Errors when send reply to master should never cause the IO thread
to stop, because master can fall back to async replication if it
does not get reply from slave.

The problem is fixed by deliberately ignoring the return value of
slaveReply.

Semi-sync uses an extra connection from slave to master to send
replies, this is a normal client connection, and used a normal
SET query to set the reply information on master, which is visible
to user and may cause some confusion and complaining.

This problem is fixed by using the method of sending reply by
using the same connection that is used by master dump thread to
send binlog to slave. Since now the semi-sync plugins are integrated
with the server code, it is not a problem to use the internal net
interfaces to do this.

The master dump thread will mark the event requires a reply and
wait for the reply when the event just sent is the last event
of a transaction and semi-sync status is ON; And the slave will
send a reply to master when it received such an event that requires
a reply.

On sparc, semisync master/slave status is always showed as OFF, this
is fixed by change rpl_semisync_master/slave_status variables from
long to char.

Fix mtr semisync plugin option paths

Backporting BUG#44058 BUG#42244 BUG#45672 BUG#45673
Backporting BUG#45819 BUG#45973 BUG#39012

Extract substr into local variable

with the newer pb2 testing environments

a "if"
Bug #41913 mysqltest cannot source files from if inside while
Some commands require additional processing which only works first time
Keep content for write_file or append_file with the st_command struct
Add tests for those cases to mysqltest.test

This fixes the regression introduced in 5.1 that prevents 64 bit builds on Intel while still keeping the core2 hack operational so the cluster can build.

Remove a self assignment.
Rework a few constructs to avoid a potential overflow.

Based upon patch contributed by Michal Hrusecky

On 64-bits machines the calculation gets the wrong types and results
in very large numbers. Fixed by explicitly cast month to (int)