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1 Bugfixes:
2
3 * the error paths in usbffs_dispatch_ep() leak memory
4
5 * copy.c: set the right chattrs before copying files and others after
6
7 External:
8
9 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
10
11 * wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
12
13 Janitorial Clean-ups:
14
15 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
16
17 * copy.c: set the right chattrs before copying files and others after
18
19 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
20 semantics, like we do for device.c now
21
22 Features:
23
24 * the stop-when-unneded feature should be reworked: there should be a queue of
25 units, and we should only enqeueu stop jobs from a defer event that processes
26 queue instead of right-away when we assume that a unit is now unneeded.
27
28 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
29 original defaults before calling parse_config()
30
31 * Add OnTimezoneChange= and OnTimeChange= stanzas to .timer units in order to
32 schedule events based on time and timezone changes.
33
34 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
35
36 * cgroups: figure out if we can somehow communicate in a cleaner way whether a
37 systemd instance not running in the cgroup root shall or shall not manage the
38 attributes of its top-level cgroup. Currently it assumes it manages all, but
39 then might get EPERM due to permission porblems/userns, which is OK, but this
40 should be revisited to make clearer and also work if the payload systemd runs
41 with full privs and without userns.
42
43 * portables: introduce a new unit file directory /etc/systemd/system.attached/
44 or so, where we attach portable services to
45
46 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
47 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
48
49 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
50 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
51 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
52 files and suchlike we operate on.
53
54 * introduce a new SystemCallFilters= group called "@system-service" with a
55 sensible default set for system services, then make use of them in portable
56 profiles
57
58 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
59
60 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
61
62 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
63 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
64
65 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
66 other doesn't. What a desaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
67 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
68 numbers.
69
70 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
71 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
72 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
73 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
74 unlinked from any dir.
75
76 * port systemctl, systemd-inhibit, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
77
78 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
79
80 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
81
82 * SuccessExitStatus= and friends should probably also accept symbolic exit
83 codes names, i.e. error codes from the list maintained in exit-codes.[ch]
84
85 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
86 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
87 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
88 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
89 should reflink the image file itself.
90
91 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
92 specific paths only like this.
93
94 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
95 directory trees from the host to te services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
96 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
97 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
98 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
99
100 * nspawn's console TTY should be allocated from within the container, not
101 mounted in from the outside
102
103 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
104
105 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
106
107 * tree-wide: ensure we always block the signals we hook into with
108 sd_event_add_signal() first
109
110 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
111 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
112
113 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
114 project quota
115
116 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
117 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
118 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
119 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
120 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
121 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
122 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
123 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
124
125 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
126 for root, but only then.
127
128 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
129
130 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
131 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
132
133 * add bpf-based implementation of devices cgroup controller logic for compat
134 with cgroupsv2 as supported by newest kernel
135
136 * introduce sd_id128_get_boot_app_specific() which is like
137 sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific(). After all on long-running systems both
138 IDs have similar properties.
139
140 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
141 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
142
143 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
144 host-side interface pointing to the container.
145
146 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
147 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
148 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
149 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
150 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
151
152 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
153
154 * deprecate PermissionsStartOnly= and RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of the ExecStart= prefix chars
155
156 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
157 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
158 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
159
160 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers, and then drop
161 implicit btrfs loopback magic in machined
162
163 * Add NetworkNamespacePath= to specify a path to a network namespace
164
165 * maybe use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (i.e. the env var the reproducible builds folks
166 introduced) as the RTC epoch, instead of the mtime of NEWS.
167
168 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
169 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
170
171 * blog about fd store and restartable services
172
173 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
174
175 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
176 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
177
178 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
179 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
180 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
181 ID is available.
182
183 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
184 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
185 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
186
187 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
188 parameters
189
190 * a new "systemd-analyze security" tool outputting a checklist of security
191 features a service does and does not implement
192
193 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
194 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
195 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
196 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
197 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
198 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
199 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
200
201 * Introduce "exit" as an EmergencyAction value, and allow to configure a
202 per-unit success/failure exit code to configure. This would be useful for
203 running commands inside of services inside of containers, which could then
204 propagate their failure state all the way up.
205
206 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
207 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
208
209 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
210 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
211 wait to retrieve their exit data.
212
213 * maybe set a new set of env vars for services, based on RuntimeDirectory=,
214 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory= and ConfigurationDirectory=
215 automatically. For example, there could be $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY,
216 $STATE_DIRECTORY, $LOGS_DIRECTORY=, $CACHE_DIRECTORY and
217 $CONFIGURATION_DIRECTORY or so. This could be useful to write services that
218 can adapt to varying directories for these purposes. Special care has to be
219 taken if multiple dirs are configured. Maybe avoid setting the env vars in
220 that case?
221
222 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
223 about it in the resource log message
224
225 * add "systemctl purge" for flushing out configuration, state, logs, ... of a
226 unit when it is stopped
227
228 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
229 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
230
231 * replace all uses of fgets() + LINE_MAX by read_line()
232
233 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
234 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
235 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
236
237 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
238 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
239
240 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
241
242 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
243 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
244 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
245 logging.
246
247 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
248 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
249 "convertible" form factor
250
251 * Maybe add a small tool invoked early at boot, that adds in or resizes
252 partitions automatically, to be used when the media used is actually larger
253 than the image written onto it is.
254
255 * Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
256 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
257 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
258 as MAINPID.
259
260 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
261 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
262 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
263
264 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
265 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
266
267 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
268 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
269 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
270 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
271 natural habitat.
272
273 * maybe introduce gpt auto discovery for /var/tmp?
274
275 * maybe add gpt-partition-based user management: each user gets his own
276 LUKS-encrypted GPT partition with a new GPT type. A small nss module
277 enumerates users via udev partition enumeration. UIDs are assigned in a fixed
278 way: the partition index is added as offset to some fixed base uid. User name
279 is stored in GPT partition name. A PAM module authenticates the user via the
280 LUKS partition password. Benefits: strong per-user security, compatibility
281 with stateless/read-only/verity-enabled root. (other idea: do this based on
282 loopback files in /home, without GPT involvement)
283
284 * gpt-auto logic: introduce support for discovering /var matching an image. For
285 that, use a partition type UUID that is hashed from the OS name (as encoded
286 in /etc/os-release), the architecture, and 4 new bits from the gpt flags
287 field of the root partition. This way can easily support multiple OS
288 installations on the same GPT partition table, without problems with
289 unmatched /var partitions.
290
291 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
292 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
293 /usr is mounted into.
294
295 * gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
296
297 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
298
299 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
300 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
301 relative to the configured default value.
302
303 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
304
305 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
306
307 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
308
309 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
310
311 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
312
313 * ProtectKernelLogs= (drops CAP_SYSLOG, add seccomp for syslog() syscall, and DeviceAllow to /dev/kmsg) in service files
314
315 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
316
317 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
318
319 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
320
321 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
322
323 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
324
325 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
326 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
327 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
328
329 * DeviceAllow= should also generate seccomp filters for mknod()
330
331 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
332
333 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
334
335 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
336 partitions
337
338 * expose the "privileged" flag of ExecCommand on the bus, and open it up to
339 transient units
340
341 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
342 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
343 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
344 mapping to work.
345
346 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
347
348 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
349
350 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
351
352 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
353 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
354
355 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
356 reload the unit file anyway
357
358 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
359 from the SIGBUS handler
360
361 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
362
363 * resolved: when routing queries, make sure only look for the *longest* suffix...
364
365 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
366 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
367
368 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
369
370 * add systemctl stop --job-mode=triggering that follows TRIGGERED_BY deps and adds them to the same transaction
371
372 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
373 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
374
375 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
376 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
377 specifications.
378
379 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
380
381 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller (only after the cpuset controller got ported to the unified hierarchy)
382
383 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
384
385 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
386 as we have for debugfs. for exmaple, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
387 prefixed with /sys generally special.
388 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
389
390 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
391
392 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
393
394 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
395 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
396 state.
397 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
398
399 * Maybe add support for the equivalent of "ethtool advertise" to .link files?
400 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030112.html
401
402 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
403 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
404 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
405 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
406 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
407
408 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
409 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
410
411 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
412
413 * sysfs set api in libudev is not const
414
415 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
416 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
417
418 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
419 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
420 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
421 do, for example)
422
423 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
424 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
425
426 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
427 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
428
429 * in systemctl list-unit-files: show the install value the presets would suggest for a service in a third column
430
431 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
432
433 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
434 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
435 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
436 returning from the "systemctl stop".
437
438 * 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
439
440 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
441
442 * introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix?
443
444 * consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions
445
446 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
447 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
448
449 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
450
451 * man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
452
453 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
454
455 * systemctl edit: use equvalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
456 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
457
458 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
459
460 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
461
462 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
463
464 * systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
465 units are shown.
466
467 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
468 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
469
470 * resolved:
471 - mDNS/DNS-SD
472 - service registration
473 - service/domain/types browsing
474 - avahi compat
475 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
476 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
477 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
478 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
479 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
480 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
481
482 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
483
484 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
485
486 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
487
488 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
489 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
490
491 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
492
493 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
494
495 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
496
497 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
498 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
499
500 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
501
502 * gpt-auto-generator:
503 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
504 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
505
506 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
507 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
508 when it is otherwise off
509
510 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
511
512 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
513 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
514 for ReusePort=
515
516 * socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
517 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
518 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
519 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
520 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
521
522 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
523 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
524 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
525 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
526 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
527 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
528
529 * cgroups:
530 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
531 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
532 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
533 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
534 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
535 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
536 the hierarchies of child processes
537
538 * transient units:
539 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
540
541 * Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
542
543 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
544
545 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
546
547 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
548
549 * 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
550
551 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
552
553 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
554 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
555 path anyway.
556
557 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
558
559 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
560
561 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
562
563 * allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
564 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
565
566 * sd-bus:
567 - EBADSLT handling
568 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
569 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
570 - 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
571 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
572 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
573 - longer term: priority inheritance
574 - dbus spec updates:
575 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
576 - GVariant
577 - path escaping
578 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
579
580 * sd-event
581 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
582 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
583 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
584 - generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
585 - maybe add support for inotify events (which we can do safely now, with O_PATH)
586
587 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
588
589 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
590 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
591
592 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
593
594 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
595
596 * maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
597
598 * test/:
599 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
600
601 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
602 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
603 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
604 destination.
605
606 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
607 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
608
609 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
610
611 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
612 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
613 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
614 is installed.
615
616 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
617 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
618 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
619 that automatically.
620
621 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
622
623 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
624
625 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
626
627 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
628
629 * introduce ExecCondition= in services
630
631 * EFI:
632 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
633 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
634 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
635
636 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
637
638 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
639
640 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
641
642 * logind:
643 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
644 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
645 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
646 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
647 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
648 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
649 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
650 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
651 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
652 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
653 needs setuid().
654 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
655 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
656 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
657 complete.
658 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
659 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
660 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
661 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
662 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
663 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
664 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
665 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
666 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
667 relogins
668
669 * exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
670
671 * journal:
672 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
673 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
674 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
675 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
676 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
677 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
678 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
679 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
680 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
681 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
682 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
683 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
684 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
685 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
686 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
687 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
688 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
689 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
690 - 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.
691 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
692 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
693 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
694 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
695 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
696 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
697 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
698 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
699 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
700 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
701 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
702 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
703 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
704 to syslog when it works again.
705 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
706 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
707 so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
708 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
709 - optionally support running journald from the command line for testing purposes in external projects
710 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
711 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
712 journals in.
713 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
714 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
715 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
716 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
717 the most common operations.
718 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
719 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
720 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
721 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
722 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
723 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
724 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
725 operation.
726 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
727 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
728 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
729 binary logs data
730 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
731 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
732 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
733 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
734 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
735
736 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
737 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
738 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
739 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
740
741 * document:
742 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
743 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
744 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
745 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
746 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
747 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
748 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
749 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
750 - man: add more examples to man pages
751 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
752
753 * systemctl:
754 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
755 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
756 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
757 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
758 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
759 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
760 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
761 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
762 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
763 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
764
765 * unit install:
766 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
767 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
768
769 * timer units:
770 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
771 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
772 o DST changes
773 o timezone changes
774 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
775
776 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
777
778 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
779
780 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
781
782 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
783
784 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
785
786 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
787
788 * nspawn:
789 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
790 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
791 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
792 from the kernel's logs.
793 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
794 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
795 interface be missing
796 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
797 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
798 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
799 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
800 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
801 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
802 PID 1...
803 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
804 running, remove them when shut down.
805 - maybe make copying of /etc/resolv.conf optional, and skip it if --read-only
806 is used
807
808 * dissect
809 - refuse mounting over a mount point
810 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
811
812 * machined:
813 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
814 removed or added to an existing machine
815 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
816 difference host, via ssh
817 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
818 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
819 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
820 question
821 - "machinectl list-images" should show os-release data, as well as
822 machine-info data (including deployment level)
823 - "machinectl history"
824 - "machinectl diff"
825 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
826 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
827
828 * importd:
829 - generate a nice warning if mkfs.btrfs is missing
830
831 * cryptsetup:
832 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
833 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
834
835 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
836 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
837
838 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
839
840 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
841
842 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
843
844 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
845
846 * udev:
847 - move to LGPL
848 - kill scsi_id
849 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
850 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
851
852 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
853
854 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
855
856 * coredump:
857 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
858 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
859
860 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
861
862 * default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
863
864 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
865 needs to be auto-respawned?
866
867 * tmpfiles:
868 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
869 - replace F with f+.
870 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
871 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
872 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
873 calls follow symlinks.
874
875 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
876
877 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
878 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
879 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
880
881 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
882 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
883
884 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
885
886 * write blog stories about:
887 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
888 - enabling dbus services
889 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
890 - remote access
891 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
892 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
893 - auto-restart
894 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
895 - the journal HTTP iface
896 - non-cgroup resource management
897 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
898 - refreshed, longer missions statement
899 - calendar time events
900 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
901 - how to create your own target
902 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
903 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
904
905 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
906
907 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
908
909 * pid1:
910 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
911 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
912 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
913 that are not supported...
914 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
915 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
916 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
917 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
918 - move PAM code into its own binary
919 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
920 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
921 - Support --test based on current system state
922 - 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().
923 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
924 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
925 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
926 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
927 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
928 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
929 but much rather a disconnect on success.
930 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
931 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
932
933 * unit files:
934 - allow port=0 in .socket units
935 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
936 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
937 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
938 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
939 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
940 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
941 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
942 - load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
943 verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
944 - introduce Type=pid-file
945 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
946 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
947 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
948
949 * udev-link-config:
950 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
951 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
952 on Path= matching
953 - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
954
955 * sd-rtnl:
956 - add support for more attribute types
957 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
958
959 * networkd:
960 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
961 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
962 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
963 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
964 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
965 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
966 - work with non-Ethernet devices
967 - add support for more bond options
968 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
969 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
970 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
971 - expose in the API the following bits:
972 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
973 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
974 - option 123, 144, geolocation
975 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
976 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
977 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
978 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
979 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
980 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
981 - allow DUID/IAID to be customized, see issue #394.
982 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
983
984 * networkd-wait-online:
985 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
986
987 * dhcp:
988 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
989
990 * dhcp6:
991 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
992 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
993 - write more test cases
994 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
995 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
996 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
997 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
998 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
999 or interface down
1000 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1001 this behavior
1002 - RouteTable= ?
1003
1004 External:
1005
1006 * dbus:
1007 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1008 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1009
1010 * fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
1011
1012 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1013
1014 * patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
1015
1016 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1017
1018 * drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields
1019
1020 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1021
1022 * 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=
1023
1024 * fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
1025
1026 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1027
1028 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1029
1030 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1031
1032 * zsh shell completion:
1033 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1034 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1035
1036
1037 Regularly:
1038
1039 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1040
1041 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1042
1043 * pahole
1044
1045 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1046
1047 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1048
1049 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields