Minutes of the 25th October 2018 Teleconference Austin-891 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 26th October 2018 Attendees: Attendees: Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems Dev. (Etherpad only) Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR Joerg Schilling, FOKUS Fraunhofer Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR Geoff Clare, The Open Group Andrew Josey, The Open Group Apologies: Eric Blake, Red Hat Martin Rehak, Oracle, The Open Group OR David Clissold, IBM * General news As a reminder calls are anchored on US time, so next week the call will be one hour earlier in Europe (3pm London, 4pm Berlin). We discussed Issue 8 planning. It was agreed that we should start PAR planning in 1Q2019. We will need to set a target date fo rthe standard, and then target approval for the PAR about one year before that. One of the dependencies is the version of the C standard. We also discussed the backlog and how to accelerate our bug processing. We discussed holding more than one meeting per week in the New Year. * 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 9 March 2018 and earlier) Bug 1077: Recommend support for wide-character regcomp and regexec and/or specify multi-byte behavior OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1077 Andrew has completed the action to ping his Apple contact and is awaiting a reply. Bug 1122: POSIX should include gettext() and friends OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1122 Left open as an action is still in progress to flesh out a complete proposal. * Current Business Bug 1134: Add getentropy interface OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1134 Action: Andrew to add boilerplate response regarding a proposal for new interface, and also to ask The Open Group OR if they would sponsor this addition. Both Actions now Completed. (update 19 Oct 2018) There has been no reaction from the Base Working Group and the period for comments has ended now. Bug 1138: Add strsignal(), sig2str() and str2sig() to the standard. OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1138 Martin has completed his action. Andrew took an action to chase the Base Working group members for sponsorship of the two interfaces. Update: The action on Andrew is still open. Bug 1141: Add WCOREDUMP(stat) to sys/wait.h OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1141 We spent most of the meeting discussing this item. ACTION: Nick to propose new definition for "Core Image" and changes required to use this new definition. Bug 0001142: pread(2) and pwrite(2) should be async-signal-safe Accepted http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1142 This item is tagged for TC3-2008 Next Steps ---------- The next call is on November 1st 2018 (Thursday). Apologies in Advance: Andrew Josey, 2018-11-01 Calls are anchored on US time. (8am Pacific) This call will be for the regular 90 minutes. http://austingroupbugs.net An etherpad is usually up for the meeting, with a URL using the date format as below: https://posix.rhansen.org/p/201x-mm-dd username=posix password=2115756#