Bug in DBD::mysql causes crash on mysql_ping from 4.006 onwards

We recently upgraded our DBD::mysql install, and started noticing
intermittent client processes crashing.

After some investigation, it turns out that if a server connection times
out, then when the client tries to do a mysql_ping, it'll crash the process.
This bug is documented here:

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=36810

It seems to have been around for a while (introduced between 4.006 and
4.007) and is reported to be in 4.008 still.

This seems a pretty serious bug, and various distributions are or will ship
with it (like Ubuntu Intrepid). Is anyone looking into this?

Rob


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