From: Jon Ribbens
Date: May 11 2007 1:03pm
Subject: Re: Mysterious 'Lost connection' errors
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On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 05:17:12PM +0100, Jon Ribbens wrote:
> I suspect some sort of bug in the MySQLd authentication code.

I've managed to discover using --debug that it's due to MySQLd failing
to handle EINTR from read() in the authentication stage.

I've filed a bug report: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=28359

Does anyone know how/where to best attract the attention of a MySQL
developer to this bug?