X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=f6e7566bb6a96f6604f377c3786277792458103e;hp=fb5f0c381349c844e69289cc9b73d51684253f27;hb=31f49d022aee9bbb356e52e5483f182d7ffa8d2f;hpb=264ad849a4a0acf1ca392da62b7018d4fe7b66b3 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index fb5f0c381..f6e7566bb 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,6 +1,11 @@ Bugfixes: -* systemctl status *.path shows all logs, not only the ones since the unit is - active +* 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 @@ -14,43 +19,156 @@ 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. -* 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. +Fedora 20: -* cgroup attrs: - - update dbus interface docs in wiki +* 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 + +CGroup Rework Completion: + +* introduce "mainpid" for scopes (or maybe not?) + +* 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 + +* introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness + +* wiki: document new bus APIs of PID 1 (transient units, Reloading signal) + Features: -* libsystemd-journal: - - return ECHILD as soon as somebody tries to reuse a journal object across a fork() +* better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running + +* rename F_TYPE_CMP() to F_TYPE_EQUAL() + +* unlink PID files of units after exit + +* tiny tool that saves/restores backlight + +* 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 + +* 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) + +* do we really need both hasprefix() and startswith()? + +* 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 + +* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or + 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 + +* when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show + the hierarchies of child processes + +* document logic of auto/noauto and fail/nofail in fstab in systemd.mount or systemd-fstab-generator man page + +* we should properly escape ssh hostnames we add into dbus server strings + +* something pulls in pcre as so dep into our daemons such as hostnamed. + +* document systemd-journal-flush.service properly + +* 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. + +* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus + ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service. * 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 - - kdbus: generate correct bloom filter for matches - 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 -* read the kernel's console "debug" keyword like we read "quiet" and adjust: - systemd.log_level=debug and maybe systemd.log_target=kmsg - * 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 @@ -59,12 +177,9 @@ 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. - -* investigate endianess issues of UUID vs. GUID +* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses where the access mode of unit files is nonsensical. -* see if we can fix https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63672 - without dropping the location cache entirely. +* 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. @@ -86,8 +201,6 @@ Features: * we need dynamic units -* add s.th. like "systemctl set-log-level debug" - * cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container * test/: @@ -95,18 +208,12 @@ 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/$(uname -r)/modules.devname parsing from udevd to - kmod static-nodes - call kmod as an early service, and drop CAP_MKNOD from udevd.service - * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink @@ -117,16 +224,10 @@ Features: * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order all units we stop before the isolating unit... -* teach udev + logind's uaccess to somehow handle the "dead" device nodes from: - /lib/modules/$(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 @@ -147,7 +248,7 @@ 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() @@ -157,13 +258,13 @@ 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... @@ -201,7 +302,7 @@ 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? @@ -259,14 +360,13 @@ 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 @@ -319,10 +419,6 @@ 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. @@ -429,8 +525,6 @@ 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