-Fixes needed before 217:
-
-* change startup timeout to not cover the full bootup, but only sysinit part (see below)
-
-* remove Discard= in .mount units and replace it by Options=, to prepare for later swapon fix
-
Bugfixes:
-* Re-enable "fsck -l" when it is ready:
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79576#c5
-
* Should systemctl status \* work on all unit types, not just .service?
* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
-* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
-
-After killing 'systemd --user', systemctl restart user@... fails.
-/run/user/1000/systemd/notify has to be removed manually.
-
-ExecStart with unicode characters fails in strv_split_quoted:
+* ExecStart with unicode characters fails in strv_split_extract:
[Service]
Environment=ONE='one' "TWO='two two' too" THREE=
ExecStart=/bin/python3 -c 'import sys;print(sys.argv)' $ONE $TWO $THREE
-MEMORY return code is overloaded for syntax errors in the commandline.
-str_split_quoted() should return a real return code, so spawn_child can
-report the failure properly.
-
+* When systemctl --host is used, underlying ssh connection can remain open.
+ bus_close does not kill children?
External:
+
* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
-* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
+* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
-* Fedora: move kernel image to /usr/lib/modules/, kernel-install will take care of populating /boot
+Janitorial Clean-ups:
-* Fedora: remove /etc/resolv.conf tmpfiles hack
+* code cleanup: retire FOREACH_WORD_QUOTED, port to extract_first_word() loops instead
-* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
+* replace manual readdir() loops with FOREACH_DIRENT or FOREACH_DIRENT_ALL
+
+* Get rid of the last strerror() invocations in favour of %m and strerror_r()
-* When lz4 gets an API for lz4 command output, make use of it to
- compress coredumps in a way compatible with /usr/bin/lz4.
+* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
Features:
-* journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
+* ProtectKernelLogs= (drops CAP_SYSLOG, add seccomp for syslog() syscall, and DeviceAllow to /dev/kmsg) in service files
-* introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix?
+* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
-* systemd --user should issue sd_notify() upon reaching basic.target, not on becoming idle
+* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
-* configure.ac pretends dbus was optional but actually hardcodes use of dbus' pkg-config file to determine various dbus dirs such as policy and activation dirs
+* ProtectDevices= should also take iopl/ioperm/pciaccess away
-* consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions
+* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
-* send SIGABRT when a service watchdog is triggered, by default, so that we acquire a backtrace of the hang.
+* PrivateUsers= which maps the all user ids except root and the one specified
+ in User= to nobody
-* shouldn't RouteMetric= in networkd's [DHCP] section move to [Network]?
+* Add AllocateUser= for allowing dynamic user ids per-service
-* dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
+* Add DataDirectory=, CacheDirectory= and LogDirectory= to match
+ RuntimeDirectory=, and create it as necessary when starting a service, owned by the right user.
-* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
- can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
+* Add BindDirectory= for allowing arbitrary, private bind mounts for services
-* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps?
+* Beef up RootDirectory= to use namespacing/bind mounts as soon as fs
+ namespaces are enabled by the service
-* add a system-wide shutdown timeout, similar to the startup timeout we already have (see fdo bz #84110)
+* Add RootImage= for mounting a disk image or file as root directory
-* maybe provide an API to allow migration of foreign PIDs into existing scopes.
+* RestrictNamespaces= or so in services (taking away the ability to create namespaces, with setns, unshare, clone)
-* kdbus: maybe rename "connection name" concept to something that doesn't reuse the word "name"?
+* nspawn: make /proc/sys/net writable?
-* PID 1 doesn't apply nspawns devices cgroup policy
+* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
-* rework journal-send.c to use memfds for large blobs if they are available instead of unlinked files in /tmp. Also, if we detect that the kernel knows memfds, refuse anything but sealed memfds.
+* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
-* maybe support a new very "soft" reboot mode, that simply kills all processes, disassembles everything, flushes /run and sysvipc, and then reexecs systemd again
+* expose the "privileged" flag of ExecCommand on the bus, and open it up to
+ transient units
-* man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
+* allow attaching additional journald log fields to cgroups
-* bus-proxy: when passing messages from kdbus, make sure we properly
- handle the case where a large number of fds is appended that we
- cannot pass into sendmsg() of the AF_UNIX sokcet (which only accepts
- 253 messages)
+* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
+ kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
-* busctl: add a pcap writer, using LINKTYPE_DBUS/231
+* check if DeviceAllow= should split first, resolve specifiers later
-* man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
+* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
+ reload the unit file anyway
-* introduce machines.target to order after all nspawn instances
+* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
+ from the SIGBUS handler
-* systemd-nspawn@.service should fail if some nspawn arg is invalid, with Type=notify
+* when using UTF8, ellipsize with "…" rather than "...", so that we can show more contents before truncating
-* "machinectl list" should probably show columns for OS version and IP addresses
+* move specifier expansion from service_spawn() into load-fragment.c
-* systemctl: if it fails, show log output?
+* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
-* maybe add "systemctl edit" that copies unit files from /usr/lib/systemd/system to /etc/systemd/system and invokes vim on them
+* resolved: when routing queries, make sure only look for the *longest* suffix...
-* dbus: add new message hdr field for allowing interactive auth, write spec for it. update dbus spec to mandate that unknown flags *must* be ignored...
+* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
+ in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
-* maybe introduce AssertXYZ= similar to ConditionXYZ= that causes a unit to fail (instead of skipping it) if some condition is not true...
+* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
-* remove multi-seat-x now
+* add systemctl stop --job-mode=triggering that follows TRIGGERED_BY deps and adds them to the same transaction
-* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
+* Maybe add a way how users can "pin" units into memory, so that they are not subject to automatic GC?
+
+* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
+ specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
+
+* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
+ 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)
+
+* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
+
+* consider throwing a warning if a service declares it wants to be "Before=" a .device unit.
+
+* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
+ as we have for debugfs. for exmaple, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
+ 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
+
+* mounting and unmounting mount points manually with different source
+ devices will result in collected on all devices used.
+ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030225.html
+
+* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
+ running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
+ state.
+ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
+
+* Maybe add support for the equivalent of "ethtool advertise" to .link files?
+ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030112.html
-* exponential backoff in timesyncd and resolved when we cannot reach a server
+* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
+ whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
+ be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
+ picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
+ the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
-* apply start timeout during the "initializing" manager state only,
- instead of both "initializing" and "starting". maybe rename the
- timeout to "initialization-timeout" then or so?
+* networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
+ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
-* journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
- journals in.
+* Rework systemctl's GetAll property parsing to use the generic bus_map_all_properties() API
-* tmpfiles: port to unquote_many_words(), similar to sysusers
+* implement a per-service firewall based on net_cls
-* unquote_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that
+* Port various tools to make use of verbs.[ch], where applicable: busctl,
+ bootctl, coredumpctl, hostnamectl, localectl, systemd-analyze, timedatectl
+
+* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
+
+* sysfs set api in libudev is not const
+
+* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
+ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
+
+* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
+ operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
+ ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
+ do, for example)
+
+* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
+ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
+
+* as soon as we have kdbus, and sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
+ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
+
+* in systemctl list-unit-files: show the install value the presets would suggest for a service in a third column
+
+* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
+
+* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
+ while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
+ races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
+ returning from the "systemctl stop".
+
+* 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
+
+* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
+
+* introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix?
+
+* systemd --user should issue sd_notify() upon reaching basic.target, not on becoming idle
+
+* consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions
+
+* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
+ can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
+
+* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
+
+* maybe provide an API to allow migration of foreign PIDs into existing scopes.
+
+* man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
+
+* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
+
+* systemctl edit: use equvalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
+ Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
+
+* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
+
+* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
+
+* extract_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that
currently uses FOREACH_WORD and friends. For example, most conf
parsing callbacks should use it.
-* logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
- the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
- for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
- complete.
-
* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
-* journald: allows specification of UID range for splitting up journal files
-
* systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
units are shown.
-* networkd:
- - add LLDP client side support
- - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
- a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
- - .network setting that allows overriding of the hostname to send to the dhcp server
- http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-July/021550.html
- - expose in the API the following bits:
- - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
- - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
- - option 100, 101, timezone
- - option 123, 144, geolocation
- - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
- - networkd's dhcp server should transparently pass on the DNS and
- NTP server list it got from user configuration and its dhcp client
- to clients. It should also pass on its own timezone information.
- - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
- for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
- - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
- support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
+* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
+ (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
* resolved:
- - put networkd events and rtnl events at a higher priority, so that
- we always process them before we process client requests
- - DNSSEC
- - use base64 for key presentation?
- - add display of private key types (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4034#appendix-A.1.1)?
- - add nice formatting of DNS timestamps
- - DNS
- - search paths
- mDNS/DNS-SD
+ - service registration
+ - service/domain/types browsing
- avahi compat
- DNS-SD service registration from socket units
- - edns0
- - dname
- - cname on PTR (?)
+ - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
+ names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
+ (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
+ - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
+ - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
-* Ignore .busname units on classic D-Bus boots, systemd-resolved cannot be started on kdbus
- without the active policy and should get a Wants=org.freedesktop.resolve1.busname to
- pull-in the policy.
-
-* Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
+* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
-* logind: allow users to kill or lock their own sessions
-
* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
* support empty /etc boots nicely:
- nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
- fstab-generator: support systemd.volatile=yes|no|state on the kernel cmdline, too, similar to nspawn's --volatile=
- - fstab-generator: add support for usr= in addition to root= on the kernel cmdline
* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
-* support setting empty environment variables with Environment= and EnvironmentFile=
-
-* timer units: actually add extra delays to timer units with high AccuracySec values, don't start them already when we are awake...
-
* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
-* journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
-
* mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied
* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
* Run most system services with cgroupfs read-only and procfs with a more secure mode (doesn't work, since the hidepid= option is per-pid-namespace, not per-mount)
-* sd-event: generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
-
-* expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
-
* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
-* consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
-
-* sd-event: define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
-
* gpt-auto-generator:
- Support LUKS for root devices
- Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
- Make /home automount rather than mount?
-* improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
- lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
- do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
- the most common operations.
-
* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
when it is otherwise off
-* MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
+* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
* "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
/proc/$PID/exe
and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
-* New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
+* New service property: maximum CPU runtime for a service
* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
$UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
-* completions:
- - manager property enumeration was broken when systemd moved to /usr/lib/
-
* cgroups:
- implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
- handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
the hierarchies of child processes
* transient units:
- - allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
- add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
- ensure scope units may be started only a single time
* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
-* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
-
* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
-* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
-
* 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
* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
-* given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
- probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
- (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
-
* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
* make sure gdm does not use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
* sd-bus:
- - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
- - systemd-bus-proxyd needs to enforce good old XML policy
- - allow updating attach flags during runtime
- - pid1: peek into activating message when activating a service
- - introduce sd_bus_emit_object_added()/sd_bus_emit_object_removed() that automatically includes the build-in interfaces in the list
+ - EBADSLT handling
+ - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
+ - kdbus: process fd=-1 for incoming msgs
- port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
+ - kdbus: maybe add controlling tty metadata fields
+ - 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
+ - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
- 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?
- kdbus mapping
- NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
- GVariant
- - "const" properties (posted)
- path escaping
- update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
- test bloom filter generation indexes
+ - kdbus: introduce a concept of "send-only" connections
+ - 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.
* sd-event
- allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
- document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
-
-* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
- complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
+ - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
+ - generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
+ - maybe add support for inotify events
* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
-* timedatectl: print a nicer message when enabling ntp fails because ntpd/chrony are not installed
-
* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
* test/:
* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
-* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
- need manual exponential loops after all
-
* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
-* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
-
-* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
+* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
-* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
-
* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
-* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
-
* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
* introduce ExecCondition= in services
* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
-* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
-
-* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
-
* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
needs setuid().
+ - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
+ the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
+ for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
+ complete.
+ - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
+ logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
+ shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
+ - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
+ - given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
+ probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
+ (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
+ - expose orientation sensors and tablet mode through logind
+ - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
+ - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
+ the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
+ make assumptions about their slice anymore.
+ - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
+ relogins
* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
* journal:
+ - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
- import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
- journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
- journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
- add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
- fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
- declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
- - journal: reuse XZ context
- sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
- journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
"dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
- journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
- journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
- - journal: send out marker messages every now and then, and immediately sync with fdatasync() afterwards, in order to have hourly guaranteed syncs.
+ - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
+ so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
- 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.
- journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
- journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
- - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
- - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
- journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
- refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
- journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
- journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
- - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
- journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
- Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
- journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
- - tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal, also do this for the journal fails contained in it
- when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
- journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
- journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
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,
hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
+ - optionally support running journald from the command line for testing purposes in external projects
+ - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
+ - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
+ journals in.
+ - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
+ - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
+ lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
+ do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
+ the most common operations.
+ - journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted
+ commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
+ - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
+ - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
+ - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
+ services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
+ in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
+ invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
+ if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
+ operation.
+ - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
+ written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
+ - 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
* document:
- document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
- document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
- documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
- man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
- - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
- man: add more examples to man pages
- man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
- 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
- - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
- - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
- better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
- - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
+ - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
* unit install:
- "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
(i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
- - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
* timer units:
- timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
o DST changes
- Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
- - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
- - when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we will not support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200
- Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
-* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
-
-* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
- - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
- - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
- This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
- mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
- user did not request anything like it.
-
* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
-* 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().
-
-* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
-* fedup: do not delete initrd on switch-root
-* fedup: generator
-
* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
* nspawn:
- - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
- - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
- - support taking a btrfs snapshot at startup and dropping it afterwards
+ - to allow "linking" of nspawn containers, extend --network-bridge= so
+ that it can dynamically create bridge interfaces that are refcounted
+ by the containers on them. For each group of containers to link together
+ - nspawn -x should support ephemeral instances of gpt images
+ - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
+ with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
+ systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
+ from the kernel's logs.
+ - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
+ --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
+ interface be missing
+ - don't copy /etc/resolv.conf from host into container unless we are in
+ shared-network mode
+ - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
+ automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
+ together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
+ - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
+ 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
+
+* machined:
+ - "machinectl list" should probably show columns for OS version and IP
+ addresses
+ - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
+ removed or added to an existing machine
+ - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
+ difference host, via ssh
+ - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
+ "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
+ - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
+ question
+ - "machinectl list-images" should show os-release data, as well as
+ machine-info data (including deployment level)
+ - "machinectl history"
+ - "machinectl diff"
+ - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
+ shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
+
+* importd:
+ - generate a nice warning if mkfs.btrfs is missing
* cryptsetup:
- cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
-* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
-
-* make timer units go away after they elapsed
-
-* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
-
-* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
-
* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
-* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
-
* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
-* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
- currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
- cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
- being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
- when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
- but much rather a disconnect on success.
-
* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
-* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
-
-* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
- verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
-
-* introduce Type=pid-file
-
-* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
-
-* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
-
-* automount: implement expire:
- - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
- - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
- - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
- - blocking, needs a thread
- - run until -EAGAIN
- - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
- - call umount
- - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
- - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
-
-* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
-
* udev:
- move to LGPL
- kill scsi_id
* 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
-* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
-
* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
-* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
-
-* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
+* coredump:
+ - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
+ - move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
needs to be auto-respawned?
-* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
-
* tmpfiles:
- apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
-
-* for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested
-
-* hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
-
-* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
-
-* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
-
-* move PAM code into its own binary
-
-* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
- in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
+ - replace F with f+.
+ - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
+ - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
+ should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
+ calls follow symlinks.
* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
-* add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
-
* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
-* readahead:
- - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
- - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
- - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
- - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
- - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
-
-* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
-
* write blog stories about:
- hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
- enabling dbus services
- 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
- - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
- testing with Harald's awesome test kit
- auto-restart
- how to develop against journal browsing APIs
- instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
- hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
-* allow port=0 in .socket units
-
-* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
-
-* Support --test based on current system state
-
* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
-* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
-
* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
-* drop cap bounding set in readahead and other services
-
-* systemd-python:
- - figure out a simple way to wait for journal events in a way that
- works with ^C
- - add documentation to systemd.daemon
-
-* bootchart:
- - plot per-process IO utilization
- - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
- - document initcall_debug
- - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
+* pid1:
+ - .timer units should optionally support CLOCK_BOOTTIME in addition to CLOCK_MONOTONIC
+ - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
+ log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
+ - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
+ that are not supported...
+ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
+ - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
+ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
+ - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
+ - GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
+ - move PAM code into its own binary
+ - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
+ - for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested
+ - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
+ - Support --test based on current system state
+ - 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().
+ - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
+ - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
+ currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
+ cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
+ being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
+ when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
+ but much rather a disconnect on success.
+ - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
+ - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
+
+* unit files:
+ - allow port=0 in .socket units
+ - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
+ - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
+ - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
+ in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
+ - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
+ - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
+ - load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
+ verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
+ - introduce Type=pid-file
+ - ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
+ - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
+ - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
+ - Set NoNewPrivileges= on all of our own services, where that makes sense
+ - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
+ - consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
* udev-link-config:
- Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
- add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
- properly handle routerless dhcp leases
- add more attribute support for SIT tunnel
- - work with non-ethernet devices
+ - work with non-Ethernet devices
- add support for more bond options
+ - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
+ - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
+ a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
+ - expose in the API the following bits:
+ - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
+ - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
+ - option 123, 144, geolocation
+ - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
+ - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
+ for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
+ - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
+ support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
+ - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
+ - allow DUID/IAID to be customized, see issue #394.
+ - support configuration option for TSO (tcp segmentation offload)
+ - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
* networkd-wait-online:
- make operstates to wait for configurable?
* dhcp:
- figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
- - export timezone information
- support RFC4702 (pass FQDN)
* dhcp6:
- add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
- write more test cases
- - implement and do duplicate address detection, see rfc 4862, 5.4.
- implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
- - implement information request, see 1.2. and 18.1.5.
- implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
- implement dhcpv6 authentication
- investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
* drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields
-* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and should not
-
* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
-* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
-
* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
* 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=
* register catalog database signature as file magic
-* zsh shell completion: <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently
- does not
+* zsh shell completion:
+ - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
+ - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
+
Regularly:
* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
-
-Scheduled for removal or fixing:
-
-* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)