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    Problem Report Number 0053
    Submitter's Classification Test Suite problem
    State Resolved
    Resolution Rejected (REJ)
    Problem Resolution ID REJ.PX.0022
    Raised 2010-07-28 03:14
    Updated 2010-08-06 15:03
    Published 2010-08-06 15:03
    Product Standard 1003.1-2003 System Interfaces
    Certification Program POSIX Certified by IEEE and The Open Group
    Test Suite VSX-PCTS2003 version 2.2
    Test Identification POSIX.hdr/misc/unistd_X/T.unistd_X.25
    Location in Spec None.
    Problem Summary _POSIX2_VERSION needs to be set to -1 but
    POSIX.hrd/mis/unistd_X/T.unistd_X 25 does not allow it
    Problem Text We ran into a situation were we don't support the shell utilities
    checked for in XPG4.os/procenv/confstr/T.confstr. The solution for this
    was to make sysconf(_SC_2_VERSION) return -1. This leads me to set
    _POSIX2_VERSION to -1 for POSIX.os/procenv/sysconf_X/T.sysconf_X.11
    which then causes POSIX.hdr/misc/unistd_X/T.unistd_X.25 to fail.
    According to Lynne Canal, the proper thing to do would be to not have
    T.unistd_X fail so that there could be separation between the system
    intefaces standard and the shell utilities standard. Since there is not
    likely time to get this changed before I submit for certification I'd
    like to get a wavier for POSIX.hdr/misc/unistd_X/T.unistd_X.25 failing.

    Review Information

    Review Type TSMA Review
    Start Date 2010-07-28 03:14
    Last Updated 2010-07-28 09:39
    Completed 2010-07-28 09:39
    Status Complete
    Review Recommendation Rejected (REJ)
    Review Response There seems to have been a misunderstanding regarding how
    _POSIX2_VERSION should be handled on implementations which
    do not support the shell and utilities. The standard does
    not ascribe any special meaning to the value -1 for this
    constant. Therefore the only valid way to indicate
    non-support (in a profile of POSIX.1) is not to define the
    constant. (This should not be confused with the -1 return
    from sysconf(), which is a convention of the sysconf()
    interface.)

    Note also that the test output needs to be included in the
    PR submission in order to be able to grant a TSD.

    Review Type SA Review
    Start Date 2010-07-28 17:39
    Last Updated 2010-08-06 15:02
    Completed 2010-08-06 15:02
    Status Complete
    Review Resolution Rejected (REJ)
    Review Conclusion This PR request is being rejected. The matter is being handled in PR 0054

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