Evaluation would start with the space and thus ignore the $
Added while() to skip past white space

Results from query is sent for evaluation
Break recursion by asking for ` to be ignored

There were actually more problems in this area:
  Slaves (if any) were unconditionally restarted, this appears unnecessary.
  Sort criteria were suboptimal, included the test name.
Added logic to "reserve" a sequence of tests with same config for one thread
Got rid of sort_criteria hash, put it into the test case itself
Adds little sanity check that expected worker picks up test
Fixed some tests that may fail if starting on running server
Some of these fail only if *same* test is repeated.
Finally, special sorting of tests that do --force-restart

  Simplified cases where a select was used to compare variable against ''

Limited to actual bug fix, fixing a while condition
Again confirmed on Linux PPC and on AIX 5.3

Added some more info in a number of fail cases
(re-commit for administrative reasons)

main.mysqltest skipped on Windows because a perl intentionally does exit(1)
Use exit(2), as exit(1) on Windows is indistinguishable from failing to
execute perl.

Added sanity check, similar to the one preventing send without reap

Trying to run perl fails, just like it does when perl is started but fails
Trap the case that perl was not found/could not be started, and skip test
Also force a restart of servers since test may already have done something
mtr now also appends path of current perl to PATH to aid mysqltest

This happens when creating new tmpdir due to too long socket path
Don't delete it if --start-and-exit, but warn user to do it.

Added --enable-connect-log, somewhet similar to --enable-query-log
If query log is disabled, disable connect log too
Also some related cleanup in mysqltest.test: removing duplicate test loop

Follow-up: don't call pthread_join() on Windows
This change only valid for 5.1

When stepping backward to end of `` expression, check for illegal chars

Bug #55546 mysqltest fails to create a new thread on HPUX
Missing call to pthread_join(), in embedded mode
This independently solves both problems, see 55426 for details.
Addendum: cannot test against a pthread_t, adds boolean flag instead

Moved an init_dynamic_string() from before to after potential die()

  
Disabled the test case.

Item_func_spatial_collection::fix_length_and_dec()
changed to use argument's print() method to print
the ER_ILLEGAL_VALUE_FOR_TYPE error.

were marked as experimental due to BUG38965.

bug 55568 because {1} isn't a valid geometry for a geometry
collection.

Convertion from a floating point number to a string caused a
crash.

During rare circumstances a String object could crash when
it was requested to allocate new memory.
A crash could occcur in Field_double::val_str() because of
a pointer referencing memory inside a String object which was
of unknown size.
And finally, the geometric collection should not accept
arguments which are non geometric.

Added --force-restart

Allow --testcase-timeout=<mins> to be set in .opt file for test

            called twice in a row

Queries with nested joins could cause an infinite loop in the
server when used from SP/PS.

When flattening nested joins, simplify_joins() tracks if the
name resolution list needs to be updated by setting
fix_name_res to TRUE if the current loop iteration has done any
transformations to the join table list. The problem was that
the flag was not reset before the next loop iteration leading
to unnecessary "fixing" of the name resolution list which in
turn could lead to a loop (i.e. circularly-linked part) in that
list. This was causing problems on subsequent execution when
used together with stored procedures or prepared statements.

Fixed by making sure fix_name_res is reset on every loop
iteration.