Minutes of the 24 January 2013 Teleconference Austin-592 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 25 January, 2013 Attendees Mark Brown, IBM, TOG OR Don Cragun, PASC OR Andrew Josey, The Open Group Eric Blake, Red Hat Joerg Schilling, Fraunhofer Society Jim Pugsley, Oracle Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC OR Richard Hansen, Apologies Geoff Clare, The Open Group * General News There is no change to the approvals status. * 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 In the previous meeting, Eric had agreed to take an action to create a formal bug report for the empty symlink . This was submitted as bug 649 , and discussed later in the meeting. There has been a lot of discussion on the reflector about variable assignment when executing a function - starting at austin-group-l:archive/latest/18406 . No bug has been filed yet. Richard agreed to take an action to file a bug report. We picked up at 633 Bug 0000633: SIGEV_THREAD delivery renders many signal interfaces unsafe OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=633 Andrew reported he was still waiting to hear back from HP and Apple. This item was left open. Bug 0000623: poll should not modify fds[i].fd and fds[i].events OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=623 It was felt that there should be some normative text stating that functions can only perform actions described in the standard, but so far we have not found it. If it is not there, we should add some text. Mark agreed to take an action to propose some wording to address this, and also to propose the location where to place it. Bug 0000645: catopen() uses the ambiguous phrase 'complete name' Accept as Marked http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=645 This item is tagged for TC2-2008 On page 639, line 21683, change "complete name" to "pathname". Bug 0000649: pathname resolution of symlink to empty string Accepted http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=649 This item is tagged for TC2-2008 An interpretation is required Interpretation response: The standard states that in pathname resolution that an empty string in a symbolic link should treat the remainder of the pathname after an empty symlink is interpolated into the pathname should be treated as an absolute pathname, and conforming implementations must conform to this. However, concerns have been raised about this which are being referred to the sponsor. Rationale: No known implementations behave this way and it is not the desired behavior. There are two common practices here and both are allowed by the suggested new wording. Notes to the Editor (not part of this interpretation): Make the changes suggested in the Desired Action. Bug 0000648: Special treatment of in tokenization rules is unnecessary OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=648 This was discussed; it was agreed that the reporter (Richard) would add more explication and proposed actions in a note to the Issue. Next Steps ---------- The next call is on February 7 2013 (a Thursday) 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.net/austingroupbugs