Use libtool convenience lib, to access get_password object correctly, bug#17155

                 time per connection
  Removed const_string() method from Item_string (it was only used in one
  place, in a bad way). Defer possible SP variable, and access data directly
  instead, in date_format item.

into mysql.com:/M50/mysql-5.0

database
 - Fix test case for systems with "lowercase names"

into mysql.com:/M50/mysql-5.0

into mysql.com:/home/hf/work/mysql-5.0.9088

into mysql.com:/home/hf/work/mysql-5.0.9088

into  snake-hub.snake.net:/src/extern/MySQL/bk/mysql-4.1-r1.2478

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

into  snake-hub.snake.net:/src/extern/MySQL/bk/mysql-5.0

into  snake-hub.snake.net:/src/extern/MySQL/bk/mysql-4.1-r1.2478

  revise README.

into  snake-hub.snake.net:/src/extern/MySQL/bk/mysql-5.0

into  snake-hub.snake.net:/src/extern/MySQL/bk/mysql-4.1-r1.2478

  Revise README.gcov.

into  snake-hub.snake.net:/src/extern/MySQL/bk/mysql-5.0

into  snake-hub.snake.net:/src/extern/MySQL/bk/mysql-4.1-r1.2478

into  snake-hub.snake.net:/src/extern/MySQL/bk/mysql-4.1

  Revise mysql-test README.

into mysql.com:/M40/comment-4.0

into mysql.com:/M41/comment-4.1

into  lsmy3.wdf.sap.corp:/data/users/tkatchaounov/mysql/src/5.0-bug-17523

into  shellback.(none):/home/msvensson/mysql/mysql-5.0

into  lsmy3.wdf.sap.corp:/data/users/tkatchaounov/mysql/src/5.0-dbg

into mysql.com:/M50/mysql-5.0

into  snake-hub.snake.net:/src/extern/MySQL/bk/mysql-5.0

into  mysql.com:/home/timka/mysql/src/5.0-bug-17523

into  mysql.com:/home/alexi/bugs/mysql-5.0-merged

 - Change to use non blocking read to empty channel in case of too large sd number
 - Don't check for too large socket number on Windows.

  Allocating/freeing memory for the db member of THD
  is wholy managed by slave thread.

to both the Shell and the Perl vaerion of "mysql-test-run"-