Add option innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=2 which means we always write the log to file at commit, but only do fsync about once per second

  Merge 3.23.52

  Add BEGIN andd COMMIT around transactions in the binlog

  Do not flush the position to master.info file if we have a transaction open

configure.in

into mysql.com:/my/mysql-3.23

has finally been released 

header in x86 assemler files instead of eating the whole file

added a new replication test

into nick.leippe.com:/home/nick/mysql/mysql

added respective test case

Change TRUNCATE(number) to truncate towards zero for negative numbers
Fix NULL handling for DESCRIBE table_name

This fix should be merged into 4.0 and 4.1

  Fix an assertion failure in ha_innobase.cc about line 302 when a user has used user level locks and closes a connection; this was reported by Jeremy Zawodny

Remove end space from ENUM and SET strings

Fixed some portability things in my_gethostbyname_r
Portability fix for type_decimal.test

into sergbook.mysql.com:/usr/home/serg/Abk/mysql

did not apply)

Fixed memory overrun bug in glibc patch
Updated french error messages

(thanks to Yuri Dario <mc6530@mclink.it> for pointing this out)

Update of glibc patch from MySQL 4.0

into sinisa.nasamreza.org:/mnt/mail/work/mysql

This time I did it "by the book" as this function can return any 
of the down cited values after timeout !! This is now done 100 %
according to HP-UX DCE documentation.

This made Hewlett-Packard very happy.

Changed some status variable names
Fix bug in GRANT ... PASSWORD string