Minutes of the 23 February 2012 Teleconference     Austin-550 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group.    February 24 , 2012

Attendees
Andrew Josey, The Open Group
Don Cragun,  PASC OR
Mark Brown, IBM, TOG OR 
Geoff Clare, The Open Group
Eric Blake, Red Hat
Joerg Schilling, Fraunhofer Society

Apologies
Jim Pugsley, Oracle
Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC OR


The TC1-2008 Draft 4 document merger into the Base specifications
is now complete. The next stage is some internal QA prior to making
it available.


* Old Business

Bug 0000251: Forbid newline, or even bytes 1 through 31 (inclusive), in filenames  OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=251

This bug will remain open until after TC1 is approved


*New business

Bug 0000529: fildes unspecified on close()'s [EINTR]  Re-OPENED
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=529

A revised proposal has been put forward in bugnote 1134.

We are waiting for any feedback from Larry Dwyer prior to closing this item.



Bug 0000537: for set -e, compound commands and functions case should be clarified  Reject
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=537

It was agreed to reject this item based on the feedback from the shell maintainers.


Bug: 0000543: Missing C99 text about undeserved underflow Accepted
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=543

This item is tagged for TC2-2008


Bug 0000544: extend awk delete statement to delete entire array  Accepted as Marked
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=544

The item is tagged for Issue 8

On page 2441 line 77580 change:

The delete statement shall remove an individual array element. Thus,
the following code deletes an entire array:

for (index in array)
    delete array[index]
    
to:

The delete statement shall remove either a specified individual array
element or, if no element is specified, all array elements. Thus, the
following code:

for (index in array)
    delete array[index]

is equivalent to:

delete array

Both delete all elements of the array.

Add after page 2449 line 77934:

   | Delete NAME

Add after page 2463 line 78548:

Deleting all elements of an array one element at a time, via:
for (index in array)
    delete array[index]
is usually not efficient. This standard requires 'delete array' to
have the same effects, and this was supported in most implementations
as a more efficient operation. It is also possible to use
'split("", array)' to achieve the same effect and efficiency.



Next Steps
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The next call is on March 1 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.

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