Subject: Minutes of the November 5 2009 teleconference
From: Andrew Josey <yyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: austin-group-l <The Austin Group>
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:50:41 +0000

hi All
Enclosed are the minutes from yesterdays teleconference
regards
Andrew
----------

Minutes of the 5 November 2009 Teleconference     Austin-469 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group.             November 6 , 2009

Attendees
Andrew Josey, The Open Group
Don Cragun,  PASC OR
Geoff Clare, The Open Group
Mark Brown, IBM, TOG OR 
Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC OR

Apologies
Ulrich Drepper, Red Hat

We first looked at outstanding interpretations where the review
period has expired.

Mantis #74  Pointer types problem
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=74
Action: Andrew close the interpretation as approved.
(completed)

Austin Interpretation 1003.1-2001 #003 
This is a related matter to #74 and was also now ready to
close as approved.
Action: Andrew close in the old interpretation system.
(completed)

We looked at the Mantis bugs

Mantis #73 wmemcmp C conflict OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=73
Nick reported that this issue was still open pending discussions
with the C committee ( a note was added to the bug)

Mantis #162 system endianess OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=162
Nick reported that this issue was still open pending discussions
with the C committee ( a note was added to the bug)

Mantis #167 getenv() and modifying environ directly Accept as marked
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=167
See bugnote 281.
This should go down the interpretations track for a 30 day review.

Mantis #168 how the shell executes external utilities Accept
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=168
This should go down the interpretations track for a 30 day review.
Changes for a future revision are as proposed in the Desired Action.

Mantis #169 date utility needs ``%s''  Accept as marked
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=169
Mark as Resolved as this is a future enhancement.
Changes for a future revision are as proposed in bugnote 283,
which impacts strftime() and strptime() as well as the date
utility.

Mantis #170 Mis-alignment between date utility and strftime  Reject
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=170
This has been rejected as it would create a conflict with the C Standard.

Mantis #171 Omission in syntax guideline 5  Accept
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=171
This should go down the interpretations track for a 30 day review.
Changes for a future revision are as proposed in the Desired Action.

Mantis #172 getlogin() and fds 0,1,2  Accept as marked
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=172
See bugnote 285
This should go down the interpretations track for a 30 day review.

Next Steps
----------
The next call will be on November 12 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
 {mailaddr} #austin

ICAL: http:yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/public/basic
XML: http:yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/public/basic


-- 
Andrew Josey                      The Open Group
Austin Group Chair                Thames Tower, 37-45 Station Road,
Email: yyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx      Reading,Berks.RG1 1LX,England
Tel:   +44 118 9508311 ext 2250   Fax: +44 118 9500110