mysqld >=4.1.3 will however understand shutdown requests sent by clients <4.1.3.
And mysqld <4.1.3 will understand shutdown requests sent by clients >=4.1.3
(it will ignore the level). Those shutdown level are just PLACEHOLDERS now.
So this change is just to make the 4.1 API suitable before it is frozen. Later
we will actually implement the shutdown levels.

Comments on names still welcome.

Server will however still accept shutdown without specified level; so that old
mysqladmin can still shut server down.
I would like your comments on the names of shutdown level which I chose. You
are welcome to propose better names. Please however check WL#709 before.
Reason for the names I propose is to be accurate, thus leaving possibility
for other levels which we may imagine in the future; that's why I have rejected
names like "fast", "smart", "graceful" so far. My position is that WAIT_ALL_BUFFERS
or WAIT_CRITICAL_BUFFERS say what the shutdown does, whereas for "smart", "fast" you
need to remember what it does.
This should be pushed in 4.1.3 but only after your comments.

Plan is to introduce --flag, but Tomas will do that later.

into teton.kitebird.com:/home/paul/bk/mysql-4.1

  Fix couple of typos.

E.g. 'Ch' is treated as a separate letter in Czech,
not as a combination of C+h.

  Fixed various issues to deal with untarring of gpl tar file, clearing configure.in, changed calls to use system vs. backticks

into deer.(none):/home/hf/work/mysql-4.1.4014

use MYSQL_TCP_PORT instead of 3306 in tests

into mysql.com:/home/jonas/src/mysql-4.1-ndb

  Reuse some code between simple and UCA collations.

- For simple character sets: from_uni convertion table.
- For UCA: alternative weight arrays.
Use mbminlen instead of MY_CS_NONTEXT

reset mysql->status if there was an error in row reading.

  Put back the ha_innodb.cc source code lines that were accidentally removed in Jan Lindstrom's push yesterday (he used the account heikki@mysql.com)

into mysql.com:/home/kostja/mysql/mysql-4.1-root

some reason wasn't included before.
A lot of files cleaned up from #include <assert.h>

correct prefix compare with my_strnncoll

close table before opening in optimize

into sanja.is.com.ua:/home/bell/mysql/bk/work-count-4.1

into mysql.com:/home/mysql_src/mysql-4.1-874

exactly it's mapped to "ALTER TABLE t; ANALYZE TABLE t;"

New option --sync-binlog=x (and global settable variable) which will fsync the binlog
after every x-th disk write to it. That is, if in autocommit mode, after every x-th statement
written to the binlog; if using transactions, after every x-th transaction written to the binlog.
x==0 means no fsync. x==1 is the slowest.
There is no test added for this, I have just checked that it works as --sync-binlog=1 dramatically
slows down mysqld.
Made sync-frm a global settable variable.

into mysql.com:/home/mysql_src/mysql-4.1-1595

error messages when a query goes wrong.
Note that from now on, if you run with --slave-skip-error=xx, then nothing will
be printed to the error log when the slave is having this error xx and
skipping it (but you don't care as you want to skip it).

into poseidon.ndb.mysql.com:/home/tomas/mysql-4.1-ndb

Added function 

/***********************************************************************
This function stores binlog offset and flushes logs */


void innobase_store_binlog_offset_and_flush_log(char *binlog_name,longlong offset) 
requested by Guilhem to ha_innodb.cc and ha_innodb.h. 

Change made by Jan.Lindstrom@innodb.com

into mysql.com:/home/pem/work/mysql-4.1