X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=ed857f836b5426fbc44e2a30bd843d532cc289f5;hp=b993a6b2eb543576feb08e64a391ca91a39149f7;hb=4b9397474f2c80957fd1cedf885061052333fb25;hpb=a40593a0d0d740efa387e35411e1e456a6c5aba7 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index b993a6b2e..ed857f836 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -21,10 +21,78 @@ Bugfixes: Features: +* 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 + +* 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) + +* 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 @@ -41,8 +109,6 @@ Features: * Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files" -* introduce sd_log_open() to create a connection to the syslog bridge via sd-daemon.h - * 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 @@ -50,14 +116,9 @@ Features: * service restart retry configuration * 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) - -* Introduce ControlGroupPersistant=yes to set +t on the tasks file when creating the cgroup * don't set $HOME in services unless requested -* remove hacks in vala code and require libnotify 0.7 - * hide PAM/TCPWrap options in fragment parser when compile time disabled * when we automatically restart a service, ensure we retsart its rdeps, too. @@ -76,15 +137,13 @@ Features: * 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) @@ -99,8 +158,6 @@ 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 @@ -109,8 +166,6 @@ Features: * GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs) -* 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: @@ -118,12 +173,9 @@ 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 - - xinetd conversion - - details of instantiated @.service setups + - resource control in systemd * allow port=0 in .socket units @@ -151,10 +203,6 @@ Features: * 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) @@ -183,8 +231,6 @@ Features: * 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 @@ -218,11 +264,17 @@ 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"