X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=4a4746370f24c081a2a6d09eeb0827954359f5f1;hb=486e950bd91092a3b1be73f54c901c6c28cab0a2;hp=f9279669d4a74f67b60c04b6085508f2f394b779;hpb=d3a3f22267a7dac426b07a7ed0baa1632f5daf04;p=elogind.git diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index f9279669d..4a4746370 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,10 +1,14 @@ Bugfixes: + +* enabling an instance unit creates pointless link, and + the unit will be started with getty@getty.service: + $ systemctl enable getty@.service + ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service' '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@.service' + * check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar * 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. @@ -13,374 +17,557 @@ Bugfixes: * properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point. -F18: +* ellipsize_mem must take into account multi-byte unicode characters, and + - make the resulting line the requested number of *characters*, not *bytes*, + - avoid truncuating multi-byte sequences in the middle. -* Retest multi-seat +* When we detect invalid UTF-8, we cant't use it in an error message: + log...("Path is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment: %s", rvalue); -Features: -* turn unused sysv early-boot stuff like $local-fs, $syslog into a NOP. systemd does - no longer support sysv early-boot scripts, these facilities can be silently ignored +* shorten the message to sane length: -* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason) + Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status display-manager.service' for details. -* logind: make PrepareForSuspend(false) an official api for notification of resumes +Fedora 20: -* ExecStartPre= with an empty string should reset the list of commands to invoke +* external: ps should gain colums for slice and machine -* refuse instantiation of proc.mount and mount units for all other API fs +* localed: + - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps -* "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does - nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message - about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages. +* when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink + https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864 -* 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 +CGroup Rework Completion: -* add "loginctl unlock-sessions" as counterpart for "loginctl lock-sessions" +* introduce "mainpid" for scopes (or maybe not?) -* extend cgroup attr dbus calls to optionally make changes persistent, and retrieve current kernel values +* implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?) -* support high-level cgroup setting syntax in systemctl. Example: "systemctl set-cgroup-attr MemoryLimit 5K" +* implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch -* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word +* handle jointly mounted controllers correctly -* kernel cmdline switch to turn off predictable network interface names +* introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness -* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units. +Features: -* udev: remove all (misguided from day 1) userspace firmware_class handling +* tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal also do this for the journal fails contained in it -* logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around +* rework list.h to use typeof() and thus simplify most linked list macros by not requring the type to be specified -* service: when killing a service with SIGKILL always kill all processes, even if for SIGTERM we only killed the main process +* we probably should replace the left-over uses of strv_append() and replace them by strv_push() or strv_extend() -* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty. +* move config_parse_path_strv() out of conf-parser.c -* DeviceAllow/DeviceDeny: disallow everything by default, but whitelist /dev/zero, /dev/null and friends +* libdsystemd-bus should expose utf8 validation calls -* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong +* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs -* journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write - "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next - message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout +* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink generate a clean + error. Currently we just ignore it and read the unit from the search + path anyway. -* journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name +* When a Type=forking service fails and needed another service that + service is not cleaned up again when it has StopWhenUnneeded=yes + http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-July/012141.html -* check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args? +* backlight: properly handle multiple backlight devices for the same + hardware: at shutdown we should only save the backlight setting for + the "best" way to access the backlight. Strategy should be: at + shutdown, ignore all backlights that are connected to a non-eDP or + non-LVDS port, and then prefer the firmware device over platform + device over raw device per-PCI card. Delete all old data. At boot + simply apply whatever data we find. Also see + http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libbacklight/tree/libbacklight.c#n194 -* Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done +* rfkill: save/restore soft rfkill status across reboots -* journal is not closed properly at shutdown when run in a container? +* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up -* journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups +* ensure scope units may be started only a single time -* When shutdown.target is queued begin with an asynchronous sync()? +* document that in instead of FsckPassNo= people should just add a manual dep to systemd-fsck@.service to their mount units. -* add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal. +* better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running -* maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send +* systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status -* fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively? +* for transient units, instead of writing out drop-ins for all properties consider serializing them in the normal serialization stream -* declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart +* logind: when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects -* journal: reuse XZ context +* session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user -* sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg +* add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr. -* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations +* journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax? -* timer units should get the ability to trigger when: - - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET) - - DST changes +* given that logind/machined now let PID 1 do all nasty work we can + probably reduce the capability set they retain substantially. -* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes +* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue -* 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. +* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros. -* When we begin with system shutdown all kind of suspend/hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot +* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines -* When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot +* make sure gdm doesn't use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd -* hwdb: - - implement conditional properties (dmi matches) - - hwdb --filter=ID_DRIVE_* - - find out what to do for blockdevs and skipping scsi modaliases - - move writing code to src/libudev/libudev-hwdb-private.c +* when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we won't support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200 -* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally surprising +* when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop we should ratelimit that too. -* localectl: add listing support for X11 keymaps, by parsing /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst +* "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, should + only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template + unit however should remove them all). -* 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 - we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in logs-show.c. +* journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var -* figure out relation of --all and --full in the various tools +* systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so) -* journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards +* 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. -* introduce new "journal" group in place of adm? introduce groups for the various mini daemons? +* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted. -* journal: add a setgid "adm" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access +* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units -* journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo", - and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR. +* add a fixed dbus path for "my own unit", "my own session", ... to PID1, logind, ... -* print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service +* service_coldplug() appears to reinstall the wrong stop timeout watch? -* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic +* transient units: allow creating auxiliary units with the same call -* journal: when rotating, copy over old acls/access mode +* how to reset dynamically changed attributes sanely? -* journal: document why we do not give ownership to journal files to the user that created them but use FS ACLs for that +* when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration -* journal: send out marker messages every now and then, and immediately sync with fdatasync() afterwards, in order to have hourly guaranteed syncs. +* journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes -* 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 +* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or + maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot + entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676 + Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to + check for that and suppress event handling. -* 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. +* when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show + the hierarchies of child processes -* 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(). +* document logic of auto/noauto and fail/nofail in fstab in systemd.mount or systemd-fstab-generator man page -* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow -* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root -* fedup: generator +* we should properly escape ssh hostnames we add into dbus server strings -* journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules +* something pulls in pcre as so dep into our daemons such as hostnamed. -* journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes +* document systemd-journal-flush.service properly -* journal: When used on NFS make sure wake up sd_journal_wait() every 2s, to handle missing inotify +* 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 don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously, + hence doing this via signals is not going to work. -* document that people can use file system ACLs to manage access to journal files, with example +* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus + ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service. -* timedated: export boolean that clarifies whether NTP is even available +* 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 -* timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on +* 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 -* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed +* 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. -* document unit_name_mangle() +* 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 -* add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible +* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses where the access mode of unit files is nonsensical. -* introduce generic AUGMENT_PID=, AUGMENT_DEVICE= fields +* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID -* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity +* 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. -* systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like) +* 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(). -* systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards? +* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login. -* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 itself, get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel +* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches -* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var - - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr - - superset of tmpfiles model - - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/ - - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files - - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership +* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases... -* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without - waiting for the timeout +* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations... -* high level net_prio setting in execution context +* logind: add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly. -* Introduce journalctl -b to show journal messages of a previous boot +* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container -* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ... +* test/: + - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/ + - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir + - remove all the duplicated code in test/ -* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't +* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level). -* WorkingDirectory: support env var replacements like in ExecStart= so that people can use $HOME +* 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. -* refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful (or set taint?) +* 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. -* nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly +* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order + all units we stop before the isolating unit... -* nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8) +* add ConditionArchitecture= or so -* cryptsetup-generator: warn if the password files are world-readable +* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off}) -* cryptsetup-generator: add RequiresMountsFor= to cryptseup service files referencing a file, similar for devices +* 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. -* cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself +* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we + need manual exponential loops after all -* document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in - [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled +* 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. -* systemctl: when powering down/suspending check for inhibitors, and warn. +* man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf -* instantiated [Install] for target units - https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54377 +* 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. -* move debug shell to tty6 and make sure this doesn't break the gettys on tty6 +* rework specifier logic so that we can distinguish OOM errors from other errors -* move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl? - https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982 +* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep() -* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it - https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712 +* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8. -* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things +* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good -* make timer units go away after they elapsed +* documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install] -* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html - (network and remote-fs on shutdown) +* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapse and the time the units ran last -* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead +* man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in -* journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes +* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick? -* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump? +* man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too -* Document word splitting syntax for ExecStart= and friends +* systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so... -* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system +* man: add more examples to man pages -* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open +* man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too -* journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries +* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification -* journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd +* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service -* system-wide seccomp filter +* 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. -* system.conf should have controls for cgroups +* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere -* bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn +* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to. -* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line +* 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. -* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea +* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context() -* 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. +* introduce ExecCondition= in services -* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container +* EFI: + - fsck hookup for the ESP mount is missing + - write man page for efi boot generator + - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?) + - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?) + - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables -* nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts +* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr? -* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now. +* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason) -* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts +* 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 -* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload() - currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we - can't 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 don't get a successful method reply, - but much rather a disconnect on success. +* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word -* document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec +* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units. -* remember which condition failed for services, not just the fact that something failed +* logind: + - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around + - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot + - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support + - Add pretty name for seats in logind + - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system? + - logind: non-local X11 server handling + - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API + - 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 -* use opterr = 0 for all getopt tools +* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty. -* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno +* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong -* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop= +* journal: + - do not use magic msync() in src/journal/journal-file.c, just call fsync() + 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. + - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't 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 + message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout + - 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 + - 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: send out marker messages every now and then, and immediately sync with fdatasync() afterwards, in order to have hourly guaranteed syncs. + - 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 + - journalctl: expand tabs + - 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 that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds 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 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 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 + - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it + - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done + - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does + nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message + about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages. + - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service + - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible + - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like) + - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't 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" -* add proper journal support to "systemctl --user status ..." +* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations -* add _SYSTEMD_USER_UNIT= field to journal entries +* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity -* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot +* timer units: + - configurable jitter for timer events + - timer events with system resume + - 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. -* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist? +* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes -* rename "userspace" to "core-os" +* 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. -* systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading +* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status + output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally + surprising. Also, terminate plymouth. -* syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls +* 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 + we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in + logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the + better supported alternative. -* syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs? +* figure out relation of --all and --full in the various tools -* syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS? +* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic -* syscall filter: port to libseccomp +* 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(). -* logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support +* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow +* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root +* fedup: generator -* systemd-analyze post-boot is broken for initrd +* timedated: + - timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on -* systemd-analyze: data collection tools should be lightweight (few dependencies); data analysis tools can be heavyweight +* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed -* man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets +* introduce generic AUGMENT_PID=, AUGMENT_DEVICE= fields -* .device aliases need to be implemented with the "following" logic, probably. +* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel -* refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends. +* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var + - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr + - superset of tmpfiles model + - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/ + - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files + - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership -* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks - verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed. +* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without + waiting for the timeout -* journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached. +* high level net_prio setting in execution context -* Document: - - PID 1 D-Bus API +* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ... -* introduce Type=pid-file +* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't -* maybe allow services with ExecStop= set, but no ExecStart=? +* refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful (or set taint?) -* efi: implement /forcefsck as uefi variables thus not requiring file system altering to trigger a file system check +* nspawn: + - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly + - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8) + - 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: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself + - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl? + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982 + - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator -* efi: honor language efi variables for default language selection +* move debug shell to tty6 and make sure this doesn't break the gettys on tty6 -* efi: honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection +* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712 -* efi: automatically mount EFI partition to /boot if no such entry exists in /etc/fstab and /boot is empty - gummiboot exports the EFI system partion (ESP) device: - /sys/firmware/efi/vars/LoaderDeviceIdentifier-4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4f/data - Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(1F|2)/?/HD(Part1,Sig1FCBC57F-4BFC-4C2B-91A3-9C84FBCD9AF1) - '/' is the separator for the device path list - HD(Part1,Sig1FCBC57F-4BFC-4C2B-91A3-9C84FBCD9AF1) contains the GPT UUID of the ESP +* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things -* read the bootloader performance data (raw TSC) in systemd-analyze - /sys/firmware/efi/vars/LoaderTicksExec-4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4f/data - 19066159288 - /sys/firmware/efi/vars/LoaderTicksInit-4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4f/data - 17442940316 - /sys/firmware/efi/vars/LoaderTicksStartMenu-4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4f/data - (only set if the menu was active) +* make timer units go away after they elapsed -* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target +* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html + (network and remote-fs on shutdown) -* support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator +* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead -* nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default +* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump? -* drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields +* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system -* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr +* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open -* readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes +* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line -* (attempt to) make Debianites happy: - - add syntax to reset ExecStart= lists (and similar) +* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea -* move passno parsing to fstab generator +* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container -* improve !/proc/*/loginuid situation: make /proc/*/loginuid less dependent on CONFIG_AUDIT, - or use the users cgroup information when /proc/*/loginuid is not available. +* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now. -* pam_systemd: try to get old session id from cgroup, if audit sessionid cannot be determined +* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts -* pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree +* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload() + currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we + can't 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 don't get a successful method reply, + but much rather a disconnect on success. + +* use opterr = 0 for all getopt tools + +* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno + +* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop= -* maybe introduce ~/.config/locale.conf and apply it within PAM +* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot -* readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/ +* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist? + +* rename "userspace" to "core-os" + +* syscall filter: + - syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls + - syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs? + - syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS? + - syscall filter: port to libseccomp + - system-wide seccomp filter + +* .device aliases need to be implemented with the "following" logic, probably. + +* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks + verify that it isn't 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 + +* move passno parsing to fstab generator * automount: implement expire: - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD @@ -395,99 +582,44 @@ Features: * services which create their own subcgroups break cgroup-empty notification (needs to be fixed in the kernel) -* don't delete /tmp/systemd-namespace-* before a process is gone down - -* vconsole: implement setterm -store -foreground xxx --background zzz - * ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo -* fedora: make sshd and pam_loginuid work in nspawn containers - -* fix utmp for console logins in containers - -* Add pretty name for seats in logind - -* ConditionSecurity= should learn about IMA and SMACK - -* udev: move to LGPL - -* udev systemd unify: - - utf8 validator code - -* udev: scsi_id -> sg3_utils -> kill scsi_id - -* udev: add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device - -* allow configuration of console width/height in vconsole.conf +* udev: + - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n) + - move to LGPL + - kill scsi_id + - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device * 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= * introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite -* journalctl: show multiline log messages sanely, expand tabs, and show all valid utf8 messages - * add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units -* journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid - * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console) -* journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit - -* add command to systemctl to plot dependency graph as tree (see rhbz 795365) - * 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? -* figure out whether we should leave dbus around during shutdown - -* dbus: in fedora, make the machine a symlink to /etc/machine-id - -* dbus: move dbus to early boot - -* logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API - -* journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header - -* journal: local deserializer of export mode, http server - -* document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed - * save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting) -* clean up session cgroups that remain after logout (think sshd), but eventually run empty - -* support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template - -* logind: allow showing logout dialog from system - -* document that %% can be used to write % in a string that is specifier extended - -* when an instanced service exits, remove its parent cgroup too if possible. - * default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B needs to be auto-respawned? -* Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files" - * when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests -* something like ConditionExec= or ExecStartPre= without failure state - * tmpfiles: apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas) -* don't set $HOME in services unless requested +* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested * hide PAM/TCPWrap options in fragment parser when compile time disabled @@ -498,17 +630,11 @@ Features: * move PAM code into its own binary -* logind: spawn user@..service on login - -* logind: non-local X11 server handling - * implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services. * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early -* readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO - * support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination * support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1) @@ -517,12 +643,19 @@ Features: when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible +* support User= and Group= attributes for AF_UNIX sockets. + * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other. * and a dbus call to generate target from current state -* drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum +* 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/ * add support for /bin/mount -s @@ -541,20 +674,18 @@ Features: - how to develop against journal browsing APIs - the journal HTTP iface - non-cgroup resource management + - dynamic resource management with cgroups - refreshed, longer missions statement + - 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 -* move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?) - -* teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service - * support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line. -* when key file cannot be found, read it from kbd in cryptsetup - -* reuse mkdtemp namespace dirs in /tmp? - * recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2 * Support --test based on current system state @@ -563,14 +694,8 @@ Features: * maybe introduce ExecRestartPre= -* configurable jitter for timer events - -* timer events with system resume - * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction' -* writable cgroups dbus properties for live changes - * port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID: - rpcbind (/var/run/rpcbind.sock!) HAVEPATCH - cups HAVEPATCH @@ -584,11 +709,20 @@ Features: * io priority during initialization -* systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies +* drop cap bounding set in readahead and other services -* add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it +* systemd-python: + - figure out a simple way to wait for journal events in a way that + works with ^C + - add documentation to systemd.daemon -* drop cap bounding set in readahead and other services +* bootchart: + - plot per-process IO utilization + - group processes based on service association (cgroups) + - document initcall_debug + - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity? + +* systemd-run is missing zsh completion scripts External: @@ -599,11 +733,10 @@ External: - allow disabling of fd passing when connecting a AF_UNIX connection - allow disabling of UID passing for AUTH EXTERNAL - always pass cred data along each message + - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service * fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored -* gnome-shell python script/glxinfo/is-accelerated must die - * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time * patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys? @@ -616,6 +749,24 @@ External: * 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()