Minutes of the 10th November 2011 Teleconference Austin-542 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. November 12 , 2011 Attendees Andrew Josey, The Open Group Don Cragun, PASC OR Mark Brown, IBM, TOG OR Jim Pugsley, Oracle Geoff Clare, The Open Group Eric Blake, Red Hat Apologies Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC OR The TC1-2008 Draft 4 document is still progressing. * New Business Bug 0000503: ptsname should define optional errno values Accepted as marked/OPEN (**) http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=503 This item is marked for TC2-2008 At line 54750, after "shall return a null pointer", add ", and may set errno". At line 54754, replace "No errors are defined." with: The ptsname( ) function may fail if: [EBADF] The fildes argument is not a valid file descriptor. [ENOTTY] The file associated with the fildes argument is not a master pseudo-terminal device. [Ed note: I have marked this open here in the minutes as after the meeting Eric added a couple of notes to the bug, so we should discuss this again next time] Bug 0000504: mq_unlink() needs an EINTR error Accepted http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=504 This item is marked for TC2-2008. Bug 0000330: In make, add support for assignments ":=", "+=", and "?=". OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=330 Given bugnotes 577 and 1003, standardizing := will break existing practices. It was agreed that we are in favour of enhancing make and that a proposal for a new syntax is required. Action: Andrew send a request for proposal to all Austin Group participants. Bug 0000328: Auto-Dependency Generation OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=328 It was agreed that in principle this is acceptable and that a detailed proposal is needed to take this forward. Action: Andrew to contact submitter. Bug 0000144: Standard lacks a (possibly XSI) interface to associate a session to a TTY; tcsetsid() OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=144 Action: Andrew to contact QNX to see if there is any progress. Bug 0000073: wmemcmp C conflict? OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=73 Action: Andrew to send a note to Nick asking for any updated status now that C1x is complete. Bug 0000226: Questions on awk grammar OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=226 Action: Andrew to send a note to Donn Terry Bug 0000251: Forbid newline, or even bytes 1 through 31 (inclusive), in filenames OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=251 Don reported that he was still working on a proposal to address this and related bugs. Next Steps ---------- The next call is to be confirmed and will continue processing defect reports. This call will be for the regular 90 minutes. 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