3 * Should systemctl status \* work on all unit types, not just .service?
5 * Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
6 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
7 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
9 * ExecStart with unicode characters fails in strv_split_quoted:
12 Environment=ONE='one' "TWO='two two' too" THREE=
13 ExecStart=/bin/python3 -c 'import sys;print(sys.argv)' $ONE $TWO $THREE
15 * MEMORY return code is overloaded for syntax errors in the command line.
16 str_split_quoted() should return a real return code, so spawn_child can
17 report the failure properly.
21 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
23 * Fedora: move kernel image to /usr/lib/modules/, kernel-install will take care of populating /boot
25 * Fedora: remove /etc/resolv.conf tmpfiles hack
27 * wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
29 * When lz4 gets an API for lz4 command output, make use of it to
30 compress coredumps in a way compatible with /usr/bin/lz4.
34 * nspawn: when start a container "foobar" look for its configuration in a file "foobar.nspawn" in /etc/systemd/nspawn/ as well as next to the actualy directory or image to boot
36 * Port various tools to make use of verbs.[ch], where applicable
38 * Check all invocations of access() and consider turning them into laccess()
40 * "machinectl start/enable/disable foo" as aliases for "systemctl start/enable/disable systemd-nspawn@foo.service"
42 * "machinectl snapshot" to make a snapshot of a tree or container into /var/lib/containers
44 * "machinectl rm" to remove a container tree from /var/lib/containers
46 * "machinectl history"
50 * "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
52 * "machinectl status" should show 10 most recent log lines of both the host logs of the unit of the machine, plus the logs generated in the machine
54 * add transparent btrfs pool in a loopback file in /var if btrfs operations (such as systemd-import pull-dkr) are used and /var is not a btrfs file system
56 * systemd-nspawn -M should look for gpt images if neither -D nor -i are specified.
58 * systemd-nspawn -i should run things read-only if image file has no writable bits
60 * systemd-nspawn -x should support ephemeral instances of gpt images
62 * systemd-import pull-gpt should make a read-only download, plus a writable reflinked copy
64 * machinectl list should show crtimes of snapshots and GPT images
66 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
68 * sysfs set api in libudev is not const
70 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
71 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
73 * port libmount hookup to use API's own inotify interface, as soon as that is table in libmount
75 * journald: broken file systems are real (btrfs), we need to handle
76 SIGBUS in some way if we cannot write or read from the disk.
77 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151848
79 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
80 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
81 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
84 * resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
85 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
86 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
88 * systemd-journal-upload (or a new, related tool): allow pushing out
89 journal messages onto the network in BSD syslog protocol,
90 continously. Default to some link-local IP mcast group, to make this
91 useful as a one-stop debugging tool.
93 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
94 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
96 * as soon as we have kdbus, and sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
97 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
99 * set $REMOTE_IP (or $REMOTE_ADDR/$REMOTE_PORT) environment variable when doing per-connection socket activation. use format introduced by xinetd or CGI for this
101 * the install state probably shouldn't get confused by generated units, think dbus1/kdbus compat!
103 * in systemctl list-unit-files: show the install value the presets would suggest for a service in a third column
105 * we should try harder to collapse start jobs for swaps that end up being the same:
106 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-November/025359.html
108 * timedated should compensate on SetTime for the time spent in polkit
110 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
112 * sd-resolve: drop res_query wrapping, people should call via the bus to resolved instead
114 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
115 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
116 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
117 returning from the "systemctl stop".
119 * firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
121 * timesyncd + resolved: add ugly bus calls to set NTP and DNS servers per-interface, for usage by NM
123 * networkd-wait-online really should have a timeout by default
125 * add infrastructure to allocate dynamic/transient users and UID ranges, for use in user-namespaced containers, per-seat gdm login screens and gdm guest sessions
127 * machined: add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being removed or added to an existing machine
129 * maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
131 * code cleanup: retire FOREACH_WORD_QUOTED, port to unquote_first_word() loops instead
133 * introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix?
135 * systemd --user should issue sd_notify() upon reaching basic.target, not on becoming idle
137 * configure.ac pretends dbus was optional but actually hardcodes use of dbus' pkg-config file to determine various dbus dirs such as policy and activation dirs
139 * consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions
141 * dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
143 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
144 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
146 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
148 * maybe provide an API to allow migration of foreign PIDs into existing scopes.
150 * maybe support a new very "soft" reboot mode, that simply kills all processes, disassembles everything, flushes /run and sysvipc, and then reexecs systemd again
152 * man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
154 * man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
156 * "machinectl list" should probably show columns for OS version and IP addresses
158 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
161 - allow creation of units from scratch
162 - use equvalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
163 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
165 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
167 * exponential backoff in timesyncd and resolved when we cannot reach a server
169 * tmpfiles: port to unquote_many_words(), similar to sysusers
171 * unquote_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that
172 currently uses FOREACH_WORD and friends. For example, most conf
173 parsing callbacks should use it.
175 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
177 * systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
181 - add LLDP client side support
182 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
183 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
184 - .network setting that allows overriding of the hostname to send to the dhcp server
185 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-July/021550.html
186 - expose in the API the following bits:
187 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
188 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
189 - option 100, 101, timezone
190 - option 123, 144, geolocation
191 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
192 - networkd's dhcp server should transparently pass on the DNS and
193 NTP server list it got from user configuration and its dhcp client
194 to clients. It should also pass on its own timezone information.
195 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
196 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
197 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
198 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
201 - put networkd events and rtnl events at a higher priority, so that
202 we always process them before we process client requests
204 - use base64 for key presentation?
205 - add display of private key types (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4034#appendix-A.1.1)?
206 - add nice formatting of DNS timestamps
211 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
215 - maybe randomize DNS UDP source ports
216 - maybe compare query section of DNS replies
218 * Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
220 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
222 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
224 * support empty /etc boots nicely:
225 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
226 - fstab-generator: support systemd.volatile=yes|no|state on the kernel cmdline, too, similar to nspawn's --volatile=
228 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
230 * timer units: actually add extra delays to timer units with high AccuracySec values, don't start them already when we are awake...
232 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
234 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
236 * mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied
238 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
239 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
241 * Run most system services with cgroupfs read-only and procfs with a more secure mode (doesn't work, since the hidepid= option is per-pid-namespace, not per-mount)
243 * sd-event: generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
245 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
247 * consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
249 * sd-event: define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
251 * gpt-auto-generator:
252 - Support LUKS for root devices
253 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
254 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
256 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
257 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
258 when it is otherwise off
260 * MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
262 * "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
265 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
266 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
269 * socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
270 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
271 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
272 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
273 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
275 * New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
277 * introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
278 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
279 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
280 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
281 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
282 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
285 - manager property enumeration was broken when systemd moved to /usr/lib/
288 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
289 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
290 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
291 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
292 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
293 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
294 the hierarchies of child processes
297 - allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
298 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
299 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
301 * Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
303 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
305 * machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus
307 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
309 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
311 * unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
313 * 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
315 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
317 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
318 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
321 * refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
323 * btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
325 * make sure gdm does not use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
327 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
329 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
331 * allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
332 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
335 - kdbus: process fd=-1 for incoming msgs
336 - make dsrt happy, and change userspace header for kdbus to yyyyuta{tv}v
337 - kdbus: PID/TID goes missing for method calls from outside the PID namespace?
338 - kdbus: the kernel should not allow messages to be delivered that have a reply serial != 0, reply-expect unset, but no appropriate window
339 - kdbus: timestamps on kernel's NameOwnerChanged messages?
340 - kdbus' busnames.target should get pulled in by basic.target
341 - Ignore .busname units on classic D-Bus boots, systemd-resolved cannot be started on kdbus
342 without the active policy and should get a Wants=org.freedesktop.resolve1.busname to
344 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
345 - kdbus: maybe add controlling tty metadata fields
346 - see if we can introduce a new sd_bus_get_owner_machine_id() call to retrieve the machine ID of the machine of the bus itself
347 - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
348 - introduce sd_bus_emit_object_added()/sd_bus_emit_object_removed() that automatically includes the build-in interfaces in the list
349 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
350 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
351 - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async?
352 - kdbus: matches against source or destination pids for an "strace -p"-like feel. Problem: The PID info needs to be available in userspace too...
353 - longer term: priority inheritance
356 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
359 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
360 - test bloom filter generation indexes
361 - bus-proxy: when passing messages from kdbus, make sure we properly
362 handle the case where a large number of fds is appended that we
363 cannot pass into sendmsg() of the AF_UNIX sokcet (which only accepts
365 - kdbus: introduce a concept of "send-only" connections
366 - kdbus: add counter for refused unicast messages that is passed out via the RECV ioctl. SImilar to the counter for dropped multicast messages we already have.
369 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
370 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
372 * in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
373 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
374 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
376 * investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
378 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
379 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
381 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
383 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
385 * maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
387 * cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
390 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
391 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
393 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
394 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
395 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
398 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
399 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
401 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
403 * after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
404 need manual exponential loops after all
406 * BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
407 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
408 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
411 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
412 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
413 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
416 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
418 * journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
420 * remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
422 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
424 * write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
426 * think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
428 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
430 * introduce ExecCondition= in services
433 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
434 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
435 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
437 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
439 * re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
441 * fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
442 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
444 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
446 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
449 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
450 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
451 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
452 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
453 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
454 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
455 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
456 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
457 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
458 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
459 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
461 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
462 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
463 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
465 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
466 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
467 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
468 - logind: allow users to kill or lock their own sessions
469 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
470 - given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
471 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
472 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
473 - expose orientation sensors and tablet mode through logind
475 * exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
477 * service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
480 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
481 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
482 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
483 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
484 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
485 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
486 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
487 - journal: reuse XZ context
488 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
489 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
490 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
491 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
492 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
493 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
494 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
495 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
496 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
497 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
498 - journal: send out marker messages every now and then, and immediately sync with fdatasync() afterwards, in order to have hourly guaranteed syncs.
499 - 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.
500 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
501 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
502 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
503 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
504 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
505 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
506 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
507 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
508 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
509 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
510 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
511 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
512 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
513 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
514 to syslog when it works again.
515 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
516 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
517 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
518 so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
519 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
520 - optionally support running journald from the command line for testing purposes in external projects
521 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
522 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
524 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
525 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
526 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
527 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
528 the most common operations.
531 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
532 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
533 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
534 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
535 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
536 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
537 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
538 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
539 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
540 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
541 - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
542 - man: add more examples to man pages
543 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
546 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
547 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
548 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
549 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
550 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
551 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
552 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
553 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
554 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
555 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
556 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
557 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
558 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
559 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
562 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
563 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
564 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
567 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
568 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
570 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
571 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
572 - when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we will not support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200
573 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
575 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
577 * 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().
579 * fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
580 * fedup: do not delete initrd on switch-root
583 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
585 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
587 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
588 waiting for the timeout
590 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
592 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
595 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
596 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK).
597 - introduce machines.target to order after all nspawn instances
598 - systemd-nspawn@.service should fail if some nspawn arg is invalid, with Type=notify
599 - PID 1 doesn't apply nspawns devices cgroup policy
602 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
603 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
604 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
605 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
607 * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
608 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
610 * after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
612 * make timer units go away after they elapsed
614 * move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
616 * create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
618 * allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
620 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
622 * drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
623 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
624 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
625 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
626 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
627 but much rather a disconnect on success.
629 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
631 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
633 * rename "userspace" to "core-os"
635 * load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
636 verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
638 * introduce Type=pid-file
640 * change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
642 * when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
644 * automount: implement expire:
645 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
646 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
647 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
648 - blocking, needs a thread
650 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
652 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
653 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
655 * ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
660 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
661 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
663 * 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
665 * introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
667 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
669 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
671 * default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
673 * save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
675 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
677 * default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
679 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
680 needs to be auto-respawned?
682 * when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
685 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
687 * for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested
689 * hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
691 * when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
693 * allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
694 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
696 * move PAM code into its own binary
698 * implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
699 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
701 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
703 * add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
705 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
706 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
707 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
709 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
710 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
712 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
714 * GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
716 * write blog stories about:
717 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
718 - enabling dbus services
720 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
722 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
723 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
725 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
726 - the journal HTTP iface
727 - non-cgroup resource management
728 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
729 - refreshed, longer missions statement
730 - calendar time events
731 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
732 - how to create your own target
733 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
734 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
736 * allow port=0 in .socket units
738 * recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
740 * Support --test based on current system state
742 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
744 * maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
746 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
748 * fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
751 - figure out a simple way to wait for journal events in a way that
753 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
756 - plot per-process IO utilization
757 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
758 - document initcall_debug
759 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
762 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
763 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
765 - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
768 - add support for more attribute types
769 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
772 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
773 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
774 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
775 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
776 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
777 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
778 - add more attribute support for SIT tunnel
779 - work with non-ethernet devices
780 - add support for more bond options
782 * networkd-wait-online:
783 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
786 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
787 - export timezone information
788 - support RFC4702 (pass FQDN)
791 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
792 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
793 - write more test cases
794 - implement and do duplicate address detection, see rfc 4862, 5.4.
795 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
796 - implement information request, see 1.2. and 18.1.5.
797 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
798 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
799 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
800 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
802 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
808 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
809 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
811 * fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored
813 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
815 * patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
817 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
819 * drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields
821 * dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and should not
823 * dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
825 * add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
827 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
829 * 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=
831 * fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
833 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
835 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
837 * register catalog database signature as file magic
839 * zsh shell completion:
840 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
841 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
846 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
848 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
850 * Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
854 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
856 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
858 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
860 Scheduled for removal or fixing:
862 * xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)