Interconnect Software Consortium Socket API Extensions Working Group.
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Meeting:
	Thursday 31st 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
	Vish Subramanian, HP
	John Kasperski, IBM
	Jeff Messing, IBM
	Satya Sharma, IBM
	Louis Laborde, HP
	Juliana Hsu, IBM

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Agenda:

1. Agenda bashing.
   Frequency of meetings.
   Various issues relating to the API.

2. Review action items.
   See below.

3. Approve Last Minutes.
   dme hadn't sent them.

4. Frequency of meeting.
   dme suggested that the group should move back to one meeting
   per-week.  This would take place on Thursday at the same time as
   the current Thursday meeting.

   No objections.

   Hence the next meeting will take place on Thursday the 7th
   November (see below).

5. exs_postmg_t pointer in evt_xfermsg_t

   John asked if it would be better to directly include the
   exs_postmsg_t structure in the evt_xfermsg_t.  General opinion was
   that this was not required, and that the caller must maintain the
   memory indicated by the exs_postmsg_t pointer in order that the
   implementation may update the structure on completion of the
   operation.

5. exs_qmodify()

   A long discussion about using exs_qmodify() to update event
   registrations, queue depth and signal indicator simultaneously
   took place.

   A decision was taken that we will:
     - update exs_qmodify() such that it is used to modify attributes
       of the queue (not registrations).  It will take a single {
       type, value } pair as indicators of the attribute to be
       modified.  Initially only two attributes will be supported:
       queue depth and signal indicator.
     - a new call, exs_qregister() will be created to support
       manipulating the registration of event types on an event
       queue.  It will have similar arguments to the current
       exs_qmodify() call, without the depth and signal indicator
       arguments.

6. Checking errno's.

   Vish asked that we all go through and check that the errno
   indications given in the API are adequate and appropriate.

   Discussion occurred around whether other errno's than those
   specified will be permitted in an implementation.  The general
   desire is to no permit this.  dme to check with the Austin Group
   to understand existing practice.

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.

2002-10-01/02 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 7th November 2002
	20:00GMT (21:00BST, 04:00p EDT, 03:00p CDT, 01:00p PDT,
		 22:00CEST, 05:00JST+) 

	Toll Free (US & Canada):          1-888-742-8686
	International:                    +1-303-928-2600
	Conference ID:                    3378790

	Alternate teleconference numbers:
	Toll Free (US & Canada):	  1 877 214 5010
	International:			  +1 (504) 588 9772
	Code:				  769497

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Contact Details:
	email:	icsc-socketwg@opengroup.org
	web:	http://www.opengroup.org/icsc/sockets/protected