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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 * wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
12
13 Janitorial Clean-ups:
14
15 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
16
17 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
18 semantics, like we do for device.c now
19
20 Features:
21
22 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
23
24 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
25 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
26
27 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
28 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
29 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
30 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
31 anything like that.
32
33 * add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
34 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
35 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
36
37 * move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
38 these days
39
40 * nspawn: support time namespaces
41
42 * add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
43
44 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
45 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
46
47 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
48
49 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
50
51 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
52 when it exits
53
54 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
55 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
56
57 * make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
58 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
59 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
60
61 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
62 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, firstboot, tmpfiles,
63 sysusers, systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl.
64
65 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
66
67 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
68 specific service
69
70 * seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
71
72 * per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
73 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
74 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
75 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
76 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
77 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
78 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
79 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
80
81 * homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
82 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
83
84 * homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
85 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
86
87 * homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
88 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
89 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
90
91 * homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
92 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
93 signature
94
95 * homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
96 and insert a local signature instead.
97
98 * homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
99 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
100 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
101 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
102 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
103
104 * homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
105
106 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
107 exists and responds.
108
109 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
110 easily?
111
112 * when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
113 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
114 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
115 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
116 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
117
118 * cryptsetup/homed: also support FIDO2 HMAC password logic for unlocking
119 devices. (see: https://github.com/mjec/fido2-hmac-secret)
120
121 * systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
122 creates
123
124 * homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
125 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
126 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
127 hence we can make them quicker to work.
128
129 * bootctl:
130 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
131 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
132 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
133
134 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
135 allow so that systemd survives
136
137 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
138 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
139
140 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
141 systemd-makefs.service instead.
142
143 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
144 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
145
146 * unify on openssl:
147 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
148 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
149 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
150 - port importd over from libgcrypt
151 - when that's done: kill khash.c
152 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
153
154 * kill zenata, all hail weblate?
155
156 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
157
158 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
159 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
160
161 * hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
162 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
163 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
164 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
165 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
166
167 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
168 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
169 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
170 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
171
172 * systemd-repart: optionally, allow specifying a path to initialize new
173 partitions from, i.e. an fs image file or a source device node. This would
174 then turn systemd-repart into a simple installer: with a few .repart files
175 you could replicate the host system on another device. a full installer would
176 then be: "systemd-repart /dev/sda && bootctl install /dev/sda &&
177 systemd-firstboot --image= …"
178
179 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
180 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
181 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
182 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
183 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
184 automatically.
185
186 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
187 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
188
189 * systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
190 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
191
192 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
193
194 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
195 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
196
197 * systemd-repart: add specifier expansion, add especifier that refers to root
198 device node of current system, /usr device node, and matching verity, so that
199 an installer can be made a "copy" installer of the booted OS
200
201 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
202 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
203
204 * systemd-repart: allow config of partition uuid
205
206 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
207 realname substr searches in varlink API
208
209 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
210
211 * userdb: allow existence checks
212
213 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
214
215 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
216 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
217 initrd had set.
218
219 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
220 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
221 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
222 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
223 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
224 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
225
226 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
227 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
228 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
229
230 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
231 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
232 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
233 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
234 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
235 source.
236
237 * figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
238 with immutable /usr
239
240 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
241 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
242 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
243
244 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
245
246 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
247 the hibernation
248
249 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
250 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
251 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
252 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
253 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
254 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
255 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
256 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
257 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
258 hibernation mode. (see
259 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
260 section 10.2.2.8 and
261 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
262 at the end).
263
264 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
265 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
266 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
267 output for them.
268
269 * systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
270 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
271
272 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
273 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
274 constant vendor data.
275
276 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
277
278 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
279 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
280
281 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
282 fallback in "machinectl shell"
283
284 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
285 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
286 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
287
288 * homed:
289 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
290 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
291 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
292 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
293 - resize on login?
294 - shrink fs on logout?
295 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
296 - create on activate?
297 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
298 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
299 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
300 systemd --user is shut down.
301 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
302 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk images (think: time machine)
303 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
304 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
305 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
306 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
307 - description field for groups
308 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
309 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
310 - query password from kernel keyring first
311 - update even if record is "absent"
312 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
313 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
314 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
315 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
316 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
317 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
318
319 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
320 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
321 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
322 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
323 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
324 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
325 exec().
326
327 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
328
329 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
330 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
331
332 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
333
334 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
335 gnome-bluetooth and friends
336
337 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
338 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
339 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
340 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
341 cgroup.
342
343 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
344 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
345 root.
346
347 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
348 is issued.
349
350 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
351
352 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
353
354 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
355 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
356 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
357
358 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
359 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
360 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
361
362 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
363 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
364 ConfigurationDirectory=.
365
366 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
367
368 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
369
370 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
371 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
372
373 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
374 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
375 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
376
377 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
378
379 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
380 patching around
381
382 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
383 log.c and sd-journal-send
384
385 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
386
387 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
388
389 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
390 can add in file system drivers and such
391
392 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
393 non-zero "tries done" count
394
395 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
396 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
397 it should skip the variant type string though.
398
399 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
400 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
401 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
402 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
403 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
404 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
405 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
406 CODE_FILE.
407
408 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
409 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
410 some explanatory text online.
411
412 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
413
414 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
415 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
416 the slices, and the units attached to them.
417
418 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
419 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
420 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
421 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
422 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
423 way)
424
425 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
426 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
427 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
428
429 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
430 original defaults before calling parse_config()
431
432 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
433
434 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
435 Specifically:
436
437 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
438 properly)
439 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
440 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
441
442 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
443 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
444
445 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
446 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
447 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
448 files and suchlike we operate on.
449
450 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
451
452 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
453
454 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
455 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
456
457 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
458 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
459 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
460 numbers.
461
462 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
463 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
464 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
465 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
466 unlinked from any dir.
467
468 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
469
470 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
471
472 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
473
474 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
475 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
476 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
477 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
478 should reflink the image file itself.
479
480 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
481 specific paths only like this.
482
483 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
484 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
485 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
486 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
487 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
488
489 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
490
491 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
492
493 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
494 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
495
496 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
497 project quota
498
499 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
500 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
501 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
502 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
503 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
504 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
505 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
506 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
507
508 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
509 for root, but only then.
510
511 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
512
513 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
514 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
515
516 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
517 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
518
519 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
520 host-side interface pointing to the container.
521
522 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
523 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
524 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
525 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
526 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
527
528 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
529
530 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
531
532 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
533 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
534 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
535
536 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
537
538 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
539 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
540
541 * blog about fd store and restartable services
542
543 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
544
545 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
546 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
547
548 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
549 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
550 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
551 ID is available.
552
553 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
554 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
555 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
556
557 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
558 parameters
559
560 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
561 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
562 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
563 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
564 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
565 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
566 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
567
568 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
569 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
570
571 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
572 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
573 wait to retrieve their exit data.
574
575 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
576 about it in the resource log message
577
578 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
579 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
580
581 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
582 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
583 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
584
585 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
586 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
587
588 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
589
590 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
591 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
592 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
593 logging.
594
595 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
596 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
597 "convertible" form factor
598
599 * Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
600 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
601 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
602 as MAINPID.
603
604 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
605 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
606 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
607
608 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
609 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
610
611 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
612 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
613 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
614 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
615 natural habitat.
616
617 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
618 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
619 /usr is mounted into.
620
621 * 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
622
623 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
624
625 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
626 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
627 relative to the configured default value.
628
629 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
630
631 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
632
633 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
634
635 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
636
637 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
638
639 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
640
641 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
642
643 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
644
645 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
646
647 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
648
649 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
650 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
651 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
652
653 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
654
655 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
656
657 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
658 partitions
659
660 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
661 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
662 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
663 mapping to work.
664
665 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
666
667 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
668
669 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
670
671 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
672 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
673
674 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
675 reload the unit file anyway
676
677 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
678 from the SIGBUS handler
679
680 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
681
682 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
683 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
684
685 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
686
687 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
688 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
689
690 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
691 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
692 specifications.
693
694 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
695
696 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
697
698 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
699
700 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
701 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
702 prefixed with /sys generally special.
703 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
704
705 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
706
707 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
708
709 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
710 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
711 state.
712 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
713
714 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
715 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
716 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
717 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
718 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
719
720 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
721 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
722
723 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
724
725 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
726 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
727
728 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
729 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
730 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
731 do, for example)
732
733 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
734 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
735
736 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
737 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
738
739 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
740
741 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
742 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
743 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
744 returning from the "systemctl stop".
745
746 * 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
747
748 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
749
750 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
751 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
752
753 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
754
755 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
756
757 * systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
758 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
759
760 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
761
762 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
763
764 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
765
766 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
767 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
768
769 * resolved:
770 - mDNS/DNS-SD
771 - service registration
772 - service/domain/types browsing
773 - avahi compat
774 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
775 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
776 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
777 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
778 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
779 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
780
781 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
782
783 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
784
785 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
786
787 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
788 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
789
790 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
791
792 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
793
794 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
795
796 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
797 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
798
799 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
800
801 * gpt-auto-generator:
802 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
803 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
804
805 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
806 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
807 when it is otherwise off
808
809 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
810
811 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
812 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
813 for ReusePort=
814
815 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
816 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
817 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
818 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
819 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
820 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
821
822 * cgroups:
823 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
824 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
825 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
826 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
827 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
828 the hierarchies of child processes
829
830 * transient units:
831 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
832
833 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
834
835 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
836
837 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
838
839 * 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
840
841 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
842
843 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
844 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
845 path anyway.
846
847 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
848
849 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
850
851 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
852
853 * sd-bus:
854 - EBADSLT handling
855 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
856 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
857 - 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
858 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
859 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
860 - longer term: priority inheritance
861 - dbus spec updates:
862 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
863 - GVariant
864 - path escaping
865 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
866
867 * sd-event
868 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
869 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
870 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
871
872 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
873
874 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
875 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
876
877 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
878
879 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
880
881 * test/:
882 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
883
884 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
885 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
886 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
887 destination.
888
889 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
890 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
891
892 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
893
894 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
895 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
896 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
897
898 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
899 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
900 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
901 is installed.
902
903 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
904 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
905 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
906 that automatically.
907
908 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
909
910 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
911
912 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
913
914 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
915
916 * EFI:
917 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
918 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
919 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
920 * bootctl
921 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
922
923 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
924
925 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
926
927 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
928
929 * logind:
930 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
931 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
932 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
933 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
934 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
935 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
936 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
937 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
938 needs setuid().
939 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
940 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
941 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
942 complete.
943 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
944 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
945 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
946 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
947 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
948 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
949 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
950 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
951 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
952 relogins
953 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
954
955 * journal:
956 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
957 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
958 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
959 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
960 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
961 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
962 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
963 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
964 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
965 message that works, but already after a short timeout
966 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
967 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
968 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
969 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
970 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
971 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
972 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
973 - 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.
974 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
975 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
976 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
977 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
978 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
979 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
980 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
981 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
982 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
983 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
984 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
985 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
986 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
987 to syslog when it works again.
988 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
989 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
990 journals in.
991 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
992 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
993 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
994 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
995 the most common operations.
996 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
997 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
998 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
999 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1000 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1001 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1002 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1003 operation.
1004 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1005 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1006 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1007 binary logs data
1008 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1009 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1010 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1011 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1012 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1013
1014 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1015 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1016 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1017 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1018
1019 * document:
1020 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1021 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1022 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1023 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1024 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1025 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1026 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1027 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1028 - man: add more examples to man pages
1029 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1030 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1031
1032 * systemctl:
1033 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1034 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1035 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1036 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1037 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1038 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1039 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1040 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1041 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1042 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1043
1044 * unit install:
1045 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1046 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1047
1048 * timer units:
1049 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1050 o DST changes
1051 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1052
1053 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1054
1055 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1056
1057 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1058
1059 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1060
1061 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1062
1063 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1064
1065 * nspawn:
1066 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1067 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1068 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1069 from the kernel's logs.
1070 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1071 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1072 interface be missing
1073 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1074 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1075 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1076 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1077 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1078 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1079 PID 1...
1080 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1081 running, remove them when shut down.
1082
1083 * dissect
1084 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1085 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1086
1087 * machined:
1088 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1089 removed or added to an existing machine
1090 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1091 difference host, via ssh
1092 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1093 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1094 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1095 question
1096 - "machinectl history"
1097 - "machinectl diff"
1098 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1099 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1100
1101 * cryptsetup:
1102 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1103 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1104
1105 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1106 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1107
1108 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1109
1110 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1111
1112 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1113
1114 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1115
1116 * udev:
1117 - move to LGPL
1118 - kill scsi_id
1119 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1120 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1121
1122 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1123
1124 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1125
1126 * coredump:
1127 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1128 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1129
1130 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1131
1132 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1133 needs to be auto-respawned?
1134
1135 * tmpfiles:
1136 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1137 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1138 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1139 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1140 calls follow symlinks.
1141
1142 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1143
1144 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1145 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1146 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1147
1148 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1149 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1150
1151 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1152
1153 * write blog stories about:
1154 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1155 - enabling dbus services
1156 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1157 - remote access
1158 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1159 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1160 - auto-restart
1161 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1162 - the journal HTTP iface
1163 - non-cgroup resource management
1164 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1165 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1166 - calendar time events
1167 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1168 - how to create your own target
1169 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1170 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1171
1172 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1173
1174 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1175
1176 * pid1:
1177 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1178 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1179 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1180 that are not supported...
1181 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1182 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1183 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1184 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1185 - move PAM code into its own binary
1186 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1187 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1188 - Support --test based on current system state
1189 - 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().
1190 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1191 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1192 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1193 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1194 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1195 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1196 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1197 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1198 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1199
1200 * unit files:
1201 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1202 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1203 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1204 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1205 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1206 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1207 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1208 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1209 - introduce Type=pid-file
1210 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1211 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1212 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1213 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1214
1215 * udev-link-config:
1216 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1217 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1218 on Path= matching
1219
1220 * sd-rtnl:
1221 - add support for more attribute types
1222 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1223
1224 * networkd:
1225 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1226 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1227 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1228 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1229 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1230 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1231 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1232 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1233 - expose in the API the following bits:
1234 - option 15, domain name
1235 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1236 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1237 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1238 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1239 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1240 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1241 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1242 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1243 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1244
1245 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1246
1247 * dhcp:
1248 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1249
1250 * dhcp6:
1251 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1252 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1253 - write more test cases
1254 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1255 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1256 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1257 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1258 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1259 or interface down
1260 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1261 this behavior
1262 - RouteTable= ?
1263
1264 External:
1265
1266 * dbus:
1267 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1268 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1269
1270 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1271
1272 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1273
1274 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1275
1276 * 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=
1277
1278 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1279
1280 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1281
1282 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1283
1284 * zsh shell completion:
1285 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1286 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1287
1288 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1289 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1290 after being started.
1291
1292 Regularly:
1293
1294 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1295
1296 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1297
1298 * pahole
1299
1300 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1301
1302 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1303
1304 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
1305 String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment