[mod.std.unix] brief notes on the Palo Alto P1003 meeting

std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP (Moderator, John Quarterman) (09/28/86)

P1003.1 met week before last (17-19 September) in Palo Alto.
Various technical issues were addressed (many in the form of
line by line objections from the balloting this spring) and
some of them will probably be posted to this newsgroup.

The new secretary is Shane McCarron of MECC and the new keeper of
the document is Hal Jespersen of Amdahl.  (Many thanks to their
predecessors, Steve Head of HP and Jim McGinness of DEC.)

P1003.2 (shell interface) and P1003.3 (verficiation) also met 
the same week, as did the /usr/group Real Time working group,
and other /usr/group committees.  I solicit reports from their
secretaries or comments from attendees.

The relations of the GM, /usr/group, and P1003.1 subcommittees
on Real Time were of sufficient interest to me that I took some
notes which I intend to turn into a brief report next time I'm
in town long enough.

The proposal form that you've all seen before as the last section
of RFC.001, but with some of the error code details and X3J11 text
filled in, has been assigned a proposal number and is now P.55.
I will post the complete text shortly.  No action was taken on
including it in the actual document because another proposal on
timezones is expected imminently from HP and I did not feel it
appropriate to push the issue before the other proposal could
be seen.  Presumably, some action will be taken at the next meeting.

Meanwhile, many people at the various meetings got tired of
hearing me say that mod.std.unix != mod.timezone and have
promised to submit interesting articles on new subjects.
How about termios?  Job control?  Real time?  Reliable signals?
High performance file systems?  Atomicity of readdir()?
Appendix H (which is no longer in the draft document)?  
Multiple groups?  DoD (and other) security requirements?
Relation of 1003.1 to X3J11?

Volume-Number: Volume 7, Number 4