Austin Group Minutes of the 4 December Teleconference Austin-201 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group.              December 5, 2003

Attendees

Andrew Josey, The Open Group
Don Cragun , Sun, PASC OR
Mike Karels
Nick Stoughton, USENIX, WG15 OR
Geoff Clare
Larry Dwyer
Mark Brown, IBM, TOG OR 
Seth Chaiken, Univerity of Albany


Apologies
Ulrich Drepper, Red Hat
Joanna Farley, Sun 
Dave Butenhof, HP


The purpose of the call was a discussion on the issues related
to Pathname Resolution raised in Austin Group interpretation
request AI-016.

These notes document the conclusions and agreed action items
from the call.

What should the behavior be for rename() when you are renaming a directory
and the 2nd argument names a non-existent file and has a trailing slash?

The concensus was that it should be unspecified whether rename() for
a directory with a second argument naming a non-existent file with a
trailing slash , creates the target name without the trailing slash or
fails.

It was agreed that we need to add rationale and possibly application
usage to the rename() page to explain why this is the case and provide
advice to applications.

Don Cragun agreed to take an action to draft an alternative revised
interpretation response for AI-016.

The concensus was that the interpretation should classify the issue
as being THE AMBIGUOUS SITUATION: "The standard is unclear on this
issue, and no conformance distinction can be made between alternative
implementations based on this. This is being referred to the sponsor."

Don will include an alternate set of changes to XBD 4.11 and other related
sections.

Draft Status
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Andrew reported briefly on the status of the current Technical Corrigendum
2 draft.

The IEEE Draft 6 ballot achieved 100% approval.
TC2 draft 6 was submitted to the IEEE Standards Board on December 2nd
for approval under the continuous review process.

The draft has also been submitted to ISO/SC22 secretariat, as a fasttrack
from the Project Editor. Note I am seeking advice on the fastest route
to arrive at the 2004 Edition of the standard and am awaiting a response.

The document has passed The Open Group company review ballot with
no negative votes. It will be submitted to The Open Group board
of Directors for formal approval shortly.

Next Steps
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Andrew  will update the aardvark reports with the latest inbound
defect reports.

The Next call is January 8 2004