Minutes of the 17th September 2015 Teleconference     Austin-729 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group.  18th September 2015

Attendees:
   Andrew Josey, The Open Group
   Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR
   Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems
   Margot Hackett Miller, Oracle
   Joerg Schilling, FOKUS Fraunhofer
   Roger Faulkner, Oracle, The Open Group OR
   Geoff Clare, The Open Group
   Martin Rehak, Oracle
   Eric Blake, Red Hat
   Richard Hansen, BBN
   David Clissold, IBM 
   Jim Grisanzio, Oracle
   Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR
   Martin Rehak, Oracle

* General news

It was confirmed that bug 964 has restarted its interpretation clock
again.

The merged draft is nearing completion. The latest finalized
bugs need to be added and then we can commence the internal
review prior to the ballots. It was noted that we can build
the draft using Open Office for the internal review to save
delaying that review.


* Outstanding actions

( Please note that this section has been flushed to shorten the minutes -
to locate the previous set of outstanding actions, look to the minutes
from 26 Feb 2015)

Bug 0000887: printf and other functions appear many times in search results OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=887
Andrew is investigating.

Bug 0000900: add qsort_r        OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=900

The consensus was that its a good idea to add the suggested interface.
The usual requirements regarding a sponsor for a new interface
apply.

Action: Open Group OR , to ask the Base WG if they wish to sponsor
the additional qsort interface proposed here.

Bug  0000901: reserve _POSIX* shell option namespace for future use        OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=901

The forward plan for this bug remains as before:

  Richard: file a new bug report with a concrete feature that
  would use the _POSIX* namespace (as motivation for reserving
  set -o _POSIX*)

  All: debate the proposed feature.  If it's something we want,
  then revisit bug #901.  If not, close bug #901.



Bug 0000922: Implementations should be allowed to change/remove implementation-defined environment variables         OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=922

This item remains open. 

Action on Eric: propose wording for Issue 8 to add secure_getenv(),
and make it clear that deleting from environment without explicit
request is not compliant, but ignoring is fine.

For Issue 7 TC 2: Create new bug to add additional conditions on
what makes TMPDIR valid, vs. undefined behavior; also add future
directions to getenv() to mention secure_getenv()


* Current Business


Bug #249: Add standard support for $'...' in shell   Accepted as Marked
http://austingroupbugs.net/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=249

We continued the discussions from the previous week
See http://posix.rhansen.org:9001/p/bug249

We will continue with this next week.


Next Steps
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The next call is on September 24, 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#