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