Add BEGIN andd COMMIT around transactions in the binlog

  Do not flush the position to master.info file if we have a transaction open

configure.in

into mysql.com:/my/mysql-3.23

has finally been released 

header in x86 assemler files instead of eating the whole file

added a new replication test

into nick.leippe.com:/home/nick/mysql/mysql

added respective test case

Change TRUNCATE(number) to truncate towards zero for negative numbers
Fix NULL handling for DESCRIBE table_name

This fix should be merged into 4.0 and 4.1

  Fix an assertion failure in ha_innobase.cc about line 302 when a user has used user level locks and closes a connection; this was reported by Jeremy Zawodny

Remove end space from ENUM and SET strings

Fixed some portability things in my_gethostbyname_r
Portability fix for type_decimal.test

into sergbook.mysql.com:/usr/home/serg/Abk/mysql

did not apply)

Fixed memory overrun bug in glibc patch
Updated french error messages

(thanks to Yuri Dario <mc6530@mclink.it> for pointing this out)

Update of glibc patch from MySQL 4.0

into sinisa.nasamreza.org:/mnt/mail/work/mysql

This time I did it "by the book" as this function can return any 
of the down cited values after timeout !! This is now done 100 %
according to HP-UX DCE documentation.

This made Hewlett-Packard very happy.

Changed some status variable names
Fix bug in GRANT ... PASSWORD string

mysql_copyright to replace it