X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=95a806be651f3084eebefe0609438b837a3a9dc2;hp=a36cf6f7f8c63cb9173784fdf519c33a34100e7c;hb=ee465038ce86bd3a0f21d5e2723393ff9d78855d;hpb=990ffbe5cffe7f11a8d3ab2258a85fc52b97bf60 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index a36cf6f7f..95a806be6 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -17,17 +17,8 @@ Bugfixes: * suppress log output on shutdown when "quiet" is used Fedora 19: -* make anaconda write timeout=0 for encrypted devices - -* drop no longer needed modprobe.d udlfb file (it does not belong in /etc anyway) - -* Retest multi-seat (new kms driver for displaylink) - -* make sure pkexec works fine with pam_systemd works fine with audit=0 -* create /var/log/journal/ - -* logind: document new PrepareForSleep(false) semantics and UnlockSessions call in wiki +* make anaconda write timeout=0 for encrypted devices * external: maybe it is time to patch procps so that "ps" links to libsystemd-logind to print a pretty service name, seat name, session @@ -35,35 +26,108 @@ Fedora 19: that's sometimes kinda hard to parse for a human. * cgroup attrs: - - don't unconditionally filter out duplicate settings - - support high-level cgroup setting syntax in systemctl. Example: "systemctl set-cgroup-attr MemoryLimit 5K" - - support writte string mapping even for non-high-level settings - - add man page for systemctl commands - - make sure we work fine with multi-line strings + - update dbus interface docs in wiki * kernel cmdline switch to turn off predictable network interface names * journal is not closed properly at shutdown when run in a container? -* introduce new "journal" group in place of adm? - * localed: - localectl: add listing support for X11 keymaps, by parsing /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps -* The tag "seat-master" in udev is badly named, as it might conflict with - actual seat names. +* logind: Class property should probably know "background" or so as value for cron jobs, and the inhibition checks should filter those out too. + +* timer logic is confused by units which are skipped due to failing condition + http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-February/008816.html + +* timer logic is also confused if a service it triggers hasn't finished when the next timer elapses: + http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-February/009021.html Features: -* support --root in msgcatalog and hwdb +* 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. + +* We currently have a dep loop between libsystemd-id128 and libsystemd-shared. + +* man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf + +* disallow .include from included files + +* timedatectl needs to show whether NTP is available at all + +* reduce caps of systemd-localed + +* safe_atod() is too naive, as it is vulnerable to locale parameters, should be locale independent. + +* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase: + the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible + and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through + that automatically. + +* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment? + +* rework specifier logic so that we can distuingish OOM errors from other errors + +* systemd-inhibit: refuse taking delay locks + +* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8. + +* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good + +* tmpfiles: when traversing the tree, check for bind mount points with nametohandle() + +* fedora: connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install], and maybe introduce timers.target + +* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron + +* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapstion and the time the units ran last -* document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications +* man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in -* Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month. +* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick? -* We should not set KDSKBMODE to K_UNICODE in vconsole-setup if the - kbd is currently in raw/off state. +* 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... + +* man: add a link to socket activation blog from systemd.socket(5) + +* systemctl status: show drop-in snippets for service files in addition to service file path themesevles. + +* man: add more examples to man pages + +* man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too + +* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login + +* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line + +* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on sucess and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus= + +* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification + +* 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. + +* figure out what we do about hostnames/fqdn in hostnamectl/hostnamed + +* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere + +* unit_name_mangle() is currently not used on "systemctl enable" and friends, only on "systemctl start" + +* ensure sd_journal_seek_monotonic actually works properly. + +* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to. + +* support --root= in msgcatalog compiler * Honour "-" prefix for InaccessibleDirectories= and ReadOnlyDirectories= to suppress errors of the specified path doesn't exist @@ -73,30 +137,17 @@ Features: so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units will be activated. -* 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? - * merge service_kill() logic into unit_kill_context() and unify the code paths -* when auto-detecting the main pid of a service, only look for those processes with ppid == 1 - * introduce ExecCondition= in services -* if we have systemd-analyze in C "systemctl dot" should move there too - * EFI: - fsck hookup for the ESP mount is missing - write man page for efi boot generator - - add configure switch for enabling/disabling efi stuff - 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 -* polkit: add configure switch to enable/disable polkit client side code - * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr? * re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason) @@ -119,6 +170,7 @@ Features: - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API - pam_systemd: try to get old session id from cgroup, if audit sessionid cannot be determined - pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree + - logind: GetSessionByPID() should accept 0 as PID value * exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty. @@ -127,6 +179,7 @@ Features: * service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong * journal: + - 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 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal. @@ -141,21 +194,19 @@ Features: - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards - gatewayd: should run under its own UID - - journal: add a setgid "adm" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access + - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo", and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR. - journal: when rotating, copy over old acls/access mode - - journal: document why we do not give ownership to journal files to the user that created them but use FS ACLs for that - journal: send out marker messages every now and then, and immediately sync with fdatasync() afterwards, in order to have hourly guaranteed syncs. - journal: when we haven't written anything in a while, sync to disk and mark file as offline, in order to be more often than not in a clean state - 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 - journal: When used on NFS make sure wake up sd_journal_wait() every 2s, to handle missing inotify - - document that people can use file system ACLs to manage access to journal files, with example - 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 + - 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. @@ -163,6 +214,7 @@ Features: - journalctl: show multiline log messages sanely, expand tabs, and show all valid utf8 messages - 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 + - journalctl: make journalctl smarter, and actually check groups that have access to /var/log/journal before printing message about recomming group membership for journal access * document: - document unit_name_mangle() @@ -172,8 +224,8 @@ Features: - 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 %% can be used to write % in a string that is specifier extended - 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 * systemctl: - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies @@ -189,8 +241,9 @@ Features: - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading - 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" - -* When shutdown.target is queued begin with an asynchronous sync()? + - add configuration/switches to use + freeze (http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git) and + standby (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57793) as suspend modes * introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations @@ -202,6 +255,7 @@ Features: - timer units should get the ability to trigger when: o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET) o DST changes + - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month. * update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes @@ -273,6 +327,13 @@ Features: - 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: move all containers to name=systemd:/containers/, and introduce externally visible names for containers + - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context * cryptsetup: - cryptsetup-generator: warn if the password files are world-readable @@ -308,8 +369,6 @@ Features: * explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea -* testing tool for socket activation: some binary that listens on a socket and passes it on using the usual socket activation protocol to some server. - * shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now. @@ -383,7 +442,7 @@ Features: * ConditionSecurity= should learn about IMA and SMACK * udev: - - remove all (misguided from day 1) userspace firmware_class handling + - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n) - move to LGPL - unify utf8 validator code with shared/ - kill scsi_id @@ -485,7 +544,11 @@ Features: - non-cgroup resource management - dynamic resource management with cgroups - refreshed, longer missions statement - - celendar time events + - calendar time events + - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell + - how to create your own target + - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on + - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot * allow port=0 in .socket units @@ -518,6 +581,17 @@ Features: * drop cap bounding set in readahead and other services +* systemd-python: + - export sd_journal_get_catalog (in systemd.journal._reader) + - export sd_journal_get_catalog_for_message_id (in systemd.id128) + - allow reading of only select fields in systemd.journal._reader.Reader + - export sd_journal_test_cursor in systemd.journal._reader.Reader + - export sd_journal_get_usage in systemd.journal._reader.Reader + - add systemd.journal._reader._Reader.closed attribute (it can + be just "return self->j != NULL") + - figure out a simple way to wait for journal events in a way that + works with ^C + External: * dbus: @@ -543,6 +617,11 @@ External: * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics" +* bootchart: + - plot per-process IO utilization + - group processes based on service association (cgroups) + - document initcall_debug + Regularly: * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()