Description:
When invoked with --user, mysqlbinlog will not try to read a local binlog but ask the
mysqld server to send it to him.
The results are wrong.
Monty in Warsaw about this problem: "if it does not work then remove the
option".
Btw this option seems a bit useless to me.

How to repeat:
Have an alive mysqld with --log-bin, say active binlog is gbichot2-bin.000012,

[guilhem@gbichot2 1]$ mysql1 -e "show master status"
+---------------------+----------+--------------+------------------+
| File                | Position | Binlog_do_db | Binlog_ignore_db |
+---------------------+----------+--------------+------------------+
| gbichot2-bin.000012 |     2004 |              |                  |
+---------------------+----------+--------------+------------------+

[guilhem@gbichot2 1]$ /m/mysql-4.1/client/mysqlbinlog -uroot gbichot2-bin.000012
#700101  1:00:00 server id 1  log_pos 0         Rotate to gbichot2-bin.000012  pos: 4
ERROR: Could not construct log event object

The most serious bug is the ERROR immediately after only one event (all my events are not
printed: I had 2000 bytes of binlog).
This first event is garbage (see the date: 1970) but this is expected, it is a dummy event
which does not hurt (except that it can surprise a user).

Suggested fix:
probably remove the option from mysqlbinlog.

functionality is restored

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