| |
| Note that items with (!) have high priority. |
| |
| libblkid |
| -------- |
| - (!) don't use fixed set of the static buffers for TAGs in blkid_probe, |
| allocate all on the fly. It seems that for example btrfs is crazy enough |
| to have LABELs longer than we have bufferes in libblkid |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164708 |
| |
| cfdisk |
| ------ |
| - provide additional information about the current partitions (LABEL=, UUID=, |
| filesystem type, size, usage, mountpoint, ...) just optionally add extra |
| table between main menu and list of partitions. |
| |
| - (!) add auto-sort support (sort partitions automatically) and |
| --sort={auto,never,always} command line option. This feature should be |
| enabled by default for logical partitions if we created all container (extended |
| partition) in the current session. |
| |
| |
| terminal-colors.d |
| ----------------- |
| |
| - (!) add support for non-ANSI terminals (now we hardcode \033[ ...) and read |
| colors from terminfo |
| |
| agetty |
| ----- |
| - support default issue (/etc/issue) output for agetty to make it agetty |
| usable on systems with empty /etc. |
| |
| This change is little bit controversial, because now agetty prints nothing |
| by default and it's probably used by admins to hide information about the |
| system to unauthorized users. We already have --noissue to disable issue |
| output. The question is if admins use this option, "rm /etc/issue" is |
| probably easer than modify inittab (or systemd unit file). |
| |
| Maybe we can implement it by --enable-agetty-default-issue compile option and |
| move the decision to downstream maintainers ;-) |
| |
| nsenter(1) |
| ---------- |
| - read the default UID and GID from the target process. |
| http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/9553/focus=9585 |
| |
| hwlock |
| ------ |
| - use /var/lib/hwclock/drift to store hw-clock drift numbers. |
| - use /etc/adjtime as read-only for UTC/LOCAL information only |
| - the /var/lib/hwclock/drift should be implemented backwardly compatible, |
| it means use the file only if exists, otherwise follow /etc/adjtime |
| |
| bash completion |
| --------------- |
| - Optional argument handling requires user to press backspace to get |
| argument completion. |
| - Comma separated value, e.g., --output 'value1,value2', are not |
| completed for users. |
| |
| libmount (mount/umount) |
| ----------------------- |
| |
| - add options to control fstab/mtab mount options usage, something like: |
| |
| --options-mode={ignore,append,prepend,replace} MNT_OMODE_{IGNORE, ...} |
| --options-source={fstab,mtab,disable} MNT_OMODE_{FSTAB,MTAB,NOTAB} |
| --options-source-force MNT_OMODE_FORCE |
| |
| (all this already supported by libmount) |
| |
| libsmartcols |
| ----------- |
| |
| - (!) add SCOLS_FL_HIDDEN flag to make it possible to hide a column. Then we |
| can use such column in lsblk(8) to only sort lines, but do not print the column. |
| |
| lsblk -o NAME --sort SIZE |
| |
| partx |
| ----- |
| |
| - support mapping by device-mapper if argv[0] is "kpartx" or --dm option is used. |
| |
| |
| docs |
| ---- |
| |
| - (!) use something better than gtk-doc for libmount and libblkid (doxyden?) |
| |
| - (!) add API documentation to libuuid |
| |
| |
| login-utils: |
| ----------- |
| |
| - consolidate newgrp(1) |
| * we have "su --group/--supp-group" to switch between groups, newgrp(1) in |
| util-linux and shadow-utils (and sg(1) alias in shadow-utils) |
| * the unique functionality provided by newgpr(1) is support for group |
| passwords [/etc/gshadow] -- do we really need this functionality? |
| * maybe we can mark group-passwords as deprecated, and replace sg(1) and |
| newgpr(1) with su(1) code. The another way is to ask fro group password in |
| su --group too. |
| * note that shadow-utils newgpr(1) provides support for syslog and audit log. |
| |
| libblkid |
| -------- |
| |
| - (!) don't use internally blkid_loff_t, rather use off_t, size_t, ssize_t, |
| stdint.h types and so on... |
| |
| - add FSSIZE value -- filesystem size (klibc requirement) |
| |
| - (!) add support for dasd PT (used for example on s390) |
| |
| libfdisk |
| -------- |
| |
| [always check libfdisk branch at github!] |
| |
| - (!) add 'I'nfo fommand to print all details about specified partition |
| (like offset, size, name, uuid, type, C/H/S, fstype) |
| |
| - (!) add to "First sector" dialog a line with information about available |
| gaps (free areas) to make it more user friendly if you want to skip |
| any useless (small) areas between existing partitions. |
| See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=715114 |
| |
| (Note that libfdisk already supports freespace lists.) |
| |
| - (!) add to fdisk "free space" command to print all available gaps |
| |
| - add support for Apple Partition Map (see libblkid/src/partitions/mac.c) |
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Partition_Map |
| |
| - add "move end" command to move end of the last primary/extended partition. |
| This feature seems very attractive to users who resizing their disks |
| (for example in virtual machines). |
| |
| - use off_t instead "long long" |
| |
| - catch SIGINT (Ctrl-C) and return to main menu. |
| From Red Hat bugzilla #545488: |
| |
| While using fdisk normally, if you accidentally pressed the wrong button (to |
| start a sequence of questions for some operation, e.g. 'c' to create |
| partition). The tool tries too hard to keep asking you for valid input. You |
| can't provide a blank or invalid input to get it to break out of the current |
| dialog sequence and get back to the main menu. |
| |
| misc |
| ---- |
| |
| - add mllockall() and SCHED_FIFO to hwclock, |
| see http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/12/132 |
| |
| |
| --------------- |
| exotic requests |
| --------------- |
| |
| - add SELinux security contexts support to the 'ipcs' utility |
| http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=225342 |
| |
| Would be great to list the current system IPC Objects with their respective |
| security labels (where allowed) with something like 'ipcs -Z' - following the |
| way other tools reports those. |
| |
| |
