Code explaination

2003-03-12 Thread Simont Tyler
Just saw the following code in the MySQL 2.23.55 source code. The semi-colon after the if renders the if statement useless. Could someone explain if it is intentional. The comment indicates that it is. Simon /* the following 'if', thought conceptually wrong, is a useful optimizat

Running as a user account on W2K

2003-03-12 Thread Simont Tyler
Hi, I've installed MySQL 3.23.55 on Windows 2000 and I am trying to run the mysqld service as a user account rather than the local system account. This worked fine in 3.23.43 but has stopped working since the upgrade. The error I get is 2186, which seems to be "service failing to respond to con