Minutes of the 26th September 2013 Teleconference Austin-628 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 27th September 2013 Attendees Don Cragun, PASC OR Geoff Clare, The Open Group Eric Blake, Red Hat Andrew Josey, The Open Group Mark Brown Joerg Schilling, Fraunhofer Society Richard Hansen, BBN Apologies David Clissold, IBM Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC OR Mark Ziegast * General news No news. * Outstanding actions +Bug 0000251: Forbid newline, or even bytes 1 through 31 (inclusive), in filenames OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=251 Don has an action to produce a proposal. +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 Jim had provided additional information in bugnote 1627. This was discussed and Jim took an action to provide further information. +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 We noted that feedback has settled down on the mailing list, and will discuss next session. +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 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. +Bug 0000615: pthread_setcancelstate should be async-signal-safe OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=615 We now have reports on AIX and Apple. Jim to report back on whether pthread_cancelstate() is async-signal-safe on Solaris. Andrew to ask HP whether pthread_cancelstate() is async-signal-safe on HP-UX. +Bug 622 left open pending resolution of 615. http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=622 +Bug 0000672: Necessary step(s) to synchronize filename operations on disk OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=672 Geoff has a new proposed resolution in note 1618. Decided to solicit input from FS developers. Eric to go to Linux, David to AIX and Jim to Solaris. Jim has completed his action (see bugnote 1691). Andrew should chase HP and Apple for input. +Bug 0000663: Specification of str[n]casecmp is ambiguous reopened http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=663 Action on David to follow up with the IBM developers about the EBCDIC collation sequence. Bug 696 either NAME_MAX shouldn't be optional, or readdir_r() needs clarification http://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=696 Don has an action to propose a resolution. Bug 0000721: Internal storage vs static storage OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=721 This item is still open. * Current Business Bug 0000375: Extend test/[...] conditionals: ==, <, >, -nt, -ot, -ef OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=375 This item is related to list discussion on 4-argument test (mail sequence 19739) Andrew has sent a request to David Korn for his views on the proposal in bug 375. Bug 0000690: clarify behavior when calling waitpid with SA_NOCLDWAIT Accepted as Marked http://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=690 Richard took an action item to add a new bug note with the revised text, fill in line numbers and change interp status to pending. This was completed after the meeting. Andrew has an action to restart the interpretation timer for this bug. Bug 0000744: nm default base confusion Accepted http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=744 An interpretation is required. This item is tagged for TC2-2008 Bug 0000745: Require that may not occur as part of multibyte characters Accepted as Marked http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=745 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: None. Notes to the Editor (not part of this interpretation): Make the change in the desired action and also at page 128 line 3615 change: The encoded values associated with and shall be invariant across all locales supported by the implementation. to: The encoded values associated with , , and shall be invariant across all locales supported by the implementation. At page 204 line 6729, change "carriage-return" to "" Add a sentence at the end of page 204 line 6731: "It cannot be changed." Cross-volume change to XRAT... At page 3483 line 117516 add a new paragraph to A.6.2: The encodings for and are required to be the same across all locales since they are special to the general terminal interface and cannot be changed (see [xref to XBD 11.1.9]). Next Steps ---------- The next call is on October 3, 2013 (a Thursday) Calls are anchored on US time. This call will be for the regular 90 minutes. http://austingroupbugs.net An IRC channel will be available for the meeting irc://irc.freenode.net/austingroupbugs We are now using an Etherpad for note taking - the URL is given at the start of the meeting in IRC