Minutes of the 18th August 2016 Teleconference Austin-777 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 19th August 2016 Attendees: Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR Geoff Clare, The Open Group Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems Joerg Schilling, FOKUS Fraunhofer Martin Rehak, Oracle Andrew Josey, The Open Group David Clissold, IBM Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR Apologies Eric Blake, Red Hat Richard Hansen, Google * General news The TC2 document has been published by IEEE and The Open Group. We are now moving onto the full merged edition with just the frontmatter to complete, we are waiting on feedback from IEEE on that. Martin Rehak has been appointed as the Open Group OR. Andrew and Geoff have an action to email Martin with the outstanding actions that need addressing by the Open Group OR. * 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 28 Jan 2016) Bug 0000249: 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 0000953: Alias expansion is under-specified Was Accepted as Marked http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=953 Richard has an action to propose new wording to discuss in a future telecon. * Current Business Bug 1009: "remain in affect after" and "during the execution" are problematic when built-in/function modifies the variable Accepted as Marked http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1009 This item is tagged for TC3-2008. V7TC2D4 Page 2366, Line 75516, (TC2D3 #75172), Section: 2.9.1 Change: If the command name is a special built-in utility, variable assignments shall affect the current execution environment. to: If the command name is a special built-in utility, variable assignments shall affect the current execution environment before the utility is executed and remain in effect when the command completes, along with any modifications to those assignments made by the utility. Change V7TC2D4 XCU 2.14, Item 2 (Page 2385, L76309) from: 2. As described in Section 2.9.1, variable assignments preceding the invocation of a special built-in utility remain in effect after the built-in completes; this shall not be the case with a regular built-in or other utility. to: 2. As described in Section 2.9.1, variable assignments preceding the invocation of a special built-in utility affect the current execution environment; this shall not be the case with a regular built-in or other utility. Bug 0001010: EHOSTDOWN: not described anywhere else Accepted http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1010 This item is tagged for TC3-2008 Next Steps ---------- The next call is on August 25, 2016 (a Thursday) Apologies in advance: Richard Hansen 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#