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@@ -1,22 +1,344 @@ - - find a way to tell udev to not cancel firmware - requests in initramfs +Bugfixes: - - scsi_id -> sg3_utils? +* swap units that are activated by one name but shown in the kernel under another are semi-broken - - make gtk-doc optional like kmod +* make anaconda write timeout=0 for encrypted devices - - move /usr/lib/udev/devices/ to tmpfiles +* make sure timeouts are applied to Type=oneshot services. - - trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device +* 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. - - kill rules_generator +* make polkit checks async - - have a $attrs{} ? +* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point. - - remove RUN+="socket:" +Features: - - libudev.so.1 - - symbol versioning - - return object with *_unref() - - udev_monitor_from_socket() - - udev_queue_get_failed_list_entry() +* allow configuration of console width/height in vconsole.conf + +* PrivateTmp should apply to both /tmp and /var/tmp + +* fstab should take priority over units in /usr + +* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording + +* journal: if mmap() fails for mapping window try to unmap a a few older maps + +* add flag file for shutdownd so that clients can check whether a shutdown is queued + +* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't + +* when a service has the same env var set twice we actually store it twice and return that in systemctl show -p... We should only show the last setting + +* add man page documenting all kernel cmdline options, including stuff like fsck.mode= + +* show getty in container mode, not sulogin + +* support container_ttys= + +* journald: make configurable "store-on-var", "store-on-run", "dont-store", "auto" + (store-persistent, store-volatile?) + +* Add ConditionReadWriteFileSystem= so that systemd-sysctl doesn't get executed when /proc/sys is read-only + +* unset container= and container_uuid= for child processes + +* when bind mounting /etc/machine-id, do so from /run/machine-id + +* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite + +* journalctl: show multiline log messages sanely, expand tabs, and show all valid utf8 messages + +* introduce NeedsMounts= or so to create .mount dependencies automatically for a specific path + +* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units + +* add shutdown inhibit API for usage by libvirt and friends + +* journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid + +* support chrony in addition to ntpd in timedated + +* document crypttab(5) + +* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console) + +* hook up /dev/watchdog with main event loop for embedded, server uses + +* when dumping cgroup contents, include main/control PID of a service, explicitly + +* keep an eye on https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670100 + +* D-Bus: always pass cred data along each message + +* 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 + +* add interface to allow immediate rotation of the journal, and even flushing. + +* 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 + +* 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) + +* 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 + +* 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=, container_uuid= 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 + +* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too. + +* allow Type=simple with PIDFile= + https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942 + +* move PAM code into its own binary + +* warn if the user stops a service but not its associated socket + +* logind: spawn user@..service on login + +* logind: non-local X11 server handling + +* implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration + in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services. + +* 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), 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) + +* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist + when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user + assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible + +* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on + the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other. + +* move nss-myhostname into systemd + +* and a dbus call to generate target from current state + +* drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum + +* add inode nr check to readahead to suppress preloading changed files + +* add support for /bin/mount -s + +* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs) + +* when failing to start a service due to ratelimiting, try again later, if restart=always is set + +* write blog stories about: + - enabling dbus services + - status update + - 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 + - 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 + +* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line. + +* when key file cannot be found, read it from kbd in cryptsetup + +* reuse mkdtemp namespace dirs in /tmp? + +* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2 + +* Support --test based on current system state + +* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support. + +* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre= + +* configurable jitter for timer events + +* timer events with system resume + +* timer events on calendar time + +* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction' + +* calendar time support in timer, iCalendar semantics for the timer stuff (RFC2445) + http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=99ee5315dac6211e972fa3f23bcc9a0343ff58c4 + +* implicitly import "defaults" settings file into all types +* 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 + - postfix, saslauthd + - apache/samba + - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro) + - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!) + - distccd + +* auditd service files + +* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target + +* io priority during initialization + +* systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies + +* add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it + +* suspend, resume support? + +* drop cap bounding set in readahead and other services + +External: + +* dbus: + - get process transport into dbus for systemctl -P/-H (PENDING) + - dbus --user + - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING) + - allow specification of socket mode/umask when allocating DBusServer + - allow disabling of fd passing when connecting a AF_UNIX connection + - allow disabling of UID passing for AUTH EXTERNAL + +* systemd --user + PR_SET_CHILD_REAPER patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/28/426 + (patch in linux-next, on the way to the next kernel) + +* fix alsa mixer restore to not print error when no config is stored + +* gnome-shell python script/glxinfo/is-accelerated must die + +* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time + +* 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/... + (patches in linux-next, on the way to the next kernel) + +* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics" + +Regularly: + +* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail() + +* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r) + +* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel + +* %m in printf() instead of strerror(); + +* pahole + +* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()! |