Interconnect Software Consorium Socket API Extensions Working Group.
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Meeting:
	Thursday 20th March 2003
	21:00GMT (04:00p EST, 03:00p CST, 01:00p PST, 22:00CET,
		 06:00JST+)

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Attendees:
	David Edmondson, Sun
	Jeff Messing, IBM
	Juliana Hsu, IBM
	Jeremy Harris, Sun
	Vish Subramanian, HP
	Saeki Toshiaki, Fujitsu
	Louis Laborde, HP

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Agenda:

1. Agenda bashing.
   Manual pages.
   exs_init (Jeff).

2. Manual Pages.

   Assignment:

   exs_q*	Vish
   exs_cancel	Vish
   exs_send*	Louis
   exs_recv*	Jeremy
   exs_m*	Jeff
   exs_init	Juliana

   Initial target is to have some pages available for review at the
   meeting next week.

3. exs_init (Jeff)

   A long discussion about API and ABI versioning and how this
   affects exs_init().

   The conclusion of the discussion was that exs_init will be:

   exs_version_t exs_init(exs_version_t requested_version);

   An application will pass in a requested version of the API.

   The implementation will return an indication of the version number
   of the API that it will support or zero to indicate that no
   version of the API is implemented.

   If the implementation is able to support the requested version,
   that version will be returned.  If the implementation is not able
   to support the requested version, an implementation preferred
   version will be returned.

   If the version returned by exs_init() is the same as that requested
   by the application, the function has succeeded - the application
   may continue and use the functions defined in the API.

   If the version returned by exs_init() is not the same as that
   requested by the application, it is either zero (0) indicating that
   the implementation supports no versions of the API or a non-zero
   value which indicates the implementations preferred version.

   If an implementation returns a different (non-zero) version than
   that requested by the application, a subsequent call to exs_init()
   for the returned version MUST succeed.

   If the implementation returns zero as the preferred implementation
   version, errno will be used to indicate any cause of failure.

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Next Meeting:
	Thursday 27th March 2003
	21:00GMT (04:00p EST, 03:00p CST, 01:00p PST, 22:00CET,
		 06:00JST+)

	Toll Free (US & Canada):          1-888-742-8686
	International:                    +1-303-928-2600
	Conference ID:                    3378790
	Host code:			  5400

	Alternate teleconference numbers:
	Toll Free (US & Canada):	  1 877 214 5010
	International:			  +1 (504) 588 9772
	Conference ID:			  769497
	Host code:			  237426

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