Austin Group Minutes of the 24 July Teleconference 	Austin-178 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group.              July 25, 2003

Attendees

Andrew Josey, The Open Group
Don Cragun , Sun, PASC OR
Mark Brown, IBM, TOG OR 
Ulrich Drepper, Red Hat
Dave Butenhof, HP
Joanna Farley, Sun 
Joerg Schilling, Fokus

Apologies
Nick Stoughton, USENIX, WG15 OR


XCU 
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ERN 10 A/M
Geoff had proposed the following compromise

c_nlink to be set to a value "greater than or equal to the number of
links in the archive referencing the file"  , but those on the call
(including the two ORs present) still felt that the original wording 
in the ERN was the best way to go, since cpio
is still a standard format we should still care about older archivers
and the current XCU wording response caters for that.  Some additional
rationale was added to XCU ERN 10. (It was also noted on the call
that SVR4 and derivatives support hard links to symbolic links).

XSH ERN 114
Leave OPEN for now,
Agree that this example is long. And agree we might need to
split it down, generally we need to keep the examples
within one page. 

(The pros of a long program are that we can
compile and verify the code)

We are working on a replacement based on the input 
(Dave B will take an action) 

Andrew also noted that the die() routine could be extracted as an example
for strerror_r:

Example use of strerror_r()

This function prints its arguments to stderr, and 
the error message string corresponding to the errno
value passed in as the argument error_code and terminates the process.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

 ...

void die(const char* text, const int error_code, const char* where,  
             const int   line  )
{
  char error_string[80]; /* error message string for error_code  */
  int  rc;               /* code returned by strerror_r          */

  fprintf (stderr, "%s at %s:%d.\n|___ error %d: ", text, where, line, 
        error_code);

  /*
   *  Obtain human readable description of error_code.
   */
  rc = strerror_r (error_code, error_string, sizeof (error_string));
  if (rc == -1) 
  {                  
	/* strerror_r has failed */
  }
  else
  {    /* print error message string */
    fprintf (stderr, "%s.\n", error_string);
  }
  exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
}



XSH ERN 115 A/M

XSH ERN 77
Reject, since the action here it to consider two other
ERNS that will be considered separately.

Other business

Andrew noted that ISO have informed him that they intend
to publish the 2003 Edition in August (either Aug 1 or Aug 15)

Next Meeting

Andrew will update the aardvark reports on the web site with the
latest information including new aardvark subsequently received.
The next call will be July 31