BSI IST/5/-/15 (Posix)

			 Posix Panel Activity Report
			       29 August 1995

	There has been no meeting activity relating to IST/5/-/15 since
	the last IST/5 meeting on 6-June.


	1. ISO Business, Recommended Votes, etc:

	      . CD 14515-1:  POSIX - Test Methods for Measuring
		Conformance to POSIX, Part 1: System Interfaces.

		Concurrent CD registration and CD ballot closed
		18-July-1995.


		The panel recommended a YES vote, with comments:

	       "The standard forming the foundation for this work,
		ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990 is five years old and is in the
		process of being amended;  the IEEE standard from which
		this work is derived was published in 1992.

	       "The UK would recommend that this work, CD 14515-1, be
		progressed as it stands, unchanged, to reinforce current
		industry standards and practice.  The UK would recommend
		that the following points be forwarded to the US
		development body for consideration at the next revision
		of the 2003.1 work:

	       ". Improve unspecific wording, eg:
		1.4.7.2 Recommendations: (lines 434 - 437) ...PCTS.1 should
		not rely solely on the return value from that compiler or
		translator , but should also examine any messages produced
		during test execution.	For what?  As it stands this is a
		no-op; some action should also be suggested/recommended/
		required.

	       "1.4.12.1.1 Requirements: ...the signal handling routine
		behaves correctly...  What does this mean?  Shall abort?
		Shall behave as specified by the appropriate definition?
		Shall ignore the call?

	       "1.4.16.1 Requirements: The PCTS.1 shall supply all files...
		Do not create them on the target system with the file creating
		utility.   Does this mean exactly what it says, or should
		it also deny use of all file creation techniques available
		on the target system?

	       "Table 2-1 Typographical Conventions:  While <sys/stat.h>
		is a valid example of the lexography of an 'include' file
		in a C program source, it is not a "C language header"

	       ".2 Process Termination: atexit() is defined in the ISO C standard
		(Section 7.10.4.2).  The wording at lines 653 and 698
		should be revised to reflect this."



	      . ISO/IEC 9945-1 Amd 2:  POSIX - Part 1: System API [C
		language] Amendment 2: Threads Extension.

		DAM ballot closes 4-September-1995.

			The panel recommends a YES vote.



	2. Proposed Delegation for WG15, 23-27 October:

	The proposed UK delegation for the WG15 meeting in Florida is
	expected to be:

		David Cannon	(University of Exeter)
		Martin Kirk	(X/Open)

	IST/5/-/15 meets on the 8-September; the final list of delegates
	will be confirmed then.  IST/5/-/15 requests that it be
	permitted to submit this final list to the IST/5 secretariat for
	notification to the WG15 Convener shortly after that date.


	3. Future Meetings:

	    1995:
		8 September	IST/5/-/15		X/Open, Reading
		15-20 October	IEEE Posix groups	St Petersburg, Fl
		23-27 October	ISO JTC-1/SC22/WG15	Florida, USA
		24 November	IST/5/-/15		NFA
		12 December	IST/5			BSI, London

	    1996:
		7-12 January	IEEE Posix groups	Albuquerque, Nm
		20-24 May	ISO JTC-1/SC22/WG15	Denmark
		14-19 April	IEEE Posix groups	Savannah, Ga
		14-19 July	IEEE Posix groups	Jackson Hole, Wy
		      October	ISO JTC-1/SC22/WG15	Munich, Germany
		13-18 October	IEEE Posix groups	Munich, De


	David Cannon
	28-August-1995