Minutes of the 11th March 2019 Teleconference Austin-916 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 12th March 2019 Attendees: Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems Dev. Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR Andrew Josey, The Open Group Geoff Clare, The Open Group Mike Crowe, BrightSign Joerg Schilling, FOKUS Fraunhofer Eric Blake, Red Hat * General news None. * 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. Bug 472: strftime %C does not account for sign character http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=472 Andrew has an action to restart the interpretation review. Now completed. * Current Business Bug 1216: Adding clockid parameter to functions that accept absolute struct timespec timeouts http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1216 Mike Crowe joined the meeting to take feedback on the approach he was taking for Bug 1216. He had developed a proposed approach in bugnote 4215. This was discussed and feedback provided, such as including page numbers as well as line numbers. Mike will continue with developing his proposal. Bug 1194: sh: mention historic function body in APPLICATION USAGE Accepted as Marked http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1194 The resolution was updated with a new bugnote. On page 3745 line 128574 section C.2.9.5, add a new paragraph: Some shells accept simple commands (see [xref 2.9.1]) after fname() in addition to compound commands (see [xref 2.9.4]); however this standard only requires support for compound commands. Bug 1196: Improved grammar regarding fread return value Accepted as Marked http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1196 Geoff completed his action to come up with suggested text to be discussed at the next meeting. This item is tagged for TC3-2008. On page 931 line 31606 section fread(), change: Upon successful completion, fread() shall return the number of elements successfully read which is less than nitems only if a read error or end-of-file is encountered. to: The fread() function shall return the number of elements successfully read, which shall be less than nitems only if a read error or end-of-file is encountered. On page 1001 line 34062 section fwrite(), change: The fwrite() function shall return the number of elements successfully written, which may be less than nitems if a write error is encountered. to: The fwrite() function shall return the number of elements successfully written, which shall be less than nitems only if a write error is encountered. Bug 1197: Omission from 1108: LONG_MIN must be <= -2147483648 Rejected http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1197 . This was discussed at length in bug 1108, and will break most (all?) existing implementations. See also bugnotes 0004066 and 0004069 Next Steps ---------- The next calls are on: March 14th 2019 (Thursday) This call will be for 90 minutes. March 18th 2019 (Monday). This call will be for 60 minutes. Calls are anchored on US time. (8am Pacific) All calls for the remainder of March will start an hour earlier than normal in Europe owing to the US change to daylight saving time. 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#