Minutes of the 28 August 2014 Teleconference

[Andrew Josey]

All
Enclosed are the minutes of the 28 August 2014 teleconference.
regards
Andrew
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Minutes of the 28 August 2014 Teleconference Austin-672 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 29 August 2014

Attendees:
Andrew Josey, The Open Group
Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR
Joerg Schilling FOKUS Fraunhofer
Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems
David Clissold, IBM
Eric Blake, Red Hat
Mark Brown, Canonical
Matthew Dempsky, OpenBSD
Richard Hansen, BBN

Apologies
Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR
Geoff Clare, The Open Group
Martin Rehak, Oracle

* General news

On the PASC PAR approval progress - there has been some
discussion on PASC mailing lists . Don currently has the action
to progress.


* Outstanding actions

+Bug 0000251: Forbid newline, or even bytes 1 through 31 (inclusive), in filenames OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=251
Don has an action to produce a proposal.

+Bug 0000561: NUL-termination of sun_path in Unix sockets OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=561
Eric has an action to update the proposal.

+Bug 0000573: Please add '+' to the portable filename character set OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=573
Joerg has an action to prepare a proposed change.

+Bug 0000592: consistent use of struct timespec OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=592
Jim had provided additional information in bugnote 1627.
This was discussed and Jim took an action to provide further information.

+Bug 0000598: OH shading and new interfaces OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=598
Eric has an action to propose a new solution with self-contained headers.

+Bug 0000517: EBNF support OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=517
Action on Joerg to look at this.

+Bug 0000633: SIGEV_THREAD delivery renders many signal interfaces unsafe
OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=633
We noted that feedback has settled down on the mailing list, and
will discuss next session.

+Bug 0000657: Conditions under which fmemopen() write a NUL to the buffer
are insufficiently specified OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=657
Eric has an action to propose wording to clarify the behavior for
fmemopen(), and also to contact the glibc developers to get their
feedback.

+Bug 0000658: Undefined/unspecified behavior clauses in description of
open have race conditions OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=658
It was noted that there is some overlap with changes in TC1. Eric took an
action to update the proposal to resolve the overlaps appropriately.

+Bug 0000615: pthread_setcancelstate should be async-signal-safe OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=615
We now have reports on AIX and Apple. Jim to report back on whether
pthread_cancelstate() is async-signal-safe on Solaris. Andrew to ask
HP whether pthread_cancelstate() is async-signal-safe on HP-UX.


+Bug 0000672: Necessary step(s) to synchronize filename operations on disk
OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=672

Geoff has a new proposed resolution in note 1618. Decided to solicit input
from FS developers. Eric to go to Linux, David to AIX and Jim to Solaris.
Jim has completed his action (see bugnote 1691).
Andrew should chase HP and Apple for input.

+Bug 0000663: Specification of str[n]casecmp is ambiguous reopened
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=663

Action on David to follow up with the IBM developers about the EBCDIC
collation sequence.

Bug 696 either NAME_MAX shouldn't be optional, or readdir_r() needs clarification
http://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=696

Don has an action to propose a resolution.

Bug 0000721: Internal storage vs static storage OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=721

This item is still open.

Bug 0000375: Extend test/[...] conditionals: ==, <, >, -nt, -ot, -ef OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=375

This is still left open due to discussions pending on the reflector.

Bug 0000789: Add set -o pipefail OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=789


* Current Business


- Open Actions
Bug #851: pthread_atfork orphans handlers in unloaded shared libraries OPEN
http://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=851

Action item: Andrew should try and contact to Finnbarr Murphy.
(Status: Andrew has sent a query to Finnbarr via linked.in
and also to his direct email)


Bug #854: requirement for additional built-in utilities to be searched for via $PATH was not and is not existing practice OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=854

Action: Andrew to ask David Korn to comment on this bug and the previous email discussion of the issue (seq 21270).

Action completed - awaiting response from David.


Bug #859: Add posix_random family of interfaces OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=859

Action Item on Martin R. to poll Open Group about sponsoring this
item for Issue 8 - Action completed , email sent to The Open Group
Base Working Group.


Bug #861: Add interface for querying name of active locale in a given category
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=861 Rejected

Should be rejected, as it needs existing practice. Action on
Andrew to reply with the usual stuff about how to get new interfaces
into the standard - action completed.

- Bug processing

Bug 0000863: Explicitly disallow longjmp from pthread_once init_routine Accepted as Marked
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=863

This item is tagged for TC2-2008

Change "None" on P1684, L54499 in APPLICATION USAGE to:

If init_routine does not return (such as by calling longjmp())
then pthread_once() will not return either. A subsequent call
to pthread_once() with the same once_control, however, will not
call the specified init_routine.

If init_routine recursively calls pthread_once() with the same
once_control, the recursive call will not call the specified
init_routine, and thus the specified init_routine will not
complete, and thus the recursive call to pthread_once() will
not return.

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