Change the 'sleep' into an explicit FLUSH LOGS command

    myquery(rc);

  }

  sleep(1); /* The server may need time to flush the data to the log. */

  /* Make sure the server has written the logs to disk before reading it */

  rc= mysql_query(mysql, "flush logs");

  myquery(rc);

  master_log_filename = (char *) malloc(strlen(opt_vardir) + strlen("/log/master.log") + 1);

  strcpy(master_log_filename, opt_vardir);