Minutes of the 14th December 2020 Teleconference Austin-1088 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 16th December 2020 Attendees: Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems Dev. Eric Blake, Red Hat, The Open Group OR Andrew Josey, The Open Group Geoff Clare, The Open Group Eric Ackermann, HPI, University of Potsdam Richard Hansen Joerg Schilling, FOKUS Fraunhofer Apologies: Tom Thompson, IEEE * General news A reminder that the 17th December meeting will be the last meeting before the New Year. * Outstanding actions (Please note that this section has been flushed to shorten the minutes - to locate the previous set of outstanding actions, look to the minutes from 13th June 2019 and earlier) Bug 1254: "asynchronous list" description uses "command" instead of "AND-OR list" OPEN https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1254 Action: Joerg to investigate how his shell behaves. Bug 700 - Nick to raise this issue with the C committee Bug 713 - Nick to raise with the C committee. Bug 739 - Nick to raise with the C committee. * Current Business Bug 1432: Possible rendering bug in webpage for pr utility? Accepted https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1432 Andrew noted he has corrected the layout issue but left the bug open for now as there was a second comment in the bug not yet addressed. Subsequent to the meeting bug 1434 has been filed for the second comment, so 1432 has been closed. Bug 1368: Unworldly use of redirection and mailx(1) in at(1) and batch(1) examples. Accepted as Marked https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1368 This item is tagged for Issue 8 After applying the changes from 0001347 make the following changes: On page 2479 lines 79638-79640 (XCU at EXAMPLES) change: at now + 1 hour <&1 >outfile | mailx mygroup ! to: at now + 1 hour <&1 >outfile | mailx -s "outfile update" mygroup EOF Note that this always sends mail when there has been an attempt to update outfile and the body of the message will be empty unless an error occurred. 3. The following shows how to capture both standard error and standard output: at now + 1 hour <&1 run-batch-processing 2>&1 >&3 \ | mailx -E -s "errors during batch processing" mygroup } | mailx -s "batch processing output" mygroup EOF and renumber the later examples. On page 2523 lines 81460-81462 (XCU batch EXAMPLES) change: batch <&1 >outfile | mailx mygroup ! to: batch <&1 >outfile | mailx -s "outfile update" mygroup EOF Note that this always sends mail when there has been an attempt to update outfile and the body of the message will be empty unless an error occurred. 3. The following shows how to capture both standard error and standard output: batch <&1 run-batch-processing 2>&1 >&3 \ | mailx -E -s "errors during batch processing" mygroup } | mailx -s "batch processing output" mygroup EOF Bug 1371: Definition of stream is XSH-specific Accepted https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1371 This item is ragged for TC3-2008. Bug 1372: Rationale says there is no mount point definition, but there is OPEN https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1372 We started this item and will continue next time Gettext draft. We will return to this on a future call. The gettext draft in the etherpad is at https://posix.rhansen.org/p/gettext_draft https://posix.rhansen.org/p/gettext_split Next Steps ---------- The next calls are on: December 17th 2020 (Thursday) This call will be for 90 minutes. This will be the last call before the New Year. January 4th 2021 (Monday) This call will be for 60 minutes. Apologies in advance: Tom Thompson (rest of December). Calls are anchored on US time. (8am Pacific) Please check the calendar invites for dial in details. Bugs are at: https://austingroupbugs.net An etherpad is usually up for the meeting, with a URL using the date format as below: https://posix.rhansen.org/p/20xx-mm-dd (For write access this uses The Open Group single sign on, for those individuals with gitlab.opengroup.org accounts. Please contact Andrew if you need to be setup)