Minutes of the 8th October 2015 Teleconference     Austin-732 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group.  9th October 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
   Eric Blake, Red Hat
   Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR
   David Clissold, IBM 
   Richard Hansen, BBN 

Apologies
  Martin Rehak, Oracle

* General news

Andrew reported that he has prepared the new TC draft, and we are in the final
stages of preparing the merged draft (final QA on the changes)


* 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 0000985: quote removal missing from case statement patterns and alternative expansions OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=985

This was discussed in detail and  notes  have been added
to the bug, and are also in the etherpad.
This will be continued next time.

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

We will also continue with this next week.
See http://posix.rhansen.org:9001/p/bug249



Next Steps
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The next call is on October 15, 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#