X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=454239b9210fe97c47a6d542625ed8ee9bf03d9c;hp=362591a2c639a87cfb5c8d0d9d02aa3c38cba388;hb=12c0d47c60f4fb6f5a11c02ddb91a6c7ded5a049;hpb=eab07b4b23544d38ff0006fa4da9217c61d94749 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 362591a2c..454239b92 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -10,16 +10,13 @@ Bugfixes: * 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 +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 @@ -30,10 +27,79 @@ External: Features: -* libsystemd-journal returns the object created as first param in sd_journal_new(), sd_bus_new() and suchlike as last... +* 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, ... + +* maybe add DefaultTimerAccuracySec= as global config option to set AccuracySec='s default value in .timer units + +* mount /sys/fs/cgroup read-only (but leave the subdirs writable) + +* 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 + +* Imply DevicePolicy=closed and CapabilityBoundingSet=~CAP_SYS_MKNOD when PrivateDevices= is used + +* add an "input" group to udev logic and add all input devices to it + +* libsystemd-login: implement getpeer_unit(), get_peer_slice(), ... + +* 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 @@ -47,13 +113,10 @@ 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 -* code cleanup - - we probably should replace the left-over uses of strv_append() and replace them by strv_push() or strv_extend() +* 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 @@ -64,28 +127,21 @@ Features: * Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk? -* 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 - -* 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 @@ -101,30 +157,34 @@ 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: +* sd-bus: - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds - implement monitor logic - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects - - SD_BUS_COMMENT() macro for inclusion in vtables, syntax inspired by gdbus - systemd-bus-proxyd needs to enforce good old XML policy - upload minimal kdbus policy into the kernel at boot - 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 queues - * priority inheritance + - longer term: priority inheritance + - check sender of response messages - dbus spec updates: - kdbus mapping - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete - GVariant - "const" properties (posted) + - path escaping + - port exit-on-idle logic to byebye ioctl + - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now + - allow updating attach flags during runtime + - pid1: peek into activating message when activating a service + - test bloom filter generation indexes + - introduce sd_bus_emit_object_added()/sd_bus_emit_object_removed() that automatically includes the build-in interfaces in the list + - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers + - 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 * sd-event - allow multiple signal handlers per signal? @@ -133,11 +193,6 @@ Features: 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 @@ -173,15 +228,8 @@ 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 @@ -211,11 +259,6 @@ Features: * 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 @@ -243,11 +286,8 @@ 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 @@ -291,7 +331,6 @@ 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 @@ -305,17 +344,14 @@ 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 @@ -339,7 +375,7 @@ Features: - rework wait filter to not require match callback - 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 + - in systemctl list-timers show time triggering units ran last * unit install: - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible @@ -374,10 +410,6 @@ 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 @@ -414,22 +446,14 @@ 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 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 @@ -459,8 +483,6 @@ 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 @@ -482,13 +504,6 @@ 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. @@ -516,8 +531,7 @@ 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 @@ -623,13 +637,6 @@ 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 @@ -651,19 +658,21 @@ 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: - - unify and clarify logging, also use proper structured log messages - - add [Route] sections - - add more keys to [Address] sections - - add DHCPv4 support (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config) + - 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] + - change LL address generation and make it predictable like get_mac() (link-config.c) + - have smooth transition from LL to routable address, without disconnecting clients. 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