Austin Group Minutes of the 18 November Teleconference Austin-229 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. November 19, 2004
Attendees
Andrew Josey, The Open Group
Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC OR
Don Cragun , Sun, PASC OR
Loic Domaigne
Mark Brown, IBM, TOG OR
Apologies
Ulrich Drepper, Red Hat
Status of next plenary meeting
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The agenda has been updated.
Andrew reported that he had no confirmation yet on whether the PASC SEC
will also meet during the same week. He spoke with Lowell
and a general announcement on a PASC election of officers
had been posted to pasc-gen-l.
Andrew confirmed that irrespective of whether the PASC SEC meeting
goes ahead the meeting will last four complete days (Monday
through Thursday inclusive) with the ISO meeting on the Monday.
Registration for the meeting is required by December 1st
https://www.opengroup.org/austin/register.html
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 19 All-caps Environment variables used for configuration OPEN
This is being left open for the next meeting. Mark is still
working on a revised proposal.
XBD ERN 32 connected socket definition Accept as marked below
The group accepted the problem report and will progress
this as an interpretation.
This is an interpretation.
The standard is unclear on this issue, and no conformance
distinction can be made between alternative implementations based
on this. This is being referred to the sponsor.
Notes to the editor for a future revision (not part of this interpretation)
Insert a new definition before "3.108 Connection":
Connected Socket
A connection-mode socket for which a connection has been
established, or a connectionless-mode socket for which
a peer address has been set. See also Sections 3.108,
3.109, 3.110 and 3.348 (on page 83).
Note Cross volume changes to XSH:
page 223 line 7458 section connect
Change:
"The connect() function shall attempt to make a connection on a
socket."
to:
"The connect() function shall attempt to make a connection on a
connection-mode socket or to set or reset the peer address of a
connectionless-mode socket."
page 223 line 7471 section connect
Append:
"Note that despite no connection being made, the term `connected'
is used to describe a connectionless-mode socket for which a
peer address has been set."
page 1295 line 40598 section send
Change:
"(including when the peer of a connectionless socket has been set
via connect())."
to:
"If the socket is connectionless-mode, the message shall be sent to
the pre-specified peer address."
page 1296 line 40635 section send
Change:
"The socket is not connected or otherwise has not had the peer
pre-specified."
to:
"The socket is not connected."
page 1302 line 40853 section sendto
Delete "This error may or may not be returned for connection mode
sockets."
XSH ERN 52 BUG in sched_setscheduler OPEN
This item has been open for a while, and it has been agreed
that there is a problem, but no proposal with agreement yet on how to
fix the issue.
See
https://www.opengroup.org/sophocles/protected/sopuser/show_mail.tpl?source=L&listname=austin-group-l&id=7084
The group agreed that we should ask for proposed wording to
progress this (Dave, Michael?)
XSH ERN 63 Defect in XSH pthread_attr_getschedparam OPEN
This relates to option shading for the pthread_attr_getschedparam and
pthread_attr_setschedparam functions.
There was a agreement that there appears to be a defect but
not resolution on a future change.
It looks as if the presence of sched.h is required when _POSIX_THREADS
is supported-- although its unclear what the contents
of it should be in that case. It was agreed to raise the
issue with the SSWG-RT. (Andrew has the action)
XSH ERN 64 freopen() allocates a file description Accept as marked below
This is an interpretation
The standard does not speak to this issue, and as such
no conformance distinction can be made between alternative
implementations based on this. This is being referred to the
sponsor.
Rationale:
This is an alignment issue that was missed during the revision.
Notes to the editor for a future revision (not part of this interpretation):
Append to the end of the third paragraph in the DESCRIPTION
(line 14439 2004 edition), "The freopen() function shall allocate a file
descriptor as open() does."
XSH ERN 65 BUG in XSH-waitid Accept as marked below
The group felt this was an editorial matter.
After the 2nd sentence in the first paragraph which states "It records
the current state of a child in the structure pointed to by infop."
Append the following text:
"The fields of the structure pointed to by infop are filled in
as described for the SIGCHLD signal in the XBD signal.h page."
Add signal.h to the SEE ALSO line
XSH ERN 66 pthread_attr_getstack editorial error in ERRORS Accept
XCU ERN 30 Defect in XCU tr RATIONALE example Accept
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 Dec 2 2004