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authorSven Eden <yamakuzure@gmx.net>2017-04-25 13:03:09 +0200
committerSven Eden <yamakuzure@gmx.net>2017-05-17 15:22:16 +0200
commit8e5e788db91c2e8b619f4bcbbf2ad08eebeae6d4 (patch)
tree916846592d558914a56cb8ddb16b75c31d04a528 /TODO
parentb4ff30ddf7f19a3d6c23ea4f3981712e1afea13e (diff)
Prep v229: Update core build files to upstream
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@@ -33,6 +33,19 @@ Janitorial Clean-ups:
Features:
+* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
+ in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
+
+* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
+
+* remove Capabilities=, after all AmbientCapabilities= and CapabilityBoundingSet= should be enough.
+
+* support for the new copy_file_range() syscall
+
+* add systemctl stop --job-mode=triggering that follows TRIGGERED_BY deps and adds them to the same transaction
+
+* Maybe add a way how users can "pin" units into memory, so that they are not subject to automatic GC?
+
* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
@@ -58,8 +71,6 @@ Features:
* consider throwing a warning if a service declares it wants to be "Before=" a .device unit.
-* "systemctl edit" should know a mode to create a new unit file
-
* 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.
@@ -67,12 +78,8 @@ Features:
* man: document that unless you use StandardError=null the shell >/dev/stderr won't work in shell scripts in services
-* "systemctl daemon-reload" should result in /etc/systemd/system.conf being reloaded by systemd
-
* install: include generator dirs in unit file search paths
-* invent a better systemd-run scheme for naming scopes, that works with remoting
-
* rework C11 utf8.[ch] to use char32_t instead of uint32_t when referring
to unicode chars, to make things more expressive.
@@ -103,7 +110,7 @@ Features:
* Rework systemctl's GetAll property parsing to use the generic bus_map_all_properties() API
-* 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
+* implement a per-service firewall based on net_cls
* Port various tools to make use of verbs.[ch], where applicable
@@ -155,8 +162,6 @@ Features:
* 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: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
@@ -166,9 +171,9 @@ Features:
- 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.
-* exponential backoff in timesyncd and resolved when we cannot reach a server
+* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
-* timesyncd + resolved: add ugly bus calls to set NTP and DNS servers per-interface, for usage by NM
+* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
* extract_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that
currently uses FOREACH_WORD and friends. For example, most conf
@@ -183,23 +188,16 @@ Features:
(throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
* resolved:
- - put networkd events and rtnl events at a higher priority, so that
- we always process them before we process client requests
- - DNSSEC
- - add display of private key types (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4034#appendix-A.1.1)?
- - DNS
- - search paths
- mDNS/DNS-SD
+ - service registration
+ - service/domain/types browsing
- avahi compat
- DNS-SD service registration from socket units
- - edns0
- - 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 (?)
- 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.
+ - enable DNSSEC by default
+ - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
@@ -213,8 +211,6 @@ Features:
* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
-* 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
@@ -339,10 +335,6 @@ Features:
- generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
- maybe add support for inotify events
-* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
- complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
-
* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
@@ -491,10 +483,6 @@ Features:
- journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted
commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
- man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
- - 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.
- rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
- 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
@@ -609,8 +597,6 @@ Features:
removed or added to an existing machine
- "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
difference host, via ssh
- - man: document how update dkr images works with machinectl
- http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028630.html
- 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
@@ -623,8 +609,6 @@ Features:
shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
* importd:
- - dkr: support tarsum checksum verification, if it becomes reality one day...
- - dkr: convert json bits to nspawn configuration
- generate a nice warning if mkfs.btrfs is missing
* cryptsetup:
@@ -661,10 +645,6 @@ Features:
* coredump:
- save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
- move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/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.
* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
@@ -736,7 +716,6 @@ Features:
- Support --test based on current system state
- 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().
- after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
- - make timer units go away after they elapsed
- drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of