X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=db59984bfed3fd68db6f842c5d9f92b56f9d8cb1;hp=17fe94a9b3ac189fc72220cedb4082e3df17a6f7;hb=897e184c7d54156357fd204beafe06ab9bd0341a;hpb=e30fa16e27cbd48f960113a1d72d9a15c3b2d67b diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 17fe94a9b..db59984bf 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -32,6 +32,28 @@ External: Features: +* timesyncd: + - hookup with networkd: NTP servers from dhcp + - hookup with networkd: listen to online/offline state + +* 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. Alternatively, split up the boot-up state into two, and make Type=idle only be affected by jobs for the default target, but ignore any further jobs + +* 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 * sd-resolve: add callback api @@ -63,7 +85,7 @@ Features: * 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 + do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for the most common operations. * support transient mount units @@ -155,7 +177,7 @@ Features: * btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue -* make sure gdm doesn't use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd +* make sure gdm does not use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted. @@ -172,7 +194,7 @@ Features: * sd-bus: - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async - - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds + - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds - systemd-bus-proxyd needs to enforce good old XML policy - port exit-on-idle logic to byebye ioctl - allow updating attach flags during runtime @@ -229,7 +251,7 @@ Features: file. * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink - destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead + destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink destination. @@ -255,7 +277,7 @@ Features: * 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 +* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick? @@ -311,7 +333,7 @@ Features: - 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. - - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively? + - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively? - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart - journal: reuse XZ context - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg @@ -347,7 +369,7 @@ Features: - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes - 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, + so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously, hence doing this via signals is not going to work. * document: @@ -375,7 +397,7 @@ Features: - 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 doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards? + - 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 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files" @@ -402,7 +424,7 @@ Features: o DST changes - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month. - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1 - - 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 + - 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 @@ -426,7 +448,7 @@ Features: * 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(). * fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow -* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root +* fedup: do not delete initrd on switch-root * fedup: generator * timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on @@ -447,7 +469,7 @@ Features: * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ... -* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't +* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not * nspawn: - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts @@ -493,9 +515,9 @@ Features: * drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload() currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we - can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of + cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it - when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply, + when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply, but much rather a disconnect on success. * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno @@ -509,7 +531,7 @@ Features: * rename "userspace" to "core-os" * load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks - verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed. + verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed. * introduce Type=pid-file @@ -553,7 +575,7 @@ Features: * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting) -* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max +* default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B needs to be auto-respawned? @@ -564,7 +586,7 @@ Features: - check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas) -* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested +* for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested * hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled @@ -662,27 +684,29 @@ Features: - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for network devices where possible, so we can safely rely on Path= matching + - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned) * sd-rtnl: - add support for more attribute types - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places - - add support for multi-part messages (simply call the same callback repeatedly?) * networkd: - - change from udev to rtnl being the main events we listen to devices on, udev will then simply - be used for synchronization - 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 IPv4LL tests (inspire by DHCP) - add Scope= parsing option for [Network] - -* sd-network: - - make sure ipv4ll and dhcp clients can handle changing mac addresses while running + - properly handle routerless dhcp leases + - set lifetime on the address acquired from dhcp + - add veth netdev support (c.f. http://shorewall.net/bridge-Shorewall-perl.html#veth) External: +* NM: figure out what to do about network-online.target. + - maybe pull in the target as dependency for LSB initscripts ordered now after network.target + - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728965 + * dbus: - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING) - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service @@ -703,7 +727,7 @@ External: * drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields -* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't +* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and should not * dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id @@ -731,7 +755,7 @@ Regularly: * pahole -* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()! +* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()! * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate