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These are the minutes from this weeks teleconference
regards
Andrew
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Minutes of the 26th April 2018 Teleconference Austin-865 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 27th April 2018
Attendees:
Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR
Joerg Schilling, FOKUS Fraunhofer
Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR
Andreas Grapentin, University Potsdam, HPI
Geoff Clare, The Open Group
Eric Blake, Red Hat
David Clissold, IBM
Martin Rehak, Oracle, The Open Group OR
Apologies:
Richard Hansen, Google
Andrew Josey, The Open Group
Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems
* General news
No news
* 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)
* Current Business
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 reported he has completed his action and will report back
when he has an update from Apple.
We deferred bugs 1084, 1085 and 1100 until Joerg is on the call.
Bug 1102: inet_addr() cannot parse 255.255.255.255. Mark it as obsolete, add
inet_aton(), or both? Accepted as Marked
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1102
This item is tagged for Issue 8.
After applying the changes from 0001101, apply the following changes:
On page 934 line 31730-31731 (getaddrinfo() DESCRIPTION) change:
If the specified address family is AF_INET or AF_UNSPEC, address
strings using Internet standard dot notation as specified in
inet_addr( ) are valid
to:
If the specified address family is AF_INET or AF_UNSPEC, address
strings using Internet standard dot notation as specified in
inet_pton( ) are valid.
On page 1137 lines 38404-38406 (inet_addr(), inet_ntoa() SYNOPSIS),
mark the entire SYNOPSIS obsolescent and on the remainder of the
page remove the other OB shading that was added by 0001101.
On page 1138 after line 38441 but before the new paragraph added
from 0001101, insert a new paragraph:
Applications should prefer inet_pton( ) over inet_addr( ) for
the following reasons:
The return value from inet_addr( ) when converting
255.255.255.255 is indistinguisable from an error.
The inet_pton( ) function supports multiple address families.
The alternative textual representations supported by
inet_addr( ) (but not by inet_pton( )) are often used
maliciously to confuse or mislead users (e.g., for phishing).
On page 1138 line 38445 replace the FUTURE DIRECTIONS section with:
These functions are included only for compatibility with older
implementations and may be removed in a future version.
On page 1139 line 38478 (inet_pton() DESCRIPTION) delete:
(see inet_addr( ))
Bug 1103: Spacing issues in mailx "Command Escapes" after pdftotext: OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1103
Andrew has an action to check whether the fix in 1103 made it into
the PDF.
Andrew confirms that the change to the troff was made, and the pdf was
rebuilt with that change in it.
Bug 1104: Missing period. Accepted
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1104
This item is tagged for tc3-2008.
Bug 1105: problems with backslashes in awk strings and EREs OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1105
We will pick up on this item next time.
Next Steps
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The next call is on May 3rd, 2018 (a Thursday)
Calls are anchored on US time. (8am Pacific)
This call will be for the regular 90 minutes.
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#
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Andrew Josey The Open Group
Austin Group Chair
Email: [email protected]
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