Austin Group Minutes of the 29 January Teleconference Austin-203 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. January 30, 2004 Attendees Andrew Josey, The Open Group Don Cragun , Sun, PASC OR Nick Stoughton, USENIX, WG15 OR Joanna Farley, Sun Mark Brown, IBM, TOG OR Ulrich Drepper, Red Hat Apologies Dave Butenhof, HP Draft Status --------------- The ISO ballot on TC2 is yet to be formally initiated. It is understood that Matt Deane (SC22 secretary) has left ANSI and moved to another job. We need to contact his successor to ensure we get this initiated. Action : Nick to identify who we should contact. Defect Report Processing ------------------------- The group picked up on the latest batch of defect reports, which are available at the following URL: http://www.opengroup.org/austin/aardvark/latest/ XSH ERN 24 asctime , possible EOVERFLOW error, Accept as Marked below page 121 line 4407-4408 section asctime() objection Change: The asctime() function shall convert the broken-down time in the structure pointed to by timeptr into a string in the form: to: The asctime() function shall convert the broken-down time in the structure pointed to by timeptr into a string in the form, provided the broken-down time in the fields of the structure pointed to by timeptr contain values that are within the normal ranges as defined in , and the calculated year does not exceed four digits: page 121 line 4428 section asctime() objection After line 4428, add: Otherwise, if any of the fields of the tm structure pointed to by timeptr contain values that are outside the normal ranges, the behavior of asctime() is undefined. If the calculated year preceeds the Epoch or exceeds four digits, the behavior is undefined. XSH ERN 25 ctime, possible EOVERFLOW error, Accept as marked below This is related to ERN 24 Add to Application Usage Attempts to use ctime(), or ctime_r() for times before the Epoch or for times beyond the year 9999 produce undefined results. Refer to asctime(). XSH ERN 29 strfmon example conflicting behavior with glibc, Accept as marked below A/M agree this is something that can be fixed in a future revision, to use the POSIX locale rather than the US. XSH ERN 30 system() reqt for fork() and atfork handling ,OPEN We decided to reopen this item. Some discussion will follow on the email reflector. Next Steps ----------- Andrew will update the aardvark reports with the latest inbound defect reports. The next teleconference call is scheduled for February 12 2004