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"at" and "atq"



I have a couple of minor issues, one I would classify as a cosmetic bugfix, the second I describe as an improvement.

(btw, I'm using OpenBSD 3.2, nothing wild and wacky off the default install)

The "bug": The "atq" command lists all at jobs as being owned by the userid of the last pending atjob. I believe this needs to be corrected, it should display the job owner as the actual owner of the atjob. Should I submit this as a bug?

The improvement request: Currently, it is impossible for multiple users to submit atjobs to run at exactly the same time. I haven't tried yet, but I am going to assume that it's also impossible for a single user to submit multiple atjobs for exactly the same time. I would like to see both of these be possible. As a suggestion in terms of how to deal with it, AIX handles the first matter by prepending the userid to the atjobs's filename (/var/spool/cron/atjobs/root.1047553200.a for example, it's /var/at/jobs on OpenBSD). AIX handles the second matter by incrementing the scheduled time of successive submitted atjobs by one second until a time slot is found. I am not quite certain how to submit this. I personally don't classify it as a bug, more of a feature request, and there is understandly little or no apparent way of making such.

Thanks in advance,
jcc (AIX pays my bills)



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