Austin Group Minutes of the 23 September Teleconference Austin-222 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group.              September 23, 2004

Attendees

Andrew Josey, The Open Group
Nick Stoughton, USENIX, SC22 OR
Don Cragun , Sun, PASC OR
Mark Brown, IBM, TOG OR 
Bill Toth, IBM
Ulrich Drepper, Red Hat
Keld Simonsen, DKUUG,SC22 OR (alternate)

Apologies
Dave Butenhof, HP
Joanna Farley, Sun 

ISO Status
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Nick reported on the recent ISO SC22 meeting.
WG15 has been dissolved due to inactivity by the committee and
the convenor. SC22 has decided to establish a POSIX advisory
group to manage the ISO POSIX standards and to enable ISO
participation in the Austin Group in a form similar to the
current method.  Nick and Keld are reps in the interim (Nick
is the primary SC22 OR, with Keld the alternate).

The ORs and Chair saw no problems from a procedural point of view on
the new arrangement for the ISO participation in the Austin Group (we
still continue with 3 ORs)

Andrew noted that it is likely that a meeting of the ISO POSIX advisory
could be held at The Open Group in the UK towards the end of
year or early next year -- and that we would hold an Austin Group
face to face adjacent with that if folks agree - the primary
agenda would be to review all recent aardvark for a future
work plan.  (Note that Andrew intends on giving at least 45 days notice
of a meeting, the procedures say 30 days)
(it may be that the POSIX AdvG needs 90 days notice)


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/

XBD ERN 14 netdb.h s_port value Accept

XBD ERN 15 string.h vs strerror_r man page prototype conflict Accept
(this is an editorial error, the strerror_r man page has
precedence)

XBD ERN 17 XBD 2.1.6 list of UPE utilities misses csplit Accept

XBD ERN 18 html indexing correction Accept

XBD ERN 19 XBD 8.1 Environment Variables  OPEN
As an interpretation this appears to match the case that
the standard is clear, concerns fwd to sponsor. Since constructive
discussions are ongoing on the reflector we should let them run
their course for a while longer and leave this open.

XCU ERN 22/23  awk OPEN 
pending action on dwc

XCU ERN 24 cd -P OPEN
It was agreed to defer this pending further investigations
and input from others on the reflector.
 
XCU ERN 30 tr OPEN
Pending action on MB

XCU ERN 36 test and shell arithmetic expressions OPEN

The group discussed this but did not have time to complete
the issue.

It was agreed so far that

test asdf -ge 0 

is a syntax error and is expected to return  something greater than 1

The evaluation of 
$((asdf + 1))
depends on what the environment variable asdf is set to

To be continued...

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  Sep 30 2004