Minutes of the 8th October 2020 Teleconference     Austin-1070 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 9th October 2020

Attendees:
    Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR
    Geoff Clare, The Open Group
    Richard Hansen
    Andrew Josey, The Open Group
    Joerg Schilling, FOKUS Fraunhofer
    Tom Thompson, IEEE
    Eric Blake, Red Hat, The Open Group OR
Apologies:
    Eric Ackermann, HPI, University of Potsdam
    Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR
    Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems Dev.

* General news 

Geoff has applied the draft 1 bugs. Action on Andrew to produce draft 1.1

* Outstanding actions

(Please note that this section has been flushed to shorten the minutes -
to locate the previous set of outstanding actions, look to the minutes
from 13th June 2019 and earlier)

Bug 1254: "asynchronous list" description uses "command" instead of "AND-OR list" OPEN
https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1254
Action: Joerg to investigate how his shell behaves.

Bug 700 - Nick to raise this issue with the C committee
Bug 713 - Nick to raise with the C committee.
Bug 739 - Nick to raise with the C committee.


* Current Business

Bug 0000697: Adding of a getdirentries() function  OPEN
https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=697

This has a separate etherpad page.  https://posix.rhansen.org/p/bug697

This item was discussed and is close to being completed.

Action: Geoff took an ACTION yet again to update bug 697 with the
changes from the etherpad (again).


Bug #1138: Add strsignal(), sig2str() and str2sig() to the standard. OPEN
https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1138

Action: Geoff will update bug 1138 note 4975 to make sig2str(0) and
str2sig("EXIT") unspecified.


Bug #1220: Add an API to query the name of a locale category of a locale object OPEN
https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1220

This was discussed but left open for now as the item is going into
The Open Group company review. The latest proposal is in bugnote 5035.


Bug #1319: Specify when to print text for a and r commands after d and D commands        Accept as Marked
https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1319

This issue is tagged TC3-2008.

On page 3219 lines 107977-107980 (XCU sed extended description) change:

The text specified for the a command, and the contents of the file
specified for the r command, shall be written to standard output
just before the next attempt to fetch a line of input when executing
the N or n commands, or when reaching the end of the script.

to:

The text specified for the a command, and the contents of the file
specified for the r command, shall be written to standard output
just before the next attempt to fetch a line of input when executing
the c, D, d, N, or n commands, just before executing the q command,
or when reaching the end of the script.




Gettext draft.

We will return to this on a future call.

The gettext draft in the etherpad is at

https://posix.rhansen.org/p/gettext_draft
https://posix.rhansen.org/p/gettext_split

Next Steps 
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The next calls are on:

October 12th 2020 (Monday)
This call will be for 60 minutes.

October 15th 2020 (Thursday)
This call will be for 90 minutes.

Calls are anchored on US time. (8am Pacific) 

Apologies in advance:
    Tom Thompson 2020-10-12, 2020-10-15

Please check the calendar invites for dial in details.

Bugs are at:
https://austingroupbugs.net

An etherpad is usually up for the meeting, with a URL using the date format as below:

https://posix.rhansen.org/p/20xx-mm-dd

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