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1 Bugfixes:
2
3 * the error paths in usbffs_dispatch_ep() leak memory
4
5 * copy.c: set the right chattrs before copying files and others after
6
7 External:
8
9 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
10
11 * wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
12
13 Janitorial Clean-ups:
14
15 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
16
17 * copy.c: set the right chattrs before copying files and others after
18
19 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
20 semantics, like we do for device.c now
21
22 Features:
23
24 * logind: maybe watch utmp asynchronously using inotify, and populate our own
25 tracked session metadata from the fields available therein. Why bother? Right
26 now, all "ssh" sessions will be tracked without their TTY by logind (which is
27 not just unfriendly to users as this means "loginctl session-status" shows
28 less information than "who" in many cases, but also breaks the IdleAction
29 logic, as we never can detect such sessions as idle, as we have no TTY to
30 watch). ssh sets the PAM_TTY field on its PAM sessions to "ssh" rather than
31 the actual pty, because the PAM session is opened early on for new
32 connections, but the PTY only registered much later (if at all). ssh writes
33 the utmp record only after a TTY is actually registered, hence we could use
34 this data then, and use it if it is available. Using utmp for this is ugly of
35 course, and watching things asynchronously even more so, but it should be
36 good enough for the idle detection logic at least.
37
38 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
39
40 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
41 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
42 the slices, and the units attached to them.
43
44 * the stop-when-unneded feature should be reworked: there should be a queue of
45 units, and we should only enqeueu stop jobs from a defer event that processes
46 queue instead of right-away when we assume that a unit is now unneeded.
47
48 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
49 original defaults before calling parse_config()
50
51 * Add OnTimezoneChange= and OnTimeChange= stanzas to .timer units in order to
52 schedule events based on time and timezone changes.
53
54 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
55
56 * cgroups: figure out if we can somehow communicate in a cleaner way whether a
57 systemd instance not running in the cgroup root shall or shall not manage the
58 attributes of its top-level cgroup. Currently it assumes it manages all, but
59 then might get EPERM due to permission porblems/userns, which is OK, but this
60 should be revisited to make clearer and also work if the payload systemd runs
61 with full privs and without userns.
62
63 * portables: introduce a new unit file directory /etc/systemd/system.attached/
64 or so, where we attach portable services to
65
66 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
67 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
68
69 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
70 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
71 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
72 files and suchlike we operate on.
73
74 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
75
76 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
77
78 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
79 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
80
81 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
82 other doesn't. What a desaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
83 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
84 numbers.
85
86 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
87 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
88 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
89 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
90 unlinked from any dir.
91
92 * port systemctl, systemd-inhibit, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
93
94 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
95
96 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
97
98 * SuccessExitStatus= and friends should probably also accept symbolic exit
99 codes names, i.e. error codes from the list maintained in exit-codes.[ch]
100
101 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
102 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
103 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
104 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
105 should reflink the image file itself.
106
107 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
108 specific paths only like this.
109
110 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
111 directory trees from the host to te services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
112 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
113 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
114 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
115
116 * nspawn's console TTY should be allocated from within the container, not
117 mounted in from the outside
118
119 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
120
121 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
122
123 * tree-wide: ensure we always block the signals we hook into with
124 sd_event_add_signal() first
125
126 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
127 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
128
129 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
130 project quota
131
132 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
133 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
134 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
135 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
136 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
137 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
138 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
139 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
140
141 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
142 for root, but only then.
143
144 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
145
146 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
147 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
148
149 * add bpf-based implementation of devices cgroup controller logic for compat
150 with cgroupsv2 as supported by newest kernel
151
152 * introduce sd_id128_get_boot_app_specific() which is like
153 sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific(). After all on long-running systems both
154 IDs have similar properties.
155
156 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
157 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
158
159 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
160 host-side interface pointing to the container.
161
162 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
163 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
164 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
165 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
166 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
167
168 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
169
170 * deprecate PermissionsStartOnly= and RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of the ExecStart= prefix chars
171
172 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
173 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
174 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
175
176 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers, and then drop
177 implicit btrfs loopback magic in machined
178
179 * Add NetworkNamespacePath= to specify a path to a network namespace
180
181 * maybe use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (i.e. the env var the reproducible builds folks
182 introduced) as the RTC epoch, instead of the mtime of NEWS.
183
184 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
185 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
186
187 * blog about fd store and restartable services
188
189 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
190
191 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
192 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
193
194 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
195 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
196 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
197 ID is available.
198
199 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
200 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
201 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
202
203 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
204 parameters
205
206 * a new "systemd-analyze security" tool outputting a checklist of security
207 features a service does and does not implement
208
209 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
210 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
211 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
212 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
213 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
214 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
215 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
216
217 * Introduce "exit" as an EmergencyAction value, and allow to configure a
218 per-unit success/failure exit code to configure. This would be useful for
219 running commands inside of services inside of containers, which could then
220 propagate their failure state all the way up.
221
222 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
223 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
224
225 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
226 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
227 wait to retrieve their exit data.
228
229 * maybe set a new set of env vars for services, based on RuntimeDirectory=,
230 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory= and ConfigurationDirectory=
231 automatically. For example, there could be $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY,
232 $STATE_DIRECTORY, $LOGS_DIRECTORY=, $CACHE_DIRECTORY and
233 $CONFIGURATION_DIRECTORY or so. This could be useful to write services that
234 can adapt to varying directories for these purposes. Special care has to be
235 taken if multiple dirs are configured. Maybe avoid setting the env vars in
236 that case?
237
238 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
239 about it in the resource log message
240
241 * add "systemctl purge" for flushing out configuration, state, logs, ... of a
242 unit when it is stopped
243
244 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
245 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
246
247 * replace all uses of fgets() + LINE_MAX by read_line()
248
249 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
250 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
251 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
252
253 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
254 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
255
256 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
257
258 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
259 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
260 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
261 logging.
262
263 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
264 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
265 "convertible" form factor
266
267 * Maybe add a small tool invoked early at boot, that adds in or resizes
268 partitions automatically, to be used when the media used is actually larger
269 than the image written onto it is.
270
271 * Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
272 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
273 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
274 as MAINPID.
275
276 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
277 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
278 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
279
280 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
281 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
282
283 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
284 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
285 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
286 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
287 natural habitat.
288
289 * maybe introduce gpt auto discovery for /var/tmp?
290
291 * maybe add gpt-partition-based user management: each user gets his own
292 LUKS-encrypted GPT partition with a new GPT type. A small nss module
293 enumerates users via udev partition enumeration. UIDs are assigned in a fixed
294 way: the partition index is added as offset to some fixed base uid. User name
295 is stored in GPT partition name. A PAM module authenticates the user via the
296 LUKS partition password. Benefits: strong per-user security, compatibility
297 with stateless/read-only/verity-enabled root. (other idea: do this based on
298 loopback files in /home, without GPT involvement)
299
300 * gpt-auto logic: introduce support for discovering /var matching an image. For
301 that, use a partition type UUID that is hashed from the OS name (as encoded
302 in /etc/os-release), the architecture, and 4 new bits from the gpt flags
303 field of the root partition. This way can easily support multiple OS
304 installations on the same GPT partition table, without problems with
305 unmatched /var partitions.
306
307 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
308 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
309 /usr is mounted into.
310
311 * gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
312
313 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
314
315 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
316 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
317 relative to the configured default value.
318
319 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
320
321 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
322
323 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
324
325 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
326
327 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
328
329 * ProtectKernelLogs= (drops CAP_SYSLOG, add seccomp for syslog() syscall, and DeviceAllow to /dev/kmsg) in service files
330
331 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
332
333 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
334
335 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
336
337 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
338
339 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
340
341 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
342 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
343 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
344
345 * DeviceAllow= should also generate seccomp filters for mknod()
346
347 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
348
349 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
350
351 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
352 partitions
353
354 * expose the "privileged" flag of ExecCommand on the bus, and open it up to
355 transient units
356
357 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
358 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
359 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
360 mapping to work.
361
362 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
363
364 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
365
366 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
367
368 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
369 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
370
371 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
372 reload the unit file anyway
373
374 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
375 from the SIGBUS handler
376
377 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
378
379 * resolved: when routing queries, make sure only look for the *longest* suffix...
380
381 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
382 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
383
384 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
385
386 * add systemctl stop --job-mode=triggering that follows TRIGGERED_BY deps and adds them to the same transaction
387
388 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
389 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
390
391 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
392 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
393 specifications.
394
395 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
396
397 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller (only after the cpuset controller got ported to the unified hierarchy)
398
399 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
400
401 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
402 as we have for debugfs. for exmaple, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
403 prefixed with /sys generally special.
404 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
405
406 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
407
408 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
409
410 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
411 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
412 state.
413 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
414
415 * Maybe add support for the equivalent of "ethtool advertise" to .link files?
416 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030112.html
417
418 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
419 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
420 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
421 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
422 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
423
424 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
425 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
426
427 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
428
429 * sysfs set api in libudev is not const
430
431 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
432 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
433
434 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
435 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
436 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
437 do, for example)
438
439 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
440 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
441
442 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
443 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
444
445 * in systemctl list-unit-files: show the install value the presets would suggest for a service in a third column
446
447 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
448
449 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
450 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
451 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
452 returning from the "systemctl stop".
453
454 * 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
455
456 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
457
458 * introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix?
459
460 * consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions
461
462 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
463 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
464
465 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
466
467 * man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
468
469 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
470
471 * systemctl edit: use equvalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
472 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
473
474 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
475
476 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
477
478 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
479
480 * systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
481 units are shown.
482
483 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
484 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
485
486 * resolved:
487 - mDNS/DNS-SD
488 - service registration
489 - service/domain/types browsing
490 - avahi compat
491 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
492 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
493 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
494 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
495 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
496 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
497
498 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
499
500 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
501
502 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
503
504 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
505 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
506
507 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
508
509 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
510
511 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
512
513 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
514 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
515
516 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
517
518 * gpt-auto-generator:
519 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
520 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
521
522 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
523 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
524 when it is otherwise off
525
526 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
527
528 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
529 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
530 for ReusePort=
531
532 * socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
533 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
534 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
535 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
536 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
537
538 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
539 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
540 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
541 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
542 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
543 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
544
545 * cgroups:
546 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
547 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
548 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
549 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
550 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
551 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
552 the hierarchies of child processes
553
554 * transient units:
555 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
556
557 * Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
558
559 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
560
561 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
562
563 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
564
565 * 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
566
567 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
568
569 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
570 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
571 path anyway.
572
573 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
574
575 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
576
577 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
578
579 * allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
580 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
581
582 * sd-bus:
583 - EBADSLT handling
584 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
585 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
586 - 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
587 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
588 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
589 - longer term: priority inheritance
590 - dbus spec updates:
591 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
592 - GVariant
593 - path escaping
594 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
595
596 * sd-event
597 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
598 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
599 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
600 - generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
601 - maybe add support for inotify events (which we can do safely now, with O_PATH)
602
603 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
604
605 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
606 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
607
608 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
609
610 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
611
612 * maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
613
614 * test/:
615 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
616
617 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
618 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
619 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
620 destination.
621
622 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
623 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
624
625 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
626
627 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
628 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
629 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
630 is installed.
631
632 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
633 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
634 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
635 that automatically.
636
637 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
638
639 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
640
641 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
642
643 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
644
645 * introduce ExecCondition= in services
646
647 * EFI:
648 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
649 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
650 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
651
652 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
653
654 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
655
656 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
657
658 * logind:
659 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
660 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
661 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
662 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
663 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
664 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
665 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
666 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
667 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
668 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
669 needs setuid().
670 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
671 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
672 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
673 complete.
674 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
675 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
676 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
677 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
678 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
679 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
680 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
681 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
682 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
683 relogins
684
685 * exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
686
687 * journal:
688 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
689 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
690 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
691 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
692 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
693 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
694 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
695 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
696 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
697 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
698 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
699 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
700 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
701 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
702 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
703 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
704 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
705 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
706 - 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.
707 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
708 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
709 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
710 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
711 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
712 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
713 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
714 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
715 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
716 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
717 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
718 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
719 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
720 to syslog when it works again.
721 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
722 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
723 so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
724 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
725 - optionally support running journald from the command line for testing purposes in external projects
726 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
727 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
728 journals in.
729 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
730 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
731 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
732 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
733 the most common operations.
734 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
735 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
736 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
737 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
738 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
739 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
740 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
741 operation.
742 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
743 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
744 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
745 binary logs data
746 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
747 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
748 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
749 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
750 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
751
752 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
753 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
754 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
755 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
756
757 * document:
758 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
759 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
760 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
761 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
762 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
763 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
764 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
765 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
766 - man: add more examples to man pages
767 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
768
769 * systemctl:
770 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
771 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
772 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
773 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
774 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
775 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
776 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
777 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
778 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
779 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
780
781 * unit install:
782 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
783 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
784
785 * timer units:
786 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
787 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
788 o DST changes
789 o timezone changes
790 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
791
792 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
793
794 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
795
796 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
797
798 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
799
800 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
801
802 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
803
804 * nspawn:
805 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
806 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
807 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
808 from the kernel's logs.
809 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
810 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
811 interface be missing
812 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
813 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
814 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
815 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
816 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
817 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
818 PID 1...
819 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
820 running, remove them when shut down.
821 - maybe make copying of /etc/resolv.conf optional, and skip it if --read-only
822 is used
823
824 * dissect
825 - refuse mounting over a mount point
826 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
827
828 * machined:
829 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
830 removed or added to an existing machine
831 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
832 difference host, via ssh
833 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
834 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
835 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
836 question
837 - "machinectl list-images" should show os-release data, as well as
838 machine-info data (including deployment level)
839 - "machinectl history"
840 - "machinectl diff"
841 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
842 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
843
844 * importd:
845 - generate a nice warning if mkfs.btrfs is missing
846
847 * cryptsetup:
848 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
849 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
850
851 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
852 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
853
854 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
855
856 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
857
858 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
859
860 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
861
862 * udev:
863 - move to LGPL
864 - kill scsi_id
865 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
866 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
867
868 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
869
870 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
871
872 * coredump:
873 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
874 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
875
876 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
877
878 * default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
879
880 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
881 needs to be auto-respawned?
882
883 * tmpfiles:
884 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
885 - replace F with f+.
886 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
887 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
888 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
889 calls follow symlinks.
890
891 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
892
893 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
894 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
895 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
896
897 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
898 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
899
900 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
901
902 * write blog stories about:
903 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
904 - enabling dbus services
905 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
906 - remote access
907 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
908 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
909 - auto-restart
910 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
911 - the journal HTTP iface
912 - non-cgroup resource management
913 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
914 - refreshed, longer missions statement
915 - calendar time events
916 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
917 - how to create your own target
918 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
919 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
920
921 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
922
923 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
924
925 * pid1:
926 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
927 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
928 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
929 that are not supported...
930 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
931 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
932 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
933 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
934 - move PAM code into its own binary
935 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
936 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
937 - Support --test based on current system state
938 - 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().
939 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
940 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
941 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
942 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
943 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
944 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
945 but much rather a disconnect on success.
946 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
947 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
948
949 * unit files:
950 - allow port=0 in .socket units
951 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
952 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
953 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
954 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
955 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
956 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
957 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
958 - load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
959 verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
960 - introduce Type=pid-file
961 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
962 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
963 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
964
965 * udev-link-config:
966 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
967 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
968 on Path= matching
969 - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
970
971 * sd-rtnl:
972 - add support for more attribute types
973 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
974
975 * networkd:
976 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
977 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
978 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
979 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
980 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
981 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
982 - work with non-Ethernet devices
983 - add support for more bond options
984 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
985 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
986 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
987 - expose in the API the following bits:
988 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
989 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
990 - option 123, 144, geolocation
991 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
992 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
993 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
994 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
995 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
996 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
997 - allow DUID/IAID to be customized, see issue #394.
998 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
999
1000 * networkd-wait-online:
1001 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
1002
1003 * dhcp:
1004 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1005
1006 * dhcp6:
1007 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1008 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1009 - write more test cases
1010 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1011 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1012 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1013 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1014 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1015 or interface down
1016 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1017 this behavior
1018 - RouteTable= ?
1019
1020 External:
1021
1022 * dbus:
1023 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1024 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1025
1026 * fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
1027
1028 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1029
1030 * patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
1031
1032 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1033
1034 * drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields
1035
1036 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1037
1038 * 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=
1039
1040 * fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
1041
1042 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1043
1044 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1045
1046 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1047
1048 * zsh shell completion:
1049 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1050 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1051
1052
1053 Regularly:
1054
1055 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1056
1057 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1058
1059 * pahole
1060
1061 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1062
1063 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1064
1065 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields