Minutes of the 17 October 2012 Teleconference Austin-582 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 18 October, 2012 Attendees Don Cragun, PASC OR Andrew Josey, The Open Group (partial) Geoff Clare, The Open Group Eric Blake, Red Hat Mark Brown, IBM, TOG OR Joerg Schilling, Fraunhofer Society Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC OR Jim Pugsley, Oracle * General News There was no change in status on the outstanding approvals. * Old Business +Bug 0000561: NUL-termination of sun_path in Unix sockets OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=561 Eric has an action to update the proposal. +Bug 0000573: Please add '+' to the portable filename character set OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=573 Joerg has an action to prepare a proposed change. +Bug 0000592: consistent use of struct timespec OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=592 This item needs further investigation of existing implementations. Mark reported that AIX does not have a problem with this. Jim notes he is still looking at this. +Bug 0000598: OH shading and new interfaces OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=598 Eric has an action to propose a new solution with self-contained headers. Bug 0000576: No format specifiers for several types OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=576 Bug 0000599: Reserved "no thread" value for pthread_t A/M Issue 8 Bug 0000517: EBNF support OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=517 It was agreed that we need Joerg's input on this item and have left it open for now. Andrew took an action on the 12 September call to notify Joerg (completed after the meeting). * Current Business A query had been raised in Mail sequence 18185 about the status of SC22 - ISO_IEC_TR_24715_2006(E)Technical Report on the Conflicts between the ISO/IEC 9945 (POSIX) and the Linux Standard Base (ISO/IEC 23360). Andrew took an action to reply. The reply sent was as follows: Although we recognise that the report is now over 6 years old, we feel there is benefit in it being retained in the register of technical reports for another cycle as much of the report still applies today. Bug 0000612: dirname of "usr/" or "/" are not clear OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=612 Don reported that he was still working on a new resolution for this item. Bug 0000610: Possible race condition in requirements of exit and their interaction with threads. OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=610 Mark took an action to draft proposed text to be added to the exit() page. Bug 0000609: It is not clear what threads are considered blocked with respect to a call to pthread_cond_signal() or pthread_cond_broadcast() OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=609 This was discussed in depth during the meeting. Some changes were agreed which are recorded in note 1403, but further work is needed to develop the interpretation text. This item was left open for now. Next Steps ---------- The next call is on October 31. Note call times are anchored on the US timezone which means the next call will be an hour earlier in Europe (8am San Francisco = 3pm London, 4pm Berlin) This call will be for the regular 90 minutes. http://austingroupbugs.net See the calendar for the list of dialup numbers. An IRC channel will be available for the meeting irc://irc.freenode.org/austingroupbugs