X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=328a46a57a98cc967f3dda5770e93a7ede0f03bd;hp=acac4e31cc130cd90d5d6750257529b1f842d1b8;hb=bdb074a562e358d36590d09daddbf1f0c24e6676;hpb=1cf3c30c0787f941b0f6d0b11ab504ddee3b0b8f diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index acac4e31c..328a46a57 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,13 +1,3 @@ -Fixes needed before 217: - -* sd_session_get_desktop() yells at me? - -* remove Discard= in .mount units and replace it by Options=, to prepare for later swapon fix - -* verify that both resolved and timesyncd work OK without networkd around - -* push out allow-interactive-auth flag into dbus spec - Bugfixes: * Should systemctl status \* work on all unit types, not just .service? @@ -24,11 +14,12 @@ Bugfixes: Environment=ONE='one' "TWO='two two' too" THREE= ExecStart=/bin/python3 -c 'import sys;print(sys.argv)' $ONE $TWO $THREE -* MEMORY return code is overloaded for syntax errors in the commandline. +* MEMORY return code is overloaded for syntax errors in the command line. str_split_quoted() should return a real return code, so spawn_child can report the failure properly. External: + * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros. * Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines @@ -44,6 +35,39 @@ External: Features: +* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service + while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without + races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before + returning from the "systemctl stop". + +* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. + +* timesyncd + resolved: add ugly bus calls to set NTP and DNS servers per-interface, for usage by NM + +* networkd-wait-online really should have a timeout by default + +* expose orientation sensors through logind + +* 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 + +* resolved: maybe randomize DNS UDP source ports + +* resolved: maybe compare query section of DNS replies + +* machined: add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being removed or added to an existing machine + +* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment= + +* kdbus: set the bus-wide creds sender requirement mask to ANY + +* kdbus: busnames.target should get pulled in by basic.target + +* code cleanup: retire FOREACH_WORD_QUOTED, port to unquote_first_word() loops instead + +* logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here. + +* optionally support running journald from the command line for testing purposes in external projects + * journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming * introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix? @@ -54,23 +78,17 @@ Features: * consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions -* send SIGABRT when a service watchdog is triggered, by default, so that we acquire a backtrace of the hang. - * dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from? * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they can be used for resuming the system but nothing else. -* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? +* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option) * maybe provide an API to allow migration of foreign PIDs into existing scopes. -* kdbus: maybe rename "connection name" concept to something that doesn't reuse the word "name"? - * PID 1 doesn't apply nspawns devices cgroup policy -* rework journal-send.c to use memfds for large blobs if they are available instead of unlinked files in /tmp. Also, if we detect that the kernel knows memfds, refuse anything but sealed memfds. - * maybe support a new very "soft" reboot mode, that simply kills all processes, disassembles everything, flushes /run and sysvipc, and then reexecs systemd again * man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on @@ -80,8 +98,6 @@ Features: cannot pass into sendmsg() of the AF_UNIX sokcet (which only accepts 253 messages) -* busctl: add a pcap writer, using LINKTYPE_DBUS/231 - * man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"? * introduce machines.target to order after all nspawn instances @@ -94,10 +110,6 @@ Features: * maybe add "systemctl edit" that copies unit files from /usr/lib/systemd/system to /etc/systemd/system and invokes vim on them -* dbus: add new message hdr field for allowing interactive auth, write spec for it. update dbus spec to mandate that unknown flags *must* be ignored... - -* maybe introduce AssertXYZ= similar to ConditionXYZ= that causes a unit to fail (instead of skipping it) if some condition is not true... - * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked * exponential backoff in timesyncd and resolved when we cannot reach a server @@ -174,12 +186,9 @@ Features: * support empty /etc boots nicely: - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr - fstab-generator: support systemd.volatile=yes|no|state on the kernel cmdline, too, similar to nspawn's --volatile= - - fstab-generator: add support for usr= in addition to root= on the kernel cmdline * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them. -* support setting empty environment variables with Environment= and EnvironmentFile= - * timer units: actually add extra delays to timer units with high AccuracySec values, don't start them already when we are awake... * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so... @@ -298,6 +307,8 @@ Features: ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service. * sd-bus: + - kdbus: maybe add euid, egid, fsuid, fsgid, controlling tty and ppid metadata fields + - see if we can introduce a new sd_bus_get_owner_machine_id() call to retrieve the machine ID of the machine of the bus itself - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds - systemd-bus-proxyd needs to enforce good old XML policy - allow updating attach flags during runtime @@ -313,7 +324,6 @@ Features: - 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 @@ -337,8 +347,6 @@ Features: * maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases... -* timedatectl: print a nicer message when enabling ntp fails because ntpd/chrony are not installed - * cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container * test/: @@ -380,8 +388,6 @@ Features: * think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service -* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere - * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context() * introduce ExecCondition= in services @@ -421,6 +427,7 @@ Features: * service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong * journal: + - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups @@ -442,17 +449,14 @@ Features: - journal-send.c, log.c: when the log socket is clogged, and we drop, count this and write a message about this when it gets unclogged again. - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes - - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server) - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends. - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached. - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header - - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax? - - tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal, also do this for the journal fails contained in it - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too. - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is @@ -509,15 +513,6 @@ Features: - when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we will not support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state -* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes - -* sync down the system time to the RTC when: - - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set) - - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp) - This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime - mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the - user did not request anything like it. - * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic * If we show an error about a unit (such as not showing up) and it has no Description string, then show a description string generated form the reverse of unit_name_mangle(). @@ -555,8 +550,6 @@ Features: * make timer units go away after they elapsed -* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead - * move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump? * create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system @@ -657,13 +650,6 @@ Features: * and a dbus call to generate target from current state -* readahead: - - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum - - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?) - - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO - - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes - - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/ - * GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs) * write blog stories about: @@ -701,8 +687,6 @@ Features: * fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target -* drop cap bounding set in readahead and other services - * systemd-python: - figure out a simple way to wait for journal events in a way that works with ^C