Minutes of the 13th February 2023 Teleconference Austin-1291 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 14th February 2023 Attendees: Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR Nick Stoughton, Logitech/USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR Andrew Josey, The Open Group (partial) Eric Ackermann, HPI, University of Potsdam Geoff Clare, The Open Group Eric Blake, Red Hat, The Open Group OR Apologies Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems Dev. Tom Thompson, IEEE * General news Nick reported that ISO CIB ballot has closed and passed. The next steps will be submitting the draft to ISO/IEC JTC 1. A reminder that the closing date for sign for IEEE balloting is 18th February (note to all that this is not a requirement, but an option and aimed at IEEE members). There will be NO MEETING on February 20th as it is a holiday in the US. * Carried Forward This section trimmed -- see Austin/1264 Bug 1406: clarification of SEEK_END when current pointer doesn't match buffer size OPEN https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1406 Actions carried forward: ACTION: Andrew to contact Rich Felker (dalias) and Alan Coopersmith (Solaris) for feedback. Completed ACTION: Eric B to contact glibc folks. Bug 1616: Standardize mktemp utility OPEN https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1616 We will need a sponsor; it is not suitable for inclusion in Issue 8. ACTION: Eric to ask The Open Group to sponsor adding the mktemp utility (for Issue 9). Bug 1291: Add method to obtain pthread attributes OPEN https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1291 Needs additional details and sponsor for Issue 9 Bug 0000251: Forbid newline, or even bytes 1 through 31 (inclusive), in filenames OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=251 (brought forward) Don has an action to produce a proposal. Bug 1622: Standardize getpeereid function OPEN https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1622 Action: Eric B to ask The Open Group if they are willing to sponsor this function for Issue 9. * Current Business Bug 1629: Shell vs. read(2) errors on the script OPEN https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1629 A reminder that this item it is being left open for feedback until 2023-03-09. Bug 1630: Alias names https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1630 OPEN This was discussed. For filenames, POSIX says in XBD 4.8 (or 4.9 in D2.1): Applications should avoid using filenames that have the character as the first character since this may cause problems when filenames are passed as command line arguments. We are leaning towards adopting a similar solution for alias names, but would like to know more about the problems that alias names beginning with caused for mksh. All we have to go on at the moment is the vague mention in the description, "there were problems and ambiguities stemming from them (mostly wrt. options)". We note that shells other than mksh do not seem to have problems in this area. Bug 1631: Default archive rules are incompatible with parallel processing. OPEN https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1631 We started on this item and will continue next time. Next Steps ---------- The next calls are on: Thu 2023-02-16 (general bugs) Mon 2023-02-13 NO MEETING Thu 2023-02-23 (general bugs) 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)