[1003.1(2008)/Issue 7 0000111]: ISO TR 24731-2 alignment

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The following issue has been UPDATED. 
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http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=111 
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Reported By:                nick
Assigned To:                ajosey
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Project:                    1003.1(2008)/Issue 7
Issue ID:                   111
Category:                   System Interfaces
Type:                       Clarification Requested
Severity:                   Comment
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     Closed
Name:                       Nick Stoughton 
Organization:               USENIX Association 
User Reference:              
Section:                    fmemopen 
Page Number:                866 
Line Number:                28754 
Final Accepted Text:         
Resolution:                 Rejected
Fixed in Version:           
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Date Submitted:             2009-06-30 19:47 UTC
Last Modified:              2009-07-01 16:47 UTC
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Summary:                    ISO TR 24731-2 alignment
Description: 
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 COMMENT                                          Enhancement Request
Number 40
 nick:xxxxxxxxxx                             Defect in XSH fmemopen (rdvk#
 1)
 {NMS-24731-2-align}                      Thu, 4 Jun 2009 02:48:30 +0100
(BST)

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During the process of balloting the C language Technical Report on
 dynamic memory functions (TR 24731-2) a comment was recevied from
Canada:

 Because this feature is only useful when the stream is
 opened for reading or updating" says that the feature is
 useful for reading. Given the buffer contents are not
 defined at that point, we need an example where reading
 would be useful (Ex. A bad random number generator
 seed).

 They also pointed out:
 "fmemopen call may fail if the mode argument does not
 include a +" contradicts the reading aspect of the
 Because this feature is only useful when the stream is
 opened for reading or updating" statement given +
 means update.

 They further suggested changing the text:

 Because this feature is only useful when the
 stream is opened for updating"

 The C committee is proposing to accept this change, but want to know if
 this should then be marked as a POSIX extension in some way (just as
 POSIX uses CX shading).
Desired Action: 
Change
 Because this feature is only useful when the stream is opened
 for reading or updating"

 to

 Because this feature is only useful when
 the stream is opened for updating"
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 (0000145) Don Cragun (manager) - 2009-06-30 22:18
 http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=111#c145 
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I think it is important to note that the reason this request was rejected
is because the current text in the standard matches the text that was
requested.  Therefore, there is no need to make any change.