Minutes of the 15th April 2019 Teleconference Austin-926 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 15th April 2019 Attendees: Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR Joerg Schilling, FOKUS Fraunhofer Geoff Clare, The Open Group Eric Blake, Red Hat Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems Dev. Gavin Howard Apologies: Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR Andrew Josey * 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. * Current Business Bug 1212: "trap" (with no args) specification does not match reality Accepted as Marked http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1212 There is a ongoing discussion on the mailing list. However for now the disposition is left as is. It may be revisited in the future. Bug 1213: Typos in character constants in strtod() APPLICATON USAGE example. Accepted http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1213 This item is tagged for TC3-2008. Bug 1214: remove claim about pthread_kill behavior when sig is 0? Accepted as Marked. http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1214 This item is tagged for TC3-2008. On page 1657 line 54043 section pthread_kill(), delete: As in kill(), if sig is zero, error checking shall be performed but no signal shall actually be sent. On page 1657 line 54048 section pthread_kill(), add: The pthread_kill() function may fail if: [EINVAL] The value of the sig argument is zero. On page 1657 line 54049 section pthread_kill(), change: The value of the sig argument is an invalid or unsupported signal number. to: The value of the sig argument is non-zero and is an invalid or unsupported signal number. On page 1657 line 54066 section pthread_kill(), change: In particular, this means that an application cannot have one thread check for termination of another with pthread_kill(). to: In particular, this means that an application cannot have one thread check for termination of another by calling pthread_kill() with a sig argument of zero, and implementations may indicate that it is not possible by returning [EINVAL] when sig is zero. Next Steps ---------- The next calls are on: April 18th 2019 (Thursday) This call will be for 90 minutes. There will be NO CALL April 22 2019 (Monday) April 25th 2019 (Thursday) This call will be for 90 minutes. Calls are anchored on US time. (8am Pacific) Apologies in advance: 2019-04-11 - 2019-04-25 inclusive Nick Stoughton 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#