- Only ignore _regular_ world-writeable files (thanks to Tim Bunce for

   discovering this)

mysys/default.c

@@ -249,7 +249,8 @@ static my_bool search_default_file(DYNAMIC_ARRAY *args, MEM_ROOT *alloc,
     MY_STAT stat_info;
     if (!my_stat(name,&stat_info,MYF(0)))
       return 0;
-    if (stat_info.st_mode & S_IWOTH) /* ignore world-writeable files */
+    /* ignore world-writeable _regular_ files */
+    if (stat_info.st_mode & S_IWOTH && stat_info.st_mode & S_IFREG)
     {
       fprintf(stderr, "warning: World-writeable config file %s is ignored\n",
               name);