All
These are the minutes of this weeks call. A reminder that for the next two
weeks, the calls will be one hour earlier in Europe!
(Apologies for the delay - i meant to hit send on Friday but somehow did not!)
regards
Andrew
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Minutes of the 8th March 2018 Teleconference Austin-858 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 9th March 2018
Attendees:
Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR
David Clissold, IBM
Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR
Geoff Clare, The Open Group
Joerg Schilling, FOKUS Fraunhofer
Eric Blake, Red Hat
Andrew Josey, The Open Group (first half)
Mark Ziegast,SHware Systems Dev.
Apologies:
Martin Rehak
Richard Hansen, Google
* General news
Andrew and Geoff reported that the html edition is now almost
complete. There are just the download bundles to update.
* 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 1074: _SC_POSIX_THREAD Accepted as Marked
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1074
This item is tagged for TC3-2008.
At lines 15170 and 15176 (2016 edition) replace
_SC_POSIX_THREADS
by
_SC_THREADS
Bug 1075: The unset utility's NAME section mentions values and attributes, but
the DESCRIPTION doesn't mention attributes. Accepted
http://austingroupbugs.net/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1075
Bug 1068: Binding to a system-assigned port. OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1068
Question for IETF Liaison:
Should the reservation of port 0 be the responsibility of IANA, or an RFC? Can
the IETF in some way reserve this port number, and does POSIX need to take any
action to resolve this issue?
Action on Andrew to forward kre.
Bug 1076: Cancellation Points OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1076
This was discussed and will be discussed on the next call.
Next Steps
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The next call is on March 15th, 2018 (a Thursday)
Please note that the call is 1 hour earlier in Europe .
Calls are anchored on US time. (8am Pacific)
This call will be for the regular 90 minutes.
Apologies in advance from Andrew
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:
https://posix.rhansen.org/p/201x-mm-dd
username=posix password=2115756#
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Andrew Josey The Open Group
Austin Group Chair
Email: a.jo...@opengroup.org
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