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- Previously posted as:
- Subject: Summary of Volume 6 of mod.std.unix
- Date: 29 Sep 86 18:52:17 GMT
- Message-Id: <5835@ut-sally.UUCP>
- Volume-Number: Volume 7, Number 7
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- Administrativia: N1, N13b, N51
- mod.std.unix & P1003: N2
- Publicity: N6
- Access to standards: N7, N10, N11, N12, N13a, N21, N22, N26, N27, N40, N46, N50
- Access to user groups and publications: N11, N21, N40, N45
- POSIX Conformance Workshop: N20
- P1003.2 Shell Working Group: N24, N25 (Hal Jespersen)
- IEEE 1003.1, POSIX, & ISO/TC97: N49 (Isaak)
- RFCs: N16 (jbc, jsq)
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- write EOF: N5, N8, N9
- tape file marks: N14
- ioctl vs. iocntl (and fcntl): N15 (Smith, jbc), N17 (jbc), N18 (rbj), N19 (dag)
- mkdir & rmdir implementation: N23 (jsq, dag), N28 (dag)
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- Timezones:
- motivation: N3 (Horton); location: N4 (dag); past: N4 (jsq)
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- RFC.001: Timezones: N29 (jsq)
- RFC.001 Summary of mod.std.unix Volume 5: N30 (jsq)
- RFC.001 Timezone Interface: N31 (Elz)
- RFC.001 Timezone Examples: N32 (Olsen)
- RFC.001 Timezone Proposal: N33 (jsq)
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- Responses to RFC.001:
- Previous call on settz(): N34 (Noel), N36 (Elz) (perhaps add)
- Implementor's TZ a bad default: N34 (Noel), N36 (Elz) (add note)
- Method to retrieve TZ name: N34 (Noel), N36 (Elz) (not tzname[])
- BSD timezone(): N34 (Noel)
- tzset() of System V: N34 (Noel), N36 (Elz) (implement, don't add)
- TZ & DST rule: N34 (Noel), N35 (Horton), N36 (Elz)(can't be done right)
- Details of Olsen's implementation: N37 (Devine)
- The parenthetical comments at the far right indicate my interpretation
- of the outcome of the discussions on the various topics and what I
- recommended the committee do.
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- What does time_t represent and localtime() convert? N38 (Harris)
- * unsigned for future: N39 (Franklin), N42 (Harris), N43 (Yao)
- signed for past: N41 (Olsen)
- an implementation: N44 (Campbell)
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- Far Past: N46 (jsq)
- * different representation: N44 (jsq, genealogy), N47 (Horton)
- use time_t: N48 (Brader)
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- * indicates the side of the discussion that won, as I see it.
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- Abbreviations:
- Brader: Mark Brader
- Campbell: Larry Campbell
- dag: Douglas A. Gwyn
- Devine: Bob Devine
- Elz: Robert Elz
- Franklin: Dan Franklin
- Harris: Guy Harris
- Horton: Mark Horton
- Isaak: James Isaak (P1003 co-chair)
- jbc: John B. Chambers (guest moderator)
- Jespersen: Hal Jespersen (P1003.2 co-chair)
- jsq: John S. Quarterman (moderator)
- Noel: Greg Noel
- Olsen: Arthur Olsen
- rbj: Root Boy Jim Cottrell
- Smith: Roy Smith
- Yao: Joe Yao
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- Volume-Number: Volume 10, Number 15
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