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.
7 * Clarify what IPAddress* matches (source, destination, both?)
11 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
13 * wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
17 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
19 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
20 semantics, like we do for device.c now
25 - Use CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM for waking up s2h instead of RTC ioctls
26 - Parse sleep.conf only once, and parse its whole contents so that we don't
27 have to parse it again and again in s2h
28 - Make sure resume= and resume_offset= on the kernel cmdline always take
31 * maybe add a seccomp-based high-level filter that blocks creation of suid/sgid
34 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
35 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
38 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
41 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
43 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
45 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
46 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
47 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
49 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that that even if User= is used in combination with
50 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
51 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
53 * add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
54 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
55 ConfigurationDirectory=.
57 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
59 * When logind.conf contains HandleLidSwitch=suspend-then-hibernate and we can't
60 hibernate because the swap partition isn't large enough, still suspend
62 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
64 * when a socket unit is spawned with an AF_UNIX path in /var/run, complain and
65 patch it to use /run instead
67 * set memory.oom.group in cgroup v2 for all leaf cgroups (kernel v4.19+)
69 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
70 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
72 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
73 first. i.e. look for all places we use string_erase()/string_free_erase() and
74 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP
76 * whenever oom_kill memory.event event is triggered print a nice log message
78 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
80 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
83 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
84 log.c and sd-journal-send
86 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
88 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
90 * optionally, if a per-partition GPT flag is set for the root/home/… partitions
91 format the partition on next boot and unset the flag, in order to implement
92 factory reset. also, add a second flag that simply indicates whether such a
93 scheme is supported. then, add a tool (or maybe beef up systemd-dissect) to
94 show state of these flags, and optionally trigger such a factory reset on
95 next boot by setting the flag.
97 * sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
98 can add in file system drivers and such
100 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
101 non-zero "tries done" count
103 * maybe set a special xattr on cgroups that have delegate=yes set, to make it
104 easy to mark cut points
106 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
107 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
108 it should skip the variant type string though.
110 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
111 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
112 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
113 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
114 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
115 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
116 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
119 * when outputting log data with journalctl and the log data includes references
120 to configuration files (CONFIG_FILE=), create a clickable link for it.
122 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
123 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
124 some explanatory text online.
126 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
128 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
129 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
130 the slices, and the units attached to them.
132 * the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
133 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
134 enqeue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
135 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
136 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
139 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
140 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
141 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
143 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
144 original defaults before calling parse_config()
146 * Add OnTimezoneChange= and OnTimeChange= stanzas to .timer units in order to
147 schedule events based on time and timezone changes.
149 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
151 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
154 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
156 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
157 3. add autodetection of hibernation images
159 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
160 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
162 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
163 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
164 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
165 files and suchlike we operate on.
167 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
169 * add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
171 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
172 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
174 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
175 other doesn't. What a desaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
176 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
179 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
180 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
181 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
182 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
183 unlinked from any dir.
185 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
187 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
189 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
191 * SuccessExitStatus= and friends should probably also accept symbolic exit
192 codes names, i.e. error codes from the list maintained in exit-codes.[ch]
194 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
195 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
196 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
197 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
198 should reflink the image file itself.
200 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
201 specific paths only like this.
203 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
204 directory trees from the host to te services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
205 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
206 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
207 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
209 * nspawn's console TTY should be allocated from within the container, not
210 mounted in from the outside
212 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
214 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
216 * tree-wide: ensure we always block the signals we hook into with
217 sd_event_add_signal() first
219 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
220 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
222 * teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
225 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
226 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
227 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
228 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
229 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
230 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
231 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
232 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
234 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
235 for root, but only then.
237 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
239 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
240 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
242 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
243 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
245 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
246 host-side interface pointing to the container.
248 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
249 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
250 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
251 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
252 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
254 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
256 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
258 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
259 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
260 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
262 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
264 * maybe use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (i.e. the env var the reproducible builds folks
265 introduced) as the RTC epoch, instead of the mtime of NEWS.
267 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
268 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
270 * blog about fd store and restartable services
272 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
274 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
275 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
277 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
278 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
279 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
282 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
283 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
284 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
286 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
289 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
290 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
291 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
292 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
293 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
294 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
295 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
297 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
298 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
300 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
301 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
302 wait to retrieve their exit data.
304 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
305 about it in the resource log message
307 * add "systemctl purge" for flushing out configuration, state, logs, ... of a
308 unit when it is stopped
310 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
311 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
313 * replace all remaining uses of fgets() + LINE_MAX by read_line()
315 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
316 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
317 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
319 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
320 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
322 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
324 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
325 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
326 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
329 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
330 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
331 "convertible" form factor
333 * Maybe add a small tool invoked early at boot, that adds in or resizes
334 partitions automatically, to be used when the media used is actually larger
335 than the image written onto it is.
337 * Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
338 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
339 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
342 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
343 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
344 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
346 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
347 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
349 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
350 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
351 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
352 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
355 * maybe introduce gpt auto discovery for /var/tmp?
357 * maybe add gpt-partition-based user management: each user gets his own
358 LUKS-encrypted GPT partition with a new GPT type. A small nss module
359 enumerates users via udev partition enumeration. UIDs are assigned in a fixed
360 way: the partition index is added as offset to some fixed base uid. User name
361 is stored in GPT partition name. A PAM module authenticates the user via the
362 LUKS partition password. Benefits: strong per-user security, compatibility
363 with stateless/read-only/verity-enabled root. (other idea: do this based on
364 loopback files in /home, without GPT involvement)
366 * gpt-auto logic: introduce support for discovering /var matching an image. For
367 that, use a partition type UUID that is hashed from the OS name (as encoded
368 in /etc/os-release), the architecture, and 4 new bits from the gpt flags
369 field of the root partition. This way can easily support multiple OS
370 installations on the same GPT partition table, without problems with
371 unmatched /var partitions.
373 * gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
374 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
375 /usr is mounted into.
377 * 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
379 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
381 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
382 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
383 relative to the configured default value.
385 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
387 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
389 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
391 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
393 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
395 * ProtectKernelLogs= (drops CAP_SYSLOG, add seccomp for syslog() syscall, and DeviceAllow to /dev/kmsg) in service files
397 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
399 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
401 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
403 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
405 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
407 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
408 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
409 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
411 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
413 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
415 * mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
418 * expose the "privileged" flag of ExecCommand on the bus, and open it up to
421 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
422 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
423 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
426 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
428 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
430 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
432 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
433 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
435 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
436 reload the unit file anyway
438 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
439 from the SIGBUS handler
441 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
443 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
444 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
446 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
448 * add systemctl stop --job-mode=triggering that follows TRIGGERED_BY deps and adds them to the same transaction
450 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
451 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
453 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
454 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
457 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
459 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller (only after the cpuset controller got ported to the unified hierarchy)
461 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
463 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
464 as we have for debugfs. for exmaple, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
465 prefixed with /sys generally special.
466 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
468 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
470 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
472 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
473 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
475 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
477 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
478 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
479 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
480 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
481 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
483 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
484 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
486 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
488 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
489 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
491 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
492 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
493 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
496 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
497 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
499 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
500 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
502 * in systemctl list-unit-files: show the install value the presets would suggest for a service in a third column
504 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
506 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
507 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
508 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
509 returning from the "systemctl stop".
511 * 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
513 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
515 * consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions
517 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
518 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
520 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
522 * man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
524 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
526 * systemctl edit: use equvalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
527 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
529 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
531 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
533 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
535 * systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
538 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
539 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
543 - service registration
544 - service/domain/types browsing
546 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
547 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
548 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
549 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
550 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
551 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
553 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
555 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
557 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
559 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
560 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
562 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
564 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
566 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
568 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
569 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
571 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
573 * gpt-auto-generator:
574 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
575 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
577 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
578 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
579 when it is otherwise off
581 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
583 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
584 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
587 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
588 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
589 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
590 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
591 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
592 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
595 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
596 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
597 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
598 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
599 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
600 the hierarchies of child processes
603 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
605 * Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
607 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
609 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
611 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
613 * 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
615 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
617 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
618 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
621 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
623 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
625 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
629 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
630 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
631 - 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
632 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
633 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
634 - longer term: priority inheritance
636 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
639 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
642 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
643 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
644 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
645 - generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
647 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
649 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
650 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
652 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
654 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
657 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
659 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
660 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
661 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
664 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
665 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
667 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
669 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
670 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
671 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
674 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
675 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
676 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
679 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
681 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
683 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
685 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
687 * introduce ExecCondition= in services
690 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
691 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
692 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
694 - verify that the files boot entries point to exist
695 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
696 - specify paths for boot entries
698 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
700 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
702 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
705 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
706 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
707 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
708 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
709 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
710 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
711 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
712 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
714 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
715 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
716 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
718 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
719 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
720 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
721 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
722 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
723 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
724 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
725 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
726 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
730 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
731 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
732 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
733 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
734 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
735 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
736 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
737 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
738 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
739 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
740 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
741 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
742 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
743 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
744 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
745 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
746 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
747 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
748 - 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.
749 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
750 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
751 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
752 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
753 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
754 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
755 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
756 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
757 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
758 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
759 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
760 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
761 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
762 to syslog when it works again.
763 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
764 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
765 so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
766 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
767 - optionally support running journald from the command line for testing purposes in external projects
768 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
769 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
771 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
772 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
773 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
774 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
775 the most common operations.
776 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
777 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
778 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
779 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
780 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
781 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
782 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
784 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
785 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
786 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
788 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
789 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
790 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
791 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
792 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
794 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
795 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
796 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
797 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
800 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
801 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
802 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
803 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
804 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
805 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
806 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
807 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
808 - man: add more examples to man pages
809 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
810 - document root=gpt-auto properly
813 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
814 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
815 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
816 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
817 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
818 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
819 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
820 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
821 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
822 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
825 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
826 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
829 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
830 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
833 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
835 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
837 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
839 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
841 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
843 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
845 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
848 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
849 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
850 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
851 from the kernel's logs.
852 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
853 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
855 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
856 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
857 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
858 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
859 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
860 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
862 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
863 running, remove them when shut down.
866 - refuse mounting over a mount point
867 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
870 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
871 removed or added to an existing machine
872 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
873 difference host, via ssh
874 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
875 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
876 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
878 - "machinectl history"
880 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
881 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
884 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
885 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
887 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
888 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
890 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
892 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
894 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
896 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
901 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
902 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
904 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
906 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
909 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
910 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
912 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
914 * default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
916 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
917 needs to be auto-respawned?
920 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
922 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
923 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
924 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
925 calls follow symlinks.
927 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
929 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
930 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
931 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
933 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
934 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
936 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
938 * write blog stories about:
939 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
940 - enabling dbus services
941 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
943 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
944 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
946 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
947 - the journal HTTP iface
948 - non-cgroup resource management
949 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
950 - refreshed, longer missions statement
951 - calendar time events
952 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
953 - how to create your own target
954 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
955 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
957 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
959 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
962 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
963 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
964 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
965 that are not supported...
966 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
967 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
968 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
969 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
970 - move PAM code into its own binary
971 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
972 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
973 - Support --test based on current system state
974 - 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().
975 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
976 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
977 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
978 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
979 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
980 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
981 but much rather a disconnect on success.
982 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
983 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
986 - allow port=0 in .socket units
987 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
988 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
989 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
990 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
991 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
992 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
993 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
994 - load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
995 verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
996 - introduce Type=pid-file
997 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
998 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
999 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1002 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1003 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1005 - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
1008 - add support for more attribute types
1009 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1012 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1013 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1014 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
1015 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1016 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
1017 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1018 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1019 - add support for more bond options
1020 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1021 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1022 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1023 - expose in the API the following bits:
1024 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
1025 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
1026 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1027 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1028 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1029 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1030 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1031 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1032 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
1033 - allow DUID/IAID to be customized, see issue #394.
1034 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1036 * networkd-wait-online:
1037 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
1040 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1043 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1044 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1045 - write more test cases
1046 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1047 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1048 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1049 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1050 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1052 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1059 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
1060 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
1062 * fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
1064 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1066 * patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
1068 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
1070 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1072 * 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=
1074 * fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
1076 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
1078 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
1080 * register catalog database signature as file magic
1082 * zsh shell completion:
1083 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
1084 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1089 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
1091 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
1095 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
1097 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
1099 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
1100 String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment
1101 timedatex.service: Consumed 26ms CPU time.