[debian-mysql] Bug#715065: Bug#715065: Acknowledgement (libmysqlclient16: random "Lost connection" errors due to failure of handling EINTR correctly)

[Clint Byrum]

Excerpts from Marc Lehmann's message of 2013-07-05 22:19:32 -0700:
> More experimenting and further digging shows simple way to reproduce it:
> run mysql interactively and execute a long-running command:
> 
>    mysql> select sleep(60);
> 
> Then resize your terminal window three times, to generate three SIGWINCH
> signals, and...:
> 
>    ERROR 2013 (HY000): Lost connection to MySQL server during query
> 
> This looks like upstream bug http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=65956, although
> it's not clear to me whether upstream fully understands the problem.
> 
> According to that ticket, the bug has been fixed upstream, but the fix is
> not in debian.
> 

Thanks for doing all the leg work on this Marc. Sounds like this will
have to remain open until 5.6 is packaged.