X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=580e0a4bfa170dd4497cdcea4cd3d82de07a55c3;hb=9a6704a81fb5431f7b32dea267a837b1c2b86801;hp=e4acb15e9e9db8ceae306756dbd9b17be816b5a6;hpb=626851be97b4332fc0401d754c81ae7bbc0f5dc4;p=elogind.git diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index e4acb15e9..580e0a4bf 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -4,24 +4,22 @@ Bugfixes: $ systemctl enable getty@.service ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service' '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@.service' -* swap units that are activated by one name but shown in the kernel under another are semi-broken - * 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. -* When we detect invalid UTF-8, we cannot use it in an error message: - log...("Path is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment: %s", rvalue); - * shorten the message to sane length: 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. -External: +* systemctl --root=container/ set-default ... is totally borked. -* ps should gain colums for slice +* sd_bus_unref() is broken regarding self-references and "pseudo thread-safety". + See the comment in sd_bus_unref() for more.. + +External: * Fedora: when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864 @@ -32,8 +30,77 @@ External: Features: +* add "M" as recursive version of "m" to tmpfiles, then use it for + chowning /run/log/journal (but not /var/log/journal), so that we + adjust the perms of journal files created before tmpfiles ran. + +* 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 + don't have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for + the most common operations. + +* support transient mount units + +* add an "input" group to udev logic and add all input devices to it + +* machined: provide calls GetMachineByAddress() on the manager + interface to get the machine for a local IP address, and + GetAddress() on the Machine interface to get the Address for a + machine. Implement via forking off child process which quickly joins + the cotnainer and passes data to parent. Show this in "machinectl + status", and use it to implement NSS module to provide automatic + name resolution for containers. + +* 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(). + +* "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read + /proc/$PID/exe + +* systemctl: support --recursive for list-sockets, list-timers, + ... too, not just for list-units. + +* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple + service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up + for ReusePort= + +* socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace, + opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off + a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket + 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 + +* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze + $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls + should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of + it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by + 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: + - busctl zsh completion is outdated + - systemd-nspawn -Z/-L/-q is missing for zsh + - manager property enumeration was broken when systemd moved to /usr/lib/ + * cgroups: - - implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?) - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness @@ -47,14 +114,10 @@ Features: - 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 -* switch to SipHash for hashmaps/sets? - -* general: get rid of readdir_r/dirent_storage stuff, it's unnecessary on Linux +* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk? * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot -* move libasyncns into systemd as libsystemd-asyncns - * 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 @@ -65,32 +128,21 @@ Features: * Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk? -* remove NSS usage from PID 1 (notably the specifiers) - -* socket-proxyd:Use a nonblocking alternative to getaddrinfo +* socket-proxyd: Use sd-resolve to resolve the server address * 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 -* Add a new Distribute=$NUMBER key to socket units that makes use of SO_REUSEPORT to distribute network traffic on $NUMBER instances - -* we probably should replace the left-over uses of strv_append() and replace them by strv_push() or strv_extend() - -* move config_parse_path_strv() out of conf-parser.c - * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs * 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. -* 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 - * refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up -* given that logind/machined now let PID 1 do all nasty work, we can - probably reduce the capability set they retain substantially. +* 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 @@ -106,53 +158,39 @@ Features: Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to check for that and suppress event handling. -* document logic of auto/noauto and fail/nofail in fstab in systemd.mount or systemd-fstab-generator man page - -* something pulls in pcre as shared object dependency into our daemons such as hostnamed. - * allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service. -* libsystemd-bus: - - default policy (allow uid == 0 and our own uid) - - access policy as vtable flag - - enforce alignment of pointers passed in +* sd-bus: - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds - - implement translator service - - implement busname unit type in systemd - - move to gvariant - - implement monitor logic - - properly map matches with well-known names against messages with unique names - - when triggering property change events, allow a NULL strv indicate that all properties listed as such are send out as changed - - enforce signatures on response messages + - systemd-bus-proxyd needs to enforce good old XML policy + - port exit-on-idle logic to byebye ioctl + - 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 + - constructors for bus messages should probably not be OK with a NULL bus pointer + - .busname units should not use get_user_creds()/get_cgroup_creds() but instead do NSS only in temporarily forked off child - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side - - support "const" properties as flag - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects - - SD_BUS_COMMENT() macro for inclusion in vtables, syntax inspired by gdbus - - make sd_bus_open_system_container() kdbus aware - - longer term: - * priority queues - * priority inheritance + - kdbus: matches against source or destination pids for an "strace -p"-like feel. Problem: The PID info needs to be available in userspace too... + - longer term: priority inheritance + - dbus spec updates: + - 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 + - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers * sd-event - - allow multiple signal handlers per signal - - when a handler returns an error, just turn off its event source, - but do not return anything up to the event loop caller. Instead - add parameter to sd_event_request_quit() to take retval. This way - errors rippling upwards are the option, not the default - - child pid handling: first invoke waitid(WNOHANG) and call event handler, only afterwards reap the process - - native support for watchdog stuff + - allow multiple signal handlers per signal? * 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 - -* 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 where the access mode of unit files is nonsensical. - * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we @@ -166,12 +204,13 @@ Features: * timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations... +* timedatectl: print a nicer message when enabling ntp fails because ntpd/chrony are not installed + * cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container * test/: - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/ - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir - - qemu wrapper script: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg72389.html * systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level). @@ -187,22 +226,15 @@ Features: * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order all units we stop before the isolating unit... -* add ConditionArchitecture= or so - * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off}) -* 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. +* 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 + is installed. * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase: the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible @@ -221,20 +253,10 @@ Features: * 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. -* 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 @@ -262,11 +284,7 @@ Features: - 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 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case - - when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly. - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a @@ -310,7 +328,6 @@ Features: - 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? - - journalctl: support -M to read journal of containers and determine journal directory from root directory of container - 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 @@ -324,17 +341,14 @@ Features: hence doing this via signals is not going to work. * document: - - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in + - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets - - Document 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 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr. - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly - - man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf - 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 @@ -356,10 +370,8 @@ Features: - 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" - rework wait filter to not require match callback - - "systemctl cat" or "systemctl view" command or or so, that cats the backing unit file of a service, plus its drop-ins and shows them in a pager - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status - - in systemctl list-timers show time trggering units ran last * unit install: - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible @@ -375,7 +387,6 @@ Features: * deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity * timer units: - - 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 @@ -383,7 +394,6 @@ Features: - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1 - 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 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state - - anacron-like feature * update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes @@ -394,10 +404,6 @@ Features: mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the user did not request anything like it. -* 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. - * 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 @@ -434,22 +440,14 @@ Features: * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't * 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 + - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK). - - 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. + - support taking a btrfs snapshot at startup and dropping it afterwards + - maybe: hookup nspawn and PrivateNetwork=yes with "ip netns" + - generate predictable mac addresses for the netdev we create (host0), maybe based on guest's machine + name and machine-id of host (?) * cryptsetup: - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself @@ -479,8 +477,6 @@ Features: * explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea -* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container - * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now. * ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts @@ -502,13 +498,6 @@ Features: * 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 - * load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed. @@ -536,13 +525,10 @@ Features: - move to LGPL - kill scsi_id - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device - -* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording + - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_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 * add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units @@ -570,7 +556,7 @@ Features: * for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested -* hide PAM/TCPWrap options in fragment parser when compile time disabled +* hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled * when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too. @@ -645,13 +631,6 @@ Features: * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction' -* port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID: - - postfix, saslauthd - - apache/samba - - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro) - - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!) - - distccd - * fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target * io priority during initialization @@ -673,13 +652,24 @@ Features: - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for network devices where possible, so we can safely rely on Path= matching - - Check if Driver= is broken, or just my driver (bcma) * sd-rtnl: - - replace sd_rtnl_message_append() by type-safe versions - - improve container support, and add support for entering containers when reading + - add support for exiting containers without reading them fully first - add support for more attribute types +* networkd: + - make sure RTM_NEWLINK messages match both the ifname and kind when setting the ifindex of a netdev + - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections + - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config) + - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline) + - add reduced [Link] support to .network files + - add IPv4LL tests (inspire by DHCP) + - add Scope= parsing option for [Network] + - have smooth transition from LL to routable address, without disconnecting clients. + +* sd-network: + - make sure ipv4ll and dhcp clients can handle changing mac addresses while running + External: * dbus: