crazy - for the last week mysqlslap.test was generating 400 sigsegvs

per run, failing ALL mysql_real_connect() calls - nobody noticed,
the test always appeared to "pass".

client/mysqlslap.c

@@ -1086,6 +1086,9 @@ WAIT:
       int status, pid;
       pid= wait(&status);
       DBUG_PRINT("info", ("Parent: child %d status %d", pid, status));
+      if (status != 0)
+        printf("%s: Child %d died with the status %d\n",
+               my_progname, pid, status);
     }
   }
 #endif
@@ -1124,7 +1127,7 @@ run_task(thread_context *con)
   my_lock(lock_file, F_RDLCK, 0, F_TO_EOF, MYF(0));
   if (!opt_only_print)
   {
-    if (!(mysql= mysql_real_connect(NULL, host, user, opt_password,
+    if (!(mysql= mysql_real_connect(mysql, host, user, opt_password,
                                     create_schema_string,
                                     opt_mysql_port,
                                     opt_mysql_unix_port,