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Summary of Volume 6 of mod.std.unix

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From: Moderator, John Quarterman
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1986 18:52
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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)

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)

Timezones:
	motivation:  N3 (Horton); location:  N4 (dag);  past:  N4 (jsq)

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)

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.

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)

Far Past:  N46 (jsq)
*	different representation:  N44 (jsq, genealogy), N47 (Horton)
	use time_t:  N48 (Brader)

* indicates the side of the discussion that won, as I see it.

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

Volume-Number: Volume 7, Number 7
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Subject: Summary of Volume 6 of mod.std.unix
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Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 14:52:17 EDT
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