into serg.mylan:/usr/home/serg/Abk/mysql-4.1

  Prove that the queries mentioned in
  Bugs#5980: NULL requires a characterset in a union
  works fine after recent changes related to itroducing
  more coercibility level: IRNORABLE and SYSCONST.

into serg.mylan:/usr/home/serg/Abk/mysql-4.1

into serg.mylan:/usr/home/serg/Abk/mysql-4.0

provide created shared memory objects with proper
access rights to make them usable when client and server
are running under different accounts. 
Post review fixes.

into zim.(none):/home/brian/mysql/mysql-4.1

into mysql.com:/home/jimw/my/mysql-4.1-clean

into mysql.com:/home/jimw/my/mysql-4.1-clean

  Don't run GBK test if not GBK support was compiled.

into zim.(none):/home/brian/mysql/mysql-4.1

into neptunus.(none):/home/msvensson/mysql/mysql-4.1

  Wrong help string fix.

into mysql.com:/usr/home/bar/mysql-4.1

in some cases, because "charset(x) = 'string'" was considered
as "x is not null" due to incorrect not_null_tables().

into neptunus.(none):/home/msvensson/mysql/bug9303

into neptunus.(none):/home/msvensson/mysql/mysql-4.1

    followup - results fixed

into serg.mylan:/usr/home/serg/Abk/mysql-4.1

    corrected number of fields for --enable_metadata
sql/sql_union.cc
    fixed a apparent typo in assert

into quadita2.mysql.com:/nfstmp1/guilhem/mysql-4.1-4ita

"After Monty's review" changes to the fix for BUG#8325 "Deadlock in replication thread stops replication":
s/sleep/safe_sleep (thread safe); sleep 0/1/2/3/4/5/5/5 (get slave less late);
no message on error log (deadlock is too common sometimes), a global counter
instead (SHOW STATUS LIKE 'slave_retried_transactions').
Plus a fix for libmysql/Makefile.shared

  Fix typo.

into neptunus.(none):/home/msvensson/mysql/mysql-4.1

Additional storage engine called "blackhole". Customer request, and for that matter a Zawodny request.  With this you can alter table to a type of table that would never store data. Its a /dev/null for a database.  

Added better comment for perceived problem with fix for Bug #8753 Invalid schema object version after dropping index

Extra fix for perceived problem with fix for Bug #8753 Invalid schema object version after dropping index

into neptunus.(none):/home/msvensson/mysql/mysql-4.1

into mysql.com:/Users/kent/mysql/bk/mysql-4.1-perl

  InnoDB needs longer start time for second slave on slow hosts