X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=bc81a70eb17f629155ff7190ebd22444e4b2dc23;hp=b116451f5bad3001acc2ac14313a7018ac9be020;hb=eff3f4f9e92b56d9dfb90d5094e48cc743c776cc;hpb=a01647e53727107d82382bc5c9d98c894e8f386c diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index b116451f5..bc81a70eb 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -4,24 +4,12 @@ Bugfixes: * Should systemctl status \* work on all unit types, not just .service? -* enabling an instance unit creates a 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' - * Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around. * properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point. -* 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. - -* sd_bus_unref() is broken regarding self-references and "pseudo thread-safety". - See the comment in sd_bus_unref() for more.. - 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 @@ -30,44 +18,126 @@ External: * Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines +* Fedora: move kernel image to /usr/lib/modules/, kernel-install will take care of populating /boot + +* Fedora: remove /etc/resolv.conf tmpfiles hack + Features: +* nspawn --network-interface= doesn't work... + +* 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... + +* remove multi-seat-x now + +* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked + +* exponential backoff in timesyncd and resolved when we cannot reach a server + +* apply start timeout during the "initializing" manager state only, + instead of both "initializing" and "starting". maybe rename the + timeout to "initialization-timeout" then or so? + +* journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split + journals in. + +* tmpfiles: port to unquote_many_words(), similar to sysusers + +* unquote_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that + currently uses FOREACH_WORD and friends. For example, most conf + parsing callbacks should use it. + +* logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for + the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait + for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is + complete. + +* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share.... + +* remove readahead in 217 + +* journald: allows specification of UID range for splitting up journal files + +* systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed + units are shown. + +* networkd: + - add LLDP client side support + - ipv4ll with multiple interfaces doesn't work when both dhcp and + ipv4ll is used. for some reasons the kernel will currently pick an + ipv4ll source address to reach non-ipv4ll gateways. + - dhcp and ipv4ll should probably be skipped for "lo" devices, even + if the user has a catchall .network file installed, that might + theoretically match it. + - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when + a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly. + - .network setting that allows overriding of the hostname to send to the dhcp server + http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-July/021550.html + - expose in the API the following bits: + - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list + - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn + - option 100, 101, timezone + - option 123, 144, geolocation + - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad) + - networkd's dhcp server should transparently pass on the DNS and + NTP server list it got from user configuration and its dhcp client + to clients. It should also pass on its own timezone information. + - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value + for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes. + +* resolved: + - put networkd events and rtnl events at a higher priority, so that + we always process them before we process client requests + - DNSSEC + - use base64 for key presentation? + - add display of private key types (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4034#appendix-A.1.1)? + - add nice formatting of DNS timestamps + - DNS + - search paths + - mDNS/DNS-SD + - avahi compat + - DNS-SD service registration from socket units + - edns0 + - dname + - cname on PTR (?) + +* Ignore .busname units on classic D-Bus boots, systemd-resolved cannot be started on kdbus + without the active policy and should get a Wants=org.freedesktop.resolve1.busname to + pull-in the policy. + +* Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely + +* Add a new verb "systemctl top" + +* logind: allow users to kill or lock their own sessions + +* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes + * support empty /etc boots nicely: - - apply presets at first boot - - tmpfiles: allow overriding of /etc/mtab - - tmpfiles: add nice way to copy files /usr/share/etc → /etc + - 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= -* machined/machinectl: sort IP addresses we return by scope and protocol -* machined: write NSS module for looking up IP addresses for machines - * timer units: actually add extra delays to timer units with high AccuracySec values, don't start them already when we are awake... -* timesyncd: - - hookup with networkd: NTP servers from dhcp - * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so... * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit -* add a kernel command line option to enable the debug shell - * journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so... * set NOTIFY_SOCKET also for control processes -* drop parsing of chkconfig header lines from service.c - * mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied -* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle. - -* Add RPM macros for registering/unregistering binfmt drop-ins - -* Add timeout to early-boot, and shut down the system if it is hit. Solves the laptop-in-bag problem and is useful for embedded cases +* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services + they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle. * 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) @@ -148,8 +218,6 @@ Features: * unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends -* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk? - * 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 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs @@ -214,8 +282,6 @@ Features: * maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases... -* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations... - * timedatectl: print a nicer message when enabling ntp fails because ntpd/chrony are not installed * cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container @@ -224,12 +290,6 @@ Features: - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/ - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir -* 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. - * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink @@ -267,8 +327,6 @@ Features: * use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere -* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to. - * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context() * introduce ExecCondition= in services @@ -375,7 +433,6 @@ Features: about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages. - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible - - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like) - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards? - 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 @@ -386,14 +443,9 @@ Features: * unit install: - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null - - "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, but should - only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template - unit however should remove them all). - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so) - systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so... -* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity - * timer units: - timer units should get the ability to trigger when: o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET) @@ -412,13 +464,6 @@ 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. -* 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 - we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in - logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the - better supported alternative. - * 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(). @@ -427,19 +472,10 @@ Features: * fedup: do not delete initrd on switch-root * fedup: generator -* timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on - * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel -* add "factory" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var - - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr - - superset of tmpfiles model - - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/ - - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files - - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership - * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without waiting for the timeout @@ -471,12 +507,8 @@ Features: * create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system -* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open - * allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line -* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea - * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now. * drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload() @@ -488,10 +520,6 @@ Features: * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno -* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop= - -* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot - * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist? * rename "userspace" to "core-os" @@ -547,7 +575,6 @@ Features: * when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests * tmpfiles: - - check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas) * for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested @@ -566,9 +593,7 @@ Features: * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early -* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination - -* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1) +* add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user @@ -611,8 +636,6 @@ Features: * allow port=0 in .socket units -* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line. - * recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2 * Support --test based on current system state @@ -651,17 +674,13 @@ Features: * networkd: - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config) - - send hostname to DHCP server - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline) - add reduced [Link] support to .network files - add Scope= parsing option for [Network] - properly handle routerless dhcp leases - - set lifetime on the address acquired from dhcp - - patch kernel to support module alias for tunnel device (ipip/sit/gre), - then remove remove libkmod dependency and CAP_SYS_MODULE - - add veth netdev support (c.f. http://shorewall.net/bridge-Shorewall-perl.html#veth) - - add tun/tap netdev support - add more attribute support for SIT tunnel + - work with non-ethernet devices + - add support for more bond options * networkd-wait-online: - make operstates to wait for configurable? @@ -669,7 +688,23 @@ Features: * dhcp: - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size - export timezone information - - FORCERENEW + - support RFC4702 (pass FQDN) + +* dhcp6: + - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get + them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na + - write more test cases + - implement and do duplicate address detection, see rfc 4862, 5.4. + - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20. + - implement information request, see 1.2. and 18.1.5. + - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA) + - implement elapsed time option + - implement dhcpv6 authentication + - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any + situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection + or interface down + - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify + this behavior External: @@ -705,6 +740,9 @@ External: * register catalog database signature as file magic +* zsh shell completion: - should complete options, but currently + does not + Regularly: * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()