X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=7f6defb8e5b0bbd45dd85a9b579905b4ddb093f5;hp=e8afa5f3df90ab66cdc5de6ff10e93d4e33f263e;hb=fcba531ed4c6e6f8f21d8ca4e3a56e3162b1c578;hpb=d28e9236e79e2d0a49aba472f86f7551ce9ca2f1 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index e8afa5f3d..7f6defb8e 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,4 +1,12 @@ Bugfixes: +* the running hwdb seems not to pick up updated database files without + an explicit: udevadm control --reload + +* enabling an instance unit creates pointless link, and + the unit will be started with getty@getty.service: + $ systemctl enable getty@.service + ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service' '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@.service' + * check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar * swap units that are activated by one name but shown in the kernel under another are semi-broken @@ -11,61 +19,127 @@ Bugfixes: * properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point. -Fedora 19: +* ellipsize_mem must take into account multi-byte unicode characters, and + - make the resulting line the requested number of *characters*, not *bytes*, + - avoid truncuating multi-byte sequences in the middle. + +* When we detect invalid UTF-8, we cant't use it in an error message: + log...("Path is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment: %s", rvalue); + +* shorten the message to sane length: -* external: maybe it is time to patch procps so that "ps" links to - libsystemd-logind to print a pretty service name, seat name, session - name in its output. Currently it only shows cgroup membership, but - that's sometimes kinda hard to parse for a human. + 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. -* cgroup attrs: - - update dbus interface docs in wiki +Fedora 20: + +* external: ps should gain colums for slice and machine * localed: - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps * when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink + https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864 -Features: +CGroup Rework Completion: -* service_coldplug() appears to reinstall the wrong stop timeout watch? +* introduce "mainpid" for scopes (or maybe not?) -* transient units: allow creating auxiliary units with the same call +* implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?) + +* implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch + +* handle jointly mounted controllers correctly * make BlockIODeviceWeight=, BlockIODeviceBandwidth= runtime settable -* split up BlockIOWeight= and BlockIODeviceWeight= +* introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness -* introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swapiness +* wiki: document new bus APIs of PID 1 (transient units, Reloading signal) -* how to reset dynamically changed attributes sanely? +Features: -* when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration +* backlight: properly handle multiple backlight devices for the same + hardware: at shutdown we should only save the backlight setting for + the "best" way to access the backlight. Strategy should be: at + shutdown, ignore all backlights that are connected to a non-eDP or + non-LVDS port, and then prefer the firmware device over platform + device over raw device per-PCI card. Delete all old data. At boot + simply apply whatever data we find. Also see + http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libbacklight/tree/libbacklight.c#n194 -* implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?) +* rfkill: save/restore soft rfkill status across reboots -* implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch +* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up -* handle jointly mounted controllers correctly +* ensure scope units may be started only a single time -* split out CreateMachine into systemd-machined +* document that in instead of FsckPassNo= people should just add a manual dep to systemd-fsck@.service to their mount units. -* make logind's session and machine - registration use Slices to set up cgroups +* better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running -* journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes +* systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status + +* for transient units, instead of writing out drop-ins for all properties consider serializing them in the normal serialization stream + +* logind: 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 a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr. + +* journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax? + +* given that logind/machined now let PID 1 do all nasty work we can + probably reduce the capability set they retain substantially. + +* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue + +* 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 + +* make sure gdm doesn't use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd + +* 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 -* move systemctl dump to systemd-analyze +* when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop we should ratelimit that too. + +* "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, should + only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template + unit however should remove them all). + +* journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var + +* systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so) + +* journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is + full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing + to syslog when it works again. + +* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted. + +* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units + +* add a fixed dbus path for "my own unit", "my own session", ... to PID1, logind, ... + +* service_coldplug() appears to reinstall the wrong stop timeout watch? + +* transient units: allow creating auxiliary units with the same call + +* how to reset dynamically changed attributes sanely? + +* when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration + +* journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes * libsystemd-logind: sd_session_is_active() and friends: verify validity of session name before appending it to a path -* logind: when a PAM client calls ReleaseSession() start a timeout and - kill the session entirely after that is reached. - * gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or - maybe we should stop doing auto-activiation of this after boot + maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676 + Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to + check for that and suppress event handling. * when a service changes state make reflect that in the RUNNING/LISTENING states of its socket @@ -79,11 +153,9 @@ Features: * something pulls in pcre as so dep into our daemons such as hostnamed. -* cgroup-agent: downgrade error messages - * document systemd-journal-flush.service properly -* chane systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during +* change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown, so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously, hence doing this via signals is not going to work. @@ -91,9 +163,6 @@ Features: * allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service. -* libsystemd-journal: - - return ECHILD as soon as somebody tries to reuse a journal object across a fork() - * libsystemd-bus: - default policy (allow uid == 0 and our own uid) - enforce alignment of pointers passed in @@ -124,9 +193,9 @@ Features: * 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 whern the acces mode of unit files is non-sensical. +* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses where the access mode of unit files is nonsensical. -* investigate endianess issues of UUID vs. GUID +* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked. @@ -155,38 +224,24 @@ Features: - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir - remove all the duplicated code in test/ -* suppress log output on shutdown when "quiet" is used - * systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level). * make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal file. -* move /usr/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.devname parsing from udevd to - kmod static-nodes - call kmod as an early service, and drop CAP_MKNOD from udevd.service - * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink destination. -* remove duplicate default deps logic from fstab-generator vs. mount.c - * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order all units we stop before the isolating unit... -* teach udev + logind's uaccess to somehow handle the "dead" device nodes from: - /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.devname - and apply ACLs to them if they have TAG=="uaccess" in udev rules. - * add ConditionArchitecture= or so * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off}) -* we should log capabilities too - * 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 @@ -207,7 +262,7 @@ Features: and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through that automatically. -* rework specifier logic so that we can distuingish OOM errors from other errors +* rework specifier logic so that we can distinguish OOM errors from other errors * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep() @@ -217,13 +272,13 @@ Features: * documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install] -* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapstion and the time the units ran last +* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapse and the time the units ran last * man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick? -* man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too +* man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too * systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so... @@ -244,9 +299,6 @@ Features: * timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to. -* Honour "-" prefix for InaccessibleDirectories= and ReadOnlyDirectories= to - suppress errors of the specified path doesn't exist - * 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 @@ -261,7 +313,7 @@ Features: - write man page for efi boot generator - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?) - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?) - - introduce bootctl (backed by systemd-bootd) to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables + - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr? @@ -319,14 +371,13 @@ 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 - - Introduce journalctl -b to show journal messages of a previous boot - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server) - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends. - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached. - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header - - journalctl: show multiline log messages sanely, expand tabs, and show all valid utf8 messages + - journalctl: expand tabs - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal @@ -379,10 +430,6 @@ 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. -* hwdb: - - implement conditional properties (dmi matches) - - hwdb --filter=ID_DRIVE_* - * 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. @@ -489,8 +536,6 @@ Features: when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply, but much rather a disconnect on success. -* remember which condition failed for services, not just the fact that something failed - * use opterr = 0 for all getopt tools * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno @@ -602,6 +647,8 @@ Features: when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible +* support User= and Group= attributes for AF_UNIX sockets. + * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other. @@ -679,6 +726,8 @@ Features: - document initcall_debug - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity? +* systemd-run is missing completion scripts + External: * dbus: