Minutes of the 12th November 2015 Teleconference Austin-738 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 13th November 2015 Attendees: Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR Geoff Clare, The Open Group Eric Blake, Red Hat David Clissold, IBM Joerg Schilling, FOKUS Fraunhofer Andrew Josey, The Open Group Martin Rehak, Oracle Apologies Richard Hansen, BBN * General news Andrew reported some success using the IEEE template, so we should be able to move to that for Draft 3. We had a small discussion on how the draft is assembled. Its built from html extracts in the SVN repository, which are used to create a html file which is then imported into Open Office and then saved as a .doc file which can then be copied into the IEEE template. The SVN repository is available at: https://svn.opengroup.org/websvn/listing.php?repname=POSIX&path=%2FBaseI7%2FTC2%2Ftc2-pages A number of new bug reports have been received against TC2-2008, they are discussed below. The review ends on November 15 2015 The plan is to commence the formal reviews as soon as possible after the review period closes - ideally before December. After preparing the draft we have to send it for Mandatory Editorial Coordination by IEEE before the ballot can commence. * 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 TC2-2008 bugs: Bug 0001000: XBD 4.x and XRAT A.4.x numbering out of sync Accepted http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1000 Bug 0001001: Typo in text to be added to A.7.3.2 LC_COLLATE Accepted http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1001 We then continued on bug 249 Bug #249: Add standard support for $'...' in shell Reopened http://austingroupbugs.net/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=249 We will continue with this next week. See http://posix.rhansen.org:9001/p/bug249 Next Steps ---------- The next call is on November 19, 2015 (a Thursday) (Apologies from Andrew for the next call) 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#