Minutes of the 25th February 2016 Teleconference     Austin-750 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 26th February 2016

Attendees:
    Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems Dev.
    Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR
    Geoff Clare, The Open Group
    Roger Faulkner, Oracle, The Open Group OR
    Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR
    Richard Hansen
    Andrew Josey, The Open Group
    Martin Rehak, Oracle
    Eric Blake, Red Hat

Apologies
    Joerg Schilling, FOKUS Fraunhofer
    David Clissold, IBM

* General news

The IEEE ballot is now underway and ends on April 1st.
It had started a couple of days later than planned due to
staff reassignment at the IEEE.

Andrew has been in touch with the ANSI secretariat for
ISO/IEC JTC 1 and is determining the status for the ISO ballot.


* 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 28 Jan 2016)


* Current Business

Bug #249: Add standard support for $'...' in shell   Reopened
http://austingroupbugs.net/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=249
We will return to bug 249 on a future call.

Bug #954: Add %s to strftime  Duplicate of 0000169

This is being closed as a duplicate. The resolution for 0000169 has
been updated to include the additions from Note: 0002693.

Bug #169: date utility needs ``%s''  Accepted as Marked

This item is tagged for Issue 8

Bugnote 283 was update to:
This bug originally added %s to the description of the date utility.
That is no longer done here because the date utility now defers to strftime()
due to changes made in response to 0000466.

Cross-volume changes to XSH:

After page 2009 line 63596 section strftime, add:

[CX]s    Replaced by the number of seconds since the Epoch
         as a decimal number (see [xref to XBD 4.15 Seconds Since the
         Epoch]). [all members, as if by a call to mktime()] [/CX]

At page 2011 line 63686 section strftime(), change:
        Otherwise, 0 shall be returned and the contents of the array are
        unspecified.
to:
        Otherwise, 0 shall be returned, <CX>errno shall be set to indicate
        the error,</CX> and the contents of the array are unspecified.

At page 2011 line 63689 section strftime(), replace the entire ERRORS section with:
       <CX>These functions shall fail if:

        [EOVERFLOW]   The format string includes a %s conversion and the
                     number of seconds since the Epoch cannot be represented
                     in a time_t.

        These functions may fail if:

        [EINVAL]   The format string includes a %s conversion and the number of
                   seconds since the Epoch would be negative.</CX>

After page 2027 line 64161 section strptime, add:

    s    The number of seconds since the Epoch as a
         decimal number (see [xref to XBD 4.15 Seconds Since the
         Epoch]); leading zeros shall be permitted but shall not be
         required.


Bug #953: Alias expansion is under-specified OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=953

Dicussion continued and is captured in the etherpad.
The bug has its own etherpad page at
http://posix.rhansen.org:9001/p/bug953
We will continue this on the next call.


Next Steps
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The next call is on March 3, 2016 (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#