Austin Group Minutes of the 30th August 2007 Teleconference Austin-380 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group.             August 31, 2007

Attendees

Andrew Josey, The Open Group
Don Cragun , Sun, PASC OR
Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC OR
Ulrich Drepper, Red Hat
Geoff Clare, The Open Group
Mats Wichmann, Intel
Mark Brown, IBM, TOG OR  


Action item review 
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ACTION AI-2005-01-01: Don Cragun to present paper on pathname resolution.
OPEN

ACTION 2007-02-06: Ulrich to research issue 15 and propose text for XSH
intro to explain directory searching, with special respect to the *at()
functions.
OPEN (Geoff has posted some mail on this, come back to this when Ulrich
has the cycles) Ulrich has also now posted some thoughts on this item.

It was agreed that we need to close this actions at the September meeting
so we can incorporate the changes into D4

Status
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Confirmed attendees for the September face to face meeting
meeting are:

Andrew Josey, The Open Group
Cathy Fox, The Open Group
Geoff Clare, The Open Group
Nick Stoughton, USENIX
Mark Brown, IBM (tc)
Don Cragun
Mats Wichmann
Ulrich Drepper
Larry Dwyer (tc)

At next weeks meeting we will hold a session on 
C++ Threads and Thread cancellation with some members
of the C++ committee. This will be limited to one hour and the
purpose is to discuss the concerns with C++ threads and cancellation.

Aardvark Bug Reports
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XSH ERN 204 regcomp OPEN
We need to investigate behaviors
Unless a test program is submitted this item will remain open.

XSH ERN 217 tcsetattr  OPEN
XSH ERN 218 poll OPEN

We reviewed the email discussion from the week and made
some additional changes to XCU ERNs. *Only* the additions
are shown here.

XCU ERN 165 mv Accept as marked below

In ln XCU lines 21183 (2004 ed)
change from

The corresponding destination path for each source_file shall be the
concatenation of the target directory pathname, a slash character, and
the last pathname component of the source_file. The second synopsis form
shall be assumed when the final operand names an existing directory.

To:
The corresponding destination path for each source_file shall be the
concatenation of the target directory pathname, a slash character if a
target directory did not end in a slash, and the last pathname component
of the source_file. The second synopsis form shall be assumed when the
final operand names an existing directory.

XCU ERN 166 mv Accept as marked

In ln XCU lines 21183 (2004 ed)

Change step b to c

Add new step 1 b

If /destination/ names the same directory entry as the current
/source_file/ ln shall write a diagnostic message to standard error, do
nothing more with the current source_file, and go on to any remaining
source_files

XCU ERN 57 mv Accept as marked below

Insert new sentence on ln 21887 before If...
If the destination path exists and was created by a previous step it is
unspecified whether ln shall write a diagnostic message to standard error,
do nothing more with the current source_file, and go on to any remaining
source_files; or will continue processing the current /source_file/.


Add to RATIONALE for ln
The specification ensures that 'ln a a' with or without the 
-f option will not unlink the file a. Earlier versions of the
standard were unclear in this case.



Action: Andrew to send further rdvks down the interpretations track.

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

The next  meeting is the face to face . Dialin logistics
are on the web.

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