svn commit - mysqldoc@docsrva: r2122 - in trunk: . refman-common

[paul]

Author: paul
Date: 2006-05-18 15:39:09 +0200 (Thu, 18 May 2006)
New Revision: 2122

Log:
 r10508@frost:  paul | 2006-05-18 08:35:39 -0500
 Documented bugfixes:
 Bug#6061


Modified:
   trunk/
   trunk/refman-common/news-5.1.xml


Property changes on: trunk
___________________________________________________________________
Name: svk:merge
   - 4767c598-dc10-0410-bea0-d01b485662eb:/mysqldoc-local/mysqldoc/trunk:7586
b5ec3a16-e900-0410-9ad2-d183a3acac99:/mysqldoc-local/mysqldoc/trunk:10475
bf112a9c-6c03-0410-a055-ad865cd57414:/mysqldoc-local/mysqldoc/trunk:4886
   + 4767c598-dc10-0410-bea0-d01b485662eb:/mysqldoc-local/mysqldoc/trunk:7586
b5ec3a16-e900-0410-9ad2-d183a3acac99:/mysqldoc-local/mysqldoc/trunk:10508
bf112a9c-6c03-0410-a055-ad865cd57414:/mysqldoc-local/mysqldoc/trunk:4886

Modified: trunk/refman-common/news-5.1.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/refman-common/news-5.1.xml	2006-05-18 11:09:19 UTC (rev 2121)
+++ trunk/refman-common/news-5.1.xml	2006-05-18 13:39:09 UTC (rev 2122)
@@ -110,6 +110,54 @@
 
       <listitem>
         <para>
+          Corrected several problems with the treatment of the
+          <option>--log-error</option> option by
+          <command>mysqld_safe</command>. These problems were manifest
+          as differences from <command>mysqld</command> in error log
+          handling.
+        </para>
+
+        <itemizedlist>
+
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              If a filename was given for <option>--log-error</option>,
+              <command>mysqld_safe</command> ignored it and did not pass
+              it to <command>mysqld</command>, which then wrote error
+              information to <literal>stderr</literal> and resulted in
+              incorrect log rotation when <literal>FLUSH LOGS</literal>
+              was used.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <command>mysql_safe</command> now adds
+              <filename>.err</filename> to the end of the filename if no
+              extension is present (the same as
+              <command>mysqld</command>).
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <command>mysqld_safe</command> treated a relative pathname
+              as relative to its own current working directory. Now it
+              treats a relative pathname as relative to the data
+              directory (the same as <command>mysqld</command>).
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+
+        </itemizedlist>
+
+        <para>
+          In addition, some argument quoting problems were corrected.
+          (Bug #6061)
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
           Returning the value of a system variable from a stored
           function caused a server crash. (Bug #18037)
         </para>