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1 Bugfixes:
2
3 * Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
6
7 * busctl prints errors to stdout:
8 busctl tree org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1
9
10 External:
11
12 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
13
14 * wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
15
16 Janitorial Clean-ups:
17
18 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
19
20 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
21 semantics, like we do for device.c now
22
23 Features:
24
25 * journalctl --image= which is like --root= but operates on disk images
26
27 * when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
28 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
29 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
30 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
31 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
32
33 * drop sd_bus_message_set_priority() from sd-bus API and documentation as much
34 as we can, it's a kdbus left-over and unlikely to come back on AF_UNIX, since
35 it's not really implementable there.
36
37 * cryptsetup/homed: also support FIDO2 HMAC password logic for unlocking
38 devices. (see: https://github.com/mjec/fido2-hmac-secret)
39
40 * systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
41 creates
42
43 * homed/userdb: distuingish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
44 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
45 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
46 hence we can make them quicker to work.
47
48 * bootctl:
49 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
50 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
51 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
52
53 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
54 allow so that systemd survives
55
56 * honour specifiers in unit files that resolve to some very basic
57 /etc/os-release data, such as ID, VERSION_ID, BUILD_ID, VARIANT_ID.
58
59 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
60 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
61
62 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
63 systemd-makefs.service instead.
64
65 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
66 with matches, then actviate app thorugh that passing socket oveer
67
68 * unify on openssl:
69 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
70 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
71 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
72 - port importd over from libgcrypt
73 - when that's done: kill khash.c
74 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
75
76 * kill zenata, all hail weblate?
77
78 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
79
80 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
81 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
82
83 * hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
84 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
85 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
86 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
87 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
88
89 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
90 that only covere the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
91 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
92 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
93
94 * systemd-repart: optionally, allow specifiying a path to initialize new
95 partitions from, i.e. an fs image file or a source device node. This would
96 then turn systemd-repart into a simple installer: with a few .repart files
97 you could replicate the host system on another device. a full installer would
98 then be: "systemd-repart /dev/sda && bootctl install /dev/sda &&
99 systemd-firstboot --image= …"
100
101 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
102 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
103 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
104 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
105 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
106 automatically.
107
108 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
109 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
110
111 * systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
112 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
113
114 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
115
116 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
117 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
118
119 * systemd-repart: add specifier expansion, add especifier that refers to root
120 device node of current system, /usr device node, and matching verity, so that
121 an installer can be made a "copy" installer of the booted OS
122
123 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
124 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
125
126 * systemd-repart: when no configuration is found, exit early do not check
127 partition table, so that it is safe to run in the initrd on any system
128
129 * systemd-repart: allow config of partition uuid
130
131 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
132 realname substr searches in varlink API
133
134 * userdb: allow existence checks
135
136 * pid: activation by journal search expression
137
138 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
139 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
140 initrd had set.
141
142 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
143 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
144 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
145 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
146 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
147 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
148
149 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
150 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
151 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
152
153 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
154 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
155 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
156 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
157 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
158 source.
159
160 * figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
161 with immutable /usr
162
163 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
164 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
165 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
166
167 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
168
169 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
170 the hibernation
171
172 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
173 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
174 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
175 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
176 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
177 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
178 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
179 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
180 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
181 hibernation mode. (see
182 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
183 section 10.2.2.8 and
184 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
185 at the end).
186
187 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
188 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
189 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
190 output for them.
191
192 * systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
193 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
194
195 * systemd-firstboot: add --force mode that replaces existing configuration.
196
197 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
198 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
199 constant vendor data.
200
201 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: 1) to force first-boot mode + 2) to force
202 random seed crediting
203
204 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
205 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
206
207 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
208 fallback in "machinectl shell"
209
210 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
211 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
212 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
213
214 * homed:
215 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
216 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
217 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
218 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
219 - resize on login?
220 - fstrim on logout?
221 - shrink fs on logout?
222 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
223 - create on activate?
224 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
225 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
226 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
227 systemd --user is shut down.
228 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
229 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk images (think: time machine)
230 - distuingish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
231 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
232 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
233 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
234 - description field for groups
235 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
236 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
237 - query password from kernel keyring first
238 - update even if record is "absent"
239 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
240 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
241 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
242 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
243 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
244 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
245
246 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
247 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
248 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
249 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
250 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
251 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
252 exec().
253
254 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
255
256 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
257 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
258
259 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
260
261 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
262 gnome-bluetooth and friends
263
264 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
265 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
266 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
267 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
268 cgroup.
269
270 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
271 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
272 root.
273
274 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
275 is issued.
276
277 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
278
279 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
280
281 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
282 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
283 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
284
285 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
286 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
287 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
288
289 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
290 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
291 ConfigurationDirectory=.
292
293 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
294
295 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
296
297 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
298 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
299
300 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
301 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
302 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
303
304 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
305
306 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
307 patching around
308
309 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
310 log.c and sd-journal-send
311
312 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
313
314 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
315
316 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
317 can add in file system drivers and such
318
319 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
320 non-zero "tries done" count
321
322 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
323 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
324 it should skip the variant type string though.
325
326 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
327 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
328 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
329 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
330 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
331 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
332 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
333 CODE_FILE.
334
335 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
336 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
337 some explanatory text online.
338
339 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
340
341 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
342 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
343 the slices, and the units attached to them.
344
345 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
346 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
347 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
348 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
349 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
350 way)
351
352 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
353 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
354 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
355
356 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
357 original defaults before calling parse_config()
358
359 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
360
361 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
362 Specifically:
363
364 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
365 properly)
366 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
367 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
368
369 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
370 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
371
372 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
373 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
374 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
375 files and suchlike we operate on.
376
377 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
378
379 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
380
381 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
382 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
383
384 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
385 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
386 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
387 numbers.
388
389 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
390 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
391 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
392 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
393 unlinked from any dir.
394
395 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
396
397 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
398
399 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
400
401 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
402 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
403 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
404 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
405 should reflink the image file itself.
406
407 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
408 specific paths only like this.
409
410 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
411 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
412 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
413 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
414 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
415
416 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
417
418 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
419
420 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
421 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
422
423 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
424 project quota
425
426 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
427 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
428 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
429 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
430 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
431 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
432 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
433 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
434
435 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
436 for root, but only then.
437
438 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
439
440 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
441 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
442
443 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
444 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
445
446 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
447 host-side interface pointing to the container.
448
449 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
450 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
451 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
452 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
453 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
454
455 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
456
457 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
458
459 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
460 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
461 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
462
463 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
464
465 * maybe use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (i.e. the env var the reproducible builds folks
466 introduced) as the RTC epoch, instead of the mtime of NEWS.
467
468 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
469 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
470
471 * blog about fd store and restartable services
472
473 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
474
475 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
476 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
477
478 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
479 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
480 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
481 ID is available.
482
483 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
484 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
485 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
486
487 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
488 parameters
489
490 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
491 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
492 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
493 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
494 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
495 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
496 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
497
498 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
499 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
500
501 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
502 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
503 wait to retrieve their exit data.
504
505 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
506 about it in the resource log message
507
508 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
509 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
510
511 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
512 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
513 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
514
515 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
516 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
517
518 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
519
520 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
521 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
522 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
523 logging.
524
525 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
526 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
527 "convertible" form factor
528
529 * Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
530 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
531 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
532 as MAINPID.
533
534 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
535 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
536 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
537
538 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
539 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
540
541 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
542 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
543 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
544 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
545 natural habitat.
546
547 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
548 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
549 /usr is mounted into.
550
551 * 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
552
553 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
554
555 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
556 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
557 relative to the configured default value.
558
559 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
560
561 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
562
563 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
564
565 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
566
567 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
568
569 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
570
571 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
572
573 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
574
575 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
576
577 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
578
579 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
580 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
581 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
582
583 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
584
585 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
586
587 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
588 partitions
589
590 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
591 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
592 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
593 mapping to work.
594
595 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
596
597 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
598
599 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
600
601 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
602 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
603
604 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
605 reload the unit file anyway
606
607 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
608 from the SIGBUS handler
609
610 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
611
612 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
613 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
614
615 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
616
617 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
618 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
619
620 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
621 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
622 specifications.
623
624 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
625
626 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
627
628 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
629
630 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
631 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
632 prefixed with /sys generally special.
633 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
634
635 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
636
637 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
638
639 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
640 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
641 state.
642 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
643
644 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
645 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
646 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
647 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
648 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
649
650 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
651 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
652
653 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
654
655 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
656 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
657
658 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
659 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
660 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
661 do, for example)
662
663 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
664 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
665
666 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
667 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
668
669 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
670
671 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
672 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
673 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
674 returning from the "systemctl stop".
675
676 * 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
677
678 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
679
680 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
681 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
682
683 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
684
685 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
686
687 * systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
688 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
689
690 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
691
692 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
693
694 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
695
696 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
697 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
698
699 * resolved:
700 - mDNS/DNS-SD
701 - service registration
702 - service/domain/types browsing
703 - avahi compat
704 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
705 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
706 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
707 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
708 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
709 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
710
711 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
712
713 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
714
715 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
716
717 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
718 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
719
720 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
721
722 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
723
724 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
725
726 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
727 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
728
729 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
730
731 * gpt-auto-generator:
732 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
733 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
734
735 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
736 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
737 when it is otherwise off
738
739 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
740
741 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
742 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
743 for ReusePort=
744
745 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
746 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
747 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
748 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
749 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
750 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
751
752 * cgroups:
753 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
754 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
755 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
756 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
757 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
758 the hierarchies of child processes
759
760 * transient units:
761 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
762
763 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
764
765 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
766
767 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
768
769 * 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
770
771 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
772
773 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
774 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
775 path anyway.
776
777 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
778
779 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
780
781 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
782
783 * sd-bus:
784 - EBADSLT handling
785 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
786 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
787 - 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
788 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
789 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
790 - longer term: priority inheritance
791 - dbus spec updates:
792 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
793 - GVariant
794 - path escaping
795 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
796
797 * sd-event
798 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
799 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
800 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
801
802 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
803
804 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
805 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
806
807 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
808
809 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
810
811 * test/:
812 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
813
814 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
815 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
816 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
817 destination.
818
819 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
820 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
821
822 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
823
824 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
825 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
826 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
827 is installed.
828
829 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
830 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
831 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
832 that automatically.
833
834 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
835
836 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
837
838 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
839
840 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
841
842 * EFI:
843 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
844 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
845 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
846 * bootctl
847 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
848
849 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
850
851 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
852
853 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
854
855 * logind:
856 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
857 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
858 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
859 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
860 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
861 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
862 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
863 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
864 needs setuid().
865 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
866 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
867 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
868 complete.
869 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
870 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
871 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
872 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
873 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
874 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
875 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
876 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
877 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
878 relogins
879 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
880
881 * journal:
882 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
883 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
884 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
885 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
886 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
887 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
888 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
889 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
890 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
891 message that works, but already after a short timeout
892 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
893 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
894 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
895 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
896 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
897 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
898 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
899 - 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.
900 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
901 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
902 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
903 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
904 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
905 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
906 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
907 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
908 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
909 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
910 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
911 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
912 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
913 to syslog when it works again.
914 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
915 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
916 journals in.
917 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
918 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
919 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
920 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
921 the most common operations.
922 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
923 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
924 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
925 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
926 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
927 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
928 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
929 operation.
930 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
931 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
932 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
933 binary logs data
934 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
935 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
936 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
937 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
938 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
939
940 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
941 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
942 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
943 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
944
945 * document:
946 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
947 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
948 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
949 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
950 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
951 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
952 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
953 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
954 - man: add more examples to man pages
955 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
956 - document root=gpt-auto properly
957
958 * systemctl:
959 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
960 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
961 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
962 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
963 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
964 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
965 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
966 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
967 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
968 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
969
970 * unit install:
971 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
972 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
973
974 * timer units:
975 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
976 o DST changes
977 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
978
979 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
980
981 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
982
983 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
984
985 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
986
987 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
988
989 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
990
991 * nspawn:
992 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
993 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
994 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
995 from the kernel's logs.
996 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
997 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
998 interface be missing
999 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1000 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1001 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1002 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1003 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1004 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1005 PID 1...
1006 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1007 running, remove them when shut down.
1008
1009 * dissect
1010 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1011 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1012
1013 * machined:
1014 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1015 removed or added to an existing machine
1016 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1017 difference host, via ssh
1018 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1019 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1020 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1021 question
1022 - "machinectl history"
1023 - "machinectl diff"
1024 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1025 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1026
1027 * cryptsetup:
1028 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1029 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1030
1031 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1032 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1033
1034 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1035
1036 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1037
1038 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1039
1040 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1041
1042 * udev:
1043 - move to LGPL
1044 - kill scsi_id
1045 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1046 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1047
1048 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1049
1050 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1051
1052 * coredump:
1053 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1054 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1055
1056 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1057
1058 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1059 needs to be auto-respawned?
1060
1061 * tmpfiles:
1062 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1063 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1064 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1065 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1066 calls follow symlinks.
1067
1068 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1069
1070 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1071 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1072 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1073
1074 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1075 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1076
1077 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1078
1079 * write blog stories about:
1080 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1081 - enabling dbus services
1082 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1083 - remote access
1084 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1085 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1086 - auto-restart
1087 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1088 - the journal HTTP iface
1089 - non-cgroup resource management
1090 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1091 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1092 - calendar time events
1093 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1094 - how to create your own target
1095 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1096 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1097
1098 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1099
1100 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1101
1102 * pid1:
1103 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1104 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1105 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1106 that are not supported...
1107 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1108 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1109 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1110 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1111 - move PAM code into its own binary
1112 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1113 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1114 - Support --test based on current system state
1115 - 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().
1116 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1117 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1118 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1119 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1120 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1121 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1122 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1123 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1124 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1125
1126 * unit files:
1127 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1128 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1129 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1130 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1131 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1132 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1133 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1134 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1135 - introduce Type=pid-file
1136 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1137 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1138 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1139 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1140
1141 * udev-link-config:
1142 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1143 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1144 on Path= matching
1145
1146 * sd-rtnl:
1147 - add support for more attribute types
1148 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1149
1150 * networkd:
1151 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1152 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1153 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
1154 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1155 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
1156 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1157 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1158 - add support for more bond options
1159 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1160 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1161 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1162 - expose in the API the following bits:
1163 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
1164 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
1165 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1166 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1167 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1168 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1169 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1170 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1171 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1172 - allow DUID/IAID to be customized, see issue #394.
1173 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1174
1175 * networkd-wait-online:
1176 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
1177
1178 * dhcp:
1179 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1180
1181 * dhcp6:
1182 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1183 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1184 - write more test cases
1185 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1186 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1187 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1188 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1189 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1190 or interface down
1191 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1192 this behavior
1193 - RouteTable= ?
1194
1195 External:
1196
1197 * dbus:
1198 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1199 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1200
1201 * fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
1202
1203 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1204
1205 * patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
1206
1207 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1208
1209 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1210
1211 * 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=
1212
1213 * fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
1214
1215 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1216
1217 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1218
1219 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1220
1221 * zsh shell completion:
1222 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1223 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1224
1225 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1226 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1227 after being started.
1228
1229 Regularly:
1230
1231 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1232
1233 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1234
1235 * pahole
1236
1237 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1238
1239 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1240
1241 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
1242 String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment