X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=19154121c7ad6dad678fd6286553df4674946f32;hp=b89e3eabfbb1517c312d085e0fa3e11a6a7100d1;hb=b9bf7e2be93fe25e0e96e06ad436d43a1e589ed5;hpb=93eec5c774336ff6da2ef30c7f41cdb4d9de5494 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index b89e3eabf..19154121c 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -17,15 +17,8 @@ Bugfixes: * suppress log output on shutdown when "quiet" is used Fedora 19: -* make anaconda write timeout=0 for encrypted devices - -* drop no longer needed modprobe.d udlfb file (it does not belong in /etc anyway) - -* Retest multi-seat (new kms driver for displaylink) -* make sure pkexec works fine with pam_systemd works fine with audit=0 - -* create /var/log/journal/ +* 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 @@ -33,18 +26,10 @@ Fedora 19: that's sometimes kinda hard to parse for a human. * cgroup attrs: - - don't unconditionally filter out duplicate settings - - support high-level cgroup setting syntax in systemctl. Example: "systemctl set-cgroup-attr MemoryLimit 5K" - - support writte string mapping even for non-high-level settings - - add man page for systemctl commands - - make sure we work fine with multi-line strings - -* kernel cmdline switch to turn off predictable network interface names + - update dbus interface docs in wiki * journal is not closed properly at shutdown when run in a container? -* introduce new "journal" group in place of adm? - * localed: - localectl: add listing support for X11 keymaps, by parsing /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps @@ -54,8 +39,86 @@ Fedora 19: * timer logic is confused by units which are skipped due to failing condition http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-February/008816.html +* 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 + Features: +* 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 + +* disallow .include from included files + +* timedatectl needs to show whether NTP is available at all + +* reduce caps of systemd-localed + +* 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 + +* 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 + +* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapstion 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 + +* 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 + +* 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. + * figure out what we do about hostnames/fqdn in hostnamectl/hostnamed * use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere @@ -80,8 +143,6 @@ Features: * introduce ExecCondition= in services -* if we have systemd-analyze in C "systemctl dot" should move there too - * EFI: - fsck hookup for the ESP mount is missing - write man page for efi boot generator @@ -120,6 +181,7 @@ Features: * service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong * journal: + - 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 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal. @@ -134,21 +196,19 @@ Features: - 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 "adm" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access + - 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: document why we do not give ownership to journal files to the user that created them but use FS ACLs for that - 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 - - document that people can use file system ACLs to manage access to journal files, with example - 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 + - 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. @@ -156,6 +216,7 @@ 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 * document: - document unit_name_mangle() @@ -165,7 +226,6 @@ Features: - 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 %% can be used to write % in a string that is specifier extended - 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 @@ -183,8 +243,9 @@ 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" - -* When shutdown.target is queued begin with an asynchronous sync()? + - 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 @@ -273,6 +334,8 @@ 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 @@ -308,8 +371,6 @@ Features: * explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea -* testing tool for socket activation: some binary that listens on a socket and passes it on using the usual socket activation protocol to some server. - * shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now. @@ -383,7 +444,7 @@ Features: * ConditionSecurity= should learn about IMA and SMACK * udev: - - remove all (misguided from day 1) userspace firmware_class handling + - 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 @@ -485,7 +546,11 @@ Features: - non-cgroup resource management - dynamic resource management with cgroups - refreshed, longer missions statement - - celendar time events + - calendar time events + - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell + - how to create your own target + - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on + - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot * allow port=0 in .socket units @@ -518,6 +583,14 @@ Features: * drop cap bounding set in readahead and other services +* systemd-python: + - allow reading of only select fields in systemd.journal._reader.Reader + - export sd_journal_test_cursor in systemd.journal._reader.Reader + - export sd_journal_get_usage in systemd.journal._reader.Reader + - figure out a simple way to wait for journal events in a way that + works with ^C + - add documentation to systemd.daemon + External: * dbus: @@ -544,8 +617,9 @@ External: * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics" * bootchart: - - use conf_parser for bootchart.conf - - change config options to CamelCase + - plot per-process IO utilization + - group processes based on service association (cgroups) + - document initcall_debug Regularly: