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.ds Rh POSIX.3: POSIX Test Methods and Conformance
.ds Au Andrew Twigger <att@root.co.uk>
.ds Dt July 8-12, 1991
.ds Lo Santa Clara, CA
.ds Ed Stephen R. Walli <stephe@usenix.org>
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The Santa Clara meeting could in many ways be considered to
be one of the less eventful of the recent \s-1POSIX.3\s0 meetings.
.P
Draft 5 of the \s-1POSIX.3.2\s0 document was distributed at the meeting,
with
the majority of the test assertions having been aligned with the text
of \s-1POSIX.2\s0 (Shell and Utilities) Draft 11.
This alignment was exquisitely timed to
coincide with the production of Draft 11.1 of \s-1POSIX.2\s0,
immediately
rendering parts of Draft 5 out of date!
Perhaps the documents can be
synchronized for the next meeting,
or the one after that,
or ....
.P
The majority of the \s-1POSIX.3\s0 working group spent
most of the meeting writing assertions
with \s-1POSIX.2\s0.
Having already dealt
with the ``simpler'' utilities,
some of the more complex utilities
(make,
pax,
ls)
were tackled during the week.
The next draft should contain assertions
for about 95% of the utilities,
however the remaining 5% could take 95% of
the time!
.P
The ballot review group for \s-1POSIX.3.1\s0 met briefly
during the week to look
over the objections received during the last ballot recirculation.
Most of these had been
resolved prior to the meeting
and
it was expected that the remaining items
could be resolved by the end of August.
Another
brief
recirculation ballot
is expected in the Autumn,
with possibly another standard being completed by
the end of the year.
.P
The \s-1SCCT\s0 met twice during the week
and
finally approved some of the test
method development plans submitted by the other working groups.
The rumour
that this was only in response to moans from the other working groups that
the \s-1SCCT\s0 had rejected every plan submitted in the previous nine months is
not entirely without foundation!
Most of the other working groups,
however,
are getting geared up to produce test methods with their documents.
.P
Several members of \s-1POSIX.3\s0 spent time in assisting
other working groups to
develop test methods for their standards.
Much of this time was spent in
helping the working groups to understand how significant a task this is
and in helping the working groups to develop a reasonable strategy for
test methods.
Some time was also spent in reviewing the work that had
already been done by work group members.
There seems to be an increased
awareness of the problems
and
an ever improving quality to the test
methods that the working group are producing.