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Minutes of the 21 Jan 2010 teleconference

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Subject: Minutes of the 21 Jan 2010 teleconference
From: Andrew Josey <ajosey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:56:54 +0000
Organization: The Open Group
All
Enclosed are the minutes from this weeks teleconference,
regards
Andrew
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Minutes of the 21 January 2010 Teleconference     Austin-474 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group.             January 23 , 2010

Attendees
Andrew Josey, The Open Group
Don Cragun,  PASC OR
Mark Brown, IBM, TOG OR 
Ulrich Drepper, Red Hat
Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC OR

Apologies
Geoff Clare, The Open Group

We picked up on the current bugs

Bug #162 Determining System Endianess during preprocessing OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=162
Nick reported that the C committee hasn't shown enthusiasm to introduce
macros for endianess handling.  They are not opposed but somebody needs
to do the work and preferably before the April C committee meeting.

If any of the people commenting here has interest, please provide a little
paper describing the new feature with justification and changes to the
spec.  Either post it to the C committee mailing list directly or post it
to the Austin Group mailing list and it will be appropriately forwarded. 

Bugs #180,#183 Action: Andrew to work on online pubs bugs and report back

Bug #205 Action: Andrew to send Dave Korn a reminder

Bug #206 Typo in Change History  Accepted
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=206

Bug #207 unnecessary types used only in XSI Accepted
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=207

Bug #0000208: SIG_HOLD marked as CS not XSI Accepted
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=208

Bug #0000209 lockf is XSI, constants not Accepted
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=209

Bug #0000210 fsblkcnt_t and fsfilcnt_t incorrectly marked XSI Accepted
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=210

Bug #0000211 inttypes should provide wchar_t Accepted
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=211

Bug #0000212 editorial errors in <time.h> Accepted
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=212

Bug #0000213 Definition of pututxline() is slightly too restrictive to allow
flexible implementations OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=213
We considered this during the 2010-01-21 conference call.

We agree with Bugnote: 375 and plan to address that issue.

We are concerned that the main change proposed for this issue would have
observable effects on existing applications, and may lead  to breaking such
applications.

We are willing to remove the absolute requirement to implement pututxline
with getutxid, but not to go as far as suggested. Proposed new wording:


      If the process has appropriate privileges, the pututxline( )
      function shall write out the structure into the user accounting
      database. It shall search for a record as if by getutxid() that
      satisfies the request. If this search succeeds, then the entry
      shall be replaced.  Otherwise, a new entry shall be made at the
      end of the user accounting database.


Bug #0000214 "dot" should mention the effect of `return' Accept as Marked
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=214

Page 2342 line 74074 add 

(return special built-in utility)

Page 2356 line 74480 add to the see also list references to: 
Section 2.9.5 Function Definition Command
dot special built-in

Page 2324 line 73400 after the word return add: 
(a cross-reference to the return special built in utility)

p 2355 l74432 add to the end of the line:
"or dot script" 


Action: Andrew review the bugs for any interpretations ready to start their
review cycle

Next Steps
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The next call will be on February 11 at 16:00 UK time/08:00 Pacific
to carry on with the defect reports

http://austingroupbugs.net


See the calendar for the list of dialup numbers.

An IRC  channel will be available for the meeting
 irc://irc.freestandards.org #austin

ICAL: 
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Andrew Josey                      The Open Group
Austin Group Chair                Thames Tower, 37-45 Station Road,
Email: a.josey@opengroup.org      Reading,Berks.RG1 1LX,England
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