RE: Is there an atomic compare-swap function/routine in the standard?

Presently, no. There are operations, such as with semaphores, where this sort of functionality might be used but has been left unspecified as many CPUs don't support exchanges; for most older ones only loads and stores are atomic, and the volatile modifier and sigatomic_t types are geared to

Is there an atomic compare-swap function/routine in the standard?

As asked, is there an CMPXGCHG-like function in the standard? I tried looking for keywords such as cmp, comp, ch, but nothing turned up in the system interfaces list. The C language introduced atomic functions in C11 though.

Re: [1003.1(2004)/Issue 6 0000267]: time (keyword)

It is certainly a good thing that this has been reopened, as what was proposed to be inserted is, frankly, nonsense. It is not that I have anything against a time reserved word, though being a reserved word rather than a builtin, or special builtin does make it impossible to redirect (as has been

[1003.1(2008)/Issue 7 0000373]: make should allow dash in macro names

The following issue has a resolution that has been APPLIED. == https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=373 == Reported By:eblake Assigned

[1003.1(2008)/Issue 7 0000370]: addclose should not cause posix_spawn to fail if closing an already closed fd

The following issue has a resolution that has been APPLIED. == https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=370 == Reported By:eblake Assigned

[1003.1(2008)/Issue 7 0000368]: Hidden file descriptors should be required to have the FD_CLOEXEC flag set and be closed when no longer needed.

The following issue has a resolution that has been APPLIED. == https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=368 == Reported By:Don Cragun

[1003.1(2008)/Issue 7 0000367]: interaction between readonly, export, getopts, and read

The following issue has a resolution that has been APPLIED. == https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=367 == Reported By:eblake Assigned

Minutes of the 13th February 2020 Teleconference

All Enclosed are the minutes from yesterdays call. Please note that the monday call next week is cancelled. regards Andrew - Minutes of the 13th February 2020 Teleconference Austin-1005 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 14th February 2020 Attendees: Mark