Minutes of the 6th December 2018 Teleconference Austin-896 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 7th December 2018 Attendees: Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR Joerg Schilling, FOKUS Fraunhofer Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR Andrew Josey, The Open Group Geoff Clare, The Open Group Martin Rehak, Oracle, The Open Group OR Eric Blake, Red Hat Apologies Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems * General news None * 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 9 March 2018 and earlier) Bug 1077: Recommend support for wide-character regcomp and regexec and/or specify multi-byte behavior OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1077 Andrew has completed the action to ping his Apple contact and is awaiting a reply. Bug 1122: POSIX should include gettext() and friends OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1122 Left open as an action is still in progress to flesh out a complete proposal. * Current Business Bug 1134: Add getentropy interface OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1134 Action: Andrew to add boilerplate response regarding a proposal for new interface, and also to ask The Open Group OR if they would sponsor this addition. Both Actions now Completed. (update 19 Oct 2018) There has been no reaction from the Base Working Group and the period for comments has ended now. Bug 1138: Add strsignal(), sig2str() and str2sig() to the standard. OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1138 Martin has completed his action. Andrew took an action to chase the Base Working group members for sponsorship of the two interfaces. Update: The action on Andrew is still open. Bug 1147: ls -l -F/-p and symlinks Accepted as Marked http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1147 On page 2925 line 96693 section ls, change: Write a ('/') after each filename if that file is a directory. to: Write a ('/') after each pathname if that file is a directory. On page 2926 line 96767 section ls, add a new paragraph: In the formats specified below, except where specified otherwise the field shall consist of the file's pathname and, if the -F or -p option is specified, any indicator character written after the pathname as described for those options. On page 2926 line 96769,96771 section ls, change "filename" to "pathname". On page 2927 line 96791 section ls, change: ... the field shall be of the form: "%s −> %s", , to: ... the field shall be one of the following forms: • "%s%s∆−>∆%s", , , • "%s∆−>∆%s%s", , , • "%s%s∆−>∆%s%s", , , , where is an at-sign ('@') if the -F option is specified, or an empty string otherwise and is the required indicator character, if any, for the file resolved from the symbolic link if the -F or -p option is specified, or an empty string otherwise. If pathname resolution fails when following the symbolic link, this shall not be treated as an error and the field shall be an empty string. Bug 1148: ls -LS missing similar text as with ls -Lt for symlinks Accepted http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1148 Bug 1149: missing comma in ls -r description Accepted http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1149 This item is tagged for TC3-2008 Bug 1150: exit status of command substitution not properly specified OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1150 Discussion started on this item and will continue on the next call. Next Steps ---------- The next call is on December 13th 2018 (Thursday). Calls are anchored on US time. (8am Pacific) This call will be for the regular 90 minutes. http://austingroupbugs.net An etherpad is usually up for the meeting, with a URL using the date format as below: https://posix.rhansen.org/p/201x-mm-dd username=posix password=2115756#