Description:
The 'mysqld --help' and 'mysqld --verbose --help' commands do output logging and the expected help output.
5.6.10/bin$ ./mysqld --help > /dev/null
2013-03-05 21:58:14 0 [Note] Binlog end
5.6.10/bin$ ./mysqld --help --verbose > output.stdout 2> output.stderr
5.6.10/bin$ ls -s1 output*
12 output.stderr
124 output.stdout
5.6.10/bin$ cat output.stderr
2013-03-05 21:54:19 16105 [ERROR] Can't find messagefile '/usr/share/errmsg.sys'
2013-03-05 21:54:19 16105 [Warning] Can't create test file /var/lib/mysql/node1.lower-test
2013-03-05 21:54:19 16105 [Warning] Can't create test file /var/lib/mysql/node1.lower-test
./mysqld: Can't change dir to '/var/lib/mysql/' (Errcode: 13 - Permission denied)
2013-03-05 21:54:19 16105 [Warning] One can only use the --user switch if running as root
2013-03-05 21:54:19 16105 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
./mysqld: Unknown error 1017
2013-03-05 21:54:19 16105 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it.
2013-03-05 21:54:19 16105 [Note] Binlog end
2013-03-05 21:54:19 16105 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'CSV'
2013-03-05 21:54:19 16105 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'MyISAM'
5.6.10/bin$ head output.stdout
./mysqld Ver 5.6.10 for linux-glibc2.5 on x86_64 (MySQL Community Server (GPL))
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Starts the MySQL database server.
Usage: ./mysqld [OPTIONS]
How to repeat:
mysqld --help --verbose > /dev/null
Suggested fix:
Make sure the help commands will only output the help info and do not do anything else. With the --help option mysqld must not create any files and it should not output any logging.
