Note that items with (!) have high priority. 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 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) libsmartcols ----------- - (!) add SCOLS_FL_HIDDEN flag to make it possible to hide a column. Then we can use such column in lsblk(8) to only sort lines, but do not print the column. lsblk -o NAME --sort SIZE 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 -------- [always check libfdisk branch at github!] - (!) add 'I'nfo fommand to print all details about specified partition (like offset, size, name, uuid, type, C/H/S, fstype) - (!) add to "First sector" dialog a line with information about available gaps (free areas) to make it more user friendly if you want to skip any useless (small) areas between existing partitions. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=715114 (Note that libfdisk already supports freespace lists.) - (!) add to fdisk "free space" command to print all available gaps - add support for Apple Partition Map (see libblkid/src/partitions/mac.c) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Partition_Map - add "move end" command to move end of the last primary/extended partition. This feature seems very attractive to users who resizing their disks (for example in virtual machines). - sfdisk rounds to cylinders is -uM (megabyte units) is specified, this is pretty stupid feature. It has to round to sectors if -uS or -uM is specified. - use off_t instead "long long" - 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.