Minutes of the 13th August 2015 Teleconference Austin-725 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 14th August 2015 Attendees: Joerg Schilling, FOKUS Fraunhofer Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR Andrew Josey, The Open Group Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR Geoff Clare, The Open Group Roger Faulkner, Oracle, The Open Group OR Eric Blake, Red Hat (partial) Apologies: David Clissold, IBM Martin Rehak, Oracle * General news Andrew reported on the IEEE ballot pool invitation. We have 22 members , and no one category more than 33%, so the ballot group is balanced. Andrew has also confirmed status with our IEEE program manager, Michael Kipness, and informed him of our expected timeline to start the ballot. Action: Andrew to post a summary of the Ballot pool outcome. Do we need to do anything to prepare for an ISO ballot? We have flagged the TC in the reports to the upcoming SC22 plenary in September. Action: Andrew to check with the ANSI secretariat. The reply from Sally Seitz is we just need to submit the TC we are ready. * Outstanding actions ( Please note that this section has been flushed to shorten the minutes - to locate the previous set of outstanding actions, look to the minutes from 26 Feb 2015) Bug 0000887: printf and other functions appear many times in search results OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=887 Andrew is investigating. Bug 0000900: add qsort_r OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=900 The consensus was that its a good idea to add the suggested interface. The usual requirements regarding a sponsor for a new interface apply. Action: Open Group OR , to ask the Base WG if they wish to sponsor the additional qsort interface proposed here. Bug 0000901: reserve _POSIX* shell option namespace for future use OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=901 The forward plan for this bug remains as before: Richard: file a new bug report with a concrete feature that would use the _POSIX* namespace (as motivation for reserving set -o _POSIX*) All: debate the proposed feature. If it's something we want, then revisit bug #901. If not, close bug #901. Bug 0000922: Implementations should be allowed to change/remove implementation-defined environment variables OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=922 This item remains open. Action on Eric: propose wording for Issue 8 to add secure_getenv(), and make it clear that deleting from environment without explicit request is not compliant, but ignoring is fine. For Issue 7 TC 2: Create new bug to add additional conditions on what makes TMPDIR valid, vs. undefined behavior; also add future directions to getenv() to mention secure_getenv() * Current Business We discussed bug 249 in depth, with the question of whether it needs to be re-opened. Bug #249: Add standard support for $'...' in shell Accepted as Marked http://austingroupbugs.net/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=249 A number of proposed changes are being developed in the etherpad to the proposed resolution on bug 249. To be continued on the next call. Next Steps ---------- The next call is on August 20, 2015 (a Thursday) Apologies in Advance: Andrew Josey (20th) Eric Blake (20th) 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#