X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=fd2cfcb12490c44ea84318489b1a6c7a3ab92acb;hp=4563b34f9e955b997ce7ce2108f4891801d4613f;hb=3eb94c9e9e25586fa8ac93545810b87ce9241363;hpb=8cf030b349cbcb0901d880c9165d785dfc9cd569 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 4563b34f9..50d3f796a 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,260 +1,233 @@ 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' -* check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar - -* swap units that are activated by one name but shown in the kernel under another are semi-broken - * 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. -* When we detect invalid UTF-8, we cannot use it in an error message: - log...("Path is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment: %s", rvalue); - * 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. -Fedora 20: +* systemctl --root=container/ set-default ... is totally borked. -* external: ps should gain colums for slice +* sd_bus_unref() is broken regarding self-references and "pseudo thread-safety". + See the comment in sd_bus_unref() for more.. -* localed: - - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps +External: -* when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink +* Fedora: 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: - -* implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?) - -* implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch - -* handle jointly mounted controllers correctly +* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros. -* introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness +* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines Features: -* general: get rid of readdir_r/dirent_storage stuff, it's unnecessary on Linux - -* add API to clone sd_bus_message objects +* timesyncd: + - hookup with networkd: NTP servers from dhcp + - hookup with networkd: listen to online/offline state -* sd-bus: synthesized messages should get serial number (uint32_t) -1 +* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so... -* sd-event: allow multiple signal handlers per signal +* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit -* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot - -* move libasyncns into systemd as libsystemd-asyncns - -* calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1 +* add a kernel command line option to enable the debug shell -* sd-bus: when triggering property change events, allow a NULL strv indicate that all properties listed as such are send out as changed +* journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so... -* sd-bus: enforce signatures on response messages +* set NOTIFY_SOCKET also for control processes -* sd-bus: see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side +* drop parsing of chkconfig header lines from service.c -* sd-bus: introduce sd_bus_creds object and attach it to messages as well as allow querying it for names +* mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied -* sd-bus: support "const" properties as flag +* 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 -* sd-event: when a handler returns an error, just turn off its event - source, but do not return anything up to the event loop - caller. Instead add parameter to sd_event_request_quit() to take - retval. This way errors rippling upwards are the option, not the - default +* Add RPM macros for registering/unregistering binfmt drop-ins -* sd-event: child pid handling: first invoke waitid(WNOHANG) and call event handler, only afterwards reap the process +* 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-event: native support for watchdog stuff +* sd-resolve: add callback api -* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH call over the bus +* ImmutableSystem=yes/no or so to mount /usr, /boot read-only/invisible, and leave /var and /etc writable -* sd-bus: SD_BUS_COMMENT() macro for inclusion in vtables, syntax inspired by gdbus +* InaccessibleHome=yes/no or so to hide /home and /run/user from a service -* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops +* Run most system services with cgroupfs read-only and procfs with a more secure mode -* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1 +* sd-event: generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread -* add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt +* add "M" as recursive version of "m" to tmpfiles, then use it for + chowning /run/log/journal (but not /var/log/journal), so that we + adjust the perms of journal files created before tmpfiles ran. -* systemctl: rework wait filter to not require match callback +* expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects -* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends +* add bus api to query unit file's X fields. -* bus: access policy as vtable flag - -* journalctl: support -M to read journal of containers and determine journal directory from root directory of container - -* tmpfiles: to make sure we don't delete unpacked tarballs with old timestamps right-away never delete stuff that is inside a directory with a new mtime - -* "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 - -* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk? +* consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup= -* remove NSS usage from PID 1 (notably the specifiers) +* sd-event: define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ... -* socket-proxyd: - - Support multiple inherited sockets mapped to different remote hosts - - Use a nonblocking alternative to getaddrinfo - - Until we can start daemons directly, find a less ugly, less racy alternative than shell scripts for the second man page example. - - Support starting daemons directly without requiring a shell script; update man pages +* gpt-auto-generator: + - Support LUKS for root devices + - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap? + - Make /home automount rather than mount? -* "systemctl cat" or "systemctl view" command or or so, that cats the backing unit file of a service, plus its drop-ins and shows them in a pager +* improve journalctl performance by loading journal files + lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we + do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for + the most common operations. -* 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 +* support transient mount units -* Add a new Distribute=$NUMBER key to socket units that makes use of SO_REUSEPORT to distribute network traffic on $NUMBER instances +* add an "input" group to udev logic and add all input devices to it -* tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal, also do this for the journal fails contained in it +* machined: provide calls GetMachineByAddress() on the manager + interface to get the machine for a local IP address, and + GetAddress() on the Machine interface to get the Address for a + machine. Implement via forking off child process which quickly joins + the cotnainer and passes data to parent. Show this in "machinectl + status", and use it to implement NSS module to provide automatic + name resolution for containers. -* we probably should replace the left-over uses of strv_append() and replace them by strv_push() or strv_extend() +* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when + CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even + when it is otherwise off -* move config_parse_path_strv() out of conf-parser.c +* MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size(). -* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs +* "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read + /proc/$PID/exe -* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean - error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search - path anyway. +* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple + service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up + for ReusePort= -* When a Type=forking service fails and needed another service, that - service is not cleaned up again when it has StopWhenUnneeded=yes - http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-July/012141.html +* socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace, + opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off + a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket + and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used + to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1. -* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up +* New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service -* ensure scope units may be started only a single time +* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze + $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls + should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of + it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by + desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible + on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell -* better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running +* completions: + - manager property enumeration was broken when systemd moved to /usr/lib/ -* systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status +* cgroups: + - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch + - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly + - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness + - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely? + - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration + - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show + the hierarchies of child processes -* for transient units, instead of writing out drop-ins for all properties consider serializing them in the normal serialization stream +* transient units: + - allow creating auxiliary units with the same call + - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt + - ensure scope units may be started only a single time -* logind: when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects +* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk? -* session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user +* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot -* add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr. +* machined, localed: when we try to kill an empty cgroup, generate an ESRCH error over the bus -* journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax? +* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops -* given that logind/machined now let PID 1 do all nasty work, we can - probably reduce the capability set they retain substantially. +* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1 -* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue +* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends -* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros. +* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk? -* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines +* socket-proxyd: Use sd-resolve to resolve the server address -* make sure gdm doesn't use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd +* 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 -* 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 +* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs -* when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too. +* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean + error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search + path anyway. -* "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). +* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up -* journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var +* given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can + probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially. + (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it) -* systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so) +* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue -* 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. +* 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. * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units -* 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 - * 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 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 - -* something pulls in pcre as shared object dependency 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 - - 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 - - implement monitor logic - - properly map matches with well-known names against messages with unique names - - longer term: - * priority queues - * priority inheritance +* sd-bus: + - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async + - 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 + - pid1: peek into activating message when activating a service + - introduce sd_bus_emit_object_added()/sd_bus_emit_object_removed() that automatically includes the build-in interfaces in the list + - constructors for bus messages should probably not be OK with a NULL bus pointer + - .busname units should not use get_user_creds()/get_cgroup_creds() but instead do NSS only in temporarily forked off child + - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side + - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects + - kdbus: matches against source or destination pids for an "strace -p"-like feel. Problem: The PID info needs to be available in userspace too... + - longer term: priority inheritance + - dbus spec updates: + - kdbus mapping + - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete + - GVariant + - "const" properties (posted) + - path escaping + - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now + - test bloom filter generation indexes + - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers + +* sd-event + - allow multiple signal handlers per signal? * 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 where the access mode of unit files is nonsensical. - * 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. -* 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 @@ -263,14 +236,13 @@ Features: * 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. +* timedatectl: print a nicer message when enabling ntp fails because ntpd/chrony are not installed * cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container * test/: - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/ - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir - - qemu wrapper script: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg72389.html * systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level). @@ -279,79 +251,44 @@ 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. * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order all units we stop before the isolating unit... -* add ConditionArchitecture= or so - * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off}) -* 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 - old. - * after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we need manual exponential loops after all -* 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. - -* man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf +* BootLoaderSpec: 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. * 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. -* 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() * 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 - -* 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 elapse and the time the units ran last - -* man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in +* 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? -* 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 more examples to man pages - -* man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too - * 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. - * 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. -* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev - database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found, - so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units - will be activated. - * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context() * introduce ExecCondition= in services @@ -379,10 +316,13 @@ Features: - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support - Add pretty name for seats in logind - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system? - - logind: non-local X11 server handling - - 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 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case + - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user + - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly. + - 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(). * exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty. @@ -393,7 +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 @@ -406,7 +346,6 @@ Features: - 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-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 @@ -417,22 +356,36 @@ Features: - 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: 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 - - Port upower to use the journal for historical power information used in future calculations + - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax? + - tmpfiles: when applying ownership to /run/log/journal, also do this for the journal fails contained in it + - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too. + - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var + - 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. + - 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 do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously, + hence doing this via signals is not going to work. * document: - - document unit_name_mangle() - - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in + - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets - - 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 service reload may be implemented as service reexec - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications + - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr. + - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly + - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install] + - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in + - man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too + - 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 * systemctl: - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies @@ -444,23 +397,35 @@ 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" + - rework wait filter to not require match callback + - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running + - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status + +* 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... * introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations * deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity * timer units: - - timer events with system resume - 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. + - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1 + - 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 - - anacron-like feature * update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes @@ -471,10 +436,6 @@ 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. -* 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. - * 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 @@ -482,23 +443,18 @@ Features: logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the better supported alternative. -* figure out relation of --all and --full in the various tools - * 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(). * 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: - - timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on +* 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 -* introduce generic AUGMENT_PID=, AUGMENT_DEVICE= fields - * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel * add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var @@ -511,27 +467,19 @@ Features: * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without waiting for the timeout -* high level net_prio setting in execution context - * 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 - -* refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful (or set taint?) +* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not * nspawn: - - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly - - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8) - 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: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context + - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty /etc/machine-id (not OK). + - support taking a btrfs snapshot at startup and dropping it afterwards + - maybe: hookup nspawn and PrivateNetwork=yes with "ip netns" + - generate predictable mac addresses for the netdev we create (host0), maybe based on guest's machine + name and machine-id of host (?) * cryptsetup: - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself @@ -539,8 +487,6 @@ Features: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982 - 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 - * hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712 @@ -563,21 +509,17 @@ Features: * explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea -* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container - * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now. * ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts * 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. -* use opterr = 0 for all getopt tools - * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno * allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop= @@ -588,17 +530,8 @@ Features: * rename "userspace" to "core-os" -* syscall filter: - - syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls - - syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs? - - syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS? - - syscall filter: port to libseccomp - - system-wide seccomp filter - -* .device aliases need to be implemented with the "following" logic, probably. - * 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 @@ -617,8 +550,6 @@ Features: - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns -* services which create their own subcgroups break cgroup-empty notification (needs to be fixed in the kernel) - * ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo * udev: @@ -626,13 +557,10 @@ Features: - move to LGPL - kill scsi_id - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device - -* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording + - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_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= - * introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite * add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units @@ -647,18 +575,20 @@ 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? * when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests -* tmpfiles: apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas) +* 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: don't set $HOME in services unless requested +* for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested -* hide PAM/TCPWrap options in fragment parser when compile time disabled +* hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled * when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too. @@ -680,7 +610,7 @@ Features: when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible -* support User= and Group= attributes for AF_UNIX sockets. +* support User= and Group= attributes for AF_UNIX sockets. (difficult, requires NSS from PID 1?) * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other. @@ -733,15 +663,6 @@ Features: * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction' -* port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID: - - rpcbind (/var/run/rpcbind.sock!) HAVEPATCH - - cups HAVEPATCH - - postfix, saslauthd - - apache/samba - - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro) - - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!) - - distccd - * fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target * io priority during initialization @@ -763,19 +684,33 @@ Features: - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for network devices where possible, so we can safely rely on Path= matching - - NamePolicy= replace the current naming rules - - MACPolicy= support 'firmware', 'synthetic' and 'random' - - Check if Driver= is broken, or just my driver (bcma) + - 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 + +* 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) 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: - - dbus --user - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING) - - allow specification of socket mode/umask when allocating DBusServer - - allow disabling of fd passing when connecting a AF_UNIX connection - - allow disabling of UID passing for AUTH EXTERNAL - - always pass cred data along each message - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service * fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored @@ -794,7 +729,7 @@ 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 @@ -810,6 +745,8 @@ External: * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it +* register catalog database signature as file magic + Regularly: * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail() @@ -820,7 +757,7 @@ 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