Features:
-* let's log the "tainted" string at boot
+* there should be path_hash_ops and we should use it in tmpfiles' hashmap object to deal with identical but differently spelt paths
-* Add NetworkNamespacePath= to specify a path to a network namespace
+* rework pid watching logic, allow any number of units watch the same pid
+
+* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
+
+* be stricter with pid file and notify pids: don't allow them to be outside of cgroup, except if sender is privileged
+
+* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
+ year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
+
+* add support for recursive bpf firewalling as supported by the newest kernel
+
+* add bpf-based implementation of devices cgroup controller logic for compat with cgroupsv2 as supported by newest kernel
+
+* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
+ and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
+
+* implement transient socket unit.
+
+* make systemd-run create transient path and socket unit.
+
+* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
+ host-side interface pointing to the container.
-* Add StandardInputData= and StandardInputText= for putting together data to
- pass to a service through stdin
+* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
+ declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
+ creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
+ systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
+ doing disk usage calculations and so on.
-* Add StandardInputPath=, StandardOutputPath=, StandardErrorPath= to connect a
- service to a specific file. Be smart, and if the specified path refers to an
- AF_UNIX socket, connect() to it.
+* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned to the system.
+
+* deprecate PermissionsStartOnly= and RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of the ExecStart= prefix chars
+
+* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
+ the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
+ as the unit is running or has a job queued.
+
+* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers, and then drop
+ implicit btrfs loopback magic in machined
+
+* Add NetworkNamespacePath= to specify a path to a network namespace
* maybe use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (i.e. the env var the reproducible builds folks
introduced) as the RTC epoch, instead of the mtime of NEWS.
-* Introduce GCMode= as unit file property or so, for tweaking the GC
- logic. Specifically, there should be a way to tell systemd to collect
- individual units even on failure. Then, make systemd-run --wait use this, so
- that failed transient units in that case don't stick around.
-
* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
-* complain if a unit starts up and there are already processes in its cgroup
-
* blog about fd store and restartable services
* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
-* add a way to remove fds from the fdstore by name, and make logind use it
+* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
+ magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
-* In journalctl add a way how "-o verbose" and suchlike can be tweaked to show
- only a specific set of properties
-
-* export UID ranges nspawns's --private-user and DynamicUser= uses in
- the systemd.pc pkg-config file, the same way we already expose the system
- user boundary there
+* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
+ parameters
-* Whenever we check a UID against the system UID range, also check for the
- dynamic UID range
+* a new "systemd-analyze security" tool outputting a checklist of security
+ features a service does and does not implement
* maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
- other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1
+ other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
+ alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
+ running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
+ StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
+ is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
+
+* Introduce "exit" as an EmergencyAction value, and allow to configure a
+ per-unit success/failure exit code to configure. This would be useful for
+ running commands inside of services inside of containers, which could then
+ propagate their failure state all the way up.
+
+* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
+ disks to see if the UID is already in use.
* add dissect_image_warn() as a wrapper around dissect_image() that prints
friendly log messages for the returned errors, so that we don't have to
duplicate that in nspawn, systemd-dissect and PID 1.
+* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
+ for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
+ wait to retrieve their exit data.
+
* maybe set a new set of env vars for services, based on RuntimeDirectory=,
StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory= and ConfigurationDirectory=
automatically. For example, there could be $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY,
* replace all uses of fgets() + LINE_MAX by read_line()
-* set IPAddressDeny=any on all services that shouldn't do networking (possibly
- combined with IPAddressAllow=localhost).
-
-* dissect: when we discover squashfs, don't claim we had a "writable" partition
- in systemd-dissect
-
* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
-* sort generated hwdb files alphabetically when we import them, so that git
- diffs remain minimal (in particular: the OUI databases we import are not
- sorted, and not stable)
-
* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
--as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
as MAINPID.
-* change the dependency Set* objects in Unit structures to become Hashmap*, and
- then store a bit mask who created a specific dependency: the source unit via
- fragment configuration, the destination unit via fragment configuration, or
- the source unit via udev rules (in case of .device units), or any combination
- thereof. This information can then be used to flush out old udev-created
- dependencies when the udev properties change, and eventually to implement a
- "systemctl refresh" operation for reloading the configuration of individual
- units without reloading the whole set.
-
* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
"systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
natural habitat.
-* replace all canonicalize_file_name() invocations by chase_symlinks(), in
- particulr those where a rootdir is relevant.
-
* maybe introduce gpt auto discovery for /var/tmp?
* maybe add gpt-partition-based user management: each user gets his own
partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
/usr is mounted into.
-* machined: add apis to query /etc/machine-info data of a container
-
-* .mount and .swap units: add Format=yes|no option that formats the partition before mounting/enabling it, implicitly
-
* 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
* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
-* drop internal dlopen() based nss-dns fallback in nss-resolve, and rely on the
- external nsswitch.conf based one
-
* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
relative to the configured default value.
-* on cgroupsv2 add DelegateControllers=, to pick the precise cgroup controllers to delegate
-
* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
-* nspawn: start UID allocation loop from hash of container name
-
* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
mapping to work.
-* allow attaching additional journald log fields to cgroups
-
* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
specifications.
-* do something about "/control" subcgroups in the unified cgroup hierarchy
-
* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller (only after the cpuset controller got ported to the unified hierarchy)
prefixed with /sys generally special.
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
-* man: document that unless you use StandardError=null the shell >/dev/stderr won't work in shell scripts in services
-
* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
* Rework systemctl's GetAll property parsing to use the generic bus_map_all_properties() API
-* implement a per-service firewall based on net_cls
-
* Port various tools to make use of verbs.[ch], where applicable: busctl,
- coredumpctl, hostnamectl, localectl, systemd-analyze, timedatectl
+ coredumpctl, hostnamectl, localectl, timedatectl
* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
-* mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied
-
* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
- 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
- see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
- add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
- - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async?
- longer term: priority inheritance
- dbus spec updates:
- NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
- GVariant
- path escaping
- update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
- - test bloom filter generation indexes
* sd-event
- allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
-* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
-
* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
* introduce ExecCondition= in services
- journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
to syslog when it works again.
- - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
- change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
- add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
binary logs data
- add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
- - log accumulated resource usage after each service invocation
- journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
- assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
+* add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
+ (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
+ being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
+ and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
+
* document:
- document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
[Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
- man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
- - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
- document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
- - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
- add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
- document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
- documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
- add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
- systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
- systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
- - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
- systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
* unit install:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
- should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
PID 1...
- - should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages
- optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
running, remove them when shut down.
- - Improve error message when --bind= is used on a non-existing source
- directory
- maybe make copying of /etc/resolv.conf optional, and skip it if --read-only
is used
* write blog stories about:
- hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
- enabling dbus services
- - status update
- how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
- remote access
- how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
-* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
-
* pahole
* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!