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Note that items with (!) have high priority.
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cfdisk
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- (!) add auto-sort support (sort partitions automatically) and
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--sort={auto,never,always} command line option. This feature should be
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enabled by default for logical partitions if we created all container (extended
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partition) in the current session.
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agetty
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- support default issue (/etc/issue) output for agetty to make it agetty
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usable on systems with empty /etc.
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This change is little bit controversial, because now agetty prints nothing
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by default and it's probably used by admins to hide information about the
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system to unauthorized users. We already have --noissue to disable issue
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output. The question is if admins use this option, "rm /etc/issue" is
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probably easer than modify inittab (or systemd unit file).
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Maybe we can implement it by --enable-agetty-default-issue compile option and
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move the decision to downstream maintainers ;-)
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nsenter(1)
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- read the default UID and GID from the target process.
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http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/9553/focus=9585
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hwlock
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- use /var/lib/hwclock/drift to store hw-clock drift numbers.
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- use /etc/adjtime as read-only for UTC/LOCAL information only
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- the /var/lib/hwclock/drift should be implemented backwardly compatible,
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it means use the file only if exists, otherwise follow /etc/adjtime
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bash completion
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- Optional argument handling requires user to press backspace to get
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argument completion.
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- Comma separated value, e.g., --output 'value1,value2', are not
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completed for users.
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libmount (mount/umount)
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- allow to execute mount(2) in another namespace, something like:
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mount --namespace=/proc/$n/ns/mnt /dev/sda2 /bar
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see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1199554 for more details.
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- add options to control fstab/mtab mount options usage, something like:
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--options-mode={ignore,append,prepend,replace} MNT_OMODE_{IGNORE, ...}
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--options-source={fstab,mtab,disable} MNT_OMODE_{FSTAB,MTAB,NOTAB}
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--options-source-force MNT_OMODE_FORCE
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(all this already supported by libmount)
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libsmartcols
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- (!) add SCOLS_FL_HIDDEN flag to make it possible to hide a column. Then we
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can use such column in lsblk(8) to only sort lines, but do not print the column.
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lsblk -o NAME --sort SIZE
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partx
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- support mapping by device-mapper if argv[0] is "kpartx" or --dm option is used.
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docs
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- (!) use something better than gtk-doc for libmount and libblkid (doxyden?)
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- (!) add API documentation to libuuid
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login-utils:
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- consolidate newgrp(1)
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* we have "su --group/--supp-group" to switch between groups, newgrp(1) in
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util-linux and shadow-utils (and sg(1) alias in shadow-utils)
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* the unique functionality provided by newgpr(1) is support for group
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passwords [/etc/gshadow] -- do we really need this functionality?
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* maybe we can mark group-passwords as deprecated, and replace sg(1) and
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newgpr(1) with su(1) code. The another way is to ask fro group password in
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su --group too.
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* note that shadow-utils newgpr(1) provides support for syslog and audit log.
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libblkid
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- (!) don't use internally blkid_loff_t, rather use off_t, size_t, ssize_t,
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stdint.h types and so on...
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- add FSSIZE value -- filesystem size (klibc requirement)
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- (!) add support for dasd PT (used for example on s390)
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libfdisk
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[always check libfdisk branch at github!]
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- (!) add to "First sector" fdisk dialog a line with information about available
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gaps (free areas) to make it more user friendly if you want to skip
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any useless (small) areas between existing partitions.
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See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=715114
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(Note that libfdisk already supports freespace lists.)
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- (!) add to fdisk "free space" command to print all available gaps
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- add support for Apple Partition Map (see libblkid/src/partitions/mac.c)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Partition_Map
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- catch SIGINT (Ctrl-C) and return to main menu.
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From Red Hat bugzilla #545488:
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While using fdisk normally, if you accidentally pressed the wrong button (to
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start a sequence of questions for some operation, e.g. 'c' to create
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partition). The tool tries too hard to keep asking you for valid input. You
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can't provide a blank or invalid input to get it to break out of the current
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dialog sequence and get back to the main menu.
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misc
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- add mllockall() and SCHED_FIFO to hwclock,
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see http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/12/132
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exotic requests
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- add SELinux security contexts support to the 'ipcs' utility
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http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=225342
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Would be great to list the current system IPC Objects with their respective
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security labels (where allowed) with something like 'ipcs -Z' - following the
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way other tools reports those.
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