Minutes of the 28th March 2019 Teleconference     Austin-921 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 29th March 2019


Attendees:
    Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR
    Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems Dev.
    Joerg Schilling, FOKUS Fraunhofer
    Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR
    Eric Blake, Red Hat
    Andrew Josey, The Open Group
    Geoff Clare, The Open Group

* General news 

Andrew reported that Joe Gwinn, PASC Chair had been in contact. We need to
submit a PAR this next quarter to stay active at IEEE.
Andrew will take an action to draft a PAR for the major revision
- this would include alignment with the C standard (c17)
- the issue 8 tagged items and TC3-2008 items
- new APIs meeting the acceptance criteria by a certain date

Andrew also took an action to chase up the status of a replacement OR for The Open Group.

* 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 1204: Vague wording as to the validity of s/RE command without trailing delimiter and replacement Accepted as Marked
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1204

This item is tagged for TC3-2008.
An interpretation is required.


Interpretation response
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The standard states that lines "shall be written" for all of the g, G, s, v, or V commands, and conforming implementations must conform to this. However, concerns have been raised about this which are being referred to the sponsor.

Rationale:
Current implementations of ed do not behave as described in the standard.

Notes to the Editor (not part of this interpretation):
On page 2681 line 87421 section ed, change:
    If the closing delimiter of an RE or of a replacement string
    (for example, '/') in a g, G, s, v, or V command would be the
    last character before a <newline>, that delimiter can be omitted,
    in which case the addressed line shall be written.
to:
      In the following commands, if a closing delimiter would be
      the last character before a <newline> then that character can
      be omitted with the behavior shown:
              
	For the g and v commands the addressed line(s) shall be
	written as if a closing delimiter followed by a p were
	appended to the command.
              
	For the G and V commands no additional action shall be
	taken.
              
	For the s command, only the closing delimiter of the
	replacement can be omitted, in which case the result of the
	substitution shall be written as if the p flag were appended.

	For the null command, the addressed line(s) shall be written
	as if the closing delimiter were appended.
              

Bug 1205: Incorrect specification of printf %% OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1205

A proposal was added to the etherpad after the meeting. 
We will continue on this item on the next call.

Next Steps 
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The next calls are on:
April 1st 2019 (Monday)
This call will be for 60 minutes.

April 4th 2019 (Thursday)
This call will be for 90 minutes.

Apologies in advance:
Nick Stoughton 2019-04-01

Calls are anchored on US time. (8am Pacific) 

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#