Minutes of the 6th May 2021 Teleconference Austin-1125 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 7th May 2021 Attendees: Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1 / SC 22 OR Joerg Schilling Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR Richard Hansen Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems Dev. Eric Blake, Red Hat, The Open Group OR Andrew Josey, The Open Group Geoff Clare, The Open Group Keld Simonsen Apologies: Eric Ackermann, HPI, University of Potsdam * General news This was a call dedicated to General bugs. * 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 We discussed a number of issues arising from the new APIs specification integration into Draft 2. Bug 1469: Inconsistent return type for tfind and tsearch Accepted https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1469 This is tagged for Issue 8. Bug 1467: Poor language in CHANGE HISTORY entry for Issue 8 for ':' command (defect 1272) changes. Accepted https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1467 This is tagged for TC3-2008. Bug 1451: awk ARGV description addition about -v is problematic Accepted as Marked https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1451 This item is tagged Issue 8 Change: It is unspecified whether this alteration to ARGV can be made using the -v option. to: Note that alterations to ARGV cannot be made using either the assignment operand or the -v option, because an operand with a '[' before '=' is treated as a file operand, not an assignment operand, and applications are required to ensure that the -v option-argument has the same form as an assignment operand. (See the OPTIONS and OPERANDS sections.) We then returned to Bug 1436 and 1437 and are still working on them Bug 1436: make: add "-j max_jobs" option to support simultaneous rule processing https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1436 Bug 1437: make: (document .NOTPARALLEL and .WAIT special targets) in RATIONAL https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1437 The next call will be a gettext 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: May 10th 2021 (Monday) Gettext This call will be for 90 minutes. May 13th 2021 (Thursday) General Bugs This call will be for 90 minutes. Calls are anchored on US time. (8am Pacific) Please check the calendar invites for dial in details. Bugs are at: https://austingroupbugs.net Apologies in advance: Richard Hansen 2021-05-10 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)