From e468fa506313a05de6f8f3805e29aaa090af96e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Davin McCall Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:33:46 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update TODO --- TODO | 17 +++++------------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 2d6295e..6024075 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,18 +1,11 @@ * BGPROCESS services: - document security issue if pid file is not correctly protected (via access rights/ownership). - - consider using ptrace to attach to process (if not a direct child - which we can - check with a probe waitpid() call); this allows us to get status of non-child - processes. Probably need dasynq changes. - - currently we break if the process is not a child; we'll never see it die. Even - if we don't attach with ptrace, we should waitpid()-probe it at stop (and then - potentially assume it's exited if we can't otherwise check). * libev replacement: - We've replaced libev, so that we don't abort on failure. But now exceptions can be thrown when we register an event watch - need to handle these. - - Control socket handling needs to be reworked. - - Service I/O / child process waits need to be audited. + - Service I/O / child process waits need to be audited. * Long-running "on console" services will back up the circular log buffer. The buffer should just be flushed instead. @@ -20,15 +13,12 @@ need to force-stop dependents even if the process itself was stopped deliberately. * Complete control socket handling and protocol - - support for pinned-start and pinned-stop - - support for listing all services + - support for listing all services and their state * Implement a control utility to start/stop services after dinit has started - very basic version exists, needs thorough cleanup For version 1.0: ---------------- -* Log messages need to be duplicated to file (or to a logging process) once the - file system comes up read/write. * Perhaps need a way to prevent script services from re-starting. (eg there's no need to mount filesystems twice; there might be various other system initialisations that can't or shouldn't really be "undone" and so do @@ -44,6 +34,9 @@ For version 1.0: For later: * Internationalisation +* More logging options. Can currently log to syslog only (well, with the + syslog protocol, to /dev/log). Possibly should be able to log directly + to a file, or input stream of another process. * A service can prevent shutdown/reboot by failing to stop. Maybe make multiple CTRL-ALT-DEL presses (or ^C since that's more portable) commence immediate shutdown (or launch a simple control interface). -- 2.25.1