X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=4fdecebd0fa4fbb77e78d2cc4b37242f69721fd6;hp=7df665ed9b9a3d1d74b0a192ffafe5e477341522;hb=faf2e887be42215c1999950d16d1975e70bbdfe9;hpb=39bb33c19203bdcd8857e9dc9ee6c8f03da77b71 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 7df665ed9..4fdecebd0 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,38 +1,23 @@ Bugfixes: -* Re-enable "fsck -l" when it is ready: - https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79576#c5 - * Should systemctl status \* work on all unit types, not just .service? * 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. - -After killing 'systemd --user', systemctl restart user@... fails. -/run/user/1000/systemd/notify has to be removed manually. - -ExecStart with unicode characters fails in strv_split_quoted: +* ExecStart with unicode characters fails in strv_split_extract: [Service] Environment=ONE='one' "TWO='two two' too" THREE= ExecStart=/bin/python3 -c 'import sys;print(sys.argv)' $ONE $TWO $THREE -MEMORY return code is overloaded for syntax errors in the commandline. -str_split_quoted() should return a real return code, so spawn_child can -report the failure properly. - +* When systemctl --host is used, underlying ssh connection can remain open. + bus_close does not kill children? External: -* 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 -* Fedora: move kernel image to /usr/lib/modules/, kernel-install will take care of populating /boot - -* Fedora: remove /etc/resolv.conf tmpfiles hack +* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros. * wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions @@ -41,137 +26,343 @@ External: Features: -* add a system-wide shutdown timeout, similar to the startup timeout we already have (see fdo bz #84110) +* sd-event: maybe add support for inotify events -* maybe provide an API to allow migration of foreign PIDs into existing scopes. +* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn) -* kdbus: maybe rename "connection name" concept to something that doesn't reuse the word "name"? +* nspawn should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages -* PID 1 doesn't apply nspawns devices cgroup policy +* nspawn should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload PID 1... -* rework journal-send.c to use memfds for large blobs if they are available instead of unlinked files in /tmp. Also, if we detect that the kernel knows memfds, refuse anything but sealed memfds. +* consider throwing a warning if a service declares it wants to be "Before=" a .device unit. -* maybe support a new very "soft" reboot mode, that simply kills all processes, disassembles everything, flushes /run and sysvipc, and then reexecs systemd again +* "systemctl edit" should know a mode to create a new unit file -* man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on +* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys, + as we have for debugfs. for exmaple, src/core/mount.c handles mounts + prefixed with /sys generally special. + http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html -* bus-proxy: when passing messages from kdbus, make sure we properly - handle the case where a large number of fds is appended that we - cannot pass into sendmsg() of the AF_UNIX sokcet (which only accepts - 253 messages) +* Add PassEnvironment= setting to service units, to import select env vars from PID 1 into the service env block -* busctl: add a pcap writer, using LINKTYPE_DBUS/231 +* nspawn: fix logic always print a final newline on output. + https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176 -* man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"? +* make nspawn's --network-veth switch more powerful: + http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/033121.html -* introduce machines.target to order after all nspawn instances +* man: document that unless you use StandardError=null the shell >/dev/stderr won't work in shell scripts in services -* systemd-nspawn@.service should fail if some nspawn arg is invalid, with Type=notify +* man: clarify that "machinectl show" shows different information than "machinectl status" (no cgroup tree, no IP addresses, ...) -* "machinectl list" should probably show columns for OS version and IP addresses +* "systemctl daemon-reload" should result in /etc/systemd/system.conf being reloaded by systemd -* systemctl: if it fails, show log output? +* install: include generator dirs in unit file search paths -* maybe add "systemctl edit" that copies unit files from /usr/lib/systemd/system to /etc/systemd/system and invokes vim on them +* stop using off_t, it's a crazy type. Use uint64_t instead. -* dbus: add new message hdr field for allowing interactive auth, write spec for it. update dbus spec to mandate that unknown flags *must* be ignored... +* logind: follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and relogins -* maybe introduce AssertXYZ= similar to ConditionXYZ= that causes a unit to fail (instead of skipping it) if some condition is not true... +* invent a better systemd-run scheme for naming scopes, that works with remoting -* remove multi-seat-x now +* add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through binary logs data -* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked +* change journalctl -M to acquire fd to journal directory via machined, and then operate on that via openat() instead of absolute paths -* exponential backoff in timesyncd and resolved when we cannot reach a server +* add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote + +* log accumulated resource usage after each service invocation + +* nspawn: a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container + +* logind: rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way + the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have + make assumptions about their slice anymore. + +* journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going. Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal. + +* nspawn: don't copy /etc/resolv.conf from host into container unless we are in shared-network mode + +* nspawn: optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is running, remove them when shut down. + +* importd: generate a nice warning if mkfs.btrfs is missing + +* nspawn: add a logic for cleaning up read-only, hidden container images in /var/lib/machines that are not ancestors of any non-hidden containers + +* nspawn: Improve error message when --bind= is used on a non-existing source directory + +* nspawn: maybe make copying of /etc/resolv.conf optional, and skip it if --read-only is used + +* man: document how update dkr images works with machinectl + http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028630.html + +* nspawn: as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=, --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an interface be missing + +* rework C11 utf8.[ch] to use char32_t instead of uint32_t when referring + to unicode chars, to make things more expressive. + +* "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a + difference host, via ssh + +* tmpfiles: creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes + should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation + calls follow symlinks. + +* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline + +* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date + +* mounting and unmounting mount points manually with different source + devices will result in collected collected on all devices used. + http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030225.html + +* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping + running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service + state. + http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html + +* Maybe add support for the equivalent of "ethtool advertise" to .link files? + http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030112.html + +* .timer units should optionally support CLOCK_BOOTTIME in addition to CLOCK_MONOTONIC + +* create a btrfs qgroup for /var/lib/machines, and add all container + subvolumes we create to it. + +* When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.), + log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both. + +* to allow "linking" of nspawn containers, extend --network-bridge= so + that it can dynamically create bridge interfaces that are refcounted + by the containers on them. For each group of containers to link together + +* journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being + written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written + to. + +* assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services + +* coredump: make the handler check /proc/$PID/rlimits for RLIMIT_CORE, + and supress coredump if turned off. Then change RLIMIT_CORE to + infinity by default for all services. This then allows per-service + control of coredumping. + +* generate better errors when people try to set transient properties + that are not supported... + http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html + +* Introduce $LISTEN_NAMES to complement $LISTEN_FDS, containing a + colon separated list of identifiers for the fds passed. + +* maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase: + http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html + +* rework kexec logic to use new kexec_file_load() syscall, so that we + don't have to call kexec tool anymore. + +* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects + whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then + be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't + picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror + the behaviour we already have for CD drives. + +* nspawn: emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall + with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that + systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs + from the kernel's logs. + +* networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files: + http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html + +* When RLIMIT_NPROC is set from a unit file it currently always is set + for root, not for the user set in User=, which makes it + useless. After fixing this, set RLIMIT_NPROC for + systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our services that run under + their own user ids, and use User= (but only in a world where userns + is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot invoke those daemons on the + host AND in a container anymore). Also, if LimitNPROC= is used + without User= we should warn and refuse operation. + +* logind: maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes + +* Set NoNewPrivileges= on all of our own services, where that makes sense + +* Rework systemctl's GetAll property parsing to use the generic bus_map_all_properties() API + +* rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex + +* import-dkr: support tarsum checksum verification, if it becomes reality one day... + +* import-dkr: convert json bits to nspawn configuration + +* core/cgroup: support net_cls modules, and support automatically allocating class ids, then add support for making firewall changes depending on it, to implement a per-service firewall + +* introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch + +* "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in question + +* "machinectl list-images" should show os-release data, as well as machine-info data (including deployment level) + +* Port various tools to make use of verbs.[ch], where applicable + +* "machinectl history" + +* "machinectl diff" + +* "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a shell in it, and marks it read-only after use -* apply start timeout during the "initializing" manager state only, - instead of both "initializing" and "starting". maybe rename the - timeout to "initialization-timeout" then or so? +* systemd-nspawn -x should support ephemeral instances of gpt images -* journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split - journals in. +* hostnamectl: show root image uuid -* tmpfiles: port to unquote_many_words(), similar to sysusers +* sysfs set api in libudev is not const -* unquote_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that +* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff: + http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html + +* port libmount hookup to use API's own inotify interface, as soon as that is table in libmount + +* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it + operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to + ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs + do, for example) + +* resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR + names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name + (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere. + +* systemd-journal-upload (or a new, related tool): allow pushing out + journal messages onto the network in BSD syslog protocol, + continuously. Default to some link-local IP mcast group, to make this + useful as a one-stop debugging tool. + +* synchronize console access with BSD locks: + http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html + +* as soon as we have kdbus, and sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads: + http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html + +* the install state probably shouldn't get confused by generated units, think dbus1/kdbus compat! + +* in systemctl list-unit-files: show the install value the presets would suggest for a service in a third column + +* figure out when we can use the coarse timers + +* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service + while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without + races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before + returning from the "systemctl stop". + +* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists + +* timesyncd + resolved: add ugly bus calls to set NTP and DNS servers per-interface, for usage by NM + +* add infrastructure to allocate dynamic/transient users and UID ranges, for use in user-namespaced containers, per-seat gdm login screens and gdm guest sessions + +* machined: add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being removed or added to an existing machine + +* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment= + +* code cleanup: retire FOREACH_WORD_QUOTED, port to extract_first_word() loops instead + +* introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix? + +* systemd --user should issue sd_notify() upon reaching basic.target, not on becoming idle + +* consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions + +* dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from? + +* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they + can be used for resuming the system but nothing else. + +* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option) + +* maybe provide an API to allow migration of foreign PIDs into existing scopes. + +* maybe support a new very "soft" reboot mode, that simply kills all processes, disassembles everything, flushes /run and sysvipc, and then reexecs systemd again + +* man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on + +* man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"? + +* "machinectl list" should probably show columns for OS version and IP addresses + +* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output? + +* systemctl edit: +- allow creation of units from scratch +- use equvalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #. + Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc. + +* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked + +* exponential backoff in timesyncd and resolved when we cannot reach a server + +* extract_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that currently uses FOREACH_WORD and friends. For example, most conf parsing callbacks should use it. -* logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for - the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait - for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is - complete. - * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share.... -* journald: allows specification of UID range for splitting up journal files - * systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed units are shown. +* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL + (throughout the codebase, not only PID1) + * networkd: - add LLDP client side support - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly. - - .network setting that allows overriding of the hostname to send to the dhcp server - http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-July/021550.html - expose in the API the following bits: - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn - - option 100, 101, timezone - option 123, 144, geolocation - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad) - - networkd's dhcp server should transparently pass on the DNS and - NTP server list it got from user configuration and its dhcp client - to clients. It should also pass on its own timezone information. - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes. + - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also + support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ? + - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts) + - allow DUID/IAID to be customized, see issue #394. + - support configuration option for TSO (tcp segmentation offload) + - networkd: whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW * resolved: - put networkd events and rtnl events at a higher priority, so that we always process them before we process client requests - DNSSEC - - use base64 for key presentation? - add display of private key types (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4034#appendix-A.1.1)? - - add nice formatting of DNS timestamps - DNS - search paths - mDNS/DNS-SD - avahi compat - DNS-SD service registration from socket units - edns0 - - dname + - dname: Not necessary for plain DNS as synthesized cname is handed out instead if we do not + announce dname support. However, for DNSSEC it is necessary as the synthesized cname + will not be signed. - cname on PTR (?) -* Ignore .busname units on classic D-Bus boots, systemd-resolved cannot be started on kdbus - without the active policy and should get a Wants=org.freedesktop.resolve1.busname to - pull-in the policy. - * Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely * Add a new verb "systemctl top" -* logind: allow users to kill or lock their own sessions - * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes * support empty /etc boots nicely: - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr - fstab-generator: support systemd.volatile=yes|no|state on the kernel cmdline, too, similar to nspawn's --volatile= - - fstab-generator: add support for usr= in addition to root= on the kernel cmdline * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them. -* support setting empty environment variables with Environment= and EnvironmentFile= - * timer units: actually add extra delays to timer units with high AccuracySec values, don't start them already when we are awake... * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so... * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit -* journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so... - * mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services @@ -181,8 +372,6 @@ Features: * sd-event: generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread -* expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects - * add bus api to query unit file's X fields. * consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup= @@ -194,11 +383,6 @@ Features: - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap? - Make /home automount rather than mount? -* 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. - * 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 @@ -227,9 +411,6 @@ Features: desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell -* completions: - - manager property enumeration was broken when systemd moved to /usr/lib/ - * cgroups: - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly @@ -240,7 +421,6 @@ Features: the hierarchies of child processes * 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 @@ -266,10 +446,6 @@ Features: * refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up -* 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) - * btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue * make sure gdm does not use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd @@ -282,12 +458,13 @@ Features: ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service. * sd-bus: - - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds - - systemd-bus-proxyd needs to enforce good old XML policy - - 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 + - EBADSLT handling + - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently + - kdbus: process fd=-1 for incoming msgs - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers + - kdbus: maybe add controlling tty metadata fields + - see if we can introduce a new sd_bus_get_owner_machine_id() call to retrieve the machine ID of the machine of the bus itself + - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async? @@ -297,10 +474,15 @@ Features: - 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 + - bus-proxy: when passing messages from kdbus, make sure we properly + handle the case where a large number of fds is appended that we + cannot pass into sendmsg() of the AF_UNIX sokcet (which only accepts + 253 messages) + - kdbus: introduce a concept of "send-only" connections + - kdbus: add counter for refused unicast messages that is passed out via the RECV ioctl. SImilar to the counter for dropped multicast messages we already have. * sd-event - allow multiple signal handlers per signal? @@ -321,8 +503,6 @@ Features: * maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases... -* timedatectl: print a nicer message when enabling ntp fails because ntpd/chrony are not installed - * cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container * test/: @@ -339,9 +519,6 @@ Features: * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off}) -* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we - need manual exponential loops after all - * 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 @@ -364,8 +541,6 @@ Features: * think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service -* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere - * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context() * introduce ExecCondition= in services @@ -377,8 +552,6 @@ Features: * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr? -* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason) - * fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826 @@ -399,12 +572,25 @@ Features: 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(). + - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for + the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait + for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is + complete. + - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a + logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual + shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here. + - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects + - 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) + - expose orientation sensors and tablet mode through logind * exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty. * service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong * journal: + - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields - 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 @@ -422,21 +608,18 @@ 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: send out marker messages every now and then, and immediately sync with fdatasync() afterwards, in order to have hourly guaranteed syncs. + - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header, + so it is possible to display when the file was last synced. - 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 - - 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 - - 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 - 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 @@ -447,6 +630,15 @@ Features: 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. + - optionally support running journald from the command line for testing purposes in external projects + - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming + - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split + journals in. + - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so... + - 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. * document: - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in @@ -493,23 +685,10 @@ Features: - 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 -* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes - -* sync down the system time to the RTC when: - - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set) - - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp) - This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime - mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the - user did not request anything like it. - * 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: do not delete initrd on switch-root -* fedup: generator - * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel @@ -522,9 +701,7 @@ Features: * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not * nspawn: - - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn - 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 * cryptsetup: - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself @@ -539,8 +716,6 @@ Features: * make timer units go away after they elapsed -* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead - * move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump? * create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system @@ -571,17 +746,6 @@ Features: * when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr -* automount: implement expire: - - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD - - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD - - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic) - - blocking, needs a thread - - run until -EAGAIN - - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over - - call umount - - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD - - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns - * ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo * udev: @@ -613,6 +777,8 @@ Features: * tmpfiles: - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas) + - replace F with f+. + - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them. * for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested @@ -641,13 +807,6 @@ Features: * and a dbus call to generate target from current state -* readahead: - - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum - - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?) - - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO - - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes - - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/ - * GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs) * write blog stories about: @@ -657,7 +816,6 @@ Features: - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes - remote access - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units - - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd - testing with Harald's awesome test kit - auto-restart - how to develop against journal browsing APIs @@ -685,8 +843,6 @@ Features: * fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target -* drop cap bounding set in readahead and other services - * systemd-python: - figure out a simple way to wait for journal events in a way that works with ^C @@ -724,16 +880,13 @@ Features: * dhcp: - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size - - export timezone information - support RFC4702 (pass FQDN) * dhcp6: - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na - write more test cases - - implement and do duplicate address detection, see rfc 4862, 5.4. - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20. - - implement information request, see 1.2. and 18.1.5. - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA) - implement dhcpv6 authentication - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any @@ -776,8 +929,10 @@ External: * register catalog database signature as file magic -* zsh shell completion: - should complete options, but currently - does not +* zsh shell completion: + - - should complete options, but currently does not + - systemctl add-wants,add-requires + Regularly: