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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 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
26 exists and responds.
27
28 * homed: add homed.conf setting DefaultStorage= or so
29
30 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
31 easily?
32
33 * journalctl --image= which is like --root= but operates on disk images
34
35 * when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
36 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
37 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
38 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
39 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
40
41 * cryptsetup/homed: also support FIDO2 HMAC password logic for unlocking
42 devices. (see: https://github.com/mjec/fido2-hmac-secret)
43
44 * systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
45 creates
46
47 * homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
48 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
49 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
50 hence we can make them quicker to work.
51
52 * bootctl:
53 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
54 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
55 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
56
57 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
58 allow so that systemd survives
59
60 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
61 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
62
63 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
64 systemd-makefs.service instead.
65
66 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
67 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
68
69 * unify on openssl:
70 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
71 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
72 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
73 - port importd over from libgcrypt
74 - when that's done: kill khash.c
75 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
76
77 * kill zenata, all hail weblate?
78
79 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
80
81 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
82 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
83
84 * hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
85 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
86 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
87 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
88 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
89
90 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
91 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
92 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
93 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
94
95 * systemd-repart: optionally, allow specifying a path to initialize new
96 partitions from, i.e. an fs image file or a source device node. This would
97 then turn systemd-repart into a simple installer: with a few .repart files
98 you could replicate the host system on another device. a full installer would
99 then be: "systemd-repart /dev/sda && bootctl install /dev/sda &&
100 systemd-firstboot --image= …"
101
102 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
103 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
104 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
105 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
106 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
107 automatically.
108
109 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
110 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
111
112 * systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
113 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
114
115 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
116
117 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
118 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
119
120 * systemd-repart: add specifier expansion, add especifier that refers to root
121 device node of current system, /usr device node, and matching verity, so that
122 an installer can be made a "copy" installer of the booted OS
123
124 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
125 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
126
127 * systemd-repart: when no configuration is found, exit early do not check
128 partition table, so that it is safe to run in the initrd on any system
129
130 * systemd-repart: allow config of partition uuid
131
132 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
133 realname substr searches in varlink API
134
135 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
136
137 * userdb: allow existence checks
138
139 * pid: activation by journal search expression
140
141 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
142 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
143 initrd had set.
144
145 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
146 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
147 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
148 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
149 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
150 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
151
152 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
153 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
154 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
155
156 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
157 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
158 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
159 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
160 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
161 source.
162
163 * figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
164 with immutable /usr
165
166 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
167 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
168 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
169
170 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
171
172 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
173 the hibernation
174
175 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
176 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
177 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
178 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
179 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
180 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
181 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
182 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
183 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
184 hibernation mode. (see
185 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
186 section 10.2.2.8 and
187 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
188 at the end).
189
190 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
191 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
192 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
193 output for them.
194
195 * systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
196 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
197
198 * systemd-firstboot: add --force mode that replaces existing configuration.
199
200 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
201 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
202 constant vendor data.
203
204 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: 1) to force first-boot mode + 2) to force
205 random seed crediting
206
207 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
208 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
209
210 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
211 fallback in "machinectl shell"
212
213 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
214 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
215 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
216
217 * homed:
218 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
219 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
220 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
221 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
222 - resize on login?
223 - fstrim on logout?
224 - shrink fs on logout?
225 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
226 - create on activate?
227 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
228 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
229 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
230 systemd --user is shut down.
231 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
232 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk images (think: time machine)
233 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
234 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
235 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
236 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
237 - description field for groups
238 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
239 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
240 - query password from kernel keyring first
241 - update even if record is "absent"
242 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
243 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
244 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
245 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
246 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
247 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
248
249 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
250 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
251 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
252 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
253 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
254 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
255 exec().
256
257 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
258
259 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
260 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
261
262 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
263
264 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
265 gnome-bluetooth and friends
266
267 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
268 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
269 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
270 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
271 cgroup.
272
273 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
274 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
275 root.
276
277 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
278 is issued.
279
280 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
281
282 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
283
284 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
285 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
286 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
287
288 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
289 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
290 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
291
292 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
293 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
294 ConfigurationDirectory=.
295
296 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
297
298 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
299
300 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
301 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
302
303 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
304 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
305 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
306
307 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
308
309 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
310 patching around
311
312 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
313 log.c and sd-journal-send
314
315 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
316
317 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
318
319 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
320 can add in file system drivers and such
321
322 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
323 non-zero "tries done" count
324
325 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
326 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
327 it should skip the variant type string though.
328
329 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
330 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
331 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
332 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
333 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
334 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
335 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
336 CODE_FILE.
337
338 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
339 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
340 some explanatory text online.
341
342 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
343
344 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
345 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
346 the slices, and the units attached to them.
347
348 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
349 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
350 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
351 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
352 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
353 way)
354
355 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
356 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
357 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
358
359 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
360 original defaults before calling parse_config()
361
362 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
363
364 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
365 Specifically:
366
367 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
368 properly)
369 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
370 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
371
372 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
373 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
374
375 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
376 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
377 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
378 files and suchlike we operate on.
379
380 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
381
382 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
383
384 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
385 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
386
387 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
388 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
389 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
390 numbers.
391
392 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
393 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
394 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
395 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
396 unlinked from any dir.
397
398 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
399
400 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
401
402 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
403
404 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
405 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
406 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
407 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
408 should reflink the image file itself.
409
410 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
411 specific paths only like this.
412
413 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
414 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
415 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
416 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
417 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
418
419 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
420
421 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
422
423 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
424 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
425
426 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
427 project quota
428
429 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
430 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
431 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
432 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
433 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
434 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
435 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
436 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
437
438 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
439 for root, but only then.
440
441 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
442
443 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
444 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
445
446 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
447 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
448
449 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
450 host-side interface pointing to the container.
451
452 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
453 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
454 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
455 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
456 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
457
458 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
459
460 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
461
462 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
463 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
464 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
465
466 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
467
468 * maybe use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (i.e. the env var the reproducible builds folks
469 introduced) as the RTC epoch, instead of the mtime of NEWS.
470
471 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
472 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
473
474 * blog about fd store and restartable services
475
476 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
477
478 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
479 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
480
481 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
482 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
483 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
484 ID is available.
485
486 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
487 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
488 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
489
490 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
491 parameters
492
493 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
494 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
495 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
496 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
497 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
498 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
499 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
500
501 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
502 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
503
504 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
505 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
506 wait to retrieve their exit data.
507
508 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
509 about it in the resource log message
510
511 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
512 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
513
514 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
515 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
516 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
517
518 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
519 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
520
521 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
522
523 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
524 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
525 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
526 logging.
527
528 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
529 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
530 "convertible" form factor
531
532 * Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
533 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
534 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
535 as MAINPID.
536
537 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
538 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
539 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
540
541 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
542 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
543
544 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
545 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
546 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
547 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
548 natural habitat.
549
550 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
551 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
552 /usr is mounted into.
553
554 * 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
555
556 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
557
558 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
559 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
560 relative to the configured default value.
561
562 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
563
564 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
565
566 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
567
568 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
569
570 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
571
572 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
573
574 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
575
576 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
577
578 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
579
580 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
581
582 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
583 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
584 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
585
586 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
587
588 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
589
590 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
591 partitions
592
593 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
594 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
595 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
596 mapping to work.
597
598 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
599
600 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
601
602 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
603
604 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
605 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
606
607 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
608 reload the unit file anyway
609
610 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
611 from the SIGBUS handler
612
613 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
614
615 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
616 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
617
618 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
619
620 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
621 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
622
623 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
624 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
625 specifications.
626
627 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
628
629 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
630
631 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
632
633 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
634 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
635 prefixed with /sys generally special.
636 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
637
638 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
639
640 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
641
642 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
643 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
644 state.
645 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
646
647 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
648 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
649 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
650 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
651 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
652
653 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
654 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
655
656 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
657
658 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
659 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
660
661 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
662 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
663 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
664 do, for example)
665
666 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
667 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
668
669 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
670 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
671
672 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
673
674 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
675 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
676 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
677 returning from the "systemctl stop".
678
679 * 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
680
681 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
682
683 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
684 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
685
686 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
687
688 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
689
690 * systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
691 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
692
693 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
694
695 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
696
697 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
698
699 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
700 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
701
702 * resolved:
703 - mDNS/DNS-SD
704 - service registration
705 - service/domain/types browsing
706 - avahi compat
707 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
708 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
709 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
710 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
711 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
712 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
713
714 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
715
716 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
717
718 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
719
720 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
721 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
722
723 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
724
725 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
726
727 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
728
729 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
730 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
731
732 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
733
734 * gpt-auto-generator:
735 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
736 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
737
738 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
739 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
740 when it is otherwise off
741
742 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
743
744 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
745 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
746 for ReusePort=
747
748 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
749 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
750 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
751 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
752 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
753 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
754
755 * cgroups:
756 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
757 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
758 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
759 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
760 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
761 the hierarchies of child processes
762
763 * transient units:
764 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
765
766 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
767
768 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
769
770 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
771
772 * 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
773
774 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
775
776 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
777 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
778 path anyway.
779
780 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
781
782 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
783
784 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
785
786 * sd-bus:
787 - EBADSLT handling
788 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
789 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
790 - 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
791 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
792 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
793 - longer term: priority inheritance
794 - dbus spec updates:
795 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
796 - GVariant
797 - path escaping
798 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
799
800 * sd-event
801 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
802 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
803 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
804
805 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
806
807 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
808 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
809
810 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
811
812 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
813
814 * test/:
815 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
816
817 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
818 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
819 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
820 destination.
821
822 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
823 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
824
825 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
826
827 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
828 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
829 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
830
831 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
832 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
833 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
834 is installed.
835
836 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
837 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
838 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
839 that automatically.
840
841 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
842
843 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
844
845 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
846
847 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
848
849 * EFI:
850 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
851 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
852 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
853 * bootctl
854 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
855
856 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
857
858 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
859
860 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
861
862 * logind:
863 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
864 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
865 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
866 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
867 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
868 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
869 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
870 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
871 needs setuid().
872 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
873 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
874 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
875 complete.
876 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
877 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
878 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
879 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
880 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
881 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
882 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
883 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
884 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
885 relogins
886 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
887
888 * journal:
889 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
890 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
891 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
892 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
893 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
894 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
895 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
896 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
897 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
898 message that works, but already after a short timeout
899 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
900 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
901 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
902 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
903 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
904 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
905 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
906 - 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.
907 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
908 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
909 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
910 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
911 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
912 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
913 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
914 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
915 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
916 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
917 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
918 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
919 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
920 to syslog when it works again.
921 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
922 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
923 journals in.
924 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
925 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
926 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
927 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
928 the most common operations.
929 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
930 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
931 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
932 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
933 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
934 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
935 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
936 operation.
937 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
938 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
939 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
940 binary logs data
941 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
942 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
943 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
944 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
945 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
946
947 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
948 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
949 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
950 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
951
952 * document:
953 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
954 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
955 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
956 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
957 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
958 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
959 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
960 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
961 - man: add more examples to man pages
962 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
963 - document root=gpt-auto properly
964
965 * systemctl:
966 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
967 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
968 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
969 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
970 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
971 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
972 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
973 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
974 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
975 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
976
977 * unit install:
978 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
979 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
980
981 * timer units:
982 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
983 o DST changes
984 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
985
986 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
987
988 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
989
990 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
991
992 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
993
994 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
995
996 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
997
998 * nspawn:
999 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1000 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1001 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1002 from the kernel's logs.
1003 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1004 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1005 interface be missing
1006 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1007 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1008 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1009 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1010 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1011 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1012 PID 1...
1013 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1014 running, remove them when shut down.
1015
1016 * dissect
1017 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1018 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1019
1020 * machined:
1021 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1022 removed or added to an existing machine
1023 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1024 difference host, via ssh
1025 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1026 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1027 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1028 question
1029 - "machinectl history"
1030 - "machinectl diff"
1031 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1032 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1033
1034 * cryptsetup:
1035 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1036 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1037
1038 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1039 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1040
1041 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1042
1043 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1044
1045 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1046
1047 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1048
1049 * udev:
1050 - move to LGPL
1051 - kill scsi_id
1052 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1053 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1054
1055 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1056
1057 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1058
1059 * coredump:
1060 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1061 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1062
1063 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1064
1065 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1066 needs to be auto-respawned?
1067
1068 * tmpfiles:
1069 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1070 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1071 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1072 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1073 calls follow symlinks.
1074
1075 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1076
1077 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1078 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1079 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1080
1081 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1082 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1083
1084 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1085
1086 * write blog stories about:
1087 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1088 - enabling dbus services
1089 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1090 - remote access
1091 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1092 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1093 - auto-restart
1094 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1095 - the journal HTTP iface
1096 - non-cgroup resource management
1097 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1098 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1099 - calendar time events
1100 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1101 - how to create your own target
1102 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1103 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1104
1105 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1106
1107 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1108
1109 * pid1:
1110 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1111 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1112 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1113 that are not supported...
1114 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1115 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1116 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1117 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1118 - move PAM code into its own binary
1119 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1120 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1121 - Support --test based on current system state
1122 - 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().
1123 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1124 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1125 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1126 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1127 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1128 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1129 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1130 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1131 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1132
1133 * unit files:
1134 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1135 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1136 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1137 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1138 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1139 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1140 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1141 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1142 - introduce Type=pid-file
1143 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1144 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1145 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1146 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1147
1148 * udev-link-config:
1149 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1150 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1151 on Path= matching
1152
1153 * sd-rtnl:
1154 - add support for more attribute types
1155 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1156
1157 * networkd:
1158 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1159 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1160 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
1161 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1162 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
1163 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1164 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1165 - add support for more bond options
1166 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1167 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1168 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1169 - expose in the API the following bits:
1170 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
1171 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1172 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1173 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1174 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1175 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1176 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1177 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1178 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1179 - allow DUID/IAID to be customized, see issue #394.
1180 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1181
1182 * networkd-wait-online:
1183 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
1184
1185 * dhcp:
1186 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1187
1188 * dhcp6:
1189 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1190 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1191 - write more test cases
1192 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1193 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1194 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1195 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1196 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1197 or interface down
1198 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1199 this behavior
1200 - RouteTable= ?
1201
1202 External:
1203
1204 * dbus:
1205 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1206 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1207
1208 * fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
1209
1210 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1211
1212 * patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
1213
1214 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1215
1216 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1217
1218 * 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=
1219
1220 * fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
1221
1222 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1223
1224 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1225
1226 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1227
1228 * zsh shell completion:
1229 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1230 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1231
1232 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1233 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1234 after being started.
1235
1236 Regularly:
1237
1238 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1239
1240 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1241
1242 * pahole
1243
1244 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1245
1246 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1247
1248 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
1249 String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment