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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2018-08-07 11:01:46 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2018-10-13 13:01:08 +0200
commit068981233111fd657639687a1742e5f351d04a05 (patch)
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parentman: also use "yes"/"no" rather than "true"/"false" in man pages (diff)
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@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ Features:
* set memory.oom.group in cgroupsv2 for all leaf cgroups
+* drop umask() calls and suchlike from our generators, pid1 should set things up correctly anyway
+
+* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
+ first. i.e. look for all places we use string_erase()/string_free_erase() and
+ augment them with mlock()
+
* whenever oom_kill memory.event event is triggered print a nice log message
* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
@@ -34,6 +40,14 @@ Features:
* chown() tty a service is attached to after the service goes down
+* replace systemd-reboot.service's ExecStart= with a single SuccessAction=
+ line, so that we don't need to fork() for executing the reboot
+ service. Similar for other services like this, such as systemd-exit.service
+ and so on. Of course, for this to work service units with no ExecYYZ= set but
+ SuccessAction= set need to be acceptable.
+
+* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
+
* optionally, if a per-partition GPT flag is set for the root/home/… partitions
format the partition on next boot and unset the flag, in order to implement
factory reset. also, add a second flag that simply indicates whether such a
@@ -41,20 +55,6 @@ Features:
show state of these flags, and optionally trigger such a factory reset on
next boot by setting the flag.
-* logind: maybe watch utmp asynchronously using inotify, and populate our own
- tracked session metadata from the fields available therein. Why bother? Right
- now, all "ssh" sessions will be tracked without their TTY by logind (which is
- not just unfriendly to users as this means "loginctl session-status" shows
- less information than "who" in many cases, but also breaks the IdleAction
- logic, as we never can detect such sessions as idle, as we have no TTY to
- watch). ssh sets the PAM_TTY field on its PAM sessions to "ssh" rather than
- the actual pty, because the PAM session is opened early on for new
- connections, but the PTY only registered much later (if at all). ssh writes
- the utmp record only after a TTY is actually registered, hence we could use
- this data then, and use it if it is available. Using utmp for this is ugly of
- course, and watching things asynchronously even more so, but it should be
- good enough for the idle detection logic at least.
-
* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
@@ -472,8 +472,6 @@ Features:
* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
-* introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix?
-
* consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions
* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
@@ -615,7 +613,6 @@ Features:
- document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
- define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
- generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
- - maybe add support for inotify events (which we can do safely now, with O_PATH)
* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
@@ -674,11 +671,9 @@ Features:
* logind:
- logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
- - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
- logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
- Add pretty name for seats in logind
- logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
- - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
- add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
- if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
@@ -851,8 +846,6 @@ Features:
"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)
- "machinectl history"
- "machinectl diff"
- "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
@@ -1048,8 +1041,6 @@ External:
* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
-* drop accountsservice's StandardOutput=syslog and Type=dbus fields
-
* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=