Minutes of the 22nd March 2021 Teleconference Austin-1114 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 22nd March 2021 Attendees: Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR Eric Blake, Red Hat, The Open Group OR Eric Ackermann, HPI, University of Potsdam Geoff Clare, The Open Group Joerg Schilling Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems Dev. Apologies: Andrew Josey, The Open Group * General news Reminder:the USA switched to Daylight Saving Time on March 14, the UK and EU on March 28. All calls are anchored on US time, so calls between March 14 and 28 will be one hour earlier than normal in the UK and EU. * 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 1435: execlp and execvp should not execute a command interpreter when other members of the exec family would fail with ENOEXEC Accepted as Marked https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1435 This item is tagged for TC3-2008. At page 784, line 26542 exec DESCRIPTION, change: The argument path points to a pathname that identifies the new process image file. to: For the execl(), execle(), execv(), and execve() functions, the argument path points to a pathname that identifies the new process image file. At page 784, line 26543 exec DESCRIPTION, change: The argument file is used to construct a pathname ... to: For the execlp() and execvp() functions, the argument file is used to construct a pathname ... On page 2368 line 75615 section 2.9.1.1, change: If the executable file is not a text file, the shell may bypass this command execution. In this case, it shall write an error message, and shall return an exit status of 126. to: The shell may apply a heuristic check to determine if the file to be executed could be a script and may bypass this command execution if it determines that the file cannot be a script. In this case, it shall write an error message, and shall return an exit status of 126. Note: A common heuristic for rejecting files that cannot be a script is locating a NUL byte prior to a byte within a fixed-length prefix of the file. Since sh is required to accept input files with unlimited line lengths, the heuristic check cannot be based on line length. Bug 1436: make: add "-j max_jobs" option to support simultaneous rule processing https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1436 We started on this item and 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 25th 2020 (Thursday) This call will be for 90 minutes. March 29th 2021 (Monday) This call will be for 60 minutes. Apologies in advance: Eric Ackermann, Thu 2021-03-25 Tom Thompson, 2021-03-25 Calls are anchored on US time. (8am Pacific) Note that the US clocks will change on March 14th 2021. 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)