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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 * add --copy-from and --copy-to command to systemd-dissect which copies stuff
21 in and out of a disk image
22
23 * Support ProtectProc= or so, using: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11310197/
24
25 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
26
27 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
28 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
29
30 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
31 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
32 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
33 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
34 anything like that.
35
36 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
37 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
38 user's journal stream down but not the others.
39
40 * add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
41 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
42 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
43
44 * move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
45 these days
46
47 * nspawn: support time namespaces
48
49 * add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
50
51 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
52 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
53
54 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
55
56 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
57
58 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
59 when it exits
60
61 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
62 o turn into dlopen() deps:
63 - pcre2 (always) — irrelevant on Fedora, since dep by
64 libselinux, but should benefit Debian
65 - libpwquality (always) - only relevant for homed, and maybe soon
66 firstboot
67 - elfutils (always)
68 - p11-kit-trust (always)
69 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
70 - cryptsetup-libs (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not in systemd-cryptsetup)
71 - similar: libblkid
72 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
73 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
74 since they are so basic and our defaults)
75 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
76 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
77
78 * seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
79 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
80 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
81
82 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
83 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
84 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
85
86 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
87 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
88
89 * make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
90 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
91 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
92
93 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
94 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, firstboot, tmpfiles,
95 sysusers, systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl.
96
97 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
98
99 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
100 specific service
101
102 * seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
103
104 * per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
105 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
106 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
107 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
108 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
109 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
110 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
111 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
112
113 * homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
114 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
115
116 * homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
117 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
118
119 * homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
120 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
121 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
122
123 * homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
124 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
125 signature
126
127 * homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
128 and insert a local signature instead.
129
130 * homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
131 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
132 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
133 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
134 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
135
136 * homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
137
138 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
139 exists and responds.
140
141 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
142 easily?
143
144 * when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
145 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
146 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
147 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
148 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
149
150 * cryptsetup/homed: also support FIDO2 HMAC password logic for unlocking
151 devices. (see: https://github.com/mjec/fido2-hmac-secret)
152
153 * systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
154 creates
155
156 * homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
157 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
158 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
159 hence we can make them quicker to work.
160
161 * bootctl:
162 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
163 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
164 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
165
166 * Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
167 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
168 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
169
170 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
171 allow so that systemd survives
172
173 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
174 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
175
176 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
177 systemd-makefs.service instead.
178
179 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
180 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
181
182 * unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
183 confusion is gone)
184 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
185 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
186 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
187 - port importd over from libgcrypt
188 - when that's done: kill khash.c
189 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
190
191 * kill zenata, all hail weblate?
192
193 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
194
195 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
196 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
197
198 * hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
199 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
200 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
201 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
202 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
203
204 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
205 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
206 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
207 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
208
209 * systemd-repart: optionally, allow specifying a path to initialize new
210 partitions from, i.e. an fs image file or a source device node. This would
211 then turn systemd-repart into a simple installer: with a few .repart files
212 you could replicate the host system on another device. a full installer would
213 then be: "systemd-repart /dev/sda && bootctl install /dev/sda &&
214 systemd-firstboot --image= …"
215
216 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
217 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
218 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
219 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
220 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
221 automatically.
222
223 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
224 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
225
226 * systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
227 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
228
229 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
230
231 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
232 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
233 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
234 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
235 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
236 fails to apply use the latter.
237
238 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
239 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
240
241 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
242 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
243
244 * systemd-repart: add --size=auto for generating/resizing images of minimal
245 size, i.e. where the image file is sized exactly as large as necessary taking
246 SizeMin= into account, but not a single byte larger.
247
248 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
249 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
250
251 * systemd-repart: add specifier expansion, add especifier that refers to root
252 device node of current system, /usr device node, and matching verity, so that
253 an installer can be made a "copy" installer of the booted OS
254
255 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
256 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
257
258 * systemd-repart: allow config of partition uuid
259
260 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
261 realname substr searches in varlink API
262
263 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
264
265 * userdb: allow existence checks
266
267 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
268
269 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
270 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
271 initrd had set.
272
273 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
274 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
275 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
276 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
277 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
278 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
279
280 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
281 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
282 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
283
284 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
285 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
286 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
287 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
288 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
289 source.
290
291 * figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
292 with immutable /usr
293
294 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
295 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
296 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
297
298 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
299
300 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
301 the hibernation
302
303 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
304 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
305 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
306 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
307 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
308 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
309 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
310 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
311 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
312 hibernation mode. (see
313 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
314 section 10.2.2.8 and
315 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
316 at the end).
317
318 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
319 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
320 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
321 output for them.
322
323 * systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
324 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
325
326 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
327 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
328 constant vendor data.
329
330 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
331
332 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
333 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
334
335 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
336 fallback in "machinectl shell"
337
338 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
339 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
340 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
341
342 * homed:
343 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
344 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
345 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
346 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
347 - resize on login?
348 - shrink fs on logout?
349 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
350 - create on activate?
351 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
352 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
353 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
354 systemd --user is shut down.
355 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
356 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk images (think: time machine)
357 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
358 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
359 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
360 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
361 - description field for groups
362 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
363 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
364 - query password from kernel keyring first
365 - update even if record is "absent"
366 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
367 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
368 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
369 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
370 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
371 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
372
373 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
374 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
375 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
376 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
377 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
378 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
379 exec().
380
381 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
382
383 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
384 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
385
386 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
387
388 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
389 gnome-bluetooth and friends
390
391 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
392 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
393 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
394 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
395 cgroup.
396
397 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
398 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
399 root.
400
401 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
402 is issued.
403
404 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
405
406 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
407
408 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
409 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
410 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
411
412 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
413 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
414 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
415
416 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
417 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
418 ConfigurationDirectory=.
419
420 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
421
422 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
423
424 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
425 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
426
427 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
428 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
429 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
430
431 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
432
433 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
434 patching around
435
436 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
437 log.c and sd-journal-send
438
439 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
440
441 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
442
443 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
444 can add in file system drivers and such
445
446 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
447 non-zero "tries done" count
448
449 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
450 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
451 it should skip the variant type string though.
452
453 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
454 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
455 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
456 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
457 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
458 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
459 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
460 CODE_FILE.
461
462 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
463 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
464 some explanatory text online.
465
466 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
467
468 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
469 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
470 the slices, and the units attached to them.
471
472 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
473 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
474 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
475 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
476 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
477 way)
478
479 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
480 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
481 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
482
483 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
484 original defaults before calling parse_config()
485
486 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
487
488 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
489 Specifically:
490
491 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
492 properly)
493 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
494 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
495
496 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
497 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
498
499 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
500 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
501 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
502 files and suchlike we operate on.
503
504 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
505
506 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
507
508 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
509 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
510
511 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
512 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
513 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
514 numbers.
515
516 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
517 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
518 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
519 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
520 unlinked from any dir.
521
522 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
523
524 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
525
526 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
527
528 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
529 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
530 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
531 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
532 should reflink the image file itself.
533
534 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
535 specific paths only like this.
536
537 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
538 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
539 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
540 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
541 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
542
543 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
544
545 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
546
547 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
548 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
549
550 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
551 project quota
552
553 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
554 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
555 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
556 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
557 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
558 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
559 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
560 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
561
562 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
563 for root, but only then.
564
565 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
566
567 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
568 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
569
570 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
571 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
572
573 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
574 host-side interface pointing to the container.
575
576 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
577 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
578 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
579 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
580 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
581
582 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
583
584 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
585
586 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
587 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
588 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
589
590 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
591
592 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
593 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
594
595 * blog about fd store and restartable services
596
597 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
598
599 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
600 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
601
602 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
603 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
604 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
605 ID is available.
606
607 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
608 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
609 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
610
611 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
612 parameters
613
614 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
615 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
616 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
617 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
618 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
619 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
620 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
621
622 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
623 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
624
625 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
626 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
627 wait to retrieve their exit data.
628
629 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
630 about it in the resource log message
631
632 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
633 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
634
635 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
636 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
637 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
638
639 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
640 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
641
642 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
643
644 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
645 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
646 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
647 logging.
648
649 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
650 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
651 "convertible" form factor
652
653 * Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
654 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
655 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
656 as MAINPID.
657
658 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
659 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
660 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
661
662 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
663 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
664
665 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
666 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
667 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
668 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
669 natural habitat.
670
671 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
672 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
673 /usr is mounted into.
674
675 * 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
676
677 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
678
679 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
680 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
681 relative to the configured default value.
682
683 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
684
685 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
686
687 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
688
689 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
690
691 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
692
693 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
694
695 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
696
697 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
698
699 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
700
701 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
702
703 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
704 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
705 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
706
707 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
708
709 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
710
711 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
712 partitions
713
714 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
715 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
716 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
717 mapping to work.
718
719 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
720
721 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
722
723 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
724
725 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
726 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
727
728 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
729 reload the unit file anyway
730
731 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
732 from the SIGBUS handler
733
734 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
735
736 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
737 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
738
739 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
740
741 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
742 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
743
744 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
745 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
746 specifications.
747
748 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
749
750 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
751
752 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
753
754 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
755 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
756 prefixed with /sys generally special.
757 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
758
759 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
760
761 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
762
763 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
764 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
765 state.
766 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
767
768 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
769 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
770 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
771 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
772 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
773
774 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
775 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
776
777 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
778
779 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
780 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
781
782 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
783 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
784 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
785 do, for example)
786
787 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
788 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
789
790 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
791 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
792
793 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
794
795 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
796 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
797 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
798 returning from the "systemctl stop".
799
800 * 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
801
802 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
803
804 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
805 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
806
807 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
808
809 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
810
811 * systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
812 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
813
814 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
815
816 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
817
818 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
819
820 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
821 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
822
823 * resolved:
824 - mDNS/DNS-SD
825 - service registration
826 - service/domain/types browsing
827 - avahi compat
828 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
829 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
830 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
831 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
832 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
833 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
834
835 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
836
837 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
838
839 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
840
841 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
842 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
843
844 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
845
846 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
847
848 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
849
850 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
851 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
852
853 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
854
855 * gpt-auto-generator:
856 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
857 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
858
859 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
860 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
861 when it is otherwise off
862
863 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
864
865 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
866 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
867 for ReusePort=
868
869 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
870 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
871 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
872 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
873 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
874 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
875
876 * cgroups:
877 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
878 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
879 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
880 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
881 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
882 the hierarchies of child processes
883
884 * transient units:
885 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
886
887 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
888
889 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
890
891 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
892
893 * 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
894
895 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
896
897 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
898 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
899 path anyway.
900
901 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
902
903 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
904
905 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
906
907 * sd-bus:
908 - EBADSLT handling
909 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
910 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
911 - 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
912 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
913 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
914 - longer term: priority inheritance
915 - dbus spec updates:
916 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
917 - GVariant
918 - path escaping
919 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
920
921 * sd-event
922 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
923 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
924 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
925
926 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
927
928 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
929 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
930
931 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
932
933 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
934
935 * test/:
936 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
937
938 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
939 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
940 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
941 destination.
942
943 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
944 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
945
946 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
947
948 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
949 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
950 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
951
952 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
953 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
954 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
955 is installed.
956
957 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
958 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
959 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
960 that automatically.
961
962 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
963
964 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
965
966 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
967
968 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
969
970 * EFI:
971 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
972 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
973 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
974 * bootctl
975 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
976
977 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
978
979 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
980
981 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
982
983 * logind:
984 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
985 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
986 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
987 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
988 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
989 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
990 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
991 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
992 needs setuid().
993 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
994 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
995 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
996 complete.
997 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
998 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
999 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
1000 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
1001 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1002 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1003 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1004 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1005 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1006 relogins
1007 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
1008
1009 * journal:
1010 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1011 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1012 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1013 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1014 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1015 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1016 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1017 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1018 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1019 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1020 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1021 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1022 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1023 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1024 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1025 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
1026 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1027 - 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.
1028 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1029 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1030 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1031 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1032 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1033 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1034 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1035 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1036 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1037 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1038 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1039 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1040 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1041 to syslog when it works again.
1042 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1043 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1044 journals in.
1045 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1046 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1047 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1048 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1049 the most common operations.
1050 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1051 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1052 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1053 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1054 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1055 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1056 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1057 operation.
1058 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1059 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1060 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1061 binary logs data
1062 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1063 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1064 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1065 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1066 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1067
1068 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1069 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1070 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1071 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1072
1073 * document:
1074 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1075 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1076 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1077 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1078 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1079 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1080 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1081 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1082 - man: add more examples to man pages
1083 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1084 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1085
1086 * systemctl:
1087 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1088 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1089 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1090 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1091 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1092 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1093 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1094 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1095 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1096 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1097
1098 * unit install:
1099 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1100 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1101
1102 * timer units:
1103 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1104 o DST changes
1105 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1106
1107 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1108
1109 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1110
1111 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1112
1113 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1114
1115 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1116
1117 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1118
1119 * nspawn:
1120 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1121 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1122 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1123 from the kernel's logs.
1124 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1125 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1126 interface be missing
1127 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1128 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1129 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1130 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1131 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1132 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1133 PID 1...
1134 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1135 running, remove them when shut down.
1136
1137 * dissect
1138 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1139 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1140
1141 * machined:
1142 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1143 removed or added to an existing machine
1144 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1145 difference host, via ssh
1146 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1147 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1148 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1149 question
1150 - "machinectl history"
1151 - "machinectl diff"
1152 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1153 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1154
1155 * cryptsetup:
1156 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1157 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1158
1159 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1160 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1161
1162 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1163
1164 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1165
1166 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1167
1168 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1169
1170 * udev:
1171 - move to LGPL
1172 - kill scsi_id
1173 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1174 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1175
1176 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1177
1178 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1179
1180 * coredump:
1181 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1182 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1183
1184 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1185
1186 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1187 needs to be auto-respawned?
1188
1189 * tmpfiles:
1190 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1191 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1192 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1193 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1194 calls follow symlinks.
1195
1196 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1197
1198 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1199 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1200 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1201
1202 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1203 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1204
1205 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1206
1207 * write blog stories about:
1208 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1209 - enabling dbus services
1210 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1211 - remote access
1212 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1213 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1214 - auto-restart
1215 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1216 - the journal HTTP iface
1217 - non-cgroup resource management
1218 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1219 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1220 - calendar time events
1221 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1222 - how to create your own target
1223 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1224 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1225
1226 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1227
1228 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1229
1230 * pid1:
1231 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1232 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1233 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1234 that are not supported...
1235 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1236 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1237 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1238 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1239 - move PAM code into its own binary
1240 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1241 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1242 - Support --test based on current system state
1243 - 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().
1244 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1245 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1246 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1247 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1248 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1249 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1250 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1251 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1252 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1253
1254 * unit files:
1255 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1256 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1257 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1258 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1259 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1260 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1261 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1262 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1263 - introduce Type=pid-file
1264 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1265 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1266 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1267 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1268
1269 * udev-link-config:
1270 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1271 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1272 on Path= matching
1273
1274 * sd-rtnl:
1275 - add support for more attribute types
1276 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1277
1278 * networkd:
1279 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1280 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1281 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1282 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1283 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1284 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1285 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1286 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1287 - expose in the API the following bits:
1288 - option 15, domain name
1289 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1290 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1291 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1292 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1293 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1294 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1295 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1296 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1297 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1298
1299 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1300
1301 * dhcp:
1302 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1303
1304 * dhcp6:
1305 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1306 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1307 - write more test cases
1308 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1309 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1310 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1311 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1312 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1313 or interface down
1314 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1315 this behavior
1316 - RouteTable= ?
1317
1318 External:
1319
1320 * dbus:
1321 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1322 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1323
1324 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1325
1326 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1327
1328 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1329
1330 * 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=
1331
1332 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1333
1334 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1335
1336 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1337
1338 * zsh shell completion:
1339 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1340 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1341
1342 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1343 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1344 after being started.
1345
1346 Regularly:
1347
1348 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1349
1350 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1351
1352 * pahole
1353
1354 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1355
1356 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1357
1358 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
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