Austin Group Minutes of the 16 December Teleconference Austin-232 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. December 17, 2004 Attendees Andrew Josey, The Open Group Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC OR Loic Domaigne Ulrich Drepper, Red Hat Mats Wichmann, Intel Mark Brown, IBM, TOG OR Apologies Don Cragun , Sun, PASC OR Status of next plenary meeting ----------------------------------- The ISO POSIX Advisory group is meeting on the Monday. This meeting will commence at 10am. There will be a teleconference bridge open for this meeting as for the rest of the week. This will be the regular bridge number. Andrew had called for other items for the agenda. The following have been added: 1. Response to the draft Technical Report (TR) from ISO WG14 (the C Language committee), entitled Specification for Secure C Library Functions This 56 page document touches on a number of interfaces , produces a number of functions ending _s, with the aim of bounds checking of arrays plus other changes, fopen now exclusively opens files, a new implementation of scanf, with the aim that use of these interfaces will lead to more "secure" C programs. Andrew noted that he had updated the permissions on this document in the document register to make it publically available (thanks to John Benito for confirming this). http://www.opengroup.org/platform/single_unix_specification/doc.tpl?gdid=6355 The Austin Group needs to form a reponse to this TR. We are therefore soliciting comments on this report. Please use the aardvark comment format using paragraph number rather than line number within pages. 2. Access Control Lists Discussion on future status of ACL from the former POSIX.2c and POSIX.1e draft standards. (Champion Nick Stoughton) 3. High Resolution Timestamps Garrett Wollmann is doing a survey on high resolution timestamps we will reserve a time slot for that. 4. POSIX Certification and test status update Andrew will also report on POSIX certification and conformance test status Andrew will update the agenda adding these new items together with appropriate links to material Defect Report Processing ------------------------- The group picked up on the latest batch of defect reports, which are available at the following URL: http://www.opengroup.org/austin/aardvark/latest/ XSH ERN 52 BUG in sched_setscheduler OPEN This item was re-opened based on various mail exchanges on the reflector. Loic has proposed some changes and restructuring to this page and XSH 2.8.4. Dave B has also submitted comments. The group agreed in principle with the suggested approach and encourage Loic and Dave to continue with refining a proposal. XCU ERN 48 find -L dangling link Accept as marked below. This is an interpretation of the standard. It is a defect and concerns are being forwarded to the sponsor. Proposed changes for a future revision are to add the text "If the referenced file does not exist, the file information and type shall be for the link itself" to the description of the -L option. The following item has not made the inqueue as yet pthread.h PTHREAD_RWLOCK_INITIALIZER missing Accept as marked. This symbol was previously in Version 2 of the Single UNIX Specification. This is an interpretation of the standard. This symbol should be reinstated as an XSI extension. Changes are needed to XBD pthread.h and XSH pthread_rwlock_init/destroy, the text can be taken from the Version 2 specification. Next Steps ----------- Andrew will update the aardvark reports with the latest inbound defect reports. There are a number of open action items outstanding: 1. Don Cragun Pathname Resolution proposal 2. Larry Dwyer system() and threads 3. Joerg Schilling wording for XCU ERN 1 pax The next teleconference call is scheduled for during the Jan 10-13 face-to-face meeting. The bridge will be open 9am-5pm each day, except for Monday where it will start at 10am.