Minutes of the 18th July 2019 Teleconference     Austin-953 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 19th July 2019

Attendees:
    Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR
    Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR
    Andrew Josey, The Open Group (partial)
    Geoff Clare, The Open Group
    Joerg Schilling, FOKUS Fraunhofer
    Eric Blake, Red Hat, The Open Group OR
    Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems Dev.


* General news 

Two annual status reports have been submitted to SC22 for their
September plenary. These are in the document register
as Austin/950 and Austin/951.

Andrew noted that he is still calling for input for talking points around
UNIX@50 years old.  A page is available in the etherpad for input:
https://posix.rhansen.org/p/unix-at-50


* 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 13th June 2019 and earlier)


Bug 1220: Add an API to query the name of a locale category of a locale object OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1220

Action: Eric to ask if The Open Group is willing to sponsor this interface.


* Current Business

Bug 1234: in most shells, backslash doesn't have two meaning wrt pattern matching        OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1234

We agreed this item is still undergoing some discussions on the
reflector and we will revisit status at a future meeting.


Bug 1252: Extend TZ to allow times outside 00-24 range, permanent DST Accepted as Marked
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1252

This item was resolved at the previous meeting but there was some more discussion. No change was made to the resolution from the previous meeting.

Bug 1254: "asynchronous list" description uses "command" instead of "AND-OR list" OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1254

We deferred this item to let the discussions continue on the mailing list.

Bug 1255: improper shell code in glob() example        Accepted as Marked
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1255

This item is tagged for TC3-2008.

On page 1111 line 37598,37600 section glob(), change:
    ls -l *.c
to:
    ls -ld -- *.c


On page 1111 line 37609 section glob(), change:
    ls -l *.c *.h
to:
    ls -ld -- *.c *.h


On page 1111 line 37601 section glob(), change:
    The application could obtain approximately the same result using
    the sequence:
to:
    The application could obtain the same result (except for error
    handling, omitted here for simplicity) using the sequence:

Change the first example (lines 37603-37606) to:
  globbuf.gl_offs = 3;
  glob("*.c", GLOB_DOOFFS|GLOB_NOCHECK|GLOB_ERR, NULL, &globbuf);
  globbuf.gl_pathv[0] = "ls";
  globbuf.gl_pathv[1] = "-ld";
  globbuf.gl_pathv[2] = "--"; // to establish the initial arguments that
                              // sh -c "ls -ld --" would produce for both examples

The second (lines 37610-37614) to:
  could be simulated using GLOB_APPEND as follows:

  globbuf.gl_offs = 3;
  glob("*.c", GLOB_DOOFFS|GLOB_NOCHECK|GLOB_ERR, NULL, &globbuf);
  glob("*.h", GLOB_DOOFFS|GLOB_NOCHECK|GLOB_ERR|GLOB_APPEND, NULL, &globbuf);
  ...

Bug 1256: Mismatch with C99 over number of external symbols     Accepted
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1256

This item is tagged for TC3-2008.


Bug 1257: Missing "usable in #if" requirement for <stdbool.h> Accepted
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1257

This item is tagged for TC3-2008.


Next Steps 
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The next calls are on:

July  22 2019 (Monday)
This call will be for 60 minutes.

July 25 2019 (Thursday)
This call will be for 90 minutes.

July  29 2019 (Monday)
This call will be for 60 minutes.

Apologies in advance:
    Geoff Clare, 2019-07-22
    Andrew Josey, 2019-07-22, 2019-07-25, 2019-07-29,2019-08-01,2019-08-05, 2019-08-08

Calls are anchored on US time. (8am Pacific) 

Please check the calendar invites for dial in details.

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#