Minutes of the 3 October 2012 Teleconference Austin-580 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 4 October, 2012 Attendees Don Cragun, PASC OR Andrew Josey, The Open Group Jim Pugsley, Oracle Geoff Clare, The Open Group Eric Blake, Red Hat Mark Brown, IBM, TOG OR Apologies Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC OR Joerg Schilling, Fraunhofer Society * General News There was no change in status on the outstanding approvals. * Old Business +Bug 0000561: NUL-termination of sun_path in Unix sockets OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=561 Eric has an action to update the proposal. +Bug 0000573: Please add '+' to the portable filename character set OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=573 Joerg has an action to prepare a proposed change. +Bug 0000592: consistent use of struct timespec OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=592 This item needs further investigation of existing implementations. Mark reported that AIX does not have a problem with this. Jim notes he is still looking at this. +Bug 0000598: OH shading and new interfaces OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=598 Eric has an action to propose a new solution with self-contained headers. Bug 0000576: No format specifiers for several types OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=576 Bug 0000599: Reserved "no thread" value for pthread_t A/M Issue 8 Bug 0000517: EBNF support OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=517 It was agreed that we need Joerg's input on this item and have left it open for now. Andrew took an action on the 12 September call to notify Joerg (completed after the meeting). * Current Business We looked at mail sequence 18140 regarding RFC numbers for mail. Don agreed to take an action to submit a bug report for consideration at the next meeting. Bug 0000618: require isatty and friends to set errno on failure OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=618 Eric took an action to propose a resolution for 618. Bug 0000609: It is not clear what threads are considered blocked with respect to a call to pthread_cond_signal() or pthread_cond_broadcast() OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=609 Action on Andrew to contact Dave Butenhof to ask for his input. Bug 0000611: Interaction of exit with stdio stream locking is not specified Rejected http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=611 This was rejected as there shouldn't be any unwritten data associated with any standard I/O handles in a conforming application. If you have unwritten buffered data in a stream that is not the current handle for that file, the results are undefined. See XSH section 2.5.1. Bug 0000612: dirname of "usr/" or "/" are not clear OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=612 Don agreed to take an action to propose a resolution for this bug. Next Steps ---------- The next call is on October 10. 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.freenode.org/austingroupbugs