* Charlie Brady <charlieb-supervision@budge.apana.org.au> [2008-01-13 10:36:31 -0500]:

>> mysqld is no more complex than anything else.
>
> Have they fixed it then, so that the master process kills children before 
> dying?

No, but my mysqld.finish script calls "mysqladmin shutdown" and has for
a few years now with no adverse effects at all.

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