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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 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
37
38 * remove Capabilities=, after all AmbientCapabilities= and CapabilityBoundingSet= should be enough.
39
40 * support for the new copy_file_range() syscall
41
42 * add systemctl stop --job-mode=triggering that follows TRIGGERED_BY deps and adds them to the same transaction
43
44 * coredump logic should use prlimit() to query RLIMIT_CORE of the dumpee and honour it
45
46 * Add a MaxRuntimeSec= setting for service units (or units in general) to terminate units after they ran for a certain
47 amount of time
48
49 * Maybe add a way how users can "pin" units into memory, so that they are not subject to automatic GC?
50
51 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
52 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
53
54 * add an explicit parser for LimitNICE= and LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
55 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
56 specifications. Also, for LimitNICE= maybe introduce a syntax such
57 as "+5" or "-7" in order to make the limits more readable as they
58 are otherwise shifted by 20.
59
60 * do something about "/control" subcgroups in the unified cgroup hierarchy
61
62 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
63
64 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller (only after the cpuset controller got ported to the unified hierarchy)
65
66 * add a new command "systemctl revert" or so, that removes all dropin
67 snippets in /run and /etc, and all unit files with counterparts in
68 /usr, and thus undoes what "systemctl set-property" and "systemctl
69 edit" create. Maybe even add "systemctl revert -a" to do this for
70 all units.
71
72 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
73
74 * consider throwing a warning if a service declares it wants to be "Before=" a .device unit.
75
76 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
77 as we have for debugfs. for exmaple, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
78 prefixed with /sys generally special.
79 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
80
81 * man: document that unless you use StandardError=null the shell >/dev/stderr won't work in shell scripts in services
82
83 * install: include generator dirs in unit file search paths
84
85 * rework C11 utf8.[ch] to use char32_t instead of uint32_t when referring
86 to unicode chars, to make things more expressive.
87
88 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
89
90 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
91
92 * mounting and unmounting mount points manually with different source
93 devices will result in collected collected on all devices used.
94 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030225.html
95
96 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
97 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
98 state.
99 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
100
101 * Maybe add support for the equivalent of "ethtool advertise" to .link files?
102 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030112.html
103
104 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
105 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
106 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
107 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
108 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
109
110 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
111 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
112
113 * Rework systemctl's GetAll property parsing to use the generic bus_map_all_properties() API
114
115 * implement a per-service firewall based on net_cls
116
117 * Port various tools to make use of verbs.[ch], where applicable
118
119 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
120
121 * sysfs set api in libudev is not const
122
123 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
124 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
125
126 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
127 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
128 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
129 do, for example)
130
131 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
132 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
133
134 * as soon as we have kdbus, and sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
135 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
136
137 * the install state probably shouldn't get confused by generated units, think dbus1/kdbus compat!
138
139 * in systemctl list-unit-files: show the install value the presets would suggest for a service in a third column
140
141 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
142
143 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
144 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
145 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
146 returning from the "systemctl stop".
147
148 * 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
149
150 * 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
151
152 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
153
154 * introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix?
155
156 * systemd --user should issue sd_notify() upon reaching basic.target, not on becoming idle
157
158 * consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions
159
160 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
161 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
162
163 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
164
165 * maybe provide an API to allow migration of foreign PIDs into existing scopes.
166
167 * man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
168
169 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
170
171 * systemctl edit:
172 - allow creation of units from scratch
173 - use equvalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
174 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
175
176 * exponential backoff in timesyncd and resolved when we cannot reach a server
177
178 * timesyncd + resolved: add ugly bus calls to set NTP and DNS servers per-interface, for usage by NM
179
180 * extract_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that
181 currently uses FOREACH_WORD and friends. For example, most conf
182 parsing callbacks should use it.
183
184 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
185
186 * systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
187 units are shown.
188
189 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
190 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
191
192 * resolved:
193 - put networkd events and rtnl events at a higher priority, so that
194 we always process them before we process client requests
195 - DNSSEC
196 - add display of private key types (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4034#appendix-A.1.1)?
197 - synthesize negative cache entries from NSEC/NSEC3 and drop explicit negative caching of authenticated answers
198 - mDNS/DNS-SD
199 - mDNS RR resolving
200 - service registration
201 - service/domain/types browsing
202 - avahi compat
203 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
204 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
205 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
206 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
207 - add API so NM can push DNS server info into resolved
208
209 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
210
211 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
212
213 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
214
215 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
216 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
217 - fstab-generator: support systemd.volatile=yes|no|state on the kernel cmdline, too, similar to nspawn's --volatile=
218
219 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
220
221 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
222
223 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
224
225 * mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied
226
227 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
228 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
229
230 * Run most system services with cgroupfs read-only and procfs with a more secure mode (doesn't work, since the hidepid= option is per-pid-namespace, not per-mount)
231
232 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
233
234 * gpt-auto-generator:
235 - Support LUKS for root devices
236 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
237 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
238
239 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
240 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
241 when it is otherwise off
242
243 * MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
244
245 * "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
246 /proc/$PID/exe
247
248 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
249 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
250 for ReusePort=
251
252 * socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
253 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
254 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
255 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
256 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
257
258 * New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
259
260 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
261 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
262 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
263 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
264 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
265 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
266
267 * cgroups:
268 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
269 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
270 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
271 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
272 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
273 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
274 the hierarchies of child processes
275
276 * transient units:
277 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
278 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
279
280 * Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
281
282 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
283
284 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
285
286 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
287
288 * unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
289
290 * 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
291
292 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
293
294 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
295 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
296 path anyway.
297
298 * refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
299
300 * btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
301
302 * make sure gdm does not use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
303
304 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
305
306 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
307
308 * allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
309 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
310
311 * sd-bus:
312 - EBADSLT handling
313 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
314 - kdbus: process fd=-1 for incoming msgs
315 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
316 - kdbus: maybe add controlling tty metadata fields
317 - 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
318 - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
319 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
320 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
321 - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async?
322 - kdbus: matches against source or destination pids for an "strace -p"-like feel. Problem: The PID info needs to be available in userspace too...
323 - longer term: priority inheritance
324 - dbus spec updates:
325 - kdbus mapping
326 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
327 - GVariant
328 - path escaping
329 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
330 - test bloom filter generation indexes
331 - bus-proxy: when passing messages from kdbus, make sure we properly
332 handle the case where a large number of fds is appended that we
333 cannot pass into sendmsg() of the AF_UNIX sokcet (which only accepts
334 253 messages)
335 - kdbus: introduce a concept of "send-only" connections
336 - 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.
337
338 * sd-event
339 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
340 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
341 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
342 - generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
343 - maybe add support for inotify events
344
345 * in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
346 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
347 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
348
349 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
350
351 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
352 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
353
354 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
355
356 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
357
358 * maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
359
360 * cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
361
362 * test/:
363 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
364 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
365
366 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
367 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
368 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
369 destination.
370
371 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
372 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
373
374 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
375
376 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
377 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
378 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
379 is installed.
380
381 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
382 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
383 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
384 that automatically.
385
386 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
387
388 * remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
389
390 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
391
392 * think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
393
394 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
395
396 * introduce ExecCondition= in services
397
398 * EFI:
399 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
400 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
401 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
402
403 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
404
405 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
406
407 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
408
409 * logind:
410 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
411 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
412 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
413 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
414 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
415 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
416 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
417 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
418 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
419 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
420 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
421 needs setuid().
422 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
423 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
424 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
425 complete.
426 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
427 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
428 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
429 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
430 - given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
431 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
432 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
433 - expose orientation sensors and tablet mode through logind
434 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
435 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
436 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
437 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
438 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
439 relogins
440
441 * exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
442
443 * service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
444
445 * journal:
446 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
447 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
448 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
449 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
450 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
451 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
452 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
453 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
454 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
455 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
456 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
457 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
458 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
459 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
460 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
461 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
462 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
463 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
464 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
465 - 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.
466 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
467 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
468 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
469 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
470 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
471 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
472 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
473 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
474 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
475 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
476 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
477 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
478 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
479 to syslog when it works again.
480 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
481 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
482 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
483 so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
484 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
485 - optionally support running journald from the command line for testing purposes in external projects
486 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
487 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
488 journals in.
489 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
490 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
491 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
492 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
493 the most common operations.
494 - journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted
495 commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
496 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
497 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
498 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
499 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
500 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
501 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
502 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
503 operation.
504 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
505 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
506 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
507 binary logs data
508 - change journalctl -M to acquire fd to journal directory via machined, and
509 then operate on that via openat() instead of absolute paths
510 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
511 - log accumulated resource usage after each service invocation
512 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
513 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
514 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
515 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
516
517 * document:
518 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
519 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
520 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
521 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
522 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
523 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
524 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
525 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
526 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
527 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
528 - man: add more examples to man pages
529 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
530
531 * systemctl:
532 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
533 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
534 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
535 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
536 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
537 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
538 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
539 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
540 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
541 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
542 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
543 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
544
545 * unit install:
546 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
547 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
548 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
549
550 * timer units:
551 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
552 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
553 o DST changes
554 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
555 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
556 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
557
558 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
559
560 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
561
562 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
563
564 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
565 waiting for the timeout
566
567 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
568
569 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
570
571 * nspawn:
572 - to allow "linking" of nspawn containers, extend --network-bridge= so
573 that it can dynamically create bridge interfaces that are refcounted
574 by the containers on them. For each group of containers to link together
575 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty
576 /etc/machine-id (not OK).
577 - nspawn -x should support ephemeral instances of gpt images
578 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
579 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
580 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
581 from the kernel's logs.
582 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
583 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
584 interface be missing
585 - don't copy /etc/resolv.conf from host into container unless we are in
586 shared-network mode
587 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
588 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
589 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
590 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
591 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
592 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
593 PID 1...
594 - should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages
595 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
596 running, remove them when shut down.
597 - add a logic for cleaning up read-only, hidden container images in
598 /var/lib/machines that are not ancestors of any non-hidden containers
599 - Improve error message when --bind= is used on a non-existing source
600 directory
601 - maybe make copying of /etc/resolv.conf optional, and skip it if --read-only
602 is used
603
604 * machined:
605 - "machinectl list" should probably show columns for OS version and IP
606 addresses
607 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
608 removed or added to an existing machine
609 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
610 difference host, via ssh
611 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
612 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
613 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
614 question
615 - "machinectl list-images" should show os-release data, as well as
616 machine-info data (including deployment level)
617 - "machinectl history"
618 - "machinectl diff"
619 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
620 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
621
622 * importd:
623 - generate a nice warning if mkfs.btrfs is missing
624
625 * cryptsetup:
626 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
627 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
628 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
629 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
630
631 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
632 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
633
634 * create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
635
636 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
637
638 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
639
640 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
641
642 * rename "userspace" to "core-os"
643
644 * udev:
645 - move to LGPL
646 - kill scsi_id
647 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
648 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
649
650 * 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
651
652 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
653
654 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
655
656 * coredump:
657 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
658 - move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
659 - make the handler check /proc/$PID/rlimits for RLIMIT_CORE,
660 and supress coredump if turned off. Then change RLIMIT_CORE to
661 infinity by default for all services. This then allows per-service
662 control of coredumping.
663
664 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
665
666 * default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
667
668 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
669 needs to be auto-respawned?
670
671 * tmpfiles:
672 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
673 - replace F with f+.
674 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
675 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
676 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
677 calls follow symlinks.
678
679 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
680
681 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
682 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
683 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
684
685 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
686 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
687
688 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
689
690 * write blog stories about:
691 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
692 - enabling dbus services
693 - status update
694 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
695 - remote access
696 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
697 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
698 - auto-restart
699 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
700 - the journal HTTP iface
701 - non-cgroup resource management
702 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
703 - refreshed, longer missions statement
704 - calendar time events
705 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
706 - how to create your own target
707 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
708 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
709
710 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
711
712 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
713
714 * fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
715
716 * pid1:
717 - .timer units should optionally support CLOCK_BOOTTIME in addition to CLOCK_MONOTONIC
718 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
719 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
720 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
721 that are not supported...
722 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
723 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
724 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
725 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
726 - GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
727 - move PAM code into its own binary
728 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
729 - for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested
730 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
731 - Support --test based on current system state
732 - 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().
733 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
734 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
735 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
736 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
737 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
738 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
739 but much rather a disconnect on success.
740 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
741 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
742
743 * unit files:
744 - allow port=0 in .socket units
745 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
746 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
747 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
748 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
749 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
750 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
751 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
752 - load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
753 verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
754 - introduce Type=pid-file
755 - ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
756 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
757 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
758 - Set NoNewPrivileges= on all of our own services, where that makes sense
759 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
760 - consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
761
762 * systemd-python:
763 - figure out a simple way to wait for journal events in a way that
764 works with ^C
765 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
766
767 * bootchart:
768 - plot per-process IO utilization
769 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
770 - document initcall_debug
771 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
772
773 * udev-link-config:
774 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
775 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
776 on Path= matching
777 - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
778
779 * sd-rtnl:
780 - add support for more attribute types
781 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
782
783 * networkd:
784 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
785 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
786 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
787 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
788 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
789 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
790 - add more attribute support for SIT tunnel
791 - work with non-Ethernet devices
792 - add support for more bond options
793 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
794 - add LLDP client side support
795 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
796 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
797 - expose in the API the following bits:
798 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
799 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
800 - option 123, 144, geolocation
801 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
802 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
803 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
804 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
805 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
806 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
807 - allow DUID/IAID to be customized, see issue #394.
808 - support configuration option for TSO (tcp segmentation offload)
809 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
810
811 * networkd-wait-online:
812 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
813
814 * dhcp:
815 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
816 - support RFC4702 (pass FQDN)
817
818 * dhcp6:
819 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
820 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
821 - write more test cases
822 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
823 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
824 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
825 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
826 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
827 or interface down
828 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
829 this behavior
830
831 External:
832
833 * dbus:
834 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
835 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
836
837 * fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
838
839 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
840
841 * patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
842
843 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
844
845 * drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields
846
847 * dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
848
849 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
850
851 * 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=
852
853 * fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
854
855 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
856
857 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
858
859 * register catalog database signature as file magic
860
861 * zsh shell completion:
862 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
863 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
864
865
866 Regularly:
867
868 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
869
870 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
871
872 * Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
873
874 * pahole
875
876 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
877
878 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
879
880 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields