Minutes of the 21st January 2016 Teleconference Austin-745 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 22nd January 2016 Attendees: Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR Andrew Josey, The Open Group Eric Blake, Red Hat David Clissold, IBM (partial) Joerg Schilling, FOKUS Fraunhofer Richard Hansen, BBN Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems Geoff Clare, The Open Group Roger Faulkner, Oracle, The Open Group OR Martin Rehak, Oracle Apologies * General news We discussed the work needed to prepare the drafts for ISO/IEC JTC1 and IEEE balloting. There wil be two different drafts with different markings for IEEE and ISO/IEC JTC1, however we will ensure that the main body of the document has the same page and line numbers, so the bug reports can be merged for resolution. The remaining item required for ISO/IEC JTC 1 balloting is a summary of the defect reports. Geoff has confirmed that we have indeed identified all the defect reports to include in such a report. Andrew has commenced editing a document, which he targets to complete by February 1st. There was a continuation of the dicussion about updating the merged draft to include the change history. In the end it was agreed that we would proceed without that for the balloting. Andrew reported he had completed his action to check in with Michael Kipness regarding the requirement to circulate the full 1003.2-2008 standard with the ballot. This is now covered in the balloting announcement (a fixed piece) and we have no action to take. * 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 Bug #249: Add standard support for $'...' in shell Reopened http://austingroupbugs.net/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=249 We will return to bug 249 on a future call. 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. A separate etherpad page is being maintained for this defect report http://posix.rhansen.org:9001/p/bug947 We will return to this next week. Next Steps ---------- The next call is on January 28, 2016 (a Thursday) Andrew gives his apologies in advance for the next meeting. 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#