Minutes of the 30 January 2014 Teleconference Austin-642 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 31st January 2014 Attendees: Richard Hansen, BBN David Clissold, IBM Andrew Josey, The Open Group Martin Rehak, Oracle, The Open Group OR Mark Ziegast, Shware Systems Don Cragun IEEE PASC OR Eric Blake, Red Hat Joerg Schilling Fraunhofer FOKUS Nick Stoughton, USENIX David A. Wheeler, IDA Apologies Mark Brown, Canonical Geoff Clare, The Open Group * General news Andrew reported that IEEE had confirmed that the second TC would need to have the changes against the 2008 edition of the standard. Andrew has started production of TC2 and is currently at 17 bugs processed out of 173 in the current queue. * Outstanding actions +Bug 0000251: Forbid newline, or even bytes 1 through 31 (inclusive), in filenames OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=251 Don has an action to produce a proposal. +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 Jim had provided additional information in bugnote 1627. This was discussed and Jim took an action to provide further information. +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 0000517: EBNF support OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=517 Action on Joerg to look at this. +Bug 0000633: SIGEV_THREAD delivery renders many signal interfaces unsafe OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=633 We noted that feedback has settled down on the mailing list, and will discuss next session. +Bug 0000657: Conditions under which fmemopen() write a NUL to the buffer are insufficiently specified OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=657 Eric has an action to propose wording to clarify the behavior for fmemopen(), and also to contact the glibc developers to get their feedback. +Bug 0000658: Undefined/unspecified behavior clauses in description of open have race conditions OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=658 It was noted that there is some overlap with changes in TC1. Eric took an action to update the proposal to resolve the overlaps appropriately. +Bug 0000615: pthread_setcancelstate should be async-signal-safe OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=615 We now have reports on AIX and Apple. Jim to report back on whether pthread_cancelstate() is async-signal-safe on Solaris. Andrew to ask HP whether pthread_cancelstate() is async-signal-safe on HP-UX. +Bug 622 left open pending resolution of 615. http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=622 +Bug 0000672: Necessary step(s) to synchronize filename operations on disk OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=672 Geoff has a new proposed resolution in note 1618. Decided to solicit input from FS developers. Eric to go to Linux, David to AIX and Jim to Solaris. Jim has completed his action (see bugnote 1691). Andrew should chase HP and Apple for input. +Bug 0000663: Specification of str[n]casecmp is ambiguous reopened http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=663 Action on David to follow up with the IBM developers about the EBCDIC collation sequence. Bug 696 either NAME_MAX shouldn't be optional, or readdir_r() needs clarification http://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=696 Don has an action to propose a resolution. Bug 0000721: Internal storage vs static storage OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=721 This item is still open. * Current Business Bug 0000375: Extend test/[...] conditionals: ==, <, >, -nt, -ot, -ef OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=375 This is still left open due to discussions pending on the reflector. Bug 0000789: Add set -o pipefail OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=789 This item is left open pending input from David Korn. Bug 0000794: Add a function series for formatted error messages OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=794 Martin has completed his action to forward to The Open Group Base Working group to see if they would be willing to sponsor this proposal for new interfaces. Bug #0000800: Add support for the recursive printf() format %r OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=800 Joerg has an action to write a new proposal. Martin has also forwarded this to The Open Group Base Working group for their consideration. Bug #0000801: Clarify requirements on M_* macros with FLT_EVAL_METHOD !=0 OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=801 This item was discussed at length. Should we resolve this by saying that the behavior is implementation defined, and add new versions of these constants that are long double for issue 8? Standard is clear: "shall have type double" - so (double)M_PI == M_PI should always succeed. It's less useful in the face of double_t != double (such as FLT_EVAL_METHOD==2), or in the face of long double, but to solve that, we need new constants of larger type. Action Item. Andrew: Ask Fred Tydeman to give us his evaluation of this bug and the comments received to date. Bug #0000802: Add 'rm -d' Accepted http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=802 This item is tagged with Issue 8 (It is noted that some comments have been added in the bugtracker after the meeting, so this item might be revisited) Next Steps ---------- The next call is on February 6th, 2014 (a Thursday) (Andrew sends his apologies in advance) Calls are anchored on US time. (8am Pacific) This call will be for the regular 90 minutes. http://austingroupbugs.net An IRC channel will be available for the meeting irc://irc.freenode.net/austingroupbugs An etherpad is usually up for the meeting, with a URL using the date format as below: http://posix@posix.rhansen.org:9001/p/201x-mm-dd password=2115756#