Minutes of the 5 February 2015 Teleconference Austin-692 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 7 February 2015 Attendees: Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR Joerg Schilling, FOKUS Fraunhofer Geoff Clare, The Open Group David Clissold, IBM Martin Rehak, Oracle, The Open Group OR Richard Hansen, BBN Glenn Golden, 1st-time attendee, submitter of #916 Eric Blake, Red Hat Apologies: Don Cragun, IEEE OR Andrew Josey, The Open Group * General news On the PASC PAR approval progress - still open. * 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 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. Bug 0000375: Extend test/[...] conditionals: ==, <, >, -nt, -ot, -ef OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=375 This is still left open due to discussions pending on the reflector. Bug 0000789: Add set -o pipefail OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=789 * Current Business Bug #916: Prohibition on ERE grammar extensions should pertain only to _strictly_ conforming applications http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=916 Accepted This item is tagged for TC2-2008. Bug #879: strptime is missing conversion specifiers described in strftime OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=879 Martin had completed his action from the previous call and posted updated information about Solaris's behavior with strptime in bug note 2536 Discussions continued on the call, and this will be resumed next time. Bug 0000883: Provide Robust pthread_rwlock_t modifiers OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=879 Andrew has completed his action to add a bug note explaining the policy and criteria for new APIs. Next Steps ---------- The next call is on February 12, 2015 (a Thursday) 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#