Austin Group Minutes of the 28 November Teleconference Austin-329 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group.              November 29, 2006

Attendees
Andrew Josey, The Open Group
Don Cragun , Sun, PASC OR
Geoff Clare, The Open group
Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC OR
Ulrich Drepper, Red Hat
Mark Brown, IBM, TOG OR 


1. Action item review 
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ACTION 2005-01-01: Don Cragun to present paper on pathname resolution.
OPEN

ACTION 2006-02-04: Nick Stoughton to submit an aardvark against link()
when the appropriate time is reached w.r.t. approval of strawman 2.
CLOSED

ACTION 2006-09-01: Ulrich Drepper to prepare a paper making a
recomendation on imaginary type in C99.
OPEN

ACTION 2006-09-02: Ulrich and Nick to develop a draft PAR and criteria
for C++ POSIX binding for discussion.
OPEN (in progress)


ACTION 2006-09-08: Don Cragun to examine every XCU synopsis in the next
draft to check for correctness, and file aardvarks as appropriate.
OPEN


ACTION 2006-09-13: Andrew to make a pass through current closed
aardvarks against approved std, to move items to SD-5 or interpretations when
ready. 
Closed for D2R, but ongoing . See Austin/325 for the list of
specific changes for D2R from SD/5.

Action AI-2006-06-01: 
Andrew to work out the full set of changes for recirculation for XSH ERN 132
OPEN, ongoing in progress

Draft Status
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ISO Ballot commenced Nov 2nd.

Andrew commenced the IEEE ballot on November 28 2006.

Aardvark Bug Reports
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We picked up on the current aardvark
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/aardvark/latest/

XSH ERN 170 mq_open Accept as marked

mq_open (page 802,DESCRIPTION)
in O_CREAT

On line 23647:
Change from:
The user ID of the message queue shall be set to the effective user ID
of the process, and the group ID of the message queue shall be set to
the effective....process.

To:
The user ID of the message queue shall be set to the effective user
ID of the process. The group ID of the message queue shall be set to
the effective group ID of the process; however if the name argument is
visible in the filesystem the group ID may be set to the group ID of
the containing directory.

sem_open (page 1272,DESCRIPTION)
On line 39860
Change from:
The user ID of the semaphore is set to the effective user ID of the 
process; the group ID.....process.

To:
The user ID of the semaphore shall be set to the effective user
ID of the process. The group ID of the semaphore shall be set to
the effective group ID of the process; however if the name argument is
visible in the filesystem the group ID may be set to the group ID of
the containing directory.

shm_open (page 1347, DESCRIPTION)

On line 42012
Change from
"the user ID of the shared memory object shall be set to the effective
user ID of the process; the group ID of the shared memory object is set to
a system default group ID or to the effective group ID of the process.

to:
The user ID of the shared memory object shall be set to the effective user
ID of the process. The group ID of the shared memory object shall be set to
the effective group ID of the process; however if the name argument is
visible in the filesystem the group ID may be set to the group ID of
the containing directory.


XSH ERN 171 semop operations order Accept as Marked below

On page 1290 line 40406
Change from

The semop( ) function shall perform atomically a user-defined array
of semaphore operations on the set of semaphores associated with the
semaphore identifier specified by the argument semid.

to:
The semop( ) function shall perform atomically a user-defined array of
semaphore operations in array order on the set of semaphores associated
with the semaphore identifier specified by the argument semid.

XSH ERN 172 sigaction OPEN 

XSH ERN 173 macro rules OPEN

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

Next teleconference meeting December 14th 2006
Note that this is back to the normal day of the week.


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