| |
| Note that items with (!) have high priority. |
| |
| cleanup lib/path.c: [Karel Zak for v2.33] |
| ------------------ |
| - always return rc from all functions |
| - introduce control struct and use openat() from top-level path |
| (e.g. top-level is /proc, etc) |
| - use lib/path.c as low-level API for lib/sysfs.c |
| - now we duplicate code in functions like {path,sysfs}_read_u32, etc. |
| - it would be also nice to have a way how to redirect sysfs.c functions |
| to /sys snapshots (e.g. lsblk regression tests) |
| |
| |
| lscpu |
| ----- |
| - read cpuid and uname information from file if --sysroot is specified, then |
| we can prepare regression tests completely independent on hw and architecture. |
| |
| lsblk |
| ----- |
| - currently it does not show mountpoint for all devices in btrfs RAID. It's because |
| /proc/#/mountinfo contains reference to the one device only. Maybe we can add some |
| btrfs specific code to provide a better output for FS based stacks. Not sure. |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1084453 |
| |
| 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 --onlyonce to force mount(8) to check if mountpoint is already used. Now |
| "already mounted" detection is used for --all only. The problem is if you |
| call "mount <mountpoint>" more than once for in fstab defined tmpfs (or network |
| filesystem etc.). In this case kernel does not return EBUSY, but a new instance |
| of the FS is created. https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/448 |
| |
| - support CAP_SYS_ADMIN; for mount(2) syscall the CAP_SYS_ADMIN is good |
| enough. Unfortunately, mount(8) does more things like check for filesystem |
| type (but it's usually done by udev, so root perms are unnecessary), create |
| loop devices, write to /run/mount/utab or /etc/mtab, etc. |
| |
| It would be nice to improve libmount to check for CAP_SYS_ADMIN if suid not |
| set and allow to use it for simple tasks where no another operation is |
| necessary. |
| |
| - allow to execute mount(2) in another namespace, something like: |
| mount --namespace=/proc/$n/ns/mnt /dev/sda2 /bar |
| see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1199554 for more details. |
| |
| - 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) |
| |
| |
| 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 |
| |
| exit codes |
| ---------- |
| |
| - we need coreutils-like exit codes for failed exec(). See: |
| https://www.spinics.net/lists/util-linux-ng/msg12776.html |
| and original attempt: |
| https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/pull/311 |
| |
| 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 for 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 |
| -------- |
| |
| - add support for Apple Partition Map (see libblkid/src/partitions/mac.c) |
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Partition_Map |
| |
| 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. |
| |
| |
