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Enclosed are the minutes from the Monday meeting
regards
Andrew
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Minutes of the 27th April 2020 Teleconference Austin-1023 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 29th April 2020
Attendees:
Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR
Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR
Geoff Clare, The Open Group
Eric Ackermann, HPI, University of Potsdam
Joerg Schilling, FOKUS Fraunhofer
Eric Blake, Red Hat, Open Group OR
Richard Hansen
Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems Dev.
Apologies:
Andrew Josey
* General news
We discussed possible future workflows that Richard had written up
in https://posix.rhansen.org/p/collaborative-editing
Richard said he will continue looking into how something like what
he envisages could be made to work, but would like others to alert
him to any tools or facilities we come across that might be useful.
* 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 13th June 2019 and earlier)
Bug 1254: "asynchronous list" description uses "command" instead of "AND-OR
list" OPEN
https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1254
Action: Joerg to investigate how his shell behaves.
Bug 700 - Nick to raise this issue with the C committee
Bug 713 - Nick to raise with the C committee.
Bug 739 - Nick to raise with the C committee.
Bug 1216 - Eric to ask if The Open Group is willing to sponsor this interface,
referencing bug note 4478.
* Current Business
Bug 0001208: calling chdir as part of posix_spawn Accepted as Marked
https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1208
Bug 1208 had been reopened by Geoff and the meeting agreed with
his proposed new resolution; the bug was updated.
Reopening because the following change to posix_spawnp() is incorrect.
On page 1453 line 48229, change:
the file parameter shall be used as the pathname for the new process
image file.
to:
the file parameter shall be used as the pathname for the new process
image file; if this pathname does not start with a <slash> it shall
be interpreted relative to the working directory of the child process
after all file_actions have been performed.
It should be something like the following.
On page 1452 line 48232, change:
a search of the directories passed as the environment variable PATH
(see XBD Chapter 8, on page NNN).
to:
a search of the directories passed as the environment variable PATH
(see XBD Chapter 8, on page NNN), using the working directory of
the child process after all file_actions have been performed.
We spent the rest of the meeting discussing Don's draft response to
Donn Terry's email, and agreed that Don should send it (draft text in the
etherpad).
Gettext draft.
The gettext draft and discussion is at
https://posix.rhansen.org/p/gettext_draft
We will continue this on the next call.
Next Steps
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April 30 2020 (Thursday)
This call will be for 90 minutes.
May 4 2020 (Monday)
This call will be for 60 minutes.
Calls are anchored on US time. (8am Pacific)
Please check the calendar invites for dial in details.
Bugs are at:
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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
username=posix password=2115756#
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