Minutes of the 12 December 2013 Teleconference Austin-637 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 13th December 2013 Attendees: Richard Hansen, BBN (partial) Joerg Schilling, FOKUS Fraunhofer Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR Eric Blake, Red Hat Geoff Clare, The Open Group Martin Rehak, Oracle David Clissold, IBM Milan Cermak, Oracle Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems David A. Wheeler, IDA Mark Brown, Canonical Apologies: Nick Stoughton, USENIX * General news No new status . * 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 Left open as discussions pending on the reflector. Bug #774 Summary: Addition of a POSIX_VERSION shell variable OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=774 This item still open- Don reported he plans to complete his action shortly. Bug 0000781: LC_*_MASK reserved identifiers in locale.h is not correct Accepted as Marked http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=781 This item is tagged for TC2-2008 Change page 286 line 9521 (XBD locale.h description) from: Implementations may add additional masks using the form LC_* and an uppercase letter. to: Additional macro definitions, beginning with the characters LC_ and an uppercase letter, may also be specified by the implementation. Delete page 287 line 9530: [CX]Implementations may add additional masks using the form LC_*_MASK.[/CX] Change page 287 line 9547 (rationale) from "None." to: It is suggested that each category macro name for use in setlocale() have a corresponding macro name ending in _MASK for use in newlocale(). Change page 1376 line 45474 (XSH newlocale) from: any of the other implementation-defined LC_*_MASK values defined in to: any of the implementation-defined mask values defined in [It was also noted that the html translation has incorrect formatting compared to XBD page 287 lines 9524-9529 Action: on Andrew to fix this (will initially file a publications category bug for the layout of locale.h)] Bug #0000782: complex.h reserved identifiers should be normative Reopened http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=782 This was rejected during the meeting but subsequently reopened. The new proposal from the reflector is as follows: On page 476 line 16146 add a new paragraph: Implementations may also add symbols to the header with the following complete names or the same names suffixed with f or l: cerf cexpm1 clog2 cerfc clog10 clgamma cexp2 clog1p ctgamma Next Steps ---------- The next call is on December 19, 2013 (a Thursday) (there will then be a two week break until January 9th) Calls are anchored on US time. (8am Pacific) 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 An etherpad is usually up for the meeting, with a URL using the date format as below: http://posix@posix.rhansen.org:9001/p/201x-mm-dd password=2115756#