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1 Bugfixes:
2
3 * Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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 Janitorial Clean-ups:
12
13 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
14
15 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
16 semantics, like we do for device.c now
17
18 Features:
19
20 * cryptsetup: if keyfile specified in crypttab is AF_UNIX socket, connect to it
21 and read from it (like we do elsewhere with READ_FULL_FILE_CONNECT_SOCKET)
22
23 * repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
24
25 * add /etc/integritytab, to support dm-integrity setups. In particular those
26 with HMAC as hash function, so that we can have a protected /home without
27 encryption (leaving encryption to the individual dirs/homed).
28
29 * complement root=, rootflags=, rootfstype= with rootsubdir= which allows
30 mounting a subdir of the root fs as actual root. This can be used as
31 fstype-agnostic version of btrfs' rootflags=subvol=foobar.
32
33 * add --copy-from and --copy-to command to systemd-dissect which copies stuff
34 in and out of a disk image
35
36 * Support ProtectProc= or so, using: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11310197/
37
38 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
39
40 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
41 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
42
43 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
44 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
45 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
46 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
47 anything like that.
48
49 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
50 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
51 user's journal stream down but not the others.
52
53 * add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
54 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
55 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
56
57 * move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
58 these days
59
60 * nspawn: support time namespaces
61
62 * systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
63 reading/writing files
64
65 * add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
66
67 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
68 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
69
70 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
71
72 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
73
74 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
75 when it exits
76
77 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
78 o turn into dlopen() deps:
79 - pcre2 (always) — irrelevant on Fedora, since dep by
80 libselinux, but should benefit Debian
81 - libpwquality (always) - only relevant for homed, and maybe soon
82 firstboot
83 - elfutils (always)
84 - p11-kit-trust (always)
85 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
86 - cryptsetup-libs (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not in systemd-cryptsetup)
87 - similar: libblkid
88 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
89 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
90 since they are so basic and our defaults)
91 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
92 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
93
94 * seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
95 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
96 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
97
98 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
99 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
100 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
101
102 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
103 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
104
105 * make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
106 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
107 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
108
109 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
110 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, tmpfiles, sysusers,
111 systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn,
112 systemd-firstboot)
113
114 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
115
116 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
117 specific service
118
119 * seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
120
121 * per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
122 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
123 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
124 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
125 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
126 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
127 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
128 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
129
130 * homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
131 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
132
133 * homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
134 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
135
136 * homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
137 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
138 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
139
140 * homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
141 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
142 signature
143
144 * homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
145 and insert a local signature instead.
146
147 * homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
148 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
149 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
150 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
151 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
152
153 * homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
154
155 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
156 easily?
157
158 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
159 exists and responds.
160
161 * when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
162 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
163 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
164 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
165 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
166
167 * cryptsetup: support FIDO2 tokens for deriving keys (i.e. do what homed can do
168 also in plain cryptsetup)
169
170 * systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
171 creates
172
173 * homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
174 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
175 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
176 hence we can make them quicker to work.
177
178 * bootctl:
179 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
180 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
181 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
182
183 * Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
184 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
185 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
186
187 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
188 allow so that systemd survives
189
190 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
191 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
192
193 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
194 systemd-makefs.service instead.
195
196 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
197 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
198
199 * unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
200 confusion is gone)
201 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
202 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
203 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
204 - port importd over from libgcrypt
205 - when that's done: kill khash.c
206 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
207
208 * kill zenata, all hail weblate?
209
210 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
211
212 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
213 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
214
215 * hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
216 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
217 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
218 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
219 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
220
221 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
222 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
223 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
224 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
225
226 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
227 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
228 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
229 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
230 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
231 automatically.
232
233 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
234 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
235
236 * systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
237 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
238
239 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
240
241 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
242 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
243 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
244 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
245 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
246 fails to apply use the latter.
247
248 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
249 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
250
251 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
252 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
253
254 * systemd-repart: add --size=auto for generating/resizing images of minimal
255 size, i.e. where the image file is sized exactly as large as necessary taking
256 SizeMin= into account, but not a single byte larger.
257
258 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
259 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
260
261 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
262 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
263
264 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
265 realname substr searches in varlink API
266
267 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
268
269 * userdb: allow existence checks
270
271 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
272
273 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
274 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
275 initrd had set.
276
277 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
278 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
279 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
280 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
281 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
282 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
283
284 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
285 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
286 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
287
288 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
289 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
290 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
291 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
292 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
293 source.
294
295 * figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
296 with immutable /usr
297
298 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
299 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
300 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
301
302 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
303
304 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
305 the hibernation
306
307 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
308 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
309 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
310 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
311 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
312 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
313 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
314 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
315 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
316 hibernation mode. (see
317 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
318 section 10.2.2.8 and
319 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
320 at the end).
321
322 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
323 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
324 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
325 output for them.
326
327 * systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
328 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
329
330 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
331 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
332 constant vendor data.
333
334 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
335
336 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
337 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
338
339 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
340 fallback in "machinectl shell"
341
342 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
343 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
344 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
345
346 * homed:
347 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
348 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
349 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
350 - resize on login?
351 - shrink fs on logout?
352 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
353 - create on activate?
354 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
355 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
356 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
357 systemd --user is shut down.
358 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
359 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
360 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
361 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
362 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
363 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
364 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
365 - description field for groups
366 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
367 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
368 - query password from kernel keyring first
369 - update even if record is "absent"
370 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
371 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
372 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
373 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
374 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
375 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
376 - introduce API for "making room", that grows/shrinks home directory
377 according to elastic parameters, discards blocks, and removes additional snapshots. Call it
378 either from UI when disk space gets low
379
380 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
381 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
382 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
383 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
384 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
385 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
386 exec().
387
388 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
389
390 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
391 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
392
393 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
394
395 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
396 gnome-bluetooth and friends
397
398 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
399 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
400 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
401 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
402 cgroup.
403
404 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
405 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
406 root.
407
408 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
409 is issued.
410
411 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
412
413 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
414
415 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
416 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
417 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
418
419 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
420 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
421 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
422
423 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
424 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
425 ConfigurationDirectory=.
426
427 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
428
429 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
430
431 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
432 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
433
434 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
435 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
436 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
437
438 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
439
440 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
441 patching around
442
443 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
444 log.c and sd-journal-send
445
446 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
447
448 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
449
450 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
451 can add in file system drivers and such
452
453 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
454 non-zero "tries done" count
455
456 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
457 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
458 it should skip the variant type string though.
459
460 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
461 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
462 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
463 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
464 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
465 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
466 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
467 CODE_FILE.
468
469 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
470 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
471 some explanatory text online.
472
473 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
474
475 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
476 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
477 the slices, and the units attached to them.
478
479 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
480 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
481 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
482 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
483 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
484 way)
485
486 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
487 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
488 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
489
490 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
491 original defaults before calling parse_config()
492
493 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
494
495 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
496 Specifically:
497
498 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
499 properly)
500 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
501 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
502
503 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
504 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
505
506 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
507 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
508 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
509 files and suchlike we operate on.
510
511 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
512
513 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
514
515 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
516 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
517
518 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
519 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
520 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
521 numbers.
522
523 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
524 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
525 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
526 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
527 unlinked from any dir.
528
529 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
530
531 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
532
533 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
534
535 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
536 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
537 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
538 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
539 should reflink the image file itself.
540
541 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
542 specific paths only like this.
543
544 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
545 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
546 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
547 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
548 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
549
550 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
551
552 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
553
554 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
555 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
556
557 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
558 project quota
559
560 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
561 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
562 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
563 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
564 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
565 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
566 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
567 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
568
569 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
570 for root, but only then.
571
572 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
573
574 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
575 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
576
577 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
578 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
579
580 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
581 host-side interface pointing to the container.
582
583 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
584 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
585 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
586 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
587 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
588
589 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
590
591 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
592
593 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
594 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
595 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
596
597 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
598
599 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
600 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
601
602 * blog about fd store and restartable services
603
604 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
605
606 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
607 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
608
609 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
610 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
611 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
612 ID is available.
613
614 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
615 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
616 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
617
618 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
619 parameters
620
621 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
622 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
623 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
624 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
625 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
626 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
627 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
628
629 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
630 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
631
632 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
633 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
634 wait to retrieve their exit data.
635
636 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
637 about it in the resource log message
638
639 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
640 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
641
642 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
643 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
644 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
645
646 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
647 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
648
649 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
650
651 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
652 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
653 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
654 logging.
655
656 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
657 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
658 "convertible" form factor
659
660 * Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
661 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
662 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
663 as MAINPID.
664
665 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
666 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
667 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
668
669 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
670 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
671
672 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
673 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
674 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
675 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
676 natural habitat.
677
678 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
679 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
680 /usr is mounted into.
681
682 * 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
683
684 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
685
686 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
687 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
688 relative to the configured default value.
689
690 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
691
692 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
693
694 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
695
696 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
697
698 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
699
700 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
701
702 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
703
704 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
705
706 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
707
708 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
709
710 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
711 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
712 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
713
714 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
715
716 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
717
718 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
719 partitions
720
721 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
722 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
723 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
724 mapping to work.
725
726 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
727
728 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
729
730 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
731
732 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
733 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
734
735 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
736 reload the unit file anyway
737
738 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
739 from the SIGBUS handler
740
741 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
742
743 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
744 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
745
746 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
747
748 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
749 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
750
751 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
752 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
753 specifications.
754
755 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
756
757 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
758
759 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
760
761 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
762 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
763 prefixed with /sys generally special.
764 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
765
766 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
767
768 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
769
770 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
771 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
772 state.
773 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
774
775 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
776 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
777 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
778 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
779 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
780
781 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
782 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
783
784 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
785
786 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
787 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
788
789 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
790 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
791 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
792 do, for example)
793
794 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
795 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
796
797 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
798 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
799
800 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
801
802 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
803 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
804 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
805 returning from the "systemctl stop".
806
807 * 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
808
809 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
810
811 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
812 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
813
814 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
815
816 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
817
818 * systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
819 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
820
821 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
822
823 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
824
825 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
826
827 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
828 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
829
830 * resolved:
831 - mDNS/DNS-SD
832 - service registration
833 - service/domain/types browsing
834 - avahi compat
835 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
836 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
837 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
838 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
839 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
840 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
841
842 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
843
844 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
845
846 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
847
848 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
849 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
850
851 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
852
853 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
854
855 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
856
857 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
858 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
859
860 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
861
862 * gpt-auto-generator:
863 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
864 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
865
866 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
867 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
868 when it is otherwise off
869
870 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
871
872 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
873 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
874 for ReusePort=
875
876 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
877 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
878 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
879 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
880 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
881 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
882
883 * cgroups:
884 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
885 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
886 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
887 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
888 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
889 the hierarchies of child processes
890
891 * transient units:
892 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
893
894 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
895
896 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
897
898 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
899
900 * 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
901
902 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
903
904 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
905 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
906 path anyway.
907
908 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
909
910 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
911
912 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
913
914 * sd-bus:
915 - EBADSLT handling
916 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
917 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
918 - 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
919 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
920 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
921 - longer term: priority inheritance
922 - dbus spec updates:
923 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
924 - GVariant
925 - path escaping
926 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
927
928 * sd-event
929 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
930 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
931 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
932
933 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
934
935 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
936 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
937
938 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
939
940 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
941
942 * test/:
943 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
944
945 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
946 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
947 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
948 destination.
949
950 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
951 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
952
953 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
954
955 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
956 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
957 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
958
959 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
960 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
961 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
962 is installed.
963
964 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
965 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
966 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
967 that automatically.
968
969 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
970
971 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
972
973 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
974
975 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
976
977 * EFI:
978 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
979 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
980 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
981 * bootctl
982 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
983
984 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
985
986 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
987
988 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
989
990 * logind:
991 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
992 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
993 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
994 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
995 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
996 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
997 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
998 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
999 needs setuid().
1000 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1001 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1002 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1003 complete.
1004 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1005 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1006 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
1007 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
1008 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1009 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1010 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1011 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1012 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1013 relogins
1014 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
1015
1016 * journal:
1017 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1018 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1019 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1020 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1021 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1022 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1023 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1024 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1025 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1026 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1027 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1028 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1029 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1030 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1031 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1032 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
1033 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1034 - 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.
1035 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1036 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1037 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1038 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1039 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1040 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1041 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1042 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1043 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1044 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1045 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1046 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1047 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1048 to syslog when it works again.
1049 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1050 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1051 journals in.
1052 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1053 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1054 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1055 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1056 the most common operations.
1057 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1058 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1059 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1060 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1061 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1062 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1063 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1064 operation.
1065 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1066 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1067 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1068 binary logs data
1069 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1070 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1071 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1072 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1073 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1074 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
1075
1076 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1077 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1078 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1079 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1080
1081 * document:
1082 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1083 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1084 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1085 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1086 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1087 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1088 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1089 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1090 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1091 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
1092 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1093 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1094
1095 * systemctl:
1096 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1097 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1098 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1099 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1100 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1101 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1102 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1103 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1104 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1105 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1106
1107 * unit install:
1108 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1109 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1110
1111 * timer units:
1112 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1113 o DST changes
1114 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1115
1116 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1117
1118 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1119
1120 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1121
1122 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1123
1124 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1125
1126 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1127
1128 * nspawn:
1129 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1130 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1131 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1132 from the kernel's logs.
1133 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1134 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1135 interface be missing
1136 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1137 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1138 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1139 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1140 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1141 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1142 PID 1...
1143 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1144 running, remove them when shut down.
1145
1146 * dissect
1147 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1148 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1149
1150 * machined:
1151 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1152 removed or added to an existing machine
1153 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1154 difference host, via ssh
1155 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1156 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1157 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1158 question
1159 - "machinectl history"
1160 - "machinectl diff"
1161 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1162 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1163
1164 * cryptsetup:
1165 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1166 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1167
1168 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1169 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1170
1171 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1172
1173 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1174
1175 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1176
1177 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1178
1179 * udev:
1180 - move to LGPL
1181 - kill scsi_id
1182 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1183 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1184
1185 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1186
1187 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1188
1189 * coredump:
1190 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1191 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1192
1193 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1194
1195 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1196 needs to be auto-respawned?
1197
1198 * tmpfiles:
1199 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1200 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1201 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1202 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1203 calls follow symlinks.
1204
1205 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1206
1207 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1208 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1209 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1210
1211 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1212 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1213
1214 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1215
1216 * write blog stories about:
1217 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1218 - enabling dbus services
1219 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1220 - remote access
1221 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1222 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1223 - auto-restart
1224 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1225 - the journal HTTP iface
1226 - non-cgroup resource management
1227 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1228 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1229 - calendar time events
1230 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1231 - how to create your own target
1232 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1233 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1234
1235 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1236
1237 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1238
1239 * pid1:
1240 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1241 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1242 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1243 that are not supported...
1244 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1245 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1246 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1247 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1248 - move PAM code into its own binary
1249 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1250 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1251 - Support --test based on current system state
1252 - 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().
1253 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1254 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1255 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1256 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1257 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1258 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1259 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1260 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1261 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1262
1263 * unit files:
1264 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1265 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1266 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1267 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1268 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1269 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1270 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1271 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1272 - introduce Type=pid-file
1273 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1274 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1275 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1276 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1277
1278 * udev-link-config:
1279 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1280 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1281 on Path= matching
1282
1283 * sd-rtnl:
1284 - add support for more attribute types
1285 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1286
1287 * networkd:
1288 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1289 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1290 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1291 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1292 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1293 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1294 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1295 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1296 - expose in the API the following bits:
1297 - option 15, domain name
1298 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1299 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1300 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1301 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1302 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1303 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1304 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1305 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1306 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1307
1308 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1309
1310 * dhcp:
1311 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1312
1313 * dhcp6:
1314 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1315 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1316 - write more test cases
1317 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1318 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1319 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1320 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1321 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1322 or interface down
1323 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1324 this behavior
1325 - RouteTable= ?
1326
1327 External:
1328
1329 * dbus:
1330 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1331 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1332
1333 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1334
1335 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1336
1337 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1338
1339 * 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=
1340
1341 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1342
1343 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1344
1345 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1346
1347 * zsh shell completion:
1348 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1349 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1350
1351 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1352 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1353 after being started.
1354
1355 Regularly:
1356
1357 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1358
1359 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1360
1361 * pahole
1362
1363 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1364
1365 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1366
1367 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
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