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1 Bugfixes:
2
3 * Should systemctl status \* work on all unit types, not just .service?
4
5 * Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
6 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
7 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
8
9 * ExecStart with unicode characters fails in strv_split_extract:
10
11 [Service]
12 Environment=ONE='one' "TWO='two two' too" THREE=
13 ExecStart=/bin/python3 -c 'import sys;print(sys.argv)' $ONE $TWO $THREE
14
15 * When systemctl --host is used, underlying ssh connection can remain open.
16 bus_close does not kill children?
17
18 External:
19
20 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
21
22 * wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
23
24 Janitorial Clean-ups:
25
26 * replace manual readdir() loops with FOREACH_DIRENT or FOREACH_DIRENT_ALL
27
28 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
29
30 Features:
31
32 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
33
34 * drop internal dlopen() based nss-dns fallback in nss-resolve, and rely on the
35 external nsswitch.conf based one
36
37 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
38 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
39 relative to the configured default value.
40
41 * on cgroupsv2 add DelegateControllers=, to pick the precise cgroup controllers to delegate
42
43 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
44
45 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
46
47 * switch to ProtectSystem=strict for all our long-running services where that's possible
48
49 * If RootDirectory= is used, mount /proc, /sys, /dev into it, if not mounted yet
50
51 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
52
53 * nspawn: start UID allocation loop from hash of container name
54
55 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
56
57 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
58
59 * ProtectKernelLogs= (drops CAP_SYSLOG, add seccomp for syslog() syscall, and DeviceAllow to /dev/kmsg) in service files
60
61 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
62
63 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
64
65 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
66
67 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
68
69 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
70
71 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
72 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
73 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
74
75 * DeviceAllow= should also generate seccomp filters for mknod()
76
77 * Add DataDirectory=, CacheDirectory= and LogDirectory= to match
78 RuntimeDirectory=, and create it as necessary when starting a service, owned by the right user.
79
80 * Add BindDirectory= for allowing arbitrary, private bind mounts for services
81
82 * Add RootImage= for mounting a disk image or file as root directory
83
84 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
85
86 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
87
88 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
89 partitions
90
91 * expose the "privileged" flag of ExecCommand on the bus, and open it up to
92 transient units
93
94 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
95 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
96 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
97 mapping to work.
98
99 * allow attaching additional journald log fields to cgroups
100
101 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
102
103 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
104
105 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
106
107 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
108 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
109
110 * check if DeviceAllow= should split first, resolve specifiers later
111
112 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
113 reload the unit file anyway
114
115 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
116 from the SIGBUS handler
117
118 * move specifier expansion from service_spawn() into load-fragment.c
119
120 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
121
122 * resolved: when routing queries, make sure only look for the *longest* suffix...
123
124 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
125 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
126
127 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
128
129 * add systemctl stop --job-mode=triggering that follows TRIGGERED_BY deps and adds them to the same transaction
130
131 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
132 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
133
134 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
135 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
136 specifications.
137
138 * do something about "/control" subcgroups in the unified cgroup hierarchy
139
140 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
141
142 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller (only after the cpuset controller got ported to the unified hierarchy)
143
144 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
145
146 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
147 as we have for debugfs. for exmaple, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
148 prefixed with /sys generally special.
149 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
150
151 * man: document that unless you use StandardError=null the shell >/dev/stderr won't work in shell scripts in services
152
153 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
154
155 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
156
157 * mounting and unmounting mount points manually with different source
158 devices will result in collected on all devices used.
159 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030225.html
160
161 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
162 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
163 state.
164 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
165
166 * Maybe add support for the equivalent of "ethtool advertise" to .link files?
167 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030112.html
168
169 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
170 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
171 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
172 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
173 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
174
175 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
176 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
177
178 * Rework systemctl's GetAll property parsing to use the generic bus_map_all_properties() API
179
180 * implement a per-service firewall based on net_cls
181
182 * Port various tools to make use of verbs.[ch], where applicable: busctl,
183 coredumpctl, hostnamectl, localectl, systemd-analyze, timedatectl
184
185 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
186
187 * sysfs set api in libudev is not const
188
189 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
190 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
191
192 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
193 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
194 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
195 do, for example)
196
197 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
198 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
199
200 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
201 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
202
203 * in systemctl list-unit-files: show the install value the presets would suggest for a service in a third column
204
205 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
206
207 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
208 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
209 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
210 returning from the "systemctl stop".
211
212 * 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
213
214 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
215
216 * introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix?
217
218 * systemd --user should issue sd_notify() upon reaching basic.target, not on becoming idle
219
220 * consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions
221
222 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
223 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
224
225 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
226
227 * maybe provide an API to allow migration of foreign PIDs into existing scopes.
228
229 * man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
230
231 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
232
233 * systemctl edit: use equvalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
234 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
235
236 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
237
238 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
239
240 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
241
242 * systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
243 units are shown.
244
245 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
246 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
247
248 * resolved:
249 - mDNS/DNS-SD
250 - service registration
251 - service/domain/types browsing
252 - avahi compat
253 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
254 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
255 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
256 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
257 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
258 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
259
260 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
261
262 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
263
264 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
265
266 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
267 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
268 - fstab-generator: support systemd.volatile=yes|no|state on the kernel cmdline, too, similar to nspawn's --volatile=
269
270 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
271
272 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
273
274 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
275
276 * mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied
277
278 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
279 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
280
281 * Run most system services with cgroupfs read-only and procfs with a more secure mode (doesn't work, since the hidepid= option is per-pid-namespace, not per-mount)
282
283 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
284
285 * gpt-auto-generator:
286 - Support LUKS for root devices
287 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
288 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
289
290 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
291 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
292 when it is otherwise off
293
294 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
295
296 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
297 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
298 for ReusePort=
299
300 * socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
301 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
302 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
303 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
304 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
305
306 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
307 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
308 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
309 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
310 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
311 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
312
313 * cgroups:
314 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
315 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
316 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
317 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
318 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
319 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
320 the hierarchies of child processes
321
322 * transient units:
323 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
324 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
325
326 * Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
327
328 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
329
330 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
331
332 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
333
334 * 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
335
336 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
337
338 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
339 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
340 path anyway.
341
342 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
343
344 * btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
345
346 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
347
348 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
349
350 * allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
351 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
352
353 * sd-bus:
354 - EBADSLT handling
355 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
356 - kdbus: process fd=-1 for incoming msgs
357 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
358 - kdbus: maybe add controlling tty metadata fields
359 - 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
360 - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
361 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
362 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
363 - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async?
364 - kdbus: matches against source or destination pids for an "strace -p"-like feel. Problem: The PID info needs to be available in userspace too...
365 - longer term: priority inheritance
366 - dbus spec updates:
367 - kdbus mapping
368 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
369 - GVariant
370 - path escaping
371 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
372 - test bloom filter generation indexes
373 - kdbus: introduce a concept of "send-only" connections
374 - kdbus: add counter for refused unicast messages that is passed out via the RECV ioctl. SImilar to the counter for dropped multicast messages we already have.
375
376 * sd-event
377 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
378 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
379 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
380 - generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
381 - maybe add support for inotify events
382
383 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
384
385 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
386 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
387
388 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
389
390 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
391
392 * maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
393
394 * cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
395
396 * test/:
397 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
398 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
399
400 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
401 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
402 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
403 destination.
404
405 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
406 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
407
408 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
409
410 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
411 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
412 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
413 is installed.
414
415 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
416 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
417 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
418 that automatically.
419
420 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
421
422 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
423
424 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
425
426 * think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
427
428 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
429
430 * introduce ExecCondition= in services
431
432 * EFI:
433 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
434 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
435 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
436
437 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
438
439 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
440
441 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
442
443 * logind:
444 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
445 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
446 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
447 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
448 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
449 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
450 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
451 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
452 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
453 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
454 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
455 needs setuid().
456 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
457 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
458 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
459 complete.
460 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
461 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
462 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
463 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
464 - given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
465 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
466 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
467 - expose orientation sensors and tablet mode through logind
468 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
469 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
470 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
471 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
472 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
473 relogins
474
475 * exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
476
477 * service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
478
479 * journal:
480 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
481 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
482 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
483 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
484 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
485 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
486 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
487 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
488 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
489 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
490 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
491 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
492 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
493 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
494 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
495 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
496 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
497 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
498 - 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.
499 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
500 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
501 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
502 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
503 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
504 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
505 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
506 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
507 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
508 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
509 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
510 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
511 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
512 to syslog when it works again.
513 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
514 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
515 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
516 so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
517 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
518 - optionally support running journald from the command line for testing purposes in external projects
519 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
520 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
521 journals in.
522 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
523 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
524 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
525 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
526 the most common operations.
527 - journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted
528 commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
529 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
530 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
531 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
532 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
533 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
534 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
535 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
536 operation.
537 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
538 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
539 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
540 binary logs data
541 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
542 - log accumulated resource usage after each service invocation
543 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
544 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
545 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
546 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
547
548 * document:
549 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
550 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
551 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
552 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
553 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
554 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
555 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
556 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
557 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
558 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
559 - man: add more examples to man pages
560 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
561
562 * systemctl:
563 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
564 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
565 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
566 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
567 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
568 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
569 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
570 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
571 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
572 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
573 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
574 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
575
576 * unit install:
577 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
578 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
579
580 * timer units:
581 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
582 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
583 o DST changes
584 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
585 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
586
587 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
588
589 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
590
591 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
592
593 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
594 waiting for the timeout
595
596 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
597
598 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
599
600 * nspawn:
601 - nspawn -x should support ephemeral instances of gpt images
602 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
603 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
604 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
605 from the kernel's logs.
606 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
607 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
608 interface be missing
609 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
610 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
611 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
612 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
613 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
614 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
615 PID 1...
616 - should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages
617 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
618 running, remove them when shut down.
619 - Improve error message when --bind= is used on a non-existing source
620 directory
621 - maybe make copying of /etc/resolv.conf optional, and skip it if --read-only
622 is used
623
624 * machined:
625 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
626 removed or added to an existing machine
627 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
628 difference host, via ssh
629 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
630 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
631 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
632 question
633 - "machinectl list-images" should show os-release data, as well as
634 machine-info data (including deployment level)
635 - "machinectl history"
636 - "machinectl diff"
637 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
638 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
639
640 * importd:
641 - generate a nice warning if mkfs.btrfs is missing
642
643 * cryptsetup:
644 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
645 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
646 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
647 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
648
649 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
650 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
651
652 * create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
653
654 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
655
656 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
657
658 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
659
660 * udev:
661 - move to LGPL
662 - kill scsi_id
663 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
664 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
665
666 * when a service has the same env var set twice we actually store it twice and return that in systemctl show -p... We should only show the last setting
667
668 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
669
670 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
671
672 * coredump:
673 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
674 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
675
676 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
677
678 * default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
679
680 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
681 needs to be auto-respawned?
682
683 * tmpfiles:
684 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
685 - replace F with f+.
686 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
687 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
688 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
689 calls follow symlinks.
690
691 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
692
693 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
694 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
695 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
696
697 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
698 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
699
700 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
701
702 * write blog stories about:
703 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
704 - enabling dbus services
705 - status update
706 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
707 - remote access
708 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
709 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
710 - auto-restart
711 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
712 - the journal HTTP iface
713 - non-cgroup resource management
714 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
715 - refreshed, longer missions statement
716 - calendar time events
717 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
718 - how to create your own target
719 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
720 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
721
722 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
723
724 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
725
726 * fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
727
728 * pid1:
729 - .timer units should optionally support CLOCK_BOOTTIME in addition to CLOCK_MONOTONIC
730 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
731 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
732 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
733 that are not supported...
734 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
735 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
736 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
737 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
738 - GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
739 - move PAM code into its own binary
740 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
741 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
742 - Support --test based on current system state
743 - 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().
744 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
745 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
746 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
747 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
748 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
749 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
750 but much rather a disconnect on success.
751 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
752 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
753
754 * unit files:
755 - allow port=0 in .socket units
756 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
757 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
758 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
759 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
760 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
761 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
762 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
763 - load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
764 verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
765 - introduce Type=pid-file
766 - ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
767 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
768 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
769 - Set NoNewPrivileges= on all of our own services, where that makes sense
770 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
771 - consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
772
773 * udev-link-config:
774 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
775 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
776 on Path= matching
777 - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
778
779 * sd-rtnl:
780 - add support for more attribute types
781 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
782
783 * networkd:
784 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
785 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
786 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
787 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
788 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
789 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
790 - work with non-Ethernet devices
791 - add support for more bond options
792 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
793 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
794 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
795 - expose in the API the following bits:
796 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
797 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
798 - option 123, 144, geolocation
799 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
800 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
801 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
802 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
803 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
804 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
805 - allow DUID/IAID to be customized, see issue #394.
806 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
807
808 * networkd-wait-online:
809 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
810
811 * dhcp:
812 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
813 - support RFC4702 (pass FQDN)
814
815 * dhcp6:
816 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
817 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
818 - write more test cases
819 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
820 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
821 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
822 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
823 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
824 or interface down
825 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
826 this behavior
827 - RouteTable= ?
828
829 External:
830
831 * dbus:
832 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
833 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
834
835 * fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
836
837 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
838
839 * patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
840
841 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
842
843 * drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields
844
845 * dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
846
847 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
848
849 * 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=
850
851 * fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
852
853 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
854
855 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
856
857 * register catalog database signature as file magic
858
859 * zsh shell completion:
860 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
861 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
862
863
864 Regularly:
865
866 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
867
868 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
869
870 * Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
871
872 * pahole
873
874 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
875
876 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
877
878 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields