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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 * code cleanup: retire FOREACH_WORD_QUOTED, port to extract_first_word() loops instead
27
28 * replace manual readdir() loops with FOREACH_DIRENT or FOREACH_DIRENT_ALL
29
30 * Get rid of the last strerror() invocations in favour of %m and strerror_r()
31
32 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
33
34 Features:
35
36 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
37 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
38
39 * For services: replace the default Requires=basic.target with After=basic.target + Requires=sysinit.target.
40
41 * drop "Overridable" dependency types
42
43 * document precise effect of DefaultDependencies=yes
44
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.
50
51 * do something about "/control" subcgroups in the unified cgroup hierarchy
52
53 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
54
55 * push CPUAffinity also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller (only after the cpuset controller got ported to the unified hierarchy)
56
57 * add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
58
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
63 all units.
64
65 * sd-event: maybe add support for inotify events
66
67 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
68
69 * nspawn should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages
70
71 * nspawn should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload PID 1...
72
73 * consider throwing a warning if a service declares it wants to be "Before=" a .device unit.
74
75 * "systemctl edit" should know a mode to create a new unit file
76
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
81
82 * nspawn: fix logic always print a final newline on output.
83 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
84
85 * make nspawn's --network-veth switch more powerful:
86 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/033121.html
87
88 * man: document that unless you use StandardError=null the shell >/dev/stderr won't work in shell scripts in services
89
90 * "systemctl daemon-reload" should result in /etc/systemd/system.conf being reloaded by systemd
91
92 * install: include generator dirs in unit file search paths
93
94 * logind: follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and relogins
95
96 * invent a better systemd-run scheme for naming scopes, that works with remoting
97
98 * add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through binary logs data
99
100 * change journalctl -M to acquire fd to journal directory via machined, and then operate on that via openat() instead of absolute paths
101
102 * add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
103
104 * log accumulated resource usage after each service invocation
105
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
107
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.
111
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.
113
114 * nspawn: don't copy /etc/resolv.conf from host into container unless we are in shared-network mode
115
116 * nspawn: optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is running, remove them when shut down.
117
118 * importd: generate a nice warning if mkfs.btrfs is missing
119
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
121
122 * nspawn: Improve error message when --bind= is used on a non-existing source directory
123
124 * nspawn: maybe make copying of /etc/resolv.conf optional, and skip it if --read-only is used
125
126 * man: document how update dkr images works with machinectl
127 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028630.html
128
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
130
131 * rework C11 utf8.[ch] to use char32_t instead of uint32_t when referring
132 to unicode chars, to make things more expressive.
133
134 * "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
135 difference host, via ssh
136
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.
140
141 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
142
143 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
144
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
148
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
151 state.
152 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
153
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
156
157 * .timer units should optionally support CLOCK_BOOTTIME in addition to CLOCK_MONOTONIC
158
159 * When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
160 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
161
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
165
166 * journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
167 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written
168 to.
169
170 * assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
171
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.
176
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
180
181 * maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
182 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
183
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.
189
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.
194
195 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
196 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
197
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
203 operation.
204
205 * logind: maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
206
207 * Set NoNewPrivileges= on all of our own services, where that makes sense
208
209 * Rework systemctl's GetAll property parsing to use the generic bus_map_all_properties() API
210
211 * rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
212
213 * import-dkr: support tarsum checksum verification, if it becomes reality one day...
214
215 * import-dkr: convert json bits to nspawn configuration
216
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
218
219 * introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
220
221 * "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in question
222
223 * "machinectl list-images" should show os-release data, as well as machine-info data (including deployment level)
224
225 * Port various tools to make use of verbs.[ch], where applicable
226
227 * "machinectl history"
228
229 * "machinectl diff"
230
231 * "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
232
233 * systemd-nspawn -x should support ephemeral instances of gpt images
234
235 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
236
237 * sysfs set api in libudev is not const
238
239 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
240 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
241
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
245 do, for example)
246
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.
250
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.
255
256 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
257 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
258
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
261
262 * the install state probably shouldn't get confused by generated units, think dbus1/kdbus compat!
263
264 * in systemctl list-unit-files: show the install value the presets would suggest for a service in a third column
265
266 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
267
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".
272
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
274
275 * timesyncd + resolved: add ugly bus calls to set NTP and DNS servers per-interface, for usage by NM
276
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
278
279 * machined: add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being removed or added to an existing machine
280
281 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
282
283 * introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix?
284
285 * systemd --user should issue sd_notify() upon reaching basic.target, not on becoming idle
286
287 * consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions
288
289 * dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
290
291 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
292 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
293
294 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
295
296 * maybe provide an API to allow migration of foreign PIDs into existing scopes.
297
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
299
300 * man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
301
302 * man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
303
304 * "machinectl list" should probably show columns for OS version and IP addresses
305
306 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
307
308 * systemctl edit:
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.
312
313 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
314
315 * exponential backoff in timesyncd and resolved when we cannot reach a server
316
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.
320
321 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
322
323 * systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
324 units are shown.
325
326 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
327 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
328
329 * networkd:
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
346
347 * resolved:
348 - put networkd events and rtnl events at a higher priority, so that
349 we always process them before we process client requests
350 - DNSSEC
351 - add display of private key types (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4034#appendix-A.1.1)?
352 - DNS
353 - search paths
354 - mDNS/DNS-SD
355 - avahi compat
356 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
357 - edns0
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
360 will not be signed.
361 - cname on PTR (?)
362
363 * Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
364
365 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
366
367 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
368
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=
372
373 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
374
375 * timer units: actually add extra delays to timer units with high AccuracySec values, don't start them already when we are awake...
376
377 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
378
379 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
380
381 * mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied
382
383 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
384 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
385
386 * Run most system services with cgroupfs read-only and procfs with a more secure mode (doesn't work, since the hidepid= option is per-pid-namespace, not per-mount)
387
388 * sd-event: generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
389
390 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
391
392 * consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
393
394 * sd-event: define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
395
396 * gpt-auto-generator:
397 - Support LUKS for root devices
398 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
399 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
400
401 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
402 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
403 when it is otherwise off
404
405 * MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
406
407 * "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
408 /proc/$PID/exe
409
410 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
411 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
412 for ReusePort=
413
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.
419
420 * New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
421
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
428
429 * cgroups:
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
437
438 * transient units:
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
441
442 * Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
443
444 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
445
446 * machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
447
448 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
449
450 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
451
452 * unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
453
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
455
456 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
457
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
460 path anyway.
461
462 * refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
463
464 * btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
465
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
467
468 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
469
470 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
471
472 * allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
473 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
474
475 * sd-bus:
476 - EBADSLT handling
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
488 - dbus spec updates:
489 - kdbus mapping
490 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
491 - GVariant
492 - path escaping
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
498 253 messages)
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.
501
502 * sd-event
503 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
504 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
505
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
509
510 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
511
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.
514
515 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
516
517 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
518
519 * maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
520
521 * cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
522
523 * test/:
524 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
525 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
526
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
530 destination.
531
532 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
533 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
534
535 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
536
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
540 is installed.
541
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
545 that automatically.
546
547 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
548
549 * journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
550
551 * remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
552
553 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
554
555 * write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
556
557 * think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
558
559 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
560
561 * introduce ExecCondition= in services
562
563 * EFI:
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
567
568 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
569
570 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
571
572 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
573
574 * logind:
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
586 needs setuid().
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
590 complete.
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
599
600 * exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
601
602 * service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
603
604 * journal:
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
647 journals in.
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.
653
654 * document:
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
667
668 * systemctl:
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
683
684 * unit install:
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)
688
689 * timer units:
690 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
691 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
692 o DST changes
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
697
698 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
699
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().
701
702 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
703
704 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
705
706 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
707 waiting for the timeout
708
709 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
710
711 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
712
713 * nspawn:
714 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
715
716 * cryptsetup:
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
721
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
724
725 * after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
726
727 * make timer units go away after they elapsed
728
729 * move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
730
731 * create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
732
733 * allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
734
735 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
736
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.
743
744 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
745
746 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
747
748 * rename "userspace" to "core-os"
749
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.
752
753 * introduce Type=pid-file
754
755 * change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
756
757 * when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
758
759 * ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
760
761 * udev:
762 - move to LGPL
763 - kill scsi_id
764 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
765 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
766
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
768
769 * introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
770
771 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
772
773 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
774
775 * default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
776
777 * save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
778
779 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
780
781 * default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
782
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?
785
786 * when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
787
788 * tmpfiles:
789 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
790 - replace F with f+.
791 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
792
793 * for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested
794
795 * hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
796
797 * when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
798
799 * allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
800 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
801
802 * move PAM code into its own binary
803
804 * implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
805 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
806
807 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
808
809 * add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
810
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
814
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.
817
818 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
819
820 * GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
821
822 * write blog stories about:
823 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
824 - enabling dbus services
825 - status update
826 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
827 - remote access
828 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
829 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
830 - auto-restart
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
841
842 * allow port=0 in .socket units
843
844 * recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
845
846 * Support --test based on current system state
847
848 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
849
850 * maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
851
852 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
853
854 * fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
855
856 * systemd-python:
857 - figure out a simple way to wait for journal events in a way that
858 works with ^C
859 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
860
861 * bootchart:
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?
866
867 * udev-link-config:
868 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
869 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
870 on Path= matching
871 - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
872
873 * sd-rtnl:
874 - add support for more attribute types
875 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
876
877 * networkd:
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
887
888 * networkd-wait-online:
889 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
890
891 * dhcp:
892 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
893 - support RFC4702 (pass FQDN)
894
895 * dhcp6:
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
904 or interface down
905 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
906 this behavior
907
908 External:
909
910 * dbus:
911 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
912 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
913
914 * fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
915
916 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
917
918 * patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
919
920 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
921
922 * drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields
923
924 * dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and should not
925
926 * dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
927
928 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
929
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=
931
932 * fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
933
934 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
935
936 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
937
938 * register catalog database signature as file magic
939
940 * zsh shell completion:
941 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
942 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
943
944
945 Regularly:
946
947 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
948
949 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
950
951 * Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
952
953 * pahole
954
955 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
956
957 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
958
959 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
960
961 Scheduled for removal or fixing:
962
963 * xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)