Minutes of the 17th December 2015 Teleconference     Austin-741 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group.  11th December 2015

Attendees:
   Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems
   Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR
   Geoff Clare, The Open Group
   Andrew Josey, The Open Group 
   Eric Blake, Red Hat
   David Clissold, IBM   (partial)
   Joerg Schilling, FOKUS Fraunhofer 
   Roger Faulkner, Oracle, The Open Group OR

Apologies
   Martin Rehak, Oracle  
   Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR
   Richard Hansen, BBN 

* General news

We are still awaiting feedback from IEEE on the mandatory editorial
coordination (a step required before the ballot can start).
Commments are due back on December 19.


* 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 1012: Mismatched brackets  Accepted
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1012

This is an editorial bug in the 2013 Edition of the standard (P2938,
L97150); it is not something that was added by draft changes made
for TC2.

Change to: "The resulting string shall be processed for macro
expansion (see Macros (on page 2965))."

This is editorial and should be handled through errata.
Andrew will inform Cathy so she can fix it in the ongoing
merged draft.


Bug 0001014: HTML-formatting error (in m4 Examples) Accepted
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1014

Andrew has fixed the online edition.

We continued on bug 249

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

Further progress was made.

Action on Andrew to contact David Korn with the question:
Why are more than two hex digits allows in a $'\x' escape sequence?

We will continue next time on bug 249


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