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These are the minutes of yesterday’s call.
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Andrew
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Minutes of the 27th January 2022 Teleconference Austin-1193 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 28th January 2022
Attendees:
Nick Stoughton, Logitech/USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR
Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR
Geoff Clare, The Open Group
Andrew Josey, The Open Group (Partial)
Eric Blake, Red Hat, The Open Group OR
Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems Dev.
Apologies
Eric Ackermann, HPI, University of Potsdam
* General news
This was a call dedicated to General bugs.
* Outstanding actions
None.
* Current Business
Bug 1529: ex: follow-up to issue #1440 Accepted as Marked
https://austingroupbugs.net/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1529
This item is tagged for Issue 8.
Change the synopsis of the Escape command on P2730, L89413-89414 from:
! command
[addr]! command
to:
!command
[addr]!command
Add a new paragraph to APPLICATION USAGE following P2743, L89822:
Unlike the system() function, ex does not pass "--" between the
"-c" option and the command string, so that programs for which
-c takes an option-argument can be used in the shell edit option.
Users who want to use an escape command to execute a utility
whose name starts with <tt>'-'</tt> or <tt>'+'</tt> need to
provide a pathname for that utiity that does not start with
either of those characters, or precede the utility name with a
<blank> character.
Add a new section to the ex RATIONALE on P2756, before L90368:
Escape
In Issue 8 the system() function (see xref to system()) was
changed to require that the POSIX shell be invoked with
<tt>"sh"</tt>, <tt>"-c"</tt>, <tt>"--"</tt>, and command arguments
to make it easier to execute programs with <hyphen-minus> ('-')
or <plus-sign> ('+') as the first character of the program's
filename. A similar request to have the ex escape do the same
was not accepted. Unlike system() (which always invokes a POSIX
shell), ex invokes the program named by the shell option. For
example, the csh and tcsh shells that are frequently used as
login shells do not recognize <tt>--</tt> after <tt>-c</tt> as
an end-of-options indicator. The program need not even be one
that recognizes any POSIX shell command line syntax. Some users
invoke shell scripts to process lines that are being supplied
to the specified utility These utilities know that they will
be given <tt>-c</tt> as a first argument and just ignore it.
Any utilities used in this manner would have to be modified to
skip over another argument (the <tt>--</tt>) to find the desired
argument.
Bug 1530: nohup: follow-up to issue #1440 Accepted
https://austingroupbugs.net/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1530
This item is tagged for TC3-2008.
Bug 1531: time: follow-up to issue #1440 Accepted
https://austingroupbugs.net/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1531
This item is tagged for TC3-2008.
Bug1532: "stty -g" output should not have to be split
https://austingroupbugs.net/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1532
We will continue on this item next time.
Next Steps
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