Minutes of the 25th February 2021 Teleconference Austin-1106 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 27th February 2021 Attendees: Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR (leaving early) Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR Joerg Schilling Eric Blake, Red Hat, The Open Group OR Geoff Clare, The Open Group Andrew Josey, The Open Group Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems Dev. Richard Hansen Apologies: Eric Ackermann, HPI, University of Potsdam Tom Thompson, IEEE * General news Andrew noted that the New APIs ballot at The Open Group was expected to pass and due to a low return he was allowing time for additional votes to be returned. * 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 1406: clarification of SEEK_END when current pointer doesn't match buffer size OPEN https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1406 We are still waiting for input from implementations on this item before proceeding. Bug 1417: Need to make sure that makefiles with += and ?= are portable to all make implementations Accepted as Marked https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1417 This item is tagged for Issue 8. On page 2895 line 97283 section make (Macros), change: In all cases the value of string2 is defined as all characters, if any, after the , up to a comment character ('#') or an unescaped . Any characters immediately after the or immediately before the shall be ignored. to: In all cases the value of string1 is defined as all characters from the first non- character to the last non- character, inclusive, before the =, ::=, ?=, or +=. Portable applications shall ensure that a precedes the ::=, ?=, or += in those forms to avoid any parsing ambiguity with implementations that permit , , or in macro names as extensions. The value of string2 is defined as all characters from the first non- character, if any, after the , up to but not including a comment character ('#') or an unescaped . On page 2895 line 97286 section make (Macros) change: Applications shall select macro names from the set of characters consisting solely of characters from the portable character set (see [xref to XBD 6.1). A macro name shall not contain an . Implementations may allow other characters in macro names as extensions. to: Portable applications shall select macro names from the set of characters consisting solely of characters from the portable filename character set. Implementations may allow other characters in macro names as extensions; however, a macro name shall not contain an , , or control character. Bug 1418: Add options to ulimit to match get/setrlimit() OPEN https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1418 We will return to this item 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: March 1st 2021 (Monday) This call will be for 60 minutes. March 4th 2020 (Thursday) This call will be for 90 minutes. Apologies in advance: Eric Ackermann, Thu 2021-02-25 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)