation.
520 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
521 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
522 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
523 binary logs data
524 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
525 - log accumulated resource usage after each service invocation
526 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
527 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
528 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
529 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
530
531 * document:
532 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
533 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
534 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
535 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
536 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
537 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
538 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
539 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
540 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
541 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
542 - man: add more examples to man pages
543 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
544
545 * systemctl:
546 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
547 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
548 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
549 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
550 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
551 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
552 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
553 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
554 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
555 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
556 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
557 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
558
559 * unit install:
560 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
561 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
562
563 * timer units:
564 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
565 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
566 o DST changes
567 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
568 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
569
570 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
571
572 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
573
574 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
575
576 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
577 waiting for the timeout
578
579 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
580
581 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
582
583 * nspawn:
584 - to allow "linking" of nspawn containers, extend --network-bridge= so
585 that it can dynamically create bridge interfaces that are refcounted
586 by the containers on them. For each group of containers to link together
587 - nspawn -x should support ephemeral instances of gpt images
588 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
589 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
590 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
591 from the kernel's logs.
592 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
593 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
594 interface be missing
595 - don't copy /etc/resolv.conf from host into container unless we are in
596 shared-network mode
597 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
598 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
599 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
600 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
601 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
602 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
603 PID 1...
604 - should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages
605 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
606 running, remove them when shut down.
607 - Improve error message when --bind= is used on a non-existing source
608 directory
609 - maybe make copying of /etc/resolv.conf optional, and skip it if --read-only
610 is used
611
612 * machined:
613 - "machinectl list" should probably show columns for OS version and IP
614 addresses
615 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
616 removed or added to an existing machine
617 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
618 difference host, via ssh
619 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
620 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
621 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
622 question
623 - "machinectl list-images" should show os-release data, as well as
624 machine-info data (including deployment level)
625 - "machinectl history"
626 - "machinectl diff"
627 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
628 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
629
630 * importd:
631 - generate a nice warning if mkfs.btrfs is missing
632
633 * cryptsetup:
634 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
635 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
636 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
637 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
638
639 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
640 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
641
642 * create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
643
644 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
645
646 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
647
648 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
649
650 * udev:
651 - move to LGPL
652 - kill scsi_id
653 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
654 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
655
656 * 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
657
658 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
659
660 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
661
662 * coredump:
663 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
664 - move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
665
666 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
667
668 * default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
669
670 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
671 needs to be auto-respawned?
672
673 * tmpfiles:
674 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
675 - replace F with f+.
676 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
677 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
678 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
679 calls follow symlinks.
680
681 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
682
683 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
684 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
685 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
686
687 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
688 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
689
690 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
691
692 * write blog stories about:
693 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
694 - enabling dbus services
695 - status update
696 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
697 - remote access
698 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
699 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
700 - auto-restart
701 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
702 - the journal HTTP iface
703 - non-cgroup resource management
704 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
705 - refreshed, longer missions statement
706 - calendar time events
707 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
708 - how to create your own target
709 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
710 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
711
712 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
713
714 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
715
716 * fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
717
718 * pid1:
719 - .timer units should optionally support CLOCK_BOOTTIME in addition to CLOCK_MONOTONIC
720 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
721 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
722 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
723 that are not supported...
724 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
725 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
726 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
727 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
728 - GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
729 - move PAM code into its own binary
730 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
731 - for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested
732 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
733 - Support --test based on current system state
734 - 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().
735 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
736 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
737 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
738 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
739 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
740 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
741 but much rather a disconnect on success.
742 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
743 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
744
745 * unit files:
746 - allow port=0 in .socket units
747 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
748 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
749 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
750 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
751 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
752 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
753 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
754 - load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
755 verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
756 - introduce Type=pid-file
757 - ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
758 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
759 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
760 - Set NoNewPrivileges= on all of our own services, where that makes sense
761 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
762 - consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
763
764 * udev-link-config:
765 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
766 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
767 on Path= matching
768 - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
769
770 * sd-rtnl:
771 - add support for more attribute types
772 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
773
774 * networkd:
775 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
776 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
777 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
778 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
779 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
780 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
781 - add more attribute support for SIT tunnel
782 - work with non-Ethernet devices
783 - add support for more bond options
784 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
785 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
786 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
787 - expose in the API the following bits:
788 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
789 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
790 - option 123, 144, geolocation
791 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
792 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
793 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
794 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
795 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
796 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
797 - allow DUID/IAID to be customized, see issue #394.
798 - support configuration option for TSO (tcp segmentation offload)
799 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
800
801 * networkd-wait-online:
802 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
803
804 * dhcp:
805 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
806 - support RFC4702 (pass FQDN)
807
808 * dhcp6:
809 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
810 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
811 - write more test cases
812 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
813 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
814 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
815 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
816 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
817 or interface down
818 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
819 this behavior
820
821 External:
822
823 * dbus:
824 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
825 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
826
827 * fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
828
829 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
830
831 * patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
832
833 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
834
835 * drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields
836
837 * dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
838
839 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
840
841 * 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=
842
843 * fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
844
845 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
846
847 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
848
849 * register catalog database signature as file magic
850
851 * zsh shell completion:
852 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
853 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
854
855
856 Regularly:
857
858 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
859
860 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
861
862 * Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
863
864 * pahole
865
866 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
867
868 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
869
870 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields