Minutes of the 16th May 2024 Teleconference    Austin-1406 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group.         18th May 2024


Attendees:
    Don Cragun, IEEE SA OR
    Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR
    Andrew Josey, The Open Group
    Geoff Clare, The Open Group
    Eric Ackermann, CISPA 
    Eric Blake, Red Hat, The Open Group OR (joining late)
   
Apologies
    Tom Thompson, IEEE
    Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems Dev

* General news

There will be no meeting on Monday May 27.

The general news is unchanged.

P1003.1 was recommended for approval at the May 6th RevCom meeting.
The Standards Association Standards Board (SASB) electronic ballot
(e-ballot) vote should close early to mid-week next week. Once
closed the RevCom Administrator will typically send an email informing
of the final vote.  After approval we can moved forward to complete
the frontmatter and proceed to publication, and the html conversion.

The ISO/IEC ballot closes on June 28.

* Current Business

1797: strftime "%s" should be able to examine tm_gmtoff OPEN
https://austingroupbugs.net/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1797

We will continue this item next time that Paul is available (expected in April).


Bug 1818: Add strcasestr() & strcasestr_l() OPEN
https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1818
Action: Eric B to ask The Open Group if they are willing to sponsor
these functions for Issue 9.

Bug 1821: Define the values of $0, $1, etc. in the END section Accepted as Marked
https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1821

An interpretation required, This is tagged for TC1-2024.

Interpretation response:
The standard does not speak to this issue, and as such no conformance
distinction can be made between alternative implementations based
on this. This is being referred to the sponsor.

Rationale:
The standard requires that the value of NF is retained in an END
section, but does not state what the values of the fields $1 through
$NF are, despite requiring them to exist.

Notes to the Editor (not part of this interpretation):
Page and line numbers are for Issue 8 draft 4.1.

At page 2614 line 85574 (FILENAME), delete:

    Inside an END action the value shall be the name of the last
    input file processed.

At page 2614 line 85578 (FNR), change:
    Inside an END action the value shall be the number of the last
    record processed in the last file processed.
to:
    If an application changes the value of FNR, the results are
    unspecified.

At page 2614 line 85581 (NF), change:
    The number of fields in the current record. Inside a BEGIN
    action, the use of NF is undefined unless a getline function
    without a var argument is executed previously. Inside an END
    action, NF shall retain the value it had for the last record
    read, unless a subsequent, redirected, getline function without
    a var argument is performed prior to entering the END action.
to:
    The number of fields in the current record. Inside the first
    BEGIN action, the value shall initially be zero, except that
    if the -v option was used to assign a value to NF it is unspecified
    whether that value is retained or the value is reset to zero.

At page 2614 line 85587 (NR), change:
    Inside an END action the value shall be the number of the last
    record processed.
to:
    If an application changes the value of NR, the results are
    unspecified.

At page 2618 after line 85708 (Special Patterns), add:
    Entering an END action shall not alter the value of any fields
    or variables that had previously been set.

Bug 1822: Define splitting using a null field separator OPEN
https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1822

We started on this item. Notes are in the etherpad.  We will continue
on this item next time.


Next Steps 
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The next call is on:
  Mon 2024-05-20 (WEBEX meeting - general bugs)
  Mon 2024-05-27 No meeting
  Thu 2024-05-23 (WEBEX meeting - general bugs)

Apologies in Advance:
    Eric Blake 2024-05-20, 2024-05-23
  
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

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