| Note that items with (!) have high priority. | |
| - (!) remove usage(stderr) on command line errors (unsupported options, etc.) | |
| su/runuser | |
| ---------- | |
| - (!) implement pty container for all su/runuser session (something like | |
| script(1)) to separate user from the original terminal (see CVE-2016-2779) | |
| - add functions strtime_short(), strtime_iso(), strtime_ctime(), ... | |
| cleanup lib/path.c: | |
| ------------------ | |
| - 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 | |
| ----- | |
| - (!) add --tree to force tree output for operations like --sort where the | |
| --list is enabled by default. | |
| - 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 | |
| cfdisk | |
| ------ | |
| - (!) 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. | |
| 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) | |
| ----------------------- | |
| - 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 | |
| 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 | |
| -------- | |
| - (!) use fputs_quoted() when print partition name= and allow to use \x%02x | |
| for input to escape unprintable chars and quotes. | |
| - add support for Apple Partition Map (see libblkid/src/partitions/mac.c) | |
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Partition_Map | |
| - 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. | |