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Minutes of the 25th September 2025 Teleconference Austin-1468 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 27th September 2025 Attendees: Andrew Josey, The Open Group Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR Eric Ackermann, CISPA Geoff Clare, The Open Group Mark Brown Haelwenn Monnier, The Open Group Eric Blake, Red Hat, The Open Group OR * General business We confirmed the calendar for upcoming meetings, the next meeting is October 9th. On progress of the standard through the PSDO process Andrew reported that the ballot for ISO/IEC/IEEE FDIS 9945 (Ed 2) has opened and will close on 2026-01-24. * Carried Forward Bug 1927: Add sponge utility https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1927 [Action to Eric B] Start a 30-day request for comments on whether The Open Group should sponsor the addition of this interface. glibc realloc() behavior [Action to Eric B] - respond to the thread and invite Alejandro to open a bug against POSIX if we still need to address wording issues Update 2025-06-26: discussion on mailing lists is still ongoing; EricB or Alejandro will open a bug soon Bug 1941: Add widely-implemented options to grep https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1941 We understand Mirabilos runs a custom distribution of BSD: http://www.mirbsd.org/about.htm http://www.mirbsd.org/htman/i386/man1/grep.htm ACTION: David Wheeler to do more research and update the bug before next meeting * New Business Bug 1944: posix_devctl() uses int for command where some ioctl() implementations use larger type https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1944 Accepted as marked, resolved, issue9 tag Proposed changes After page 234 line 8250 section <devctl.h>, add: <blockquote>The <b><devctl.h></b> header shall define the <b>devctl_cmd_t</b> type as an integer type with a width greater than or equal to the width of type <b>int</b>.</blockquote> On page 1557 line 52177 section posix_devctl(), change: <blockquote>int dcmd</blockquote> to: <blockquote>devctl_cmd_t dcmd</blockquote> Bug 1945: reference to wrong section in description of \< regex operator of the ex utility https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1945 Accepted, resolved, tc1-2024 tag Bug 1946: do locale definition file global keywords allow 1-n blanks after the keyword or does it have to be 1 space https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1946 Accepted as marked, resolved, tc1-2024 tag On page 129 line 4156,4161 section 7.3, change: <blockquote>It shall have the following format, starting in column 1</blockquote> to: <blockquote>It shall have the following format, interpreted as described in [xref to XBD 5], starting in column 1</blockquote> In a separate note: ISO/IEC TR 14652 has been withdrawn by ISO, so it would not be appropriate to refer to it in POSIX. Bug 1947: Repeated "the" in memmem, posix_devctl, posix_memalign https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1947 Accepted as marked, resolved, tc1-2024 tag The editor to search for and correct occurrences of "the the", "a a", and other common duplications. (Note there are some genuine uses of "<b>a a</b>" where they are file names.) * Next Steps We will start on bug 1616 if no new bugs are submitted before the next meeting. We can also return to Bug 1941 and 1913. The next call is on Thu 2025-10-09 (WEBEX meeting - general bugs) Apologies in Advance: Nick Stoughton 2025-10-02, 2025-10-09 Geoff Clare 2025-10-16 The calls are for 90 minutes Calls are anchored on US time. (8am Pacific) Please check the calendar invites for dial in details. Bugs are at: https://austingroupbugs.net An etherpad is usually up for the meeting, with a URL using the date format as below: https://posix.rhansen.org/p/20xx-mm-dd (For write access this uses The Open Group single sign on, for those individuals with gitlab.opengroup.org accounts. Please contact Andrew if you need to be setup) -------- Andrew Josey The Open Group Austin Group Chair Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Apex Plaza, Forbury Road,Reading,Berks.RG1 1AX,England To learn how we maintain your privacy, please review The Open Group Privacy Statement at http://www.opengroup.org/privacy. To unsubscribe/opt-out from this mailing list login to The Open Group collaboration portal at https://collaboration.opengroup.org/operational/portal.php?action=unsub&listid=2481
