Minutes of the 7 March 2013 Teleconference Austin-598 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 8 March 2013 Attendees Don Cragun, PASC OR Andrew Josey, The Open Group Eric Blake, Red Hat Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC OR Geoff Clare, The Open Group Richard Hansen, BBN Jim Pugsley, Oracle Apologies Joerg Schilling, Fraunhofer Society Mark Brown, IBM, TOG OR * General News A reminder that calls are anchored on US time and that from March 10th the US moves forward onto Daylight Savings Time. Europe including the UK changes its clocks on March 31st. Andrew reported that the TC is now complete and shipped to IEEE for publication, a final proof has been received back from them and the target date to publish is 15 March 2013. The final steps in progress are to complete the full merged edition and the html edition. We anticipate completing that this month. * 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 Mail sequence 18575 was discussed, Subject: Character classification is insufficient at best. Andrew took an action to reply to the submitter about the process for new materials going into the standard, how there has to a proposal based on existing practice etc. (action completed 8 Mar 2013) Bug 0000633: SIGEV_THREAD delivery renders many signal interfaces unsafe OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=633 This item was again left open pending further feedback. Bug 0000657: Conditions under which fmemopen() write a NUL to the buffer are insufficiently specified OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=657 Eric has an action to propose wording to clarify the behavior for fmemopen(), and also to contact the glibc developers to get their feedback. Bug 0000656: Clearly allow or forbid thread-local storage for "static" buffers OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=656 Don has an action to propose wording changes to all of the same places that bug 75 modified. Bug 0000654: unclear behavior of in-line variable assignments preceding functions, special built-ins OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=654 Richard has volunteered to take an action to draft some words. Bug 0000650: c99 -E option fails to define "expanding all preprocessor directives" w.r.t. #pragma OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=651 A direction was agreed. Geoff to an action to propose some wording changes. Bug 0000647: End-of-input token not addressed in grammar rules Accepted as Marked http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=647 This item is tagged TC2-2008 Suggested wording if 'end-of-input indicator token' is to be removed from XCU section 2.3 rule #1 (lines 72417-72418): Replace section 2.3 rule #1 (lines 72417-72418) with: 1. If the end of input is recognized, the current token (if any) shall be delimited. Bug 0000646: ASSIGNMENT vs. ASSIGNMENT_WORD mismatch Accepted as Marked http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=646 This item is tagged TC2-2008 Replace the word ASSIGNMENT on line 73421 with ASSIGNMENT_WORD. Bug 0000658: Undefined/unspecified behavior clauses in description of open have race conditions OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=658 Eric had proposed wording in note 1482. It was noted that there is some overlap with changes in TC1. Eric took an action to update the note to resolve the overlaps appropriately. We will pick up with this one next time. A reminder for next week is to look at bug 573 (if Joerg has completed his action) Next Steps ---------- The next call is on March 14 2013 (a Thursday) Calls are anchored on US time. 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.net/austingroupbugs