Minutes of the 14th July 2016 Teleconference Austin-772 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 15th July 2016 Attendees: Andrew Josey, The Open Group Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR Joerg Schilling, FOKUS Fraunhofer Geoff Clare, The Open Group Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems Dev. Eric Blake, Red Hat Apologies Martin Rehak, Oracle Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR David Clissold, IBM Richard Hansen * General news We discussed the ISO publication, which is being handled by IEEE as part of the PSDO agreement they have with ISO. Andrew noted that SC22 are aware of the plans for the TC publication. Andrew also reminded all that the merged draft is available for review including the change history: https://www.opengroup.org/austin/restricted/2008tc2d4/Preview-Base2013+TC2D4.pdf * 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) 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 #953 0000953: Alias expansion is under-specified Was Accepted as Marked http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=953 Richard has an action to propose new wording to discuss in a future telecon. * Current Business Bug 0000859: Add posix_random family of interfaces Withdrawn http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=859 Withdrawn by originator. Bug 0000987: Add example for quoting within command substitution within double-quotes. Rejected http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=987 The quoting rules for strings inside the $(...) form of command substitution are clearly stated on P2320, L73612-73616 and the Rationale for this section XRAT C.2.2, on P3677, L125674-125685 already contains examples showing how quoting works inside the $(...) form of command substitutions. Bug 0000988: Additional error condition for pthread_mutex_lock, pthread_mutex_trylock Duplicate http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=988 Duplicate of 354 Bug 0000989: Contradicting claims for shell parameter substitution Duplicate http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=989 Duplicate of 221 Bug 0000991: mailx `mbox' command clarification Accepted as Marked http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=991 An interpretation is required. This item is tagged for Issue 8 Interpretation response: The standard is unclear on this issue, and no conformance distinction can be made between alternative implementations based on this. This is being referred to the sponsor. Rationale: None. Notes to the Editor (not part of this interpretation): Change on page 2923, starting at line 96567: Arrange for the given messages to end up in the mbox save file when mailx terminates normally. to: Arrange for the given messages to be moved to the mbox save file when mailx terminates normally or when the folder is changed. This command can be used in any folder; for messages residing in the system mailbox, mailx shall ignore the settings of the internal variables [no]hold and [no]keepsave when the mbox command has been used to mark them explicitly. Bug 0001002: Specification of signgam semantics omitted Accepted http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1002 This item is marked for TC3-2008 Bug 0001010: EHOSTDOWN: not described anywhere else http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1010 We started discussing this item and will pick up on it next time. Next Steps ---------- The next call is on July 21, 2016 (a Thursday) Apologies in advance: David Clissold (2016-07-21) Andrew Josey (2016-07-21/28, 2016-08/04) Eric Blake (2016/08/04-11) Geoff will bring up the bridge next week 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#