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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 * complement root=, rootflags=, rootfstype= with rootsubdir= which allows
21 mounting a subdir of the root fs as actual root. This can be used as
22 fstype-agnostic version of btrfs' rootflags=subvol=foobar.
23
24 * add --copy-from and --copy-to command to systemd-dissect which copies stuff
25 in and out of a disk image
26
27 * Support ProtectProc= or so, using: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11310197/
28
29 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
30
31 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
32 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
33
34 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
35 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
36 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
37 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
38 anything like that.
39
40 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
41 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
42 user's journal stream down but not the others.
43
44 * add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
45 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
46 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
47
48 * move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
49 these days
50
51 * nspawn: support time namespaces
52
53 * systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
54 reading/writing files
55
56 * add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
57
58 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
59 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
60
61 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
62
63 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
64
65 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
66 when it exits
67
68 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
69 o turn into dlopen() deps:
70 - pcre2 (always) — irrelevant on Fedora, since dep by
71 libselinux, but should benefit Debian
72 - libpwquality (always) - only relevant for homed, and maybe soon
73 firstboot
74 - elfutils (always)
75 - p11-kit-trust (always)
76 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
77 - cryptsetup-libs (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not in systemd-cryptsetup)
78 - similar: libblkid
79 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
80 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
81 since they are so basic and our defaults)
82 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
83 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
84
85 * seccomp: when SystemCallArchitectures=native is set then don't install any
86 other seccomp filters for any of the other archs, in order to reduce the
87 number of seccomp filters we install needlessly.
88
89 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
90 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
91 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
92
93 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
94 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
95
96 * make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
97 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
98 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
99
100 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
101 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, tmpfiles, sysusers,
102 systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn,
103 systemd-firstboot)
104
105 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
106
107 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
108 specific service
109
110 * seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
111
112 * per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
113 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
114 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
115 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
116 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
117 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
118 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
119 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
120
121 * homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
122 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
123
124 * homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
125 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
126
127 * homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
128 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
129 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
130
131 * homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
132 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
133 signature
134
135 * homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
136 and insert a local signature instead.
137
138 * homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
139 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
140 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
141 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
142 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
143
144 * homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
145
146 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
147 easily?
148
149 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
150 exists and responds.
151
152 * when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
153 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
154 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
155 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
156 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
157
158 * cryptsetup: support FIDO2 tokens for deriving keys (i.e. do what homed can do
159 also in plain cryptsetup)
160
161 * systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
162 creates
163
164 * homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
165 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
166 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
167 hence we can make them quicker to work.
168
169 * bootctl:
170 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
171 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
172 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
173
174 * Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
175 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
176 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
177
178 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
179 allow so that systemd survives
180
181 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
182 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
183
184 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
185 systemd-makefs.service instead.
186
187 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
188 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
189
190 * unify on openssl (as soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is out, and the Debian license
191 confusion is gone)
192 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
193 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
194 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
195 - port importd over from libgcrypt
196 - when that's done: kill khash.c
197 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
198
199 * kill zenata, all hail weblate?
200
201 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
202
203 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
204 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
205
206 * hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
207 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
208 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
209 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
210 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
211
212 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
213 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
214 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
215 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
216
217 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
218 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
219 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
220 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
221 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
222 automatically.
223
224 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
225 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
226
227 * systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
228 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
229
230 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
231
232 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
233 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
234 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
235 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
236 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
237 fails to apply use the latter.
238
239 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
240 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
241
242 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
243 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
244
245 * systemd-repart: add --size=auto for generating/resizing images of minimal
246 size, i.e. where the image file is sized exactly as large as necessary taking
247 SizeMin= into account, but not a single byte larger.
248
249 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
250 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
251
252 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
253 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
254
255 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
256 realname substr searches in varlink API
257
258 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
259
260 * userdb: allow existence checks
261
262 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
263
264 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
265 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
266 initrd had set.
267
268 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
269 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
270 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
271 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
272 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
273 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
274
275 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
276 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
277 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
278
279 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
280 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
281 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
282 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
283 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
284 source.
285
286 * figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
287 with immutable /usr
288
289 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
290 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
291 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
292
293 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
294
295 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
296 the hibernation
297
298 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
299 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
300 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
301 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
302 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
303 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
304 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
305 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
306 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
307 hibernation mode. (see
308 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
309 section 10.2.2.8 and
310 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
311 at the end).
312
313 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
314 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
315 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
316 output for them.
317
318 * systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
319 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
320
321 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
322 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
323 constant vendor data.
324
325 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
326
327 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
328 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
329
330 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
331 fallback in "machinectl shell"
332
333 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
334 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
335 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
336
337 * homed:
338 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
339 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
340 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
341 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
342 - resize on login?
343 - shrink fs on logout?
344 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
345 - create on activate?
346 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
347 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
348 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
349 systemd --user is shut down.
350 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
351 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
352 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
353 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
354 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
355 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
356 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
357 - description field for groups
358 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
359 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
360 - query password from kernel keyring first
361 - update even if record is "absent"
362 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
363 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
364 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
365 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
366 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
367 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
368 - introduce API for "making room", that grows/shrinks home directory
369 according to elastic parameters, discards blocks, and removes additional snapshots. Call it
370 either from UI when disk space gets low
371
372 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
373 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
374 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
375 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
376 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
377 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
378 exec().
379
380 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
381
382 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
383 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
384
385 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
386
387 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
388 gnome-bluetooth and friends
389
390 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
391 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
392 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
393 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
394 cgroup.
395
396 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
397 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
398 root.
399
400 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
401 is issued.
402
403 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
404
405 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
406
407 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
408 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
409 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
410
411 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
412 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
413 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
414
415 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
416 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
417 ConfigurationDirectory=.
418
419 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
420
421 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
422
423 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
424 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
425
426 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
427 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
428 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
429
430 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
431
432 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
433 patching around
434
435 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
436 log.c and sd-journal-send
437
438 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
439
440 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
441
442 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
443 can add in file system drivers and such
444
445 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
446 non-zero "tries done" count
447
448 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
449 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
450 it should skip the variant type string though.
451
452 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
453 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
454 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
455 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
456 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
457 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
458 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
459 CODE_FILE.
460
461 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
462 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
463 some explanatory text online.
464
465 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
466
467 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
468 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
469 the slices, and the units attached to them.
470
471 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
472 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
473 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
474 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
475 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
476 way)
477
478 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
479 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
480 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
481
482 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
483 original defaults before calling parse_config()
484
485 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
486
487 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
488 Specifically:
489
490 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
491 properly)
492 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
493 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
494
495 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
496 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
497
498 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
499 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
500 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
501 files and suchlike we operate on.
502
503 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
504
505 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
506
507 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
508 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
509
510 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
511 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
512 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
513 numbers.
514
515 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
516 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
517 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
518 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
519 unlinked from any dir.
520
521 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
522
523 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
524
525 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
526
527 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
528 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
529 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
530 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
531 should reflink the image file itself.
532
533 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
534 specific paths only like this.
535
536 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
537 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
538 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
539 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
540 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
541
542 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
543
544 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
545
546 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
547 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
548
549 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
550 project quota
551
552 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
553 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
554 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
555 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
556 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
557 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
558 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
559 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
560
561 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
562 for root, but only then.
563
564 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
565
566 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
567 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
568
569 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
570 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
571
572 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
573 host-side interface pointing to the container.
574
575 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
576 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
577 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
578 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
579 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
580
581 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
582
583 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
584
585 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
586 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
587 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
588
589 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
590
591 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
592 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
593
594 * blog about fd store and restartable services
595
596 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
597
598 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
599 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
600
601 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
602 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
603 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
604 ID is available.
605
606 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
607 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
608 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
609
610 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
611 parameters
612
613 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
614 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
615 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
616 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
617 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
618 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
619 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
620
621 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
622 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
623
624 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
625 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
626 wait to retrieve their exit data.
627
628 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
629 about it in the resource log message
630
631 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
632 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
633
634 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
635 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
636 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
637
638 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
639 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
640
641 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
642
643 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
644 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
645 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
646 logging.
647
648 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
649 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
650 "convertible" form factor
651
652 * Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
653 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
654 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
655 as MAINPID.
656
657 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
658 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
659 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
660
661 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
662 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
663
664 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
665 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
666 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
667 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
668 natural habitat.
669
670 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
671 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
672 /usr is mounted into.
673
674 * 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
675
676 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
677
678 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
679 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
680 relative to the configured default value.
681
682 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
683
684 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
685
686 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
687
688 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
689
690 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
691
692 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
693
694 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
695
696 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
697
698 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
699
700 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
701
702 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
703 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
704 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
705
706 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
707
708 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
709
710 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
711 partitions
712
713 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
714 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
715 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
716 mapping to work.
717
718 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
719
720 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
721
722 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
723
724 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
725 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
726
727 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
728 reload the unit file anyway
729
730 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
731 from the SIGBUS handler
732
733 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
734
735 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
736 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
737
738 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
739
740 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
741 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
742
743 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
744 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
745 specifications.
746
747 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
748
749 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
750
751 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
752
753 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
754 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
755 prefixed with /sys generally special.
756 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
757
758 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
759
760 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
761
762 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
763 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
764 state.
765 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
766
767 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
768 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
769 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
770 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
771 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
772
773 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
774 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
775
776 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
777
778 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
779 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
780
781 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
782 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
783 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
784 do, for example)
785
786 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
787 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
788
789 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
790 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
791
792 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
793
794 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
795 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
796 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
797 returning from the "systemctl stop".
798
799 * 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
800
801 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
802
803 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
804 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
805
806 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
807
808 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
809
810 * systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
811 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
812
813 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
814
815 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
816
817 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
818
819 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
820 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
821
822 * resolved:
823 - mDNS/DNS-SD
824 - service registration
825 - service/domain/types browsing
826 - avahi compat
827 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
828 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
829 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
830 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
831 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
832 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
833
834 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
835
836 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
837
838 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
839
840 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
841 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
842
843 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
844
845 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
846
847 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
848
849 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
850 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
851
852 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
853
854 * gpt-auto-generator:
855 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
856 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
857
858 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
859 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
860 when it is otherwise off
861
862 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
863
864 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
865 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
866 for ReusePort=
867
868 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
869 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
870 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
871 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
872 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
873 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
874
875 * cgroups:
876 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
877 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
878 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
879 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
880 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
881 the hierarchies of child processes
882
883 * transient units:
884 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
885
886 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
887
888 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
889
890 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
891
892 * 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
893
894 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
895
896 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
897 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
898 path anyway.
899
900 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
901
902 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
903
904 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
905
906 * sd-bus:
907 - EBADSLT handling
908 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
909 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
910 - 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
911 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
912 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
913 - longer term: priority inheritance
914 - dbus spec updates:
915 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
916 - GVariant
917 - path escaping
918 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
919
920 * sd-event
921 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
922 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
923 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
924
925 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
926
927 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
928 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
929
930 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
931
932 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
933
934 * test/:
935 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
936
937 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
938 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
939 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
940 destination.
941
942 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
943 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
944
945 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
946
947 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
948 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
949 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
950
951 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
952 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
953 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
954 is installed.
955
956 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
957 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
958 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
959 that automatically.
960
961 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
962
963 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
964
965 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
966
967 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
968
969 * EFI:
970 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
971 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
972 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
973 * bootctl
974 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
975
976 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
977
978 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
979
980 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
981
982 * logind:
983 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
984 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
985 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
986 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
987 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
988 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
989 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
990 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
991 needs setuid().
992 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
993 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
994 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
995 complete.
996 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
997 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
998 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
999 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
1000 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1001 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1002 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1003 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1004 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1005 relogins
1006 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
1007
1008 * journal:
1009 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1010 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1011 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1012 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1013 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1014 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1015 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1016 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1017 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1018 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1019 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1020 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1021 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1022 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1023 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1024 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
1025 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1026 - 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.
1027 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1028 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1029 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1030 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1031 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1032 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1033 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1034 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1035 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1036 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1037 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1038 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1039 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1040 to syslog when it works again.
1041 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1042 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1043 journals in.
1044 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1045 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1046 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1047 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1048 the most common operations.
1049 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1050 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1051 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1052 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1053 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1054 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1055 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1056 operation.
1057 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1058 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1059 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1060 binary logs data
1061 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1062 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1063 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1064 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1065 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1066
1067 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1068 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1069 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1070 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1071
1072 * document:
1073 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1074 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1075 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1076 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1077 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1078 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1079 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1080 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1081 - man: add more examples to man pages
1082 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1083 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1084
1085 * systemctl:
1086 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1087 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1088 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1089 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1090 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1091 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1092 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1093 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1094 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1095 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1096
1097 * unit install:
1098 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1099 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1100
1101 * timer units:
1102 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1103 o DST changes
1104 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1105
1106 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1107
1108 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1109
1110 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1111
1112 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1113
1114 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1115
1116 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1117
1118 * nspawn:
1119 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1120 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1121 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1122 from the kernel's logs.
1123 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1124 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1125 interface be missing
1126 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1127 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1128 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1129 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1130 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1131 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1132 PID 1...
1133 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1134 running, remove them when shut down.
1135
1136 * dissect
1137 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1138 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1139
1140 * machined:
1141 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1142 removed or added to an existing machine
1143 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1144 difference host, via ssh
1145 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1146 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1147 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1148 question
1149 - "machinectl history"
1150 - "machinectl diff"
1151 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1152 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1153
1154 * cryptsetup:
1155 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1156 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1157
1158 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1159 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1160
1161 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1162
1163 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1164
1165 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1166
1167 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1168
1169 * udev:
1170 - move to LGPL
1171 - kill scsi_id
1172 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1173 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1174
1175 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1176
1177 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1178
1179 * coredump:
1180 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1181 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1182
1183 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1184
1185 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1186 needs to be auto-respawned?
1187
1188 * tmpfiles:
1189 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1190 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1191 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1192 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1193 calls follow symlinks.
1194
1195 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1196
1197 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1198 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1199 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1200
1201 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1202 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1203
1204 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1205
1206 * write blog stories about:
1207 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1208 - enabling dbus services
1209 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1210 - remote access
1211 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1212 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1213 - auto-restart
1214 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1215 - the journal HTTP iface
1216 - non-cgroup resource management
1217 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1218 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1219 - calendar time events
1220 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1221 - how to create your own target
1222 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1223 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1224
1225 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1226
1227 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1228
1229 * pid1:
1230 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1231 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1232 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1233 that are not supported...
1234 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1235 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1236 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1237 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1238 - move PAM code into its own binary
1239 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1240 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1241 - Support --test based on current system state
1242 - 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().
1243 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1244 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1245 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1246 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1247 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1248 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1249 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1250 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1251 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1252
1253 * unit files:
1254 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1255 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1256 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1257 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1258 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1259 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1260 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1261 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1262 - introduce Type=pid-file
1263 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1264 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1265 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1266 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1267
1268 * udev-link-config:
1269 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1270 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1271 on Path= matching
1272
1273 * sd-rtnl:
1274 - add support for more attribute types
1275 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1276
1277 * networkd:
1278 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1279 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1280 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1281 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1282 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1283 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1284 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1285 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1286 - expose in the API the following bits:
1287 - option 15, domain name
1288 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1289 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1290 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1291 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1292 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1293 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1294 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1295 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1296 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1297
1298 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1299
1300 * dhcp:
1301 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1302
1303 * dhcp6:
1304 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1305 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1306 - write more test cases
1307 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1308 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1309 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1310 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1311 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1312 or interface down
1313 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1314 this behavior
1315 - RouteTable= ?
1316
1317 External:
1318
1319 * dbus:
1320 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1321 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1322
1323 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1324
1325 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1326
1327 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1328
1329 * 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=
1330
1331 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1332
1333 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1334
1335 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1336
1337 * zsh shell completion:
1338 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1339 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1340
1341 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1342 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1343 after being started.
1344
1345 Regularly:
1346
1347 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1348
1349 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1350
1351 * pahole
1352
1353 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1354
1355 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1356
1357 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
1358 String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment