the "If I had a hammer" patch.

Had to answer the question, did it in code.

Much more accurrate results for 5.1

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

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

into  mysql.com:/usr/home/ram/work/4.1.b18536

into mysql.com:/home/hf/work/mysql-4.1.clean

  Always compile position independent

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

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

 - A segfault occured when the function 'kill_server' called 
   'my_sigset' with signal number 0. 'my_sigset' is a macro which
   uses 'sigaction' to install the signal handler with an invalid
   signal number will on most platforms return EINVAL but yields
   a segfauilt on IRIX 6.5
 - The server crash was detected by mysqld_safe and it was restarted although
   a shutdown was requested. 
 - Semantics of kill_server(0) is not known, leaving it intact

into  neptunus.(none):/home/msvensson/mysql/bug18818/my41-bug18818

into  production.mysql.com:/usersnfs/tulin/mysql-4.1

into  poseidon.ndb.mysql.com:/home/tomas/mysql-4.1-main

into  poseidon.ndb.mysql.com:/home/tomas/mysql-4.1-main

    ndb: ndb_waiter disconnect/reconnect on get status error

into  production.mysql.com:/usersnfs/tulin/mysql-4.1

into  mysql.com:/data0/mysqldev/my/mysql-4.1

fixing encoding example because of table names can not be in koi8r 
on some platforms.

into  poseidon.ndb.mysql.com:/home/tomas/mysql-4.1-main

- not having lock can cause "block number list" to become corrupt => crash
- also may result in 2 threads receiving same block no => possble cause of
Bug #13987 Cluster: Loss of data nodes can cause high CPU usage from ndb_mgmd

into  poseidon.ndb.mysql.com:/home/tomas/mysql-4.1

into  mysql.com:/home/alexi/innodb/mysql-4.1-ss29

- invalidate ndb dict cache on cluster disconnect (ClusterMgr.cpp)
- add check for correct frm on external lock when table cache is found invalid

 Fix BUG#19542 "InnoDB doesn't increase the Handler_read_prev counter.
 

fixing names length. Got an issue when merged to 5.0, decided to fix starting from 4.1

mysqltest program should be really multithreaded to perform this
test with the embedded server. So this test disabled until we
redo mysqltest this way

this test just can't work in the embedded server

fixing a path to find charset by $MYSQL client. I believe the fix is done what should be
by default. 

into  mysql.com:/usr_rh9/home/elkin.rh9/MySQL/Merge/4.1

into  mysql.com:/usr_rh9/home/elkin.rh9/MySQL/Merge/4.1

  A pattern to generate binlog for DROPped temp table in close_temporary_tables
  was buggy: could not deal with a grave-accent-in-name table.

  The fix exploits `append_identifier()' for quoting and duplicating accents.

  Change mode to -rw-rw-r--
Ereport.pl, Ecreate.pl, Ecompare.pl:
  Change mode to -rwxrwxr--

  Change mode to -rw-rw-r--
dbug_add_tags.pl:
  Change mode to -rwxrwxr--

 - Remove usage of $shrext_cmds variable
 - Test for libs using all known library file endings