Minutes of the 18 April 2013 Teleconference Austin-605 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 12th April 2013 Attendees Don Cragun, PASC OR Andrew Josey, The Open Group Eric Blake, Red Hat Jim Pugsley, Oracle Mark Brown, IBM, TOG OR Richard Hansen, BBN Geoff Clare, The Open Group Joerg Schilling, Fraunhofer Society Apologies Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC OR * General News The pdf and html versions of the merged 2013 edition document will be published on 19 April 2013. The ISO secretariat confirmed that the TC is being processed. We have not as yet confirmed if there will be a merged edition published at ISO. The TC1-2008 related bugs were closed in the mantis tracker successfully on Tuesday 16 April. A mail had been sent to the list confirming the list of bugs closed. * Outstanding actions +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 0000517: EBNF support OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=517 Action on Joerg to look at this. +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 0000658: Undefined/unspecified behavior clauses in description of open have race conditions OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=658 It was noted that there is some overlap with changes in TC1. Eric took an action to update the proposal to resolve the overlaps appropriately. * Current Business We picked up again on bug 663 Bug 0000663: Specification of str[n]casecmp is ambiguous ReOPENed http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=663 The next steps were discussed. Mark needs to followup with his contact. Bug 0000670: references to "time_" prefix should be "timer_" Accepted http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=670 This item is tagged for TC2-2008 Bug 0000672: Necessary step(s) to synchronize filename operations on disk OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=672 Geoff took an action to propose some wording for discussion on the next call. 0000676: description of pread()/pwrite() on tty or socket inconsistent OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=676 It was decided to change the ESPIPE wording for pread() and pwrite() to "The file is incapable of seeking". However, since the affected text was modified in TC1, it was felt that it would be best to specify the edits against the merged 2013 edition being published on April 19th. The bug was moved to the new Issue7+TC1 project and Don took an action to add a note with the changes once he has access to the 2013 edition ** ** NOTE - a new project has been added to the bug tracker ** for the 2013 Edition - 1003.1(2013/Issue 7+TC1 ** Bug 0000677: Omissions for fcntl() F_GETOWN and F_SETOWN Accepted http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=677 An interpretation is required. This item is tagged for TC2-2008. Interpretation response 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. Rationale: All existing implementations already perform as specified above. Notes to the Editor (not part of this interpretation): Make the changes suggested in the Desired Action. Bug 0000678: Update tmpfile defintion to line up with ISO c88/89 c99 c11 Accepted http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=678 This item is tagged for TC2-2008 Bug 0000641: symlink() path1 does not need to contain characters Accepted as Marked http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=641 This item is tagged for TC2-2008 At page 2057 line 65053 [XSH symlink], change "character string" to "string". Bug 0000640: shmget() ambiguous wording for ENOMEM Accepted http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=640 This item is tagged for TC2-2008 Bug 0000620: Rationale confusing and uneeded Accepted http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=620 This item is tagged for TC2-2008 Bug 0000644: times should document what errno values are possible Accepted http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=644 This item is tagged for TC2-2008 Next Steps ---------- The next call is on April 25 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