From: Warren Young
Date: July 20 2010 9:10pm
Subject: Re: Problem with ReconnectOption on CentOS 5.5
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On 7/20/2010 10:03 AM, Martin Dubuc wrote:
> What is the race condition that can occur if one sets the reconnect option
> after the connection comes up?

There's a nonzero chance that the connection will succeed but then be 
dropped before the reconnect option is applied.  (mysqld core dump, 
power outage, network switch explodes...)  I'm sure this is why they now 
allow it set before the connection comes up.