Austin Group Minutes of the 25 Jan 2007 Teleconference Austin-335 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. January 26, 2007 Attendees Andrew Josey, The Open Group Ulrich Drepper, Red Hat Don Cragun , Sun, PASC OR Geoff Clare, The Open group Mark Brown, IBM, TOG OR Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC OR Apologies Mats Wichmann, Intel Eric Blake 1. Action item review --------------------- ACTION 2005-01-01: Don Cragun to present paper on pathname resolution. OPEN ACTION 2006-09-01: Ulrich Drepper to prepare a paper making a recommendation on imaginary type in C99. OPEN ACTION 2006-09-02: Ulrich and Nick to develop a draft PAR and criteria for C++ POSIX binding for discussion. OPEN (in progress) Draft PAR circulated Nov 20 for comment. PMC Criteria still to be developed. Ulrich will send out a note to remind folks about this. ACTION 2006-09-08: Don Cragun to examine every XCU synopsis in the next draft to check for correctness, and file aardvarks as appropriate. OPEN ACTION 2006-09-13: Andrew to make a pass through current closed aardvarks against approved std, to move items to SD-5 or interpretations when ready. Closed for D2R, but ongoing . See Austin/325 for the list of specific changes for D2R from SD/5. Andrew submitted more interpretations into the pipe earlier this week. Action AI-2006-06-01: Andrew to work out the full set of changes for recirculation for XSH ERN 132 OPEN, ongoing in progress Draft Status ------------ No new status to report, current status still as follows: IEEE ballot finishes on January 28 2007 at midnight Eastern time Austin Group ballot closes 8 am UK time on Jan 31 2007. ISO ballot finishes February 2 2007. The status of the IEEE ballot at 4pm 25/Jan was as follows: RESPONSE RATE This ballot has not yet met the 75% returned ballot requirement. (3 more people must return their ballots.) 56 eligible people in this ballot group. 36 affirmative votes 0 negative votes with comments 1 negative votes without comments 2 abstention votes 39 votes received = 70 % returned 5 % abstention APPROVAL RATE The 75% affirmation requirement is being met. 36 affirmative votes 0 negative votes with comments 36 votes = 100% affirmative Next Face to Face meeting ------------------------ The meeting date and location have been announced. The twelfth plenary meeting of the Austin Group is being held in Austin, Texas. The meeting is being hosted by IBM. Registration is open for the meeting. Please register by Feb 9th. Participation can be in person or electronic or teleconference. See the agenda for more information: http://www.opengroup.org/austin/agenda.html Aardvark Bug Reports -------------------- We picked up on the current aardvark http://www.opengroup.org/austin/aardvark/latest/ XBD ERN 72 OPEN It is proposed to Accept this but we need to check that all interested parties are ok with this. ACTION: Andrew send a note to Larry Pending XBD ERN 72 we skipped XBD ERN 73 for now XBD ERN 74 Accept as marked Take the change as proposed below together with the following additions: Add the following definition to XBD Chapter 3 Definitions System Clock A clock with at least one second resolution that contains seconds since the Epoch. Also correct the current definitions ordering On XBD page 88 move lines 2775-2779 to follow line 2784 (moving "system crash" after "system console") XBD ERN 75 Accept as marked below Replace the current definition of pipe in XBD Chapter 3 definitions: change from: An object accessed by one of the pair of file descriptors created by the pipe() function. Once created, the file descriptors can be used to manipulate it, and it behaves identically to a FIFO special file when accessed in this way. It has no name in the file hierarchy. to: An object identical to a FIFO which has no links in the file hierarchy. (leave other note as is) Next Steps ----------- Andrew will update the aardvark reports with the latest inbound defect reports. Next teleconference meeting Feb 1 2007 See http://www.opengroup.org/austin/. An IRC channel will be available for the meeting irc://irc.freestandards.org #austin irc://irc.freestandards.org/austin ICAL: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/nvctqtstkuni3fab9k3jqtrt4g@group.calendar.google.com/public/basic XML: http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/nvctqtstkuni3fab9k3jqtrt4g@group.calendar.google.com/public/basic