Minutes of the 21st April 2022 Teleconference Austin-1215 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 23rd April 2022 Attendees: Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR Nick Stoughton, Logitech/USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR Andrew Josey, The Open Group Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems Dev. Eric Ackermann, HPI, University of Potsdam Eric Blake, Red Hat, The Open Group OR Geoff Clare, The Open Group Apologies: Tom Thompson * General news This was a call dedicated to general bugs. * Outstanding actions Bug 1533: struct tm: add tm_gmtoff (and tm_zone) field(s) OPEN https://austingroupbugs.net/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1533 This was discussed in the February 3, 2022 teleconference. Leave it open until we get a more complete suggestion for the Desired Action. * Current Business Bug 1550: clarifications/ambiguities in the description of context addresses and their delimiters for sed OPEN https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1550 Geoff had completed his action to propose wording as suggested in bugnote 5756 Leave open for feedback (ongoing discussion). Bug 1551: sed: ambiguities in the how BREs/EREs are parsed/interpreted between delimiters (especially when these are special characters) OPEN https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1551 Geoff had completed his action to propose wording as suggested in bugnote 5756 This is expected to be closed as a dup of 1550. Bug 1556: clarify meaning of \n used in a bracket expression in a sed context address or s-command OPEN https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1556 Aim to close as a dup of 1550 when we resolve 1550. Bug 1560: clarify wording of command substitution OPEN https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1560 Leave this and related bugs 1561, 1562 and 1564 open pending reviews/discussions. Bug 1565: Ambiguous which length addr_len is set to Accepted https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1565 This item is tagged for TC3-2008 Bug 1566: awk length() should support arrays Accepted as Marked https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1566 This item is tagged for Issue 8 The following is the desired action with some editorial wording changes... Replace the description of the length function with: length[([arg])] If arg is an array, return the number of elements in the array; otherwise, return the length, in characters, of arg taken as a string, or of the whole record, $0, if there is no argument. Bug 1567: ambiguous description when sh is invoked with multiple of -s, -c and command_file Rejected https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1567 As noted in the other comments, no change to the standard is needed. Therefore, this bug has been rejected. Bug 1568: sum utility listed as standard utility in spite of its intentional exclusion Accepted https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1568 This item is tagged for TC3-2008 Bug 1569: pointer is not a C-Language Data Type Accepted https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1569 This item is tagged for TC3-2008 Bug 1570: Documentation: faulty (display of) equal-sign(s) Accepted https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1570 This item is tagged for TC3-2008 Geoff will find all the occurrences in code examples when he edits the troff source. Bug 1571: minor improvement to the locale precedence order Accepted https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1571 This item is tagged for TC3-2008 Bug 1572: Incorrect CX shading for wctomb() Accepted https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1572 This item is tagged for TC3-2008 Bug 1573: inet_pton: clarify IPv4 "standard IPv4 dotted-decimal form" Accepted as Marked https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1573 This item is tagged for TC3-2008 On line 38478-38480, change:
The inet_pton() function does not accept other formats (such as the octal numbers, hexadecimal numbers, ...
to:
Leading zeroes shall be allowed. The inet_pton() function does not accept other formats (such as octal numbers, hexadecimal numbers, ...
Bug 1574: EPERM condition does not match unlinkat description Accepted as Marked https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1574 This item is tagged for TC3-2008 Make the changes in the desired action, including the final parenthetical part. Next Steps ---------- The next calls are on: Mon 2022-04-25 (gettext) Thu 2022-04-28 (general bugs) Apologies in Advance: Don Cragun, 2022-04-25 Andrew Josey, 2022-04-25 The calls are 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 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)