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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 * add --copy-from and --copy-to command to systemd-dissect which copies stuff
23 in and out of a disk image
24
25 * add systemd.random_seed= on the kernel cmdline, taking some hex or base64
26 encoded data. During earliest boot, credit it to entropy. This is not useful
27 for general purpose systems, but certainly for testing environments in VMs
28 and such, as it allows us to boot up instantly with fully initialized entropy
29 pool even if RNG pass-thru is not available.
30
31 * Support ProtectProc= or so, using: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11310197/
32
33 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
34
35 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
36 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
37
38 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
39 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
40 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
41 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
42 anything like that.
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 * add ConditionSecurity=tpm2
54
55 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
56 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
57
58 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
59
60 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
61
62 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
63 when it exits
64
65 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
66 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
67
68 * make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
69 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
70 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
71
72 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
73 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, firstboot, tmpfiles,
74 sysusers, systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl.
75
76 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
77
78 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
79 specific service
80
81 * seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
82
83 * per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
84 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
85 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
86 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
87 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
88 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
89 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
90 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
91
92 * homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
93 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
94
95 * homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
96 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
97
98 * homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
99 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
100 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
101
102 * homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
103 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
104 signature
105
106 * homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
107 and insert a local signature instead.
108
109 * homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
110 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
111 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
112 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
113 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
114
115 * homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
116
117 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
118 exists and responds.
119
120 * homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
121 easily?
122
123 * when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
124 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
125 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
126 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
127 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
128
129 * cryptsetup/homed: also support FIDO2 HMAC password logic for unlocking
130 devices. (see: https://github.com/mjec/fido2-hmac-secret)
131
132 * systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
133 creates
134
135 * homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
136 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
137 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
138 hence we can make them quicker to work.
139
140 * bootctl:
141 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
142 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
143 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
144
145 * by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
146 allow so that systemd survives
147
148 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
149 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
150
151 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
152 systemd-makefs.service instead.
153
154 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
155 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
156
157 * unify on openssl:
158 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
159 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
160 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
161 - port importd over from libgcrypt
162 - when that's done: kill khash.c
163 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
164
165 * kill zenata, all hail weblate?
166
167 * when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
168
169 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
170 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
171
172 * hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
173 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
174 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
175 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
176 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
177
178 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
179 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
180 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
181 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
182
183 * systemd-repart: optionally, allow specifying a path to initialize new
184 partitions from, i.e. an fs image file or a source device node. This would
185 then turn systemd-repart into a simple installer: with a few .repart files
186 you could replicate the host system on another device. a full installer would
187 then be: "systemd-repart /dev/sda && bootctl install /dev/sda &&
188 systemd-firstboot --image= …"
189
190 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
191 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
192 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
193 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
194 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
195 automatically.
196
197 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
198 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
199
200 * systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
201 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
202
203 * systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
204
205 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
206 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
207
208 * systemd-repart: add specifier expansion, add especifier that refers to root
209 device node of current system, /usr device node, and matching verity, so that
210 an installer can be made a "copy" installer of the booted OS
211
212 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
213 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
214
215 * systemd-repart: allow config of partition uuid
216
217 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
218 realname substr searches in varlink API
219
220 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
221
222 * userdb: allow existence checks
223
224 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
225
226 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
227 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
228 initrd had set.
229
230 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
231 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
232 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
233 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
234 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
235 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
236
237 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
238 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
239 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
240
241 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
242 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
243 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
244 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
245 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
246 source.
247
248 * figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
249 with immutable /usr
250
251 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
252 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
253 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
254
255 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
256
257 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
258 the hibernation
259
260 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
261 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
262 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
263 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
264 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
265 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
266 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
267 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
268 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
269 hibernation mode. (see
270 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
271 section 10.2.2.8 and
272 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
273 at the end).
274
275 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
276 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
277 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
278 output for them.
279
280 * systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
281 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
282
283 * We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
284 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
285 constant vendor data.
286
287 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
288
289 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
290 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
291
292 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
293 fallback in "machinectl shell"
294
295 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
296 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
297 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
298
299 * homed:
300 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
301 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
302 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
303 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
304 - resize on login?
305 - shrink fs on logout?
306 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
307 - create on activate?
308 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
309 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
310 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
311 systemd --user is shut down.
312 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
313 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk images (think: time machine)
314 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
315 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
316 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
317 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
318 - description field for groups
319 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
320 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
321 - query password from kernel keyring first
322 - update even if record is "absent"
323 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
324 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
325 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
326 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
327 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
328 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
329
330 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
331 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
332 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
333 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
334 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
335 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
336 exec().
337
338 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
339
340 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
341 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
342
343 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
344
345 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
346 gnome-bluetooth and friends
347
348 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
349 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
350 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
351 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
352 cgroup.
353
354 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
355 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
356 root.
357
358 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
359 is issued.
360
361 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
362
363 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
364
365 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
366 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
367 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
368
369 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
370 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
371 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
372
373 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
374 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
375 ConfigurationDirectory=.
376
377 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
378
379 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
380
381 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
382 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
383
384 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
385 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
386 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
387
388 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
389
390 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
391 patching around
392
393 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
394 log.c and sd-journal-send
395
396 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
397
398 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
399
400 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
401 can add in file system drivers and such
402
403 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
404 non-zero "tries done" count
405
406 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
407 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
408 it should skip the variant type string though.
409
410 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
411 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
412 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
413 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
414 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
415 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
416 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
417 CODE_FILE.
418
419 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
420 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
421 some explanatory text online.
422
423 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
424
425 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
426 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
427 the slices, and the units attached to them.
428
429 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
430 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
431 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
432 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
433 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
434 way)
435
436 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
437 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
438 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
439
440 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
441 original defaults before calling parse_config()
442
443 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
444
445 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
446 Specifically:
447
448 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
449 properly)
450 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
451 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
452
453 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
454 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
455
456 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
457 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
458 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
459 files and suchlike we operate on.
460
461 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
462
463 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
464
465 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
466 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
467
468 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
469 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
470 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
471 numbers.
472
473 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
474 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
475 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
476 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
477 unlinked from any dir.
478
479 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
480
481 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
482
483 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
484
485 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
486 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
487 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
488 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
489 should reflink the image file itself.
490
491 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
492 specific paths only like this.
493
494 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
495 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
496 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
497 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
498 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
499
500 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
501
502 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
503
504 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
505 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
506
507 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
508 project quota
509
510 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
511 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
512 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
513 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
514 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
515 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
516 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
517 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
518
519 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
520 for root, but only then.
521
522 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
523
524 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
525 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
526
527 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
528 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
529
530 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
531 host-side interface pointing to the container.
532
533 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
534 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
535 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
536 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
537 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
538
539 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
540
541 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
542
543 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
544 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
545 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
546
547 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
548
549 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
550 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
551
552 * blog about fd store and restartable services
553
554 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
555
556 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
557 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
558
559 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
560 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
561 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
562 ID is available.
563
564 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
565 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
566 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
567
568 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
569 parameters
570
571 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
572 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
573 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
574 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
575 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
576 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
577 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
578
579 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
580 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
581
582 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
583 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
584 wait to retrieve their exit data.
585
586 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
587 about it in the resource log message
588
589 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
590 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
591
592 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
593 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
594 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
595
596 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
597 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
598
599 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
600
601 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
602 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
603 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
604 logging.
605
606 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
607 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
608 "convertible" form factor
609
610 * Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
611 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
612 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
613 as MAINPID.
614
615 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
616 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
617 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
618
619 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
620 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
621
622 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
623 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
624 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
625 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
626 natural habitat.
627
628 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
629 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
630 /usr is mounted into.
631
632 * 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
633
634 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
635
636 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
637 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
638 relative to the configured default value.
639
640 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
641
642 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
643
644 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
645
646 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
647
648 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
649
650 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
651
652 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
653
654 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
655
656 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
657
658 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
659
660 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
661 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
662 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
663
664 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
665
666 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
667
668 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
669 partitions
670
671 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
672 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
673 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
674 mapping to work.
675
676 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
677
678 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
679
680 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
681
682 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
683 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
684
685 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
686 reload the unit file anyway
687
688 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
689 from the SIGBUS handler
690
691 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
692
693 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
694 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
695
696 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
697
698 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
699 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
700
701 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
702 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
703 specifications.
704
705 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
706
707 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
708
709 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
710
711 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
712 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
713 prefixed with /sys generally special.
714 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
715
716 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
717
718 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
719
720 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
721 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
722 state.
723 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
724
725 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
726 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
727 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
728 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
729 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
730
731 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
732 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
733
734 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
735
736 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
737 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
738
739 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
740 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
741 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
742 do, for example)
743
744 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
745 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
746
747 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
748 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
749
750 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
751
752 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
753 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
754 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
755 returning from the "systemctl stop".
756
757 * 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
758
759 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
760
761 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
762 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
763
764 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
765
766 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
767
768 * systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
769 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
770
771 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
772
773 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
774
775 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
776
777 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
778 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
779
780 * resolved:
781 - mDNS/DNS-SD
782 - service registration
783 - service/domain/types browsing
784 - avahi compat
785 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
786 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
787 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
788 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
789 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
790 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
791
792 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
793
794 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
795
796 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
797
798 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
799 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
800
801 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
802
803 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
804
805 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
806
807 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
808 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
809
810 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
811
812 * gpt-auto-generator:
813 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
814 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
815
816 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
817 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
818 when it is otherwise off
819
820 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
821
822 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
823 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
824 for ReusePort=
825
826 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
827 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
828 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
829 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
830 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
831 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
832
833 * cgroups:
834 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
835 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
836 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
837 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
838 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
839 the hierarchies of child processes
840
841 * transient units:
842 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
843
844 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
845
846 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
847
848 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
849
850 * 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
851
852 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
853
854 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
855 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
856 path anyway.
857
858 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
859
860 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
861
862 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
863
864 * sd-bus:
865 - EBADSLT handling
866 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
867 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
868 - 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
869 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
870 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
871 - longer term: priority inheritance
872 - dbus spec updates:
873 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
874 - GVariant
875 - path escaping
876 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
877
878 * sd-event
879 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
880 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
881 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
882
883 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
884
885 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
886 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
887
888 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
889
890 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
891
892 * test/:
893 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
894
895 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
896 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
897 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
898 destination.
899
900 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
901 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
902
903 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
904
905 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
906 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
907 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
908
909 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
910 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
911 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
912 is installed.
913
914 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
915 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
916 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
917 that automatically.
918
919 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
920
921 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
922
923 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
924
925 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
926
927 * EFI:
928 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
929 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
930 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
931 * bootctl
932 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
933
934 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
935
936 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
937
938 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
939
940 * logind:
941 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
942 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
943 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
944 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
945 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
946 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
947 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
948 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
949 needs setuid().
950 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
951 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
952 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
953 complete.
954 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
955 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
956 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
957 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
958 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
959 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
960 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
961 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
962 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
963 relogins
964 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
965
966 * journal:
967 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
968 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
969 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
970 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
971 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
972 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
973 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
974 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
975 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
976 message that works, but already after a short timeout
977 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
978 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
979 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
980 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
981 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
982 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
983 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
984 - 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.
985 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
986 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
987 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
988 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
989 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
990 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
991 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
992 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
993 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
994 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
995 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
996 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
997 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
998 to syslog when it works again.
999 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1000 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1001 journals in.
1002 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1003 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1004 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1005 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1006 the most common operations.
1007 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1008 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1009 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1010 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1011 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1012 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1013 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1014 operation.
1015 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1016 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1017 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1018 binary logs data
1019 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1020 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1021 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1022 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1023 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1024
1025 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1026 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1027 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1028 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1029
1030 * document:
1031 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1032 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1033 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1034 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1035 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1036 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1037 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1038 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1039 - man: add more examples to man pages
1040 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1041 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1042
1043 * systemctl:
1044 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1045 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1046 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1047 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1048 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1049 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1050 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1051 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1052 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1053 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1054
1055 * unit install:
1056 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1057 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1058
1059 * timer units:
1060 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1061 o DST changes
1062 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1063
1064 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1065
1066 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1067
1068 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1069
1070 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1071
1072 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1073
1074 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1075
1076 * nspawn:
1077 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1078 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1079 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1080 from the kernel's logs.
1081 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1082 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1083 interface be missing
1084 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1085 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1086 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1087 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1088 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1089 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1090 PID 1...
1091 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1092 running, remove them when shut down.
1093
1094 * dissect
1095 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1096 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1097
1098 * machined:
1099 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1100 removed or added to an existing machine
1101 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1102 difference host, via ssh
1103 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1104 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1105 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1106 question
1107 - "machinectl history"
1108 - "machinectl diff"
1109 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1110 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1111
1112 * cryptsetup:
1113 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1114 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1115
1116 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
1117 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
1118
1119 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1120
1121 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1122
1123 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1124
1125 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1126
1127 * udev:
1128 - move to LGPL
1129 - kill scsi_id
1130 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1131 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1132
1133 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1134
1135 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1136
1137 * coredump:
1138 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1139 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1140
1141 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1142
1143 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1144 needs to be auto-respawned?
1145
1146 * tmpfiles:
1147 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1148 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1149 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1150 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1151 calls follow symlinks.
1152
1153 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1154
1155 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1156 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1157 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1158
1159 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1160 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1161
1162 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1163
1164 * write blog stories about:
1165 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
1166 - enabling dbus services
1167 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
1168 - remote access
1169 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
1170 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
1171 - auto-restart
1172 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
1173 - the journal HTTP iface
1174 - non-cgroup resource management
1175 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
1176 - refreshed, longer missions statement
1177 - calendar time events
1178 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1179 - how to create your own target
1180 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1181 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
1182
1183 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1184
1185 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1186
1187 * pid1:
1188 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1189 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1190 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1191 that are not supported...
1192 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1193 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1194 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1195 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1196 - move PAM code into its own binary
1197 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1198 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1199 - Support --test based on current system state
1200 - 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().
1201 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1202 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1203 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1204 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1205 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1206 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1207 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1208 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1209 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1210
1211 * unit files:
1212 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1213 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1214 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1215 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1216 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1217 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1218 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1219 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1220 - introduce Type=pid-file
1221 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1222 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1223 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1224 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1225
1226 * udev-link-config:
1227 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1228 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1229 on Path= matching
1230
1231 * sd-rtnl:
1232 - add support for more attribute types
1233 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1234
1235 * networkd:
1236 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1237 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1238 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1239 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1240 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1241 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1242 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1243 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1244 - expose in the API the following bits:
1245 - option 15, domain name
1246 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1247 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1248 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1249 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1250 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1251 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1252 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1253 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1254 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1255
1256 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1257
1258 * dhcp:
1259 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1260
1261 * dhcp6:
1262 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1263 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1264 - write more test cases
1265 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1266 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1267 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1268 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1269 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1270 or interface down
1271 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1272 this behavior
1273 - RouteTable= ?
1274
1275 External:
1276
1277 * dbus:
1278 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1279 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1280
1281 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1282
1283 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1284
1285 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1286
1287 * 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=
1288
1289 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1290
1291 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1292
1293 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1294
1295 * zsh shell completion:
1296 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1297 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1298
1299 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
1300 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1301 after being started.
1302
1303 Regularly:
1304
1305 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1306
1307 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1308
1309 * pahole
1310
1311 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1312
1313 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1314
1315 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
1316 String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment