3 * Should systemctl status \* work on all unit types, not just .service?
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.
9 * ExecStart with unicode characters fails in strv_split_extract:
12 Environment=ONE='one' "TWO='two two' too" THREE=
13 ExecStart=/bin/python3 -c 'import sys;print(sys.argv)' $ONE $TWO $THREE
15 * When systemctl --host is used, underlying ssh connection can remain open.
16 bus_close does not kill children?
20 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
22 * wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
26 * code cleanup: retire FOREACH_WORD_QUOTED, port to extract_first_word() loops instead
28 * replace manual readdir() loops with FOREACH_DIRENT or FOREACH_DIRENT_ALL
30 * Get rid of the last strerror() invocations in favour of %m and strerror_r()
32 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
36 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
37 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
39 * For services: replace the default Requires=basic.target with After=basic.target + Requires=sysinit.target.
41 * drop "Overridable" dependency types
43 * document precise effect of DefaultDependencies=yes
45 * add an explicit parser for LimitNICE= and LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
46 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
47 specifications. Also, for LimitNICE= maybe introduce a syntax such
48 as "+5" or "-7" in order to make the limits more readable as they
49 are otherwise shifted by 20.
51 * do something about "/control" subcgroups in the unified cgroup hierarchy
53 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
55 * push CPUAffinity also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller (only after the cpuset controller got ported to the unified hierarchy)
57 * add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
59 * add a new command "systemctl revert" or so, that removes all dropin
60 snippets in /run and /etc, and all unit files with counterparts in
61 /usr, and thus undoes what "systemctl set-property" and "systemctl
62 edit" create. Maybe even add "systemctl revert -a" to do this for
65 * sd-event: maybe add support for inotify events
67 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
69 * nspawn should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages
71 * nspawn should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload PID 1...
73 * consider throwing a warning if a service declares it wants to be "Before=" a .device unit.
75 * "systemctl edit" should know a mode to create a new unit file
77 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
78 as we have for debugfs. for exmaple, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
79 prefixed with /sys generally special.
80 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
82 * nspawn: fix logic always print a final newline on output.
83 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
85 * make nspawn's --network-veth switch more powerful:
86 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/033121.html
88 * man: document that unless you use StandardError=null the shell >/dev/stderr won't work in shell scripts in services
90 * "systemctl daemon-reload" should result in /etc/systemd/system.conf being reloaded by systemd
92 * install: include generator dirs in unit file search paths
94 * logind: follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and relogins
96 * invent a better systemd-run scheme for naming scopes, that works with remoting
98 * add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through binary logs data
100 * change journalctl -M to acquire fd to journal directory via machined, and then operate on that via openat() instead of absolute paths
102 * add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
104 * log accumulated resource usage after each service invocation
106 * nspawn: a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
108 * logind: rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
109 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
110 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
112 * journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going. Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
114 * nspawn: don't copy /etc/resolv.conf from host into container unless we are in shared-network mode
116 * nspawn: optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is running, remove them when shut down.
118 * importd: generate a nice warning if mkfs.btrfs is missing
120 * nspawn: add a logic for cleaning up read-only, hidden container images in /var/lib/machines that are not ancestors of any non-hidden containers
122 * nspawn: Improve error message when --bind= is used on a non-existing source directory
124 * nspawn: maybe make copying of /etc/resolv.conf optional, and skip it if --read-only is used
126 * man: document how update dkr images works with machinectl
127 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028630.html
129 * nspawn: as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=, --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an interface be missing
131 * rework C11 utf8.[ch] to use char32_t instead of uint32_t when referring
132 to unicode chars, to make things more expressive.
134 * "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
135 difference host, via ssh
137 * tmpfiles: creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
138 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
139 calls follow symlinks.
141 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
143 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
145 * mounting and unmounting mount points manually with different source
146 devices will result in collected collected on all devices used.
147 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030225.html
149 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
150 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
152 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
154 * Maybe add support for the equivalent of "ethtool advertise" to .link files?
155 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030112.html
157 * .timer units should optionally support CLOCK_BOOTTIME in addition to CLOCK_MONOTONIC
159 * When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
160 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
162 * to allow "linking" of nspawn containers, extend --network-bridge= so
163 that it can dynamically create bridge interfaces that are refcounted
164 by the containers on them. For each group of containers to link together
166 * journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
167 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written
170 * assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
172 * coredump: make the handler check /proc/$PID/rlimits for RLIMIT_CORE,
173 and supress coredump if turned off. Then change RLIMIT_CORE to
174 infinity by default for all services. This then allows per-service
175 control of coredumping.
177 * generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
178 that are not supported...
179 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
181 * maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
182 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
184 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
185 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
186 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
187 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
188 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
190 * nspawn: emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
191 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
192 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
193 from the kernel's logs.
195 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
196 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
198 * Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
199 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
200 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
201 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
202 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
205 * logind: maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
207 * Set NoNewPrivileges= on all of our own services, where that makes sense
209 * Rework systemctl's GetAll property parsing to use the generic bus_map_all_properties() API
211 * rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
213 * import-dkr: support tarsum checksum verification, if it becomes reality one day...
215 * import-dkr: convert json bits to nspawn configuration
217 * core/cgroup: support net_cls modules, and support automatically allocating class ids, then add support for making firewall changes depending on it, to implement a per-service firewall
219 * introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
221 * "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in question
223 * "machinectl list-images" should show os-release data, as well as machine-info data (including deployment level)
225 * Port various tools to make use of verbs.[ch], where applicable
227 * "machinectl history"
231 * "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
233 * systemd-nspawn -x should support ephemeral instances of gpt images
235 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
237 * sysfs set api in libudev is not const
239 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
240 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
242 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
243 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
244 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
247 * resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
248 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
249 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
251 * systemd-journal-upload (or a new, related tool): allow pushing out
252 journal messages onto the network in BSD syslog protocol,
253 continuously. Default to some link-local IP mcast group, to make this
254 useful as a one-stop debugging tool.
256 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
257 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
259 * as soon as we have kdbus, and sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
260 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
262 * the install state probably shouldn't get confused by generated units, think dbus1/kdbus compat!
264 * in systemctl list-unit-files: show the install value the presets would suggest for a service in a third column
266 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
268 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
269 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
270 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
271 returning from the "systemctl stop".
273 * 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
275 * timesyncd + resolved: add ugly bus calls to set NTP and DNS servers per-interface, for usage by NM
277 * add infrastructure to allocate dynamic/transient users and UID ranges, for use in user-namespaced containers, per-seat gdm login screens and gdm guest sessions
279 * machined: add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being removed or added to an existing machine
281 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
283 * introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix?
285 * systemd --user should issue sd_notify() upon reaching basic.target, not on becoming idle
287 * consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions
289 * dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
291 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
292 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
294 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
296 * maybe provide an API to allow migration of foreign PIDs into existing scopes.
298 * maybe support a new very "soft" reboot mode, that simply kills all processes, disassembles everything, flushes /run and sysvipc, and then reexecs systemd again
300 * man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
302 * man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
304 * "machinectl list" should probably show columns for OS version and IP addresses
306 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
309 - allow creation of units from scratch
310 - use equvalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
311 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
313 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
315 * exponential backoff in timesyncd and resolved when we cannot reach a server
317 * extract_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that
318 currently uses FOREACH_WORD and friends. For example, most conf
319 parsing callbacks should use it.
321 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
323 * systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
326 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
327 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
330 - add LLDP client side support
331 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
332 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
333 - expose in the API the following bits:
334 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
335 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
336 - option 123, 144, geolocation
337 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
338 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
339 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
340 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
341 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
342 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
343 - allow DUID/IAID to be customized, see issue #394.
344 - support configuration option for TSO (tcp segmentation offload)
345 - networkd: whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
348 - put networkd events and rtnl events at a higher priority, so that
349 we always process them before we process client requests
351 - add display of private key types (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4034#appendix-A.1.1)?
356 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
358 - dname: Not necessary for plain DNS as synthesized cname is handed out instead if we do not
359 announce dname support. However, for DNSSEC it is necessary as the synthesized cname
363 * Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
365 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
367 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
369 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
370 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
371 - fstab-generator: support systemd.volatile=yes|no|state on the kernel cmdline, too, similar to nspawn's --volatile=
373 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
375 * timer units: actually add extra delays to timer units with high AccuracySec values, don't start them already when we are awake...
377 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
379 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
381 * mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied
383 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
384 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
386 * 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)
388 * sd-event: generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
390 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
392 * consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
394 * sd-event: define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
396 * gpt-auto-generator:
397 - Support LUKS for root devices
398 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
399 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
401 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
402 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
403 when it is otherwise off
405 * MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
407 * "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
410 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
411 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
414 * socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
415 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
416 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
417 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
418 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
420 * New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
422 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
423 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
424 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
425 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
426 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
427 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
430 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
431 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
432 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
433 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
434 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
435 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
436 the hierarchies of child processes
439 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
440 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
442 * Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
444 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
446 * machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
448 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
450 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
452 * unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
454 * 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
456 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
458 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
459 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
462 * refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
464 * btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
466 * make sure gdm does not use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
468 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
470 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
472 * allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
473 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
477 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
478 - kdbus: process fd=-1 for incoming msgs
479 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
480 - kdbus: maybe add controlling tty metadata fields
481 - 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
482 - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
483 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
484 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
485 - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async?
486 - kdbus: matches against source or destination pids for an "strace -p"-like feel. Problem: The PID info needs to be available in userspace too...
487 - longer term: priority inheritance
490 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
493 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
494 - test bloom filter generation indexes
495 - bus-proxy: when passing messages from kdbus, make sure we properly
496 handle the case where a large number of fds is appended that we
497 cannot pass into sendmsg() of the AF_UNIX sokcet (which only accepts
499 - kdbus: introduce a concept of "send-only" connections
500 - 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.
503 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
504 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
506 * in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
507 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
508 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
510 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
512 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
513 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
515 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
517 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
519 * maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
521 * cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
524 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
525 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
527 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
528 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
529 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
532 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
533 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
535 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
537 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
538 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
539 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
542 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
543 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
544 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
547 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
549 * journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
551 * remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
553 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
555 * write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
557 * think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
559 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
561 * introduce ExecCondition= in services
564 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
565 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
566 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
568 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
570 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
572 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
575 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
576 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
577 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
578 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
579 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
580 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
581 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
582 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
583 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
584 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
585 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
587 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
588 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
589 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
591 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
592 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
593 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
594 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
595 - given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
596 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
597 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
598 - expose orientation sensors and tablet mode through logind
600 * exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
602 * service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
605 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
606 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
607 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
608 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
609 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
610 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
611 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
612 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
613 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
614 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
615 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
616 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
617 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
618 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
619 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
620 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
621 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
622 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
623 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
624 - 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.
625 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
626 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
627 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
628 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
629 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
630 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
631 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
632 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
633 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
634 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
635 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
636 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
637 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
638 to syslog when it works again.
639 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
640 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
641 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
642 so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
643 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
644 - optionally support running journald from the command line for testing purposes in external projects
645 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
646 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
648 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
649 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
650 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
651 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
652 the most common operations.
655 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
656 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
657 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
658 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
659 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
660 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
661 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
662 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
663 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
664 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
665 - man: add more examples to man pages
666 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
669 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
670 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
671 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
672 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
673 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
674 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
675 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
676 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
677 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
678 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
679 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
680 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
681 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
682 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
685 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
686 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
687 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
690 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
691 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
693 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
694 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
695 - when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we will not support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200
696 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
698 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
700 * 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().
702 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
704 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
706 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
707 waiting for the timeout
709 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
711 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
714 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
717 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
718 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
719 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
720 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
722 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
723 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
725 * after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
727 * make timer units go away after they elapsed
729 * move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
731 * create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
733 * allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
735 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
737 * drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
738 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
739 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
740 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
741 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
742 but much rather a disconnect on success.
744 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
746 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
748 * rename "userspace" to "core-os"
750 * load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
751 verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
753 * introduce Type=pid-file
755 * change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
757 * when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
759 * ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
764 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
765 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
767 * 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
769 * introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
771 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
773 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
775 * default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
777 * save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
779 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
781 * default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
783 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
784 needs to be auto-respawned?
786 * when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
789 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
791 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
793 * for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested
795 * hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
797 * when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
799 * allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
800 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
802 * move PAM code into its own binary
804 * implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
805 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
807 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
809 * add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
811 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
812 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
813 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
815 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
816 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
818 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
820 * GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
822 * write blog stories about:
823 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
824 - enabling dbus services
826 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
828 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
829 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
831 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
832 - the journal HTTP iface
833 - non-cgroup resource management
834 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
835 - refreshed, longer missions statement
836 - calendar time events
837 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
838 - how to create your own target
839 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
840 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
842 * allow port=0 in .socket units
844 * recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
846 * Support --test based on current system state
848 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
850 * maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
852 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
854 * fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
857 - figure out a simple way to wait for journal events in a way that
859 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
862 - plot per-process IO utilization
863 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
864 - document initcall_debug
865 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
868 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
869 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
871 - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
874 - add support for more attribute types
875 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
878 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
879 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
880 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
881 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
882 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
883 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
884 - add more attribute support for SIT tunnel
885 - work with non-Ethernet devices
886 - add support for more bond options
888 * networkd-wait-online:
889 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
892 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
893 - support RFC4702 (pass FQDN)
896 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
897 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
898 - write more test cases
899 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
900 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
901 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
902 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
903 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
905 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
911 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
912 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
914 * fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
916 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
918 * patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
920 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
922 * drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields
924 * dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and should not
926 * dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
928 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
930 * 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=
932 * fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
934 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
936 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
938 * register catalog database signature as file magic
940 * zsh shell completion:
941 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
942 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
947 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
949 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
951 * Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
955 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
957 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
959 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
961 Scheduled for removal or fixing:
963 * xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)