Comment 2 for bug 527723

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

The atd initscript at the point this was converted to Upstart *DID NOT* have this code, that makes this a wishlist only.

Unfortunately your patch is incorrect; Upstart will folllow the awk process pid, rather than atd's. Also this kind of grep/awk on every boot for everyone is exactly the kind of thing we do not want to do on every boot.

It would be better to patch atd's C code to call uname() itself and check for "SMP" in utsname.version