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1 Bugfixes:
2
3 * Should systemctl status \* work on all unit types, not just .service?
4
5 * Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
6 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
7 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
8
9 * ExecStart with unicode characters fails in strv_split_extract:
10
11 [Service]
12 Environment=ONE='one' "TWO='two two' too" THREE=
13 ExecStart=/bin/python3 -c 'import sys;print(sys.argv)' $ONE $TWO $THREE
14
15 * When systemctl --host is used, underlying ssh connection can remain open.
16 bus_close does not kill children?
17
18 External:
19
20 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
21
22 * wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
23
24 Janitorial Clean-ups:
25
26 * code cleanup: retire FOREACH_WORD_QUOTED, port to extract_first_word() loops instead
27
28 * replace manual readdir() loops with FOREACH_DIRENT or FOREACH_DIRENT_ALL
29
30 * Get rid of the last strerror() invocations in favour of %m and strerror_r()
31
32 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
33
34 Features:
35
36 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
37 reload the unit file anyway
38
39 * https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/2886 is fucked
40
41 * make sure resolved can be restarted without losing pushed-in dns config
42
43 * fix https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/2890, this shouldn't be exported
44 like this.
45
46 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
47 from the SIGBUS handler
48
49 * resolved: cefmz.x.incapdns.net fails to authenticate
50
51 * when using UTF8, ellipsize with "…" rather than "...", so that we can show more contents before truncating
52
53 * move specifier expansion from service_spawn() into load-fragment.c
54
55 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
56
57 * resolved: maybe, after all, implement local listening for DNS packets on port
58 127.0.0.53:53.
59
60 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
61 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
62
63 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
64
65 * add systemctl stop --job-mode=triggering that follows TRIGGERED_BY deps and adds them to the same transaction
66
67 * Maybe add a way how users can "pin" units into memory, so that they are not subject to automatic GC?
68
69 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
70 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
71
72 * add an explicit parser for LimitNICE= and LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
73 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
74 specifications. Also, for LimitNICE= maybe introduce a syntax such
75 as "+5" or "-7" in order to make the limits more readable as they
76 are otherwise shifted by 20.
77
78 * do something about "/control" subcgroups in the unified cgroup hierarchy
79
80 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
81
82 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller (only after the cpuset controller got ported to the unified hierarchy)
83
84 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
85
86 * consider throwing a warning if a service declares it wants to be "Before=" a .device unit.
87
88 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
89 as we have for debugfs. for exmaple, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
90 prefixed with /sys generally special.
91 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
92
93 * man: document that unless you use StandardError=null the shell >/dev/stderr won't work in shell scripts in services
94
95 * install: include generator dirs in unit file search paths
96
97 * rework C11 utf8.[ch] to use char32_t instead of uint32_t when referring
98 to unicode chars, to make things more expressive.
99
100 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
101
102 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
103
104 * mounting and unmounting mount points manually with different source
105 devices will result in collected collected on all devices used.
106 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030225.html
107
108 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
109 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
110 state.
111 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
112
113 * Maybe add support for the equivalent of "ethtool advertise" to .link files?
114 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030112.html
115
116 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
117 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
118 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
119 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
120 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
121
122 * networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
123 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
124
125 * Rework systemctl's GetAll property parsing to use the generic bus_map_all_properties() API
126
127 * implement a per-service firewall based on net_cls
128
129 * Port various tools to make use of verbs.[ch], where applicable
130
131 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
132
133 * sysfs set api in libudev is not const
134
135 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
136 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
137
138 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
139 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
140 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
141 do, for example)
142
143 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
144 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
145
146 * as soon as we have kdbus, and sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
147 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
148
149 * the install state probably shouldn't get confused by generated units, think dbus1/kdbus compat!
150
151 * in systemctl list-unit-files: show the install value the presets would suggest for a service in a third column
152
153 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
154
155 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
156 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
157 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
158 returning from the "systemctl stop".
159
160 * 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
161
162 * add infrastructure to allocate dynamic/transient users and UID ranges, for use in user-namespaced containers, per-seat gdm login screens and gdm guest sessions
163
164 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
165
166 * introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix?
167
168 * systemd --user should issue sd_notify() upon reaching basic.target, not on becoming idle
169
170 * consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions
171
172 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
173 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
174
175 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
176
177 * maybe provide an API to allow migration of foreign PIDs into existing scopes.
178
179 * man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
180
181 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
182
183 * systemctl edit:
184 - allow creation of units from scratch
185 - use equvalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
186 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
187
188 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
189
190 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
191
192 * extract_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that
193 currently uses FOREACH_WORD and friends. For example, most conf
194 parsing callbacks should use it.
195
196 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
197
198 * systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
199 units are shown.
200
201 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
202 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
203
204 * resolved:
205 - mDNS/DNS-SD
206 - service registration
207 - service/domain/types browsing
208 - avahi compat
209 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
210 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
211 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
212 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
213 - enable DNSSEC by default
214 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
215
216 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
217
218 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
219
220 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
221
222 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
223 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
224 - fstab-generator: support systemd.volatile=yes|no|state on the kernel cmdline, too, similar to nspawn's --volatile=
225
226 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
227
228 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
229
230 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
231
232 * mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied
233
234 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
235 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
236
237 * Run most system services with cgroupfs read-only and procfs with a more secure mode (doesn't work, since the hidepid= option is per-pid-namespace, not per-mount)
238
239 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
240
241 * gpt-auto-generator:
242 - Support LUKS for root devices
243 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
244 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
245
246 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
247 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
248 when it is otherwise off
249
250 * MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
251
252 * "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
253 /proc/$PID/exe
254
255 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
256 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
257 for ReusePort=
258
259 * socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
260 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
261 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
262 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
263 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
264
265 * New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
266
267 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
268 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
269 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
270 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
271 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
272 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
273
274 * cgroups:
275 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
276 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
277 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
278 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
279 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
280 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
281 the hierarchies of child processes
282
283 * transient units:
284 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
285 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
286
287 * Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
288
289 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
290
291 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
292
293 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
294
295 * unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
296
297 * 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
298
299 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
300
301 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
302 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
303 path anyway.
304
305 * refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
306
307 * btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
308
309 * make sure gdm does not use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
310
311 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
312
313 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
314
315 * allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
316 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
317
318 * sd-bus:
319 - EBADSLT handling
320 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
321 - kdbus: process fd=-1 for incoming msgs
322 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
323 - kdbus: maybe add controlling tty metadata fields
324 - 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
325 - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
326 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
327 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
328 - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async?
329 - kdbus: matches against source or destination pids for an "strace -p"-like feel. Problem: The PID info needs to be available in userspace too...
330 - longer term: priority inheritance
331 - dbus spec updates:
332 - kdbus mapping
333 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
334 - GVariant
335 - path escaping
336 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
337 - test bloom filter generation indexes
338 - kdbus: introduce a concept of "send-only" connections
339 - kdbus: add counter for refused unicast messages that is passed out via the RECV ioctl. SImilar to the counter for dropped multicast messages we already have.
340
341 * sd-event
342 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
343 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
344 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
345 - generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
346 - maybe add support for inotify events
347
348 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
349
350 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
351 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
352
353 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
354
355 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
356
357 * maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
358
359 * cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
360
361 * test/:
362 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
363 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
364
365 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
366 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
367 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
368 destination.
369
370 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
371 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
372
373 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
374
375 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
376 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
377 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
378 is installed.
379
380 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
381 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
382 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
383 that automatically.
384
385 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
386
387 * remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
388
389 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
390
391 * think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
392
393 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
394
395 * introduce ExecCondition= in services
396
397 * EFI:
398 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
399 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
400 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
401
402 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
403
404 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
405
406 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
407
408 * logind:
409 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
410 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
411 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
412 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
413 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
414 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
415 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
416 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
417 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
418 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
419 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
420 needs setuid().
421 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
422 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
423 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
424 complete.
425 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
426 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
427 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
428 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
429 - given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
430 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
431 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
432 - expose orientation sensors and tablet mode through logind
433 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
434 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
435 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
436 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
437 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
438 relogins
439
440 * exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
441
442 * service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
443
444 * journal:
445 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
446 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
447 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
448 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
449 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
450 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
451 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
452 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
453 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
454 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
455 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
456 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
457 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
458 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
459 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
460 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
461 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
462 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
463 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
464 - 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.
465 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
466 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
467 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
468 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
469 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
470 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
471 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
472 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
473 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
474 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
475 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
476 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
477 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
478 to syslog when it works again.
479 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
480 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
481 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
482 so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
483 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
484 - optionally support running journald from the command line for testing purposes in external projects
485 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
486 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
487 journals in.
488 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
489 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
490 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
491 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
492 the most common operations.
493 - journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted
494 commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
495 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
496 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
497 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
498 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
499 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
500 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
501 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
502 operation.
503 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
504 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
505 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
506 binary logs data
507 - change journalctl -M to acquire fd to journal directory via machined, and
508 then operate on that via openat() instead of absolute paths
509 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
510 - log accumulated resource usage after each service invocation
511 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
512 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
513 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
514 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
515
516 * document:
517 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
518 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
519 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
520 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
521 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
522 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
523 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
524 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
525 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
526 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
527 - man: add more examples to man pages
528 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
529
530 * systemctl:
531 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
532 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
533 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
534 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
535 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
536 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
537 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
538 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
539 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
540 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
541 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
542 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
543
544 * unit install:
545 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
546 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
547 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
548
549 * timer units:
550 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
551 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
552 o DST changes
553 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
554 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
555 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
556
557 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
558
559 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
560
561 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
562
563 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
564 waiting for the timeout
565
566 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
567
568 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
569
570 * nspawn:
571 - to allow "linking" of nspawn containers, extend --network-bridge= so
572 that it can dynamically create bridge interfaces that are refcounted
573 by the containers on them. For each group of containers to link together
574 - nspawn -x should support ephemeral instances of gpt images
575 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
576 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
577 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
578 from the kernel's logs.
579 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
580 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
581 interface be missing
582 - don't copy /etc/resolv.conf from host into container unless we are in
583 shared-network mode
584 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
585 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
586 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
587 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
588 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
589 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
590 PID 1...
591 - should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages
592 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
593 running, remove them when shut down.
594 - add a logic for cleaning up read-only, hidden container images in
595 /var/lib/machines that are not ancestors of any non-hidden containers
596 - Improve error message when --bind= is used on a non-existing source
597 directory
598 - maybe make copying of /etc/resolv.conf optional, and skip it if --read-only
599 is used
600
601 * machined:
602 - "machinectl list" should probably show columns for OS version and IP
603 addresses
604 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
605 removed or added to an existing machine
606 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
607 difference host, via ssh
608 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
609 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
610 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
611 question
612 - "machinectl list-images" should show os-release data, as well as
613 machine-info data (including deployment level)
614 - "machinectl history"
615 - "machinectl diff"
616 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
617 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
618
619 * importd:
620 - generate a nice warning if mkfs.btrfs is missing
621
622 * cryptsetup:
623 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
624 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
625 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
626 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
627
628 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
629 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
630
631 * create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
632
633 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
634
635 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
636
637 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
638
639 * rename "userspace" to "core-os"
640
641 * udev:
642 - move to LGPL
643 - kill scsi_id
644 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
645 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
646
647 * when a service has the same env var set twice we actually store it twice and return that in systemctl show -p... We should only show the last setting
648
649 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
650
651 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
652
653 * coredump:
654 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
655 - move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
656
657 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
658
659 * default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
660
661 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
662 needs to be auto-respawned?
663
664 * tmpfiles:
665 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
666 - replace F with f+.
667 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
668 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
669 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
670 calls follow symlinks.
671
672 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
673
674 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
675 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
676 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
677
678 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
679 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
680
681 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
682
683 * write blog stories about:
684 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
685 - enabling dbus services
686 - status update
687 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
688 - remote access
689 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
690 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
691 - auto-restart
692 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
693 - the journal HTTP iface
694 - non-cgroup resource management
695 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
696 - refreshed, longer missions statement
697 - calendar time events
698 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
699 - how to create your own target
700 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
701 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
702
703 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
704
705 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
706
707 * fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
708
709 * pid1:
710 - .timer units should optionally support CLOCK_BOOTTIME in addition to CLOCK_MONOTONIC
711 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
712 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
713 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
714 that are not supported...
715 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
716 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
717 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
718 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
719 - GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
720 - move PAM code into its own binary
721 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
722 - for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested
723 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
724 - Support --test based on current system state
725 - 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().
726 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
727 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
728 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
729 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
730 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
731 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
732 but much rather a disconnect on success.
733 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
734 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
735
736 * unit files:
737 - allow port=0 in .socket units
738 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
739 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
740 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
741 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
742 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
743 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
744 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
745 - load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
746 verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
747 - introduce Type=pid-file
748 - ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
749 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
750 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
751 - Set NoNewPrivileges= on all of our own services, where that makes sense
752 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
753 - consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
754
755 * systemd-python:
756 - figure out a simple way to wait for journal events in a way that
757 works with ^C
758 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
759
760 * udev-link-config:
761 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
762 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
763 on Path= matching
764 - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
765
766 * sd-rtnl:
767 - add support for more attribute types
768 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
769
770 * networkd:
771 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
772 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
773 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
774 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
775 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
776 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
777 - add more attribute support for SIT tunnel
778 - work with non-Ethernet devices
779 - add support for more bond options
780 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
781 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
782 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
783 - expose in the API the following bits:
784 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
785 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
786 - option 123, 144, geolocation
787 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
788 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
789 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
790 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
791 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
792 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
793 - allow DUID/IAID to be customized, see issue #394.
794 - support configuration option for TSO (tcp segmentation offload)
795 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
796
797 * networkd-wait-online:
798 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
799
800 * dhcp:
801 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
802 - support RFC4702 (pass FQDN)
803
804 * dhcp6:
805 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
806 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
807 - write more test cases
808 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
809 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
810 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
811 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
812 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
813 or interface down
814 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
815 this behavior
816
817 External:
818
819 * dbus:
820 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
821 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
822
823 * fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
824
825 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
826
827 * patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
828
829 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
830
831 * drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields
832
833 * dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
834
835 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
836
837 * 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=
838
839 * fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
840
841 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
842
843 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
844
845 * register catalog database signature as file magic
846
847 * zsh shell completion:
848 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
849 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
850
851
852 Regularly:
853
854 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
855
856 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
857
858 * Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
859
860 * pahole
861
862 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
863
864 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
865
866 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields