Minutes of the 14th November 2024 Teleconference Austin-1436 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 16th November 2024 Attendees: Andrew Josey, The Open Group Don Cragun, IEEE SA OR Eric Ackermann, CISPA Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR Geoff Clare, The Open Group Eric Blake, Red Hat, The Open Group OR Apologies Tom Thompson, IEEE Andrew reported that since the last meeting he had submitted the draft PAR for the TC, and that it was now undergoing ballot in the IEEE MSC. * Carried forward Bug 1851: FD_CLOFORK should not be preserved across exec https://www.austingroupbugs.net/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1851 This item still open. AI: Andrew to try to contact Solaris, other BSD, AIX, and macOS for comments. Andrew has partially completed this, sending notes to contacts for Solaris and macOS. A response has been received for Solaris. It does not appear as if we will get further responses on this one. * Current Business Bug 1872: find: clarify "less safe" statement Accepted as Marked https://www.austingroupbugs.net/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1872 This item is tagged for TC1-2024 At page 3600 line 123176 section xargs, change: If the standard input is not empty and does not end with a null byte, xargs should ignore the trailing non-null bytes (as this can signal incomplete data) but may use them as the last argument passed to utility. to: If the standard input is not empty and does not end with a null byte, xargs should treat the trailing non-null bytes (which can signal incomplete data) as an error but may use them as the last argument passed to utility. Add to RATIONALE after page 3605 line 123412: When the -0 option is not specified, if the standard input is not empty and does not end with a , then the input is not a text file, and therefore the behavior is undefined. However, it is recommended that xargs diagnoses the trailing non- characters (for consistency with the recommendation for -0 and trailing non-null bytes). On page 3606 line 123415 section xargs, change: xargs ignores the trailing non-null bytes. to: xargs treats the trailing non-null bytes as an error. Bug 1873: ISO editors Issue 8 comment 114 Accepted https://www.austingroupbugs.net/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1873 This item is tagged for TC1-2024 Bug 1874: ISO editors Issue 8 comment 052 Accepted https://www.austingroupbugs.net/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1874 This item is tagged for TC1-2024 Bug 1875: ISO editors Issue 8 comment 056 Accepted https://www.austingroupbugs.net/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1875 This item is tagged for TC1-2024 Next Steps ---------- The next calls are on Thu 2024-11-21 (WEBEX meeting - general bugs) Thu 2024-12-05 (WEBEX meeting - general bugs) No call on US Thanksgiving (2024-11-28) The calls are for 90 minutes Calls are anchored on US time. (8am Pacific) 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 (For write access this uses The Open Group single sign on, for those individuals with gitlab.opengroup.org accounts. Please contact Andrew if you need to be setup)