Minutes of the 18th April 2019 Teleconference Austin-927 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 19th April 2019 Attendees: Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR Joerg Schilling, FOKUS Fraunhofer Geoff Clare, The Open Group Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems Dev. Andrew Josey, The Open Group Apologies: Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR Eric Blake, Red Hat * General news Andrew reported that Eric Blake would be taking on the role as The Open Group OR going forward. He reminded all to review the draft PAR that had been sent to the Core team since we want to progress it this quarter. Correction to the minutes from last week: Bug 1212 had not been re-opened. It was decided to let the ongoing discussion on the mailing list complete before any decision to reopen. * 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 1214: remove claim about pthread_kill behavior when sig is 0? Accepted as Marked. http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1214 This was discussed again and the resolution from the previous meeting left as is. Bug 1215: XSI shading on text about abnormal termination with actions Accepted http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1215 This item is tagged for TC3-2008 Bug 1217: ls missing support for sockets Accepted http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1217 This item is tagged for Issue 8 Bug 1218: Add reallocarray() OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1218 Action: Eric to ask if The Open Group is willing to sponsor this interface. A full set of changes would need to be developed. Bug 1219: snprintf requirement to fail when n > INT_MAX conflicts with C OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1219 Action: Nick (on his return) to ask C committee for guidance, whether an n > INT_MAX but less than SIZE_MAX, where SIZE_MAX is between, inclusively, INT_MAX+1 and UINT_MAX (or higher on 64-bit architectures) may be a preemptive reason to fail the interface, without examining any other arguments. Next Steps ---------- The next calls are on: There will be NO CALL April 22 2019 (Monday) April 25th 2019 (Thursday) This call will be for 90 minutes. Calls are anchored on US time. (8am Pacific) Apologies in advance: 2019-04-11 - 2019-04-25 inclusive Nick Stoughton 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#