Interconnect Software Consorium Socket API Extensions Working Group.
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Meeting:
	Tuesday 15th October 2002
	20:00GMT (21:00BST, 04:00p EDT, 03:00p CDT, 01:00p PDT,
		 22:00CEST, 05:00JST+) 

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Attendees:
	David Edmondson, Sun
	Jeremy Harris, Sun
	Jeff Messing, IBM
	Vish Subramanian, HP
	Louis Laborde, HP

Apologies:
	John Kasperski, IBM
	Satya Sharma, IBM

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Agenda:

1. Agenda bashing.
   Schedule.
   Are exs_read() and exs_write() required ?

2. Review action items.
   See below.

3. Approve Last Minutes.

4. Schedule.
   We will miss the 17th.  With dme and Satya out for a week, next
   likely date for delivery to the SC is 29th.

   dme to complete requirements specification for Thursday.

5. exs_read() and exs_write().
   Discussion about simplifying the API by collapsing many of the
   more complex calls onto a single call per direction.

   The complex call would support a large event data structure
   supporting all of the various options.  The difficulty with this is
   that the structure is overly large when used for poll emulation
   (where they may be a large number of events).
   
   Given this complex call, should a very simple call be made
   available ?

   See Louis mail of 2002-10-10, 18:11.  Complex uses exs_postmsg,
   which has to be maintained.  Simple uses smaller.  Completion of
   complex has pointer.  Simple uses inline.

   EXS_EVT_SENDFILE
   EXS_EVT_RECVFILE
   EXS_EVT_SENDMSG
   EXS_EVT_RECVMSG
   EXS_EVT_SEND
   EXS_EVT_RECV

   SEND/RECV indicate simple case.  SENDMSG/RECVMSG indicate complex
   case.

   Multiple operations cause exs_postmsg_t to be wrapped in a larger
   version.

   POLL case is solved as the event indicates a pointer for the data
   case now.

6. Simple case.
   Flat or built ?

   No flags.

   fd, buf, len, cor, handle


signal based completion notification.

7. AOB

   dme on holiday from 2002-10-21 through 2002-10-25.

Future Topics:

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Outstanding Actions:

2002-04-18/02 dme.
	Draft a paper describing why a unified socket/file IO API
	would be useful.

	Kick David.

2002-08-06/01 dme.
	Produce a clarification on the results of the C3.1 and C7
	vote.

	Pending clarification of the event queue <-> socket binding
	scope.

2002-10-01/01 dme.
	Produce a list of 'todo' items for the requirements
	specification.

	Done.

2002-10-01/02 dme.
	Update the requirements specification to conform with recent
	agreements.

2002-10-03/01 dme.
	Shared memory flag: add to the requirements specification and
	draft API.

2002-10-03/02 dme.
	Sendfile/recvfile: draft an update to the requirements
	specification to include the opinion at the meeting.

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Next Meeting:
	Thursday 17th October 2002
	20:00GMT (21:00BST, 04:00p EDT, 03:00p CDT, 01:00p PDT,
		 22:00CEST, 05:00JST+) 

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