Austin Group Minutes of the 3 March Teleconference Austin-248 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group.              March 4, 2005

Attendees

Andrew Josey, The Open Group
Don Cragun , Sun, PASC OR
Ulrich Drepper, Red Hat
Mark Brown, IBM, TOG OR
Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC OR
Mats Wichmann and the LSB Workgroup from Austin (partial)

Apologies
Loic Domaigne

Action item review 
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Just the updates on Austin/240r1 are noted here.

ACTION AI-2005-01-09 Andrew Josey & Mats Wichmann to propose a time and place
for a joint Austin group/LSB Workgroup meeting to consider LSB/POSIX
conflicts, to be held as soon as conveniently possible.
Status: OPEN

Mats and the LSB Workgroup were online for part of the call primarily to
discuss completing the action above.  Andrew will update the TR document
shortly for the LSB 2.1 spec.  We will then schedule a teleconference
meeting . The primary action will be to go through the differences that
have been understood to date and determine if we can the likely changes
to which document , and when.  Andrew asked if we have enough of an
agenda to do that , Nick said he would prepare an agenda. Andrew will
complete the update of the TR before the next call.  We expect to hold
the  meeting during an upcoming regular timeslot.


ACTION AI-2005-01-05: AJ to prepare draft document on impact of C99 TC2
on POSIX. 
Status: closed , Andrew has filed all the defects as inbound aardvark

ACTION AI-2005-01-06: AJ to contact Jack McCann at HP for views on
getnameinfo document, and for any other networking issues that may
concern us. 
Status: OPEN, Don is asking around for a contact.


ACTION AI-2005-01-11 Feedback on the Secure C Library TR 

We need to get feedback to Nick by the end of this week latest.
There have been some views aired on the reflector which Nick
will try to use to form a position.

Some of the concerns are as follows (note this is not an exhaustive list):
some  of the proposed interfaces appear to have new names for functions
that match existing functionality in the POSIX standard; there may be
some existing interfaces in common use that would provide a better
solution for some of the problem space the TR is trying to address, for
example fmemopen(), open_memstream() , strn...()
Action on all to provide feedback to Nick no later than
Sunday March 6.


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/

XSH ERN 52 BUG in sched_setscheduler OPEN

Dave B had circulated a posting on this topic just prior to
the meeting. It was agreed that Andrew should place the text
of that message into the aardvark so it can be considered
at the next call.

XBD ERN 42 CX and conflicts (frontmatter text) Accept
XBD ERN 43 ISO C TC2 #67 section 3.85 Accept
XBD ERN 44 ISO C TC2 #3 section 6.2 Accept


XBD ERN 45 ,46 , 47 complex.h changes

Based on the email from gwc about these changes, it was agreed
that we should forward a question of interpretation to the
ISO C committee. Andrew will take the action to send
email to John Benito.

XBD ERN 48 fenv.h floating point exception constants A/M

MX shade  lines

7943-7952 MX

(note next change)

XBD ERN 49 ISO C TC2 #37 Accept as Marked
                                                                                
 Change from:
                                                                                
 "The <fenv.h> header shall define the following constant, which is simply
 the bitwise-inclusive OR of all floating-point exception constants
 defined above:
                                                                                
 FE_ALL_EXCEPT"
                                                                                
"The <fenv.h> header shall define the constant FE_ALL_EXCEPT as
 the bitwise-inclusive OR of all floating-point exception constants
 defined above, if any . If no such constants are defined above then
 the constant FE_ALL_EXCEPT shall be defined as zero."
                                                                                

XBD ERN 50 ISO C TC2 #4 Accept as Marked below

 Add a new paragraph after line 8083 in float.h DESCRIPTION
                                                                                
 An implementation may give zero and non-numeric values, such as
 infinities and NaNs, a sign or may leave them unsigned. Wherever such
 values are unsigned, any requirement in this standard to retrieve the
 sign shall produce an unspecified sign, and any requirement to set the sign
 shall be ignored.
                                                                                


XBD ERN 51 ISO C TC2 #5 Accept

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All should prepare XSH ERN 29 and 52 for the next call.

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

The next call is  March 10 2005