Filter out strange control characters, messes up logs

into  chilla.local:/home/mydev/mysql-4.0-bug14400

into  maint1.mysql.com:/data/localhome/cmiller/mysql-4.0__bug19006

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.

It was possible that fetching a record by an exact key value 
(including the record pointer) could return a record with a 
different key value. This happened only if a concurrent insert 
added a record with the searched key value after the fetching 
statement locked the table for read.

The search succeded on the key value, but the record was
rejected as it was past the file length that was remembered
at start of the fetching statement. With other words it was 
rejected as being a concurrently inserted record.

The action to recover from this problem was to fetch the 
record that is pointed at by the next key of the index. 
This was repeated until a record below the file length was 
found.

I do now avoid this loop if an exact match was searched. 
If this match is beyond the file length, it is now treated 
as "key not found". There cannot be another key with the 
same record pointer.

  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.

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