Minutes of the 15 April 2010 Teleconference Austin-478 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. April 18 , 2010 Attendees Andrew Josey, The Open Group Don Cragun, PASC OR Mark Brown, IBM, TOG OR Geoff Clare, The Open Group Ulrich Drepper, Red Hat Eric Blake, Red Hat Apologies Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC OR Andrew reported that he had not completed his action to commence the latest interpretations. Subsequently to the meeting this has now been completed and started a fresh batch of interpretations on their 30 day review (Mantis bugs 196, 215, 216, 217, 218, 224 and 225). We picked up on the current bugs: Bug #196 improved getsubopt example Accept as marked http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=196 See bugnote 406. This should be sent down the interpretations track: 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. Bug #226: Questions on awk grammar OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=226 Action: Andrew to ask Donn Terry whether he could look at the grammar. Bug #227 newlocale wording ambiguity Accept as marked http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=227 Change line 44723: It is unspecified whether the locale object pointed to by base shall be modified or freed and a new locale object created. to: It is unspecified whether the locale object pointed to by base shall be modified, or freed and a new locale object created. Change line 44793: Handles for locale objects created by the newlocale( ) function should be released by a corresponding call to freelocale( ). to: Handles for locale objects returned by the newlocale() function should either be released by a corresponding call to freelocale(), or be used as a base locale to another newlocale() call. Bug #229 rwlock example: Writers-priority broken. Typographical errors. Canceled writer broadcasts wrong condvar. Accepted http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=229 Bug #230 cd : Simplify step 6 Accepted http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=230 Bug #231 readlink() rationale out of date regarding timestamps Accepted http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=231 Bug #233: pax rationale out of date re hard links to symlinks Accepted http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=233 Bug #234 fchdir() is missing from the async-signal-safe list Accepted http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=234 Bug #235 correction/improvement of find example 8 Accepted http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=235 Bug #236 additional sh -c example that uses exec OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=236 Action: Andrew to ask Dave Korn why the ksh does not appear to meet the specification in this respect. Next Steps ---------- The next call will be on April 22 at 16:00 UK time/08:00 Pacific to carry on with the defect reports http://austingroupbugs.net See the calendar for the list of dialup numbers. An IRC channel will be available for the meeting 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