(PLUGIN_VAR_MEMALLOC ix 0x8000 and cannot be saved in a char as such)

* replace pointer acrobatics with a struct
* make sorting explicit: MY_DONT_SORT -> MY_WANT_SORT
(if you want something to be done - say it. fixes all places where
my_dir() was used without thinking)
* typo s/number_off_files/number_of_files/
* directory_file_name() doesn't need to be extern
* remove #ifdef __BORLANDC__
* ignore '.' and '..' entries

treated as coming from the overlay.
  
(example: archive suite, test_sql_discovery overlay, mysql-test/include/have_archive.inc)

and sometimes harmful (used with expressions)

mysqltest: At line 477: query 'show explain for $thr2' failed: 1933: Target is not running an EXPLAINable command

After the fix for MDEV-4144, subquery with WHERE pk= (select ...) became a degenerate, constant 
SELECT.  It is not executed in normal way anymore, so it is not possible to catch it in-execution.

  
Analysis:
The reason for the inefficent plan was that Item_subselect::is_expensive()
didn't detect the special case when a subquery was optimized, but had no
join plan because it either has no table, or its tables have been optimized
away, or the optimizer detected that the result set is empty.
  
Solution:
Identify the special cases above in the Item_subselect::is_expensive(),
and consider such degenerate subqueries inexpensive.

This bug was introduced by the patch for WL#3220.
If the memory allocated for the tree to store unique elements
to be counted is not big enough to include all of them then
an external file is used to store the elements.
The unique elements are guaranteed not to be nulls. So, when 
reading them from the file we don't have to care about the null
flags of the read values. However, we should remove the flag 
at the very beginning of the process. If we don't do it and
if the last value written into the record buffer for the field
whose distinct values needs to be counted happens to be null,
then all values read from the file  are considered to be nulls
and are not counted in.
The fix does not remove a possible null flag for the read values.
Rather it just counts the values in the same way it was done
before WL #3220.

Extend plugin auth api to support up to 512 bytes in the user names.
Use the API versioning to support old auth plugins too!

          The get_mbr() method shouldn't return the error, rather an invalid MBR
          in this case.

Fixed printing column_get finction.

-Wno-invalid-offsetoff  is a C++ warnng, not C.

Patch by Pavel Ivanov.

During server shutdown, we need to wait for binlog checkpointing to
finish in the binlog background thread before closing the binlog.

This was not done, so we could get assert and failure to finish the
final binlog checkpoint if shutdown happened in the middle.

-Change my_rnd() slightly to make it safer if two threads use it at the same time.
-Avoid some sprintf and strmov in vio.
-Changed thread_count to be automaticly incremented (instead of under LOCK_thread_count).
-Thread cache now uses LOCK_thread_cache instead of LOCK_thread_count.
-Moved delete thd out from LOCK_thread_count.
-Save some mysql_cond_broadcast(&COND_thread_count) calls.
-Removed call to getsockname() during connect.
-Initialize random generator without locks.

Other things:
-Fixed test cases that depends on changes for LOCK_grant
-Added thread_safe_decrement32() and thread_safe_increment32()
-Removed sql_rnd_with_mutex() and get_thread_running()
-In check_table_access() don't lock LOCK_grant if we can resolve the grant with user or db level grants (the normal case).
-Don't use a lock for setting THD->query_id.
-Fixed bug where thd->set_query_id() could be set to same value by multiple threads.

Thanks to Yoshinori Matsunobu for the benchmark of connection speed and to
Domas Mituzas for the inspiration for many of the fixes.


include/violite.h:
  Change desc to a string pointer
mysql-test/suite/perfschema/r/all_instances.result:
  Added new mutex
mysql-test/suite/perfschema/t/func_mutex.test:
  Test for LOCK_system_variables_hash instead of LOCK_grant, as LOCK_grant is not anymore always taken for SELECT's.
mysys/my_gethwaddr.c:
  More DBUG
mysys/my_rnd.c:
  Change my_rnd() slightly to make it safer if two threads use it at the same time.
sql/event_scheduler.cc:
  Changed thread_count to be automically incremented
  Moved some safe things out from LOCK_thread_count.
  Simplify deleting of THD for running thread.
sql/mysqld.cc:
  Changed thread_count to be automically incremented
  Thread cache now uses LOCK_thread_cache instead of LOCK_thread_count
  Added delete_running_thd()
  Moved delete thd out from LOCK_thread_count
  More DBUG
  Only call  mysql_cond_broadcast(&COND_thread_count) if thread_count is 0
  Removed call to getsockname() (old not anymore needed check)
sql/mysqld.h:
  Removed sql_rnd_with_mutex() (not needed anymore)
  Removed not used function get_thread_running()
  Added thread_safe_decrement32() and thread_safe_increment32()
  Simplified dec_thread_running() and inc_thread_running()
  next_query_id() should return the original value for global_query_id, not the next one.
  (Bug introduced with MySQL 5.5 merge).
sql/sql_acl.cc:
  In check_table_access() don't lock LOCK_grant if we can resolve the grant with user or db level grants (the normal case).
sql/sql_class.cc:
  Removed thd_lock_thread_count() and thd_unlock_thread_count()
  Initialize random generator without locks
  Don't use a lock for setting THD->query_id.
  (This is only accessed by thread owning the THD)
sql/sql_class.h:
  Don't use a lock for setting THD->query_id.
sql/sql_insert.cc:
  Changed thread_count to be automically incremented
sql/sql_parse.cc:
  Changed thread_count to be automically incremented
  Fixed bug where thd->set_query_id() could be set to same value by multiple threads.
vio/vio.c:
  Don't generate 'desc' with sprintf/strmov. Assign a pointer instead.
  (Good enough as this is just for debugging)

In some cases, when using views the optimizer incorrectly determined
possible join orders for queries with nested outer and inner joins.
This could lead to invalid execution plans for such queries.

        The Geometry::get_mbr() function can return an error on
        a bad data. We have to check for that and act respectively.

- Set MI_INFO::external_ref for MyISAM tables that are parts of myisamMRG table.

./mtr --suite=main,plugins
will work on all branches.