broken safe_mysqld --defaults-file

Hello, everyone:

safe_mysqld (tested in 4.0.12, I believe present in all other versions) will
insist on using its hard-coded datadir when --defaults-file option is given.
This results in a very counter-intuitive behaviour. One would expect
safe_mysqld to honor everything specified in the defaults file pointed to,
while in fact, the default hard-coded datadir ends up taking precedence.

Suggested fix:

If the argument defaults-file is present, and datadir is specified in the
defaults file, do not pass --datadir argument to mysqld inside safe_mysqld .

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