Austin Group Minutes of the 11 Jan 2007 Teleconference Austin-333 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. January 12, 2007 Attendees Andrew Josey, The Open Group Ulrich Drepper, Red Hat Mark Brown, IBM, TOG OR Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC OR Don Cragun , Sun, PASC OR Mats Wichmann, Intel Apologies Geoff Clare, The Open group 1. Action item review --------------------- ACTION 2005-01-01: Don Cragun to present paper on pathname resolution. OPEN ACTION 2006-09-01: Ulrich Drepper to prepare a paper making a recommendation 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) Draft PAR circulated Nov 20 for comment. PMC Criteria still to be developed. Ulrich will send out a note to remind folks about this. 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 ------------ No new status to report, current status still as follows: ISO ballot commenced Nov 2nd. IEEE ballot commenced Nov 28 2006. PASC Status ----------- Lowell Johnson has been re-elected as PASC Chair. PASC is currently looking at its procedures and whether they need revising. Next Face to Face meeting ------------------------ The meeting dates are still as before, the week commencing February 26. We expect the meeting to run tuesday through thursday inclusive. We will announce the location next week, at the moment Austin, Texas is the favourite. Aardvark Bug Reports -------------------- We picked up on the current aardvark http://www.opengroup.org/austin/aardvark/latest/ XSH ERN 172 sigaction OPEN Agree to normative text: Change "sigaction() behaves" to "sigaction() may behave". But App Usage needs work. XSH ERN 177 setreuid Accept XCU ERN 129 STDERR Accept XCU ERN 130 m4 Accept as marked below As below but similarly modified for each of the proposed changes. Add to decr, line 22452: The behavior is unspecified if decr is not immediately followed by a left parenthesis XCU ERN 131 m4 changecom Accept (Note for a future revision only as is the default unless we note an item for the interpretations track) XCU ERN 132 xargs EXAMPLES Accept XCU ERN 133 c99 lib function sAccept XCU ERN 134 ex Accept Send down the interpretations track The standards states the requirements for ex, and conforming implementations must conform to this. However, concerns have been raised about this which are being referred to the sponsor. XCU ERN 135 ed OPEN page 350 Next Steps ----------- Andrew will update the aardvark reports with the latest inbound defect reports. Next teleconference meeting January 18th 2007 See http://www.opengroup.org/austin/. An IRC channel will be available for the meeting irc://irc.freestandards.org #austin irc://irc.freestandards.org/austin ICAL: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/nvctqtstkuni3fab9k3jqtrt4g@group.calendar.google.com/public/basic XML: http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/nvctqtstkuni3fab9k3jqtrt4g@group.calendar.google.com/public/basic