Austin Group Minutes of the 19 August Teleconference Austin-219 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group.              August 20, 2004

Attendees

Andrew Josey, The Open Group
Don Cragun , Sun, PASC OR
Ulrich Drepper, Red Hat
Mark Brown, IBM, TOG OR 
Joanna Farley, Sun 
Nick Stoughton, USENIX, WG15 OR

Apologies
Dave Butenhof, HP



Defect Report Processing
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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/

We revisited the following item from last week
which had had some followup discussion on the list:

XSH ERN 49 applications must specify one of the flags WEXITED , WSTOPPED,
or WCONTINUED with waitid(). Accept as marked below

Went with option 2 from the email discussion.
Replace line 50190f with
                                                                                
 The options argument is used to specify which state changes waitid()
 shall wait for. It is formed by OR ing together the following flags:
                                                                                
Add after line 50199:
                                                                                
"Applications shall specify at least one of the flags WEXITED,
WSTOPPED or WCONTINUED to be OR'd in with the /options/ argument ."
                                                                                
XCU ERN 34 rm . must output a diagnostic and exit zero  Accept

It is agreed this is a defect in the EXIT STATUS 0 wording
and that this should be forwarded down the interpretations
track.

XCU ERN 33 the nice rationale is incorrect Accept

XCU ERN 32 the "nice" command is confused about the sign of nice values
in a few places.  Accept

It is agreed this is a defect and that this should be forwarded down
the interpretations track.

XCU ERN 31 cp wording unclear OPEN
Need to leave open for one more meeting

XCU ERN 30 tr -c OPEN 
leave open , since we need to come up with a better example
(Mark Brown)

XCU ERN 29 tr  Reject

Reject , the description of \octal sequences on p928 line
35976-35981 specifies that octal escapes can be used to generate multibyte
characters, so this proposed change is not correct.

XCU ERN 28 dup of 34

XCU ERN 27 ln -f a b is required to remove b even if the underlying
link() fails OPEN

This generated much discussion and is being left open for another
week.


Next Steps
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Andrew  will update the aardvark reports with the latest inbound
defect reports.

There are a number of open action items outstanding:
1. Don Cragun Pathname Resolution proposal
2. Larry Dwyer system() and threads
3. Joerg Schilling wording for XCU ERN 1 pax

The next teleconference call is scheduled for August 26 2004