Minutes of the 1 July 2010 Teleconference     Austin-487 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group.             July 3 , 2010

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


* Old Business

We are leaving bugs 247 and 249 open for now as part of the strange
filename handling issue.

Geoff has produced a list of the Issue 6 ERNs that need
to have interpretations , and they are progressing. We
still have some that need to be processed: XSHbug2 #243-246 inc, and
# 250
Action: Mark volunteered to pick these up and progress them



Bug 0000268: trap with no arguments  Accepted

This was Issue 6 xcubug2.txt ERN 182 . Geoff asked for this
to be discussed as he did not agree with the proposed interpretation.
It was agreed that the interpretation should be that the standard is
silent on this matter.

Bug 0000270: potential problem with unlinkat() O_SEARCH requirements  OPEN

The group felt there is not an issue here :
The caller first has to get a file descriptor opened with O_SEARCH
permission. To get this the same privileges as before are needed
for a successful open call. Only once you have the descriptor the
tests are relaxed. This is the same for all *at functions. The group
does not see where there is a security problem since getting a file
descriptor with the appropriate permission and possibly passing it
on is an explicit act.

It was agreed to leave the item open to allow the submitter
to respond with more information.

This will be discussed again at the next meeting.


Bug 0000274: O_EXEC and O_SEARCH equal values  Accepted


We then returned to the discussion on handling strange filenames.
A lengthy discussion followed.
Action: Eric to submit a new aardvark for open() and readdir() normalizing
strings.


Next Steps
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The next call will be on July 29 at 16:00 UK time/08:00 Pacific and
will continue on aardvark processing, and then if time allows some
further discussion on the topic of unusual (non-portable) filenames.

http://austingroupbugs.net


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