X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=df3725ffe46f8782e66c4a062f622f9eac98f4bb;hp=d48123806da758033fb0aa6bbd0de62517da5388;hb=3ae83f9896bff49679c8a60e6ff9520557df8b16;hpb=356ce9915ab1a4a1e6dc26954df34936a69e7c12 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index d48123806..df3725ffe 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -11,15 +11,10 @@ Bugfixes: * properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point. -* add 'set -e' to scripts in test/ -* make test in test/ work with separate output dir - -* suppress log output on shutdown when "quiet" is used +* fix --header to files without entries (see test-journal output). Fedora 19: -* 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 name in its output. Currently it only shows cgroup membership, but @@ -28,28 +23,123 @@ Fedora 19: * cgroup attrs: - update dbus interface docs in wiki -* journal is not closed properly at shutdown when run in a container? - * localed: - - localectl: add listing support for X11 keymaps, by parsing /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps -* logind: Class property should probably know "background" or so as value for cron jobs, and the inhibition checks should filter those out too. +Features: -* timer logic is confused by units which are skipped due to failing condition - http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-February/008816.html +* document logic of auto/noauto and fail/nofail in fstab in systemd.mount or systemd-fstab-generator man page -* 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 +* we should properly escape hostnames we add into dbus server strings -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 + 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. + +* 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 + - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds + - implement translator service + - port systemd to new library + - implement busname unit type in systemd + - move to gvariant + - merge busctl into systemctl or so? + - synthesize sd_bus_message objects from kernel messages + - properly implement name registry ioctls for kdbus + - get rid of object hash table, use decision tree everyhwere instead? + - implement monitor logic + - object vtable logic + - longer term: + * priority queues + * priority inheritance + +* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and + complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set. + https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044 + +* 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. + +* 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. + +* investigate endianess 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. + +* if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a + any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's + usually not a real user session but just some system code that just + needs setuid(). + +* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login. + +* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches + +* 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... + +* logind: add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly. + +* we need dynamic units + +* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container + +* test/: + - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/ + - 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}) -* hostnamectl: when a passed pretty hostname also qualifies as low-level name, then only set low-level name, and unset the pretty hostname - * we should log capabilities too * Support SO_REUSEPORT with socket activation: @@ -67,28 +157,20 @@ Features: * man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf -* disallow .include from included files - -* 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 +* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep() * 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 -* 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 +* 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 @@ -100,20 +182,10 @@ Features: * 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 @@ -123,16 +195,10 @@ Features: 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 -* 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 @@ -174,6 +240,7 @@ Features: - 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 - logind: GetSessionByPID() should accept 0 as PID value + - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case * exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty. @@ -182,6 +249,9 @@ Features: * service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong * journal: + - do not use magic msync() in src/journal/journal-file.c, just call fsync() + poettering: looks like msync just calls vfs_fsync + http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/mm/msync.c#n18 - 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 @@ -196,17 +266,14 @@ Features: - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args? - 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 "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: 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 - 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) @@ -217,7 +284,8 @@ 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 + - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal + - Port upower to use the journal for historical power information used in future calculations * document: - document unit_name_mangle() @@ -244,9 +312,6 @@ 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" - - 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 @@ -319,8 +384,6 @@ Features: * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't -* WorkingDirectory: support env var replacements like in ExecStart= so that people can use $HOME - * refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful (or set taint?) * nspawn: @@ -334,16 +397,13 @@ Features: 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 - - cryptsetup-generator: add RequiresMountsFor= to cryptseup service files referencing a file, similar for devices - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl? https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982 - - when key file cannot be found, read it from kbd in cryptsetup + - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator * move debug shell to tty6 and make sure this doesn't break the gettys on tty6 @@ -412,14 +472,8 @@ Features: * introduce Type=pid-file -* maybe allow services with ExecStop= set, but no ExecStart=? - * change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target -* support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator - -* drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields - * when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr * move passno parsing to fstab generator @@ -439,8 +493,6 @@ Features: * ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo -* ConditionSecurity= should learn about IMA and SMACK - * udev: - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n) - move to LGPL @@ -450,8 +502,6 @@ Features: * cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording -* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn'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 * support container_ttys= @@ -466,12 +516,6 @@ Features: * default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt? -* figure out whether we should leave dbus around during shutdown - -* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id - -* dbus: move dbus to early boot - * save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting) @@ -554,8 +598,6 @@ Features: * support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line. -* reuse mkdtemp namespace dirs in /tmp? - * recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2 * Support --test based on current system state @@ -586,6 +628,12 @@ Features: works with ^C - add documentation to systemd.daemon +* bootchart: + - plot per-process IO utilization + - group processes based on service association (cgroups) + - document initcall_debug + - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity? + External: * dbus: @@ -611,10 +659,23 @@ 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 +* drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields + +* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't + +* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id + +* 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 success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus= + +* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron + +* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment? + +* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it Regularly: