- Fix my_read/my_write to handle return values from read/write correctly
- Add debugging 'deprecated function' warning to my_lread/my_lwrite
- Add debugging 'error, read/write interrupt not handled' warning to my_quick_read/my_quick_write

There is no test case associated with these changes.  However, this is a conservative change,
and no repeatable test case is available.

have a better test (and so this should be null-merged there).

ALSO!  Make it so that it accepts NPTL as a valid _equivalent_ implementation.

On exactly-sized Strings, the String::c_ptr() function peeked beyond the
end of the buffer, possibly into unititialized space to see whether the 
buffer was NUL-terminated.

In a place that did peek improperly, we now use a c_ptr_safe() function, 
which doesn't peek where it shouldn't.

  For compatibility, don't use {..,..} in pattern matching
make_binary_distribution.sh:
  Added .dylib and .sl as shared library extensions

  Always compile position independent

  Change mode to -rw-rw-r--
dbug_add_tags.pl:
  Change mode to -rwxrwxr--

  Stepped up to 4.0.28

into  mysql.com:/home/mydev/mysql-4.0-bug10405

  Delete: Docs/changelog-4.0.xml

(based on the fact that packet is ALWAYS \0 terminated, see my_net_read)

(reported by Stefano Di Paola)

into  mysql.com:/home/mydev/mysql-4.0-bug5390

into  sanja.is.com.ua:/home/bell/mysql/bk/work-4.0

into  mysql.com:/usr/home/ram/work/mysql-4.0

into  sanja.is.com.ua:/home/bell/mysql/bk/work-4.0

code. (Bug #13621)

Whenever 'myisamchk' needed to recreate a table,
the auto increment information was lost.

Now the forgotten element of the table creation
information is set correctly.

  Changed web address order.mysql.com to shop.mysql.com

  Typo (bug#17167)

into  snake-hub.snake.net:/src/extern/MySQL/bk/mysql-4.0-r1.2173

  revise README.

  Revise README.gcov.

  Revise mysql-test README.

into mysql.com:/M40/comment-4.0

mysql-test/mysql-test-run.sh  :  Add a "--comment=<string>" option, to get it logged when the test is run.

This fix is necessary because thr_multi_lock()
reorderes the lock data references array.

  print => echo in shell script

  Bug#16780: Extend port range to make space for 5.1 NDBCLUSTER_PORT_SLAVE

When setup_fields() function finds field named '*' it expands it to the list
of all table fields. It does so by checking that the first char of
field_name is '*', but it doesn't checks that the '* is the only char.
Due to this, when updating table with a field named like '*name', such field
is wrongly treated as '*' and expanded. This leads to making list of fields
to update being longer than list of the new values. Later, the fill_record() 
function crashes by dereferencing null when there is left fields to update,
but no more values.

Added check in the setup_fields() function which ensures that the field
expanding will be done only when '*' is the only char in the field name.

After-fix optimizations proposed and finally
implemented by Monty.

into mysql.com:/M40/mysql-4.0

into  neptunus.(none):/home/msvensson/mysql/bug6554/my40-bug6554

   - Remove the local static var

Copyright string fixes (bug#16106)

Changes to Netware specific mysqld_safe.c

Remove wrong fix for Bug#14397 - OPTIMIZE TABLE with an open HANDLER causes a crash
Safety fix for bug #13855 "select distinct with group by caused server crash"