X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=01bc993e0ff67dff781993fd853bf107cfd3443a;hp=27d5df6ae1438609f395c26dc3d93c545081f0bf;hb=d808ca6414cd29d56507bed78fce2d26c6b00f15;hpb=bafb15bab99887d1b6b8a35136531bac6c3876a6 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 27d5df6ae..01bc993e0 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,4 +1,12 @@ Bugfixes: +* 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 * swap units that are activated by one name but shown in the kernel under another are semi-broken @@ -11,34 +19,30 @@ Bugfixes: * properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point. -* stop importing kernel exported env variables. The utterly broken logic in - the kernel exports every kernel command line option which is not recognized - as a built-in module option as an env variable. Systemd should not pass-on - that nonsense, a kernel command line option is a command line option not an - env variable: - $ cat /proc/252/environ - initrd=\6a9857a393724b7a981ebb5b8495b9ea\3.10.0-2.fc20.x86_64\initrd +* 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. + +* When we detect invalid UTF-8, we cant't use it in an error message: + log...("Path is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment: %s", rvalue); + +* shorten the message to sane length: -Fedora 19: + 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. -* 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: -* user@.service and session-*.scope should get posession of their own cgroups - -* introduce "mainpid" for scopes +* introduce "mainpid" for scopes (or maybe not?) * implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?) @@ -46,38 +50,98 @@ CGroup Rework Completion: * handle jointly mounted controllers correctly -* logind: implement session kill exceptions +* make BlockIODeviceWeight=, BlockIODeviceBandwidth= runtime settable -* fix machine regstration to forward property array +* introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness -* add implicit slice for instantiated services +* wiki: document new bus APIs of PID 1 (transient units, Reloading signal) -* make BlockIODeviceWeight=, BlockIODeviceBandwidth= runtime settable +Features: -* split up BlockIOWeight= and BlockIODeviceWeight= +* libdsystemd-bus should expose utf8 validation calls -* introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swapiness +* When using "systemd status" on a slice unit also show all messages + matching _SYSTEMD_SLICE= not just _SYSTEMD_UNIT= -* man: document new bus apis +* always set memory.user_hierarchy for all cgroups we create -Features: +* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition + +* mounts: do not test each mount unit against each other mount unit to + determine prefixes. Instead generated list of all prefixes and + interate through that to bring down complexity from O(n^2) to O(n) + when loading units + +* 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. + +* 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 + +* backlight: properly handle multiple backlight devices for the same + hardware: at shutdown we should only save the backlight setting for + the "best" way to access the backlight. Strategy should be: at + shutdown, ignore all backlights that are connected to a non-eDP or + non-LVDS port, and then prefer the firmware device over platform + device over raw device per-PCI card. Delete all old data. At boot + simply apply whatever data we find. Also see + http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libbacklight/tree/libbacklight.c#n194 + +* rfkill: save/restore soft rfkill status across reboots + +* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up + +* ensure scope units may be started only a single time + +* document that in instead of FsckPassNo= people should just add a manual dep to systemd-fsck@.service to their mount units. + +* better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running + +* 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) + * 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. -* prohibit Restart= set with Type=oneshot - * 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 -* move systemctl set-log-level to systemd-analyze? - -* move "systemctl dump" to systemd-analyze - * 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? @@ -90,15 +154,11 @@ Features: * 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-activiation of this after boot + maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676 - -* when a service changes state make reflect that in the - RUNNING/LISTENING states of its socket + 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 @@ -109,11 +169,9 @@ 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 +* 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. @@ -121,9 +179,6 @@ Features: * 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 @@ -154,9 +209,9 @@ 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. +* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses where the access mode of unit files is nonsensical. -* investigate endianess issues of UUID vs. GUID +* 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. @@ -185,8 +240,6 @@ 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 @@ -198,21 +251,13 @@ Features: /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}) -* 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 @@ -233,7 +278,7 @@ 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() @@ -243,13 +288,13 @@ 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... @@ -270,9 +315,6 @@ Features: * timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to. -* Honour "-" prefix for InaccessibleDirectories= and ReadOnlyDirectories= to - suppress errors of the specified path doesn't exist - * 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 @@ -287,7 +329,7 @@ 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? @@ -345,14 +387,13 @@ 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 @@ -405,10 +446,6 @@ 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. @@ -515,8 +552,6 @@ 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 @@ -567,7 +602,6 @@ Features: * udev: - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n) - move to LGPL - - unify utf8 validator code with shared/ - kill scsi_id - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device @@ -628,6 +662,8 @@ 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. + * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other. @@ -705,6 +741,8 @@ Features: - document initcall_debug - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity? +* systemd-run is missing zsh completion scripts + External: * dbus: