Bug #12463 Help command line option doensn't work when you have an incorrect config file

Submitted:	9 Aug 2005 14:51	Modified:	30 Nov 2007 7:05
Reporter:	Reggie Burnett	Email Updates:
Status:	Verified	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Command-line Clients	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	5.0	OS:	Windows (Windows)
Assigned to:	Assigned Account	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
Running a command such as mysqld-nt --help should print out help even if a config file is present that has syntax errors.  However, mysqld reads and processes the cofig file and prints out any error messages instead of printing help.

How to repeat:
Put a my.ini file in your %windows% folder and intentionally create a syntax error in it.  Then, in a command window, issue the following statement.

mysqld-nt --help --verbose

I tested on Windows 2003:

D:\mysql-4.1.14\client_debug>mysqld-debug.exe --help --verbose
050813 13:22:45 [ERROR] mysqld-debug.exe: unknown variable 'badoption=bad value for bad option'

A patch for this bug has been committed. After review, it may
be pushed to the relevant source trees for release in the next
version. You can access the patch from:

  http://lists.mysql.com/internals/28750

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