X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=70f7d19968c59b2226c39455ddfa81c9811881f3;hp=6d562eabb5267ed0dfa95fac102cd9b2f7532371;hb=85eda5721f8d2a20482ef228d341fbbd134c6799;hpb=346bce1f4cff0096177c613987cdc80fa4ec134e diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 6d562eabb..70f7d1996 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -7,30 +7,144 @@ Bugfixes: * make anaconda write timeout=0 for encrypted devices -* fix broken Sockets=syslog-ng.socket packaging +* service: pid file reading after reload doesn't work, since we don't reset the pid variable -* logind: ensure ACLs are updated on login and logout +* make sure timeouts are applied to Type=oneshot services. -* fix CUPS .path unit for globbing +* 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. -* service: pid file reading after reload doesn't work, since we don't reset the pid variable +* make polkit checks async -* make sure timeouts are applied to Type=oneshot services. +* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point. Features: -* something like ConditionExec= or ExecStartPre= without failure state +* prefer /etc over /run? -* service restart retry configuration +* when dumping cgroup contents, include main/control PID of a service, explicitly -* tmpfiles: apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas -* tmpfiles: support generation of char/block devices, symlinks and one-line files (think sysfs) +* keep an eye on https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670100 -* Introduce ControlGroupPersistant=yes to set +t on the tasks file when creating the cgroup +* D-Bus: always pass cred data along each message -* don't set $HOME in services unless requested +* journal: work on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/systemd-journal + +* journal: allow turning off logging entirely + +* journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the componets would fit + +* add command to systemctl to plot dependency graph as tree (see rhbz 795365) + +* make logind reserve tty10 or so for text logins, so that gdm never picks it up + +* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/ + +* isolate for getty is still broken, due to logind + +* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt? + +* support units generated by a generator and placed in /run/systemd/system/; the directory is + currently ignored because it is empty before the generatores are executed + +* Possibly, detect whether SysV init scripts can do reloading by looking for "echo Usage:" lines + +* figure out whether we should leave dbus around during shutdown + +* support closing all fds via RLIMIT_NOFILE instead of /proc, in order to make chroot stuff work. + +* add interface to allow immediate rotation of the journal, and even flushing. + +* don't log coredumps of PID 1 into the journal + +* if a journal file is corrupt, rotate it and create a new one + +* dbus: in fedora, make the machine a symlink to /etc/machine-id + +* journald: reuse XZ context + +* logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API + +* write RPM spec macros for presets + +* write man pages for systemd-cat + +* journal: write man pages for API + +* journal: OR matches are borked + +* journal: extend hash tables as we go + +* journal: API for looking for retrieving "all values of this field" + +* journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header + +* journal: local deserializer of export mode, http server + +* journal: message catalog + +* journal: forward-secure signatures + +* document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed + +* rework namespace support, don't use pivot_root, and mount things after creating the namespace, not before + +* systemctl journal command + +* journalctl: --cursor support, priority filtering + +* systemctl status: show coredumps -* remove hacks in vala code and require libnotify 0.7 +* systemctl status: show whether journal was rotated since service started + +* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format + +* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting) + +* journal: allow per-entry control on /var vs. /run (think incognito browser mode) + +* clean up session cgroups that remain after logout (think sshd), but eventually run empty + +* support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template + +* move to LGPL2+ + +* logind: allow showing logout dialog from system + +* document that %% can be used to write % in a string that is specifier extended + +* check utf8 everywhere + +* when an instanced service exits, remove its parent cgroup too if possible. + +* Make libselinux, libattr, libcap, libdl dependencies only of the tools which actually need them. + +* as Tom Gundersen pointed out there's a always a dep loop if people use crypto file systems with random keys + +* unset container= in PID1? + +* automatically escape unit names passed on the service (i.e. think "systemctl start serial-getty.service@serial/by-path/jshdfjsdfhkjh" being automatically escaped as necessary. + +* if we can not get user quota for tmpfs, mount a separate tmpfs instance + for every user in /run/user/$USER with a configured maximum size + +* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max + +* add an option to make mounts private/shareable and so on, enable this for root by default + +* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B + needs to be auto-respawned? + +* Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files" + +* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests + +* something like ConditionExec= or ExecStartPre= without failure state + +* tmpfiles: apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas) + +* don't set $HOME in services unless requested * hide PAM/TCPWrap options in fragment parser when compile time disabled @@ -39,9 +153,6 @@ Features: * allow Type=simple with PIDFile= https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942 -* file bugs against sysklogd, syslog-ng because of StandardOuput=null -* turn default stdout/stderr to syslog (after rsyslog got updated) - * move PAM code into its own binary * warn if the user stops a service but not its associated socket @@ -50,20 +161,16 @@ Features: * logind: non-local X11 server handling -* logind: use sysfs path in device hash table instead of sysname, as soon as fb driver is fixed - * implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services. -* make sure people don't leave processes around after ExecStartPre= - * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early * readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO * readahead: check whether a btrfs volume includes ssd by checking mount flag "ssd" -* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1) +* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination * support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1) @@ -78,8 +185,6 @@ Features: * and a dbus call to generate target from current state -* detect LXC with $container=lxc - * drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum * add inode nr check to readahead to suppress preloading changed files @@ -88,10 +193,6 @@ Features: * GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs) -* avoid DefaultStandardOutput=syslog to have any effect on StandardInput=socket services - -* cgroup_notify_empty(): recursively check groups up the tree, too - * when failing to start a service due to ratelimiting, try again later, if restart=always is set * write blog stories about: @@ -99,17 +200,15 @@ Features: - status update - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes - remote access - - cgroup best pratices to avoid stepping on each others toes - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd - - security properties + - resource control in systemd * allow port=0 in .socket units * move readahead files into /var, look for them with .path units * teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service -* figure out what happened to bluez patch * support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line. @@ -125,18 +224,12 @@ Features: * maybe introduce ExecRestartPre= -* Patch systemd-fsck to use -C and pass console fd to it - * configurable jitter for timer events * timer events with system resume * timer events on calendar time -* Support ProcessNeededForShutdown=true to allow stuff like mdmon to - be killed very late after the rootfs is read only? If implement pass - this to shutdown binary via command line argument. - * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction' * calendar time support in timer, iCalendar semantics for the timer stuff (RFC2445) @@ -146,6 +239,8 @@ Features: * exec settings override * writable cgroups dbus properties for live changes +* read config fragments for all units from /lib/systemd/system/foobar.service.d/ to override/extend specific settings + * port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID: - rpcbind (/var/run/rpcbind.sock!) HAVEPATCH - cups HAVEPATCH @@ -161,10 +256,6 @@ Features: * io priority during initialization -* if a service fails too often, make the service enter failed mode, and the socket, too. - -* new deps "Triggers" and "TriggeredBy" - * systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies * add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it @@ -198,11 +289,17 @@ External: * patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys and /sys/fs/cgroup? +* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only + in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way + to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and + we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want + the RTC to sync up. + * patch kernel for cpu feature modalias for autoloading aes/kvm/... - http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-misc-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/cpuid-match - (Rafael J. Wysocki's sysdev rework is on the way. After that CPUs can be exported a proper bus.) + (patches in linux-next, on the way to the next kernel) * kernel: add /proc/sys file exposing CAP_LAST_CAP? sysconf? + merged: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=73efc0394e148d0e15583e13712637831f926720 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"