Minutes of the 7th January 2016 Teleconference     Austin-743 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group.  8th January 2016

Attendees:
   Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems
   Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR
   Geoff Clare, The Open Group
   Andrew Josey, The Open Group 
   Eric Blake, Red Hat
   David Clissold, IBM   (partial)
   Joerg Schilling, FOKUS Fraunhofer 
   Roger Faulkner, Oracle, The Open Group OR
   Martin Rehak, Oracle  
   Richard Hansen, BBN 

Apologies
   Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR

* General news

The Mandatory editorial feedback from IEEE has now been
received and we are all set to start the IEEE balloting.
Andrew has sent the draft to ISO/IEC for their comments,
and after the meeting it seems there is some work to
do to make it acceptable for the ISO ballot.
It was agreed in the meeting that we should allow
for there to be a recirculation ballot at IEEE,
so can start the ballot fairly soon and run it shorter
than the ISO balloting.


* 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 continued on bug 249

Bug #249: Add standard support for $'...' in shell   Reopened
http://austingroupbugs.net/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=249

We had not heard back from David Korn, so Andrew
will try contacting Glenn Fowler
Why are more than two hex digits allows in a $'\x' escape sequence?

We will return next time on bug 249


Bug #947: Shell should not have $? == 0 for exit(256)
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=947

We picked up on this bug and had an extensive discussion
which is captured in the etherpad for the meeting.

We will also return to this next week.

Next Steps
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The next call is on January 14, 2016 (a Thursday)

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
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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#