From: Davin McCall <davmac@davmac.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 23:10:44 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: TODO: update
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TODO: update
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diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 9dbd40c..95eb237 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -14,11 +14,15 @@ For version 1.0:
   of code where it may be missing - check TODO's in code).
 * Write wtmp entry on startup (see simpleinit)
 * Allow running services as a different UID
-* Must be able to specify kill timeout (after which kill -9!)
 * "triggered" service type: external process notifies Dinit when the service
   has started.
 * Ability to reload stopped services (reload service description)
-
+* Some way to specify environment (perhaps a common environment for all
+  processes)
+* Load services from several different directories, with an order of precedence,
+  to allow for packaged service descriptions and user-modified service
+  descriptions.
+* Linux: use prctl with PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER
 
 For later:
 ----------
@@ -40,7 +44,8 @@ For later:
   script with a signal (and return the service to the STOPPED state). So a long-
   running filesystem check, for instance, need not hold up shutdown.
 * When we take down a service or tty session, it would be ideal if we could kill
-  the whole process tree, not just the leader process.
+  the whole process tree, not just the leader process (need cgroups or pid
+  namespace or other mechanism).
 * Investigate using cn_proc netlink connector (cn_proc.h) to receive process
   termination events even when running with PID != 1 (Linux only).
   Also, there is the possibility of having a small, simple PID-1 init which