* swap units that are activated by one name but shown in the kernel under another are semi-broken
-* make anaconda write timeout=0 for encrypted devices
-
* 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.
Fedora 19:
-* drop no longer needed modprobe.d udlfb file (it does not belong in /etc anyway)
-
-* Retest multi-seat (new kms driver for displaylink)
-
-* create /var/log/journal/
-
-* logind: document new PrepareForSleep(false) semantics and UnlockSessions call in wiki
* external: maybe it is time to patch procps so that "ps" links to
libsystemd-logind to print a pretty service name, seat name, session
that's sometimes kinda hard to parse for a human.
* cgroup attrs:
- - don't unconditionally filter out duplicate settings
- - support high-level cgroup setting syntax in systemctl. Example: "systemctl set-cgroup-attr MemoryLimit 5K"
- - support writte string mapping even for non-high-level settings
- - add man page for systemctl commands
- - make sure we work fine with multi-line strings
+ - update dbus interface docs in wiki
-* kernel cmdline switch to turn off predictable network interface names
+* localed:
+ - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps
-* journal is not closed properly at shutdown when run in a container?
+Features:
-* introduce new "journal" group in place of adm?
+* cgroup-agent: downgrade error messages
-Features:
+* document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
-* introduce ExecCondition= in services
+* chane 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 don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
+ hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
+
+* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
+ ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
+
+* libsystemd-journal:
+ - return ECHILD as soon as somebody tries to reuse a journal object across a fork()
+
+* libsystemd-bus:
+ - default policy (allow uid == 0 and our own uid)
+ - enforce alignment of pointers passed in
+ - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
+ - implement translator service
+ - port systemd to new library
+ - implement busname unit type in systemd
+ - move to gvariant
+ - merge busctl into systemctl or so?
+ - synthesize sd_bus_message objects from kernel messages
+ - properly implement name registry ioctls for kdbus
+ - get rid of object hash table, use decision tree everyhwere instead?
+ - implement monitor logic
+ - object vtable logic
+ - longer term:
+ * priority queues
+ * priority inheritance
+
+* 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
+
+* add an option to nspawn that uses seccomp to make socket(AF_NETLINK,
+ SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_AUDIT) fail the the appropriate error code that
+ makes the audit userspace to think auditing is not available in the
+ kernel.
+
+* Introduce a way how we can kill the main process of a service with KillSignal, but all processes with SIGKILL later on
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952634
+
+* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses whern the acces mode of unit files is non-sensical.
+
+* investigate endianess issues of UUID vs. GUID
+
+* see if we can fix https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63672
+ without dropping the location cache entirely.
+
+* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
+ should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
+
+* if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
+ 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().
+
+* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
+
+* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
+
+* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
+
+* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
+
+* logind: add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
+
+* we need dynamic units
+
+* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
+
+* test/:
+ - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
+ - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
+ - remove all the duplicated code in test/
+
+* suppress log output on shutdown when "quiet" is used
+
+* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
+
+* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
+ so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
+ file.
+
+* move /usr/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.devname parsing from udevd to
+ kmod static-nodes
+ call kmod as an early service, and drop CAP_MKNOD from udevd.service
+
+* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
+ destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
+ /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
+ destination.
+
+* remove duplicate default deps logic from fstab-generator vs. mount.c
+
+* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
+ all units we stop before the isolating unit...
+
+* teach udev + logind's uaccess to somehow handle the "dead" device nodes from:
+ /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.devname
+ and apply ACLs to them if they have TAG=="uaccess" in udev rules.
+
+* add ConditionArchitecture= or so
+
+* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
+
+* we should log capabilities too
+
+* Support SO_REUSEPORT with socket activation:
+ - Let systemd maintain a pool of servers.
+ - Use for seamless upgrades, by running the new server before stopping the
+ old.
+
+* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
+ need manual exponential loops after all
+
+* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. 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 is installed.
+
+* man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf
+
+* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
+ the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
+ and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
+ that automatically.
+
+* rework specifier logic so that we can distuingish OOM errors from other errors
+
+* 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 can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
+
+* documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
-* unify killing logic of service, socket, mount, swap units
+* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapstion and the time the units ran last
-* if we have systemd-analyze in C "systemctl dot" should move there too
+* man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
+
+* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
+
+* man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
+
+* systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
+
+* 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
+
+* 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
+
+* msgcatalog determine default language of entries from the catalog
+ file name. i.e. foobar.de_DE.catalog would set the default entry
+ name for the entries to de_DE if they aren't explicitly suffixed
+ individually.
+
+* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
+
+* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
+
+* Honour "-" prefix for InaccessibleDirectories= and ReadOnlyDirectories= to
+ suppress errors of the specified path doesn't exist
+
+* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
+ database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
+ so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
+ will be activated.
+
+* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
+
+* introduce ExecCondition= in services
* EFI:
- fsck hookup for the ESP mount is missing
- write man page for efi boot generator
- - add configure switch for enabling/disabling efi stuff
- honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
- honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
- introduce bootctl (backed by systemd-bootd) to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
- logind: spawn user@..service on login
- logind: non-local X11 server handling
- logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
- - pam_systemd: try to get old session id from cgroup, if audit sessionid cannot be determined
- pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree
+ - logind: GetSessionByPID() should accept 0 as PID value
+ - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
* 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:
+ - do not use magic msync() in src/journal/journal-file.c, just call fsync()
+ <alxchk> poettering: looks like msync just calls vfs_fsync
+ http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/mm/msync.c#n18
+ - 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.
- check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
- maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
- journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
- - gatewayd: should run under its own UID
- - journal: add a setgid "adm" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
+ - 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: when rotating, copy over old acls/access mode
- - journal: document why we do not give ownership to journal files to the user that created them but use FS ACLs for that
- journal: send out marker messages every now and then, and immediately sync with fdatasync() afterwards, in order to have hourly guaranteed syncs.
- - journal: when we haven't written anything in a while, sync to disk and mark file as offline, in order to be more often than not in a clean state
- 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
- - journal: When used on NFS make sure wake up sd_journal_wait() every 2s, to handle missing inotify
- - document that people can use file system ACLs to manage access to journal files, with example
- Introduce journalctl -b <nr> to show journal messages of a previous boot
- journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
- - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd
+ - 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.
- journalctl: show multiline log messages sanely, expand tabs, and show all valid utf8 messages
- 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
+ - Port upower to use the journal for historical power information used in future calculations
* document:
- document unit_name_mangle()
- Document word splitting syntax for ExecStart= and friends
- document that units from /etc override those from /usr and /run
- document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
- - document that %% can be used to write % in a string that is specifier extended
- 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
* systemctl:
- systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
- 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"
-* When shutdown.target is queued begin with an asynchronous sync()?
-
* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
- 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.
* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
-* localed:
- - localectl: add listing support for X11 keymaps, by parsing /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst
- - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps
-
* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
* fedup: generator
* timedated:
- - timedated: export boolean that clarifies whether NTP is even available
- timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
-* WorkingDirectory: support env var replacements like in ExecStart= so that people can use $HOME
-
* refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful (or set taint?)
* nspawn:
- nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
- nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
- bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
+ - nspawn: investigate whether we can support the same as LXC's
+ lxc.network.type=phys mode, and pass through entire network
+ interfaces to the container
+ - nspawn: maybe add a way to drop additional caps, in addition to add additional caps
+ - nspawn: maybe explicitly reset loginuid?
+ - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
* cryptsetup:
- - cryptsetup-generator: warn if the password files are world-readable
- - cryptsetup-generator: add RequiresMountsFor= to cryptseup service files referencing a file, similar for devices
- cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
- move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
- - when key file cannot be found, read it from kbd in cryptsetup
-
-* instantiated [Install] for target units
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54377
+ - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
* move debug shell to tty6 and make sure this doesn't break the gettys on tty6
* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
-* testing tool for socket activation: some binary that listens on a socket and passes it on using the usual socket activation protocol to some server.
-
* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container
* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
- syscall filter: port to libseccomp
- system-wide seccomp filter
-* systemd-analyze: data collection tools should be lightweight (few dependencies); data analysis tools can be heavyweight
-
* .device aliases need to be implemented with the "following" logic, probably.
* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
* introduce Type=pid-file
-* maybe allow services with ExecStop= set, but no ExecStart=?
-
* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
-* support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
-
-* drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields
-
* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
* move passno parsing to fstab generator
* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
-* ConditionSecurity= should learn about IMA and SMACK
-
* udev:
- - remove all (misguided from day 1) userspace firmware_class handling
+ - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
- move to LGPL
- unify utf8 validator code with shared/
- kill scsi_id
* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording
-* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
-
* 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
* support container_ttys=
* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
-* figure out whether we should leave dbus around during shutdown
-
-* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
-
-* dbus: move dbus to early boot
-
* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
- non-cgroup resource management
- dynamic resource management with cgroups
- refreshed, longer missions statement
- - celendar time events
+ - calendar time events
+ - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
+ - how to create your own target
+ - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
+ - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
* allow port=0 in .socket units
* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
-* reuse mkdtemp namespace dirs in /tmp?
-
* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
* Support --test based on current system state
* 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?
+
External:
* dbus:
* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
+* drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields
+
+* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
+
+* 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=
+
+* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
+
+* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
+
+* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
+
Regularly:
* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()