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		@@ -5700,17 +5700,17 @@ AIX 4.x with native threads. @xref{IBM-AIX}.
		@item
		Amiga.
		@item
		BSDI 2.x with the included MIT-pthreads package. @xref{BSDI}.
		BSDI 2.x with the MIT-pthreads package. @xref{BSDI}.
		@item
		BSDI 3.0, 3.1 and 4.x with native threads. @xref{BSDI}.
		@item
		DEC Unix 4.x with native threads. @xref{Alpha-DEC-UNIX}.
		@item
		FreeBSD 2.x with the included MIT-pthreads package. @xref{FreeBSD}.
		FreeBSD 2.x with the MIT-pthreads package. @xref{FreeBSD}.
		@item
		FreeBSD 3.x and 4.x with native threads. @xref{FreeBSD}.
		@item
		HP-UX 10.20 with the DCE threads or the included MIT-pthreads package.
		HP-UX 10.20 with the DCE threads or the MIT-pthreads package.
		@xref{HP-UX 10.20}.
		@item
		HP-UX 11.x with the native threads. @xref{HP-UX 11.x}.
		@@ -5721,7 +5721,7 @@ Mac OS X Server. @xref{Mac OS X}.
		@item
		NetBSD 1.3/1.4 Intel and NetBSD 1.3 Alpha (Requires GNU make). @xref{NetBSD}.
		@item
		OpenBSD > 2.5 with native threads. OpenBSD < 2.5 with the included
		OpenBSD > 2.5 with native threads. OpenBSD < 2.5 with the
		MIT-pthreads package. @xref{OpenBSD}.
		@item
		OS/2 Warp 3, FixPack 29 and OS/2 Warp 4, FixPack 4. @xref{OS/2}.
		@@ -5730,7 +5730,7 @@ SGI Irix 6.x with native threads. @xref{SGI-Irix}.
		@item
		Solaris 2.5 and above with native threads on SPARC and x86. @xref{Solaris}.
		@item
		SunOS 4.x with the included MIT-pthreads package. @xref{Solaris}.
		SunOS 4.x with the MIT-pthreads package. @xref{Solaris}.
		@item
		Caldera (SCO) OpenServer with a recent port of the FSU Pthreads package.
		@xref{Caldera}.
		@@ -7331,8 +7331,9 @@ during the part of the configuration process that deals with the server
		code. If you have configured the distribution using @code{--without-server}
		to build only the client code, clients will not know whether
		MIT-pthreads is being used and will use Unix socket connections by default.
		Because Unix sockets do not work under MIT-pthreads, this means you will need
		to use @code{-h} or @code{--host} when you run client programs.
		Because Unix sockets do not work under MIT-pthreads on some platforms, this
		means you will need to use @code{-h} or @code{--host} when you run client
		programs.

		@item
		When MySQL is compiled using MIT-pthreads, system locking is
		@@ -15158,9 +15159,10 @@ tables must be IP numbers or @code{localhost}.

		@item --skip-networking
		Don't allow TCP/IP connections over the network. All connections to
		@code{mysqld} must be made via Unix sockets. This option is unsuitable for
		systems that use MIT-pthreads, because the MIT-pthreads package doesn't
		support Unix sockets.
		@code{mysqld} must be made via Unix sockets.
		This option is unsuitable when using a MySQL version prior to 3.23.27 with
		the MIT-pthreads package, because Unix sockets were not supported by
		MIT-pthreads at that time.

		@item --skip-show-database
		Don't allow @code{SHOW DATABASES} command, unless the user has the
		@@ -16192,9 +16194,10 @@ password} command.
		@code{localhost} is a synonym for your local hostname, and is also the
		default host to which clients try to connect if you specify no host
		explicitly. However, connections to @code{localhost} do not work if you are
		running on a system that uses MIT-pthreads (@code{localhost} connections are
		made using Unix sockets, which are not supported by MIT-pthreads). To avoid
		this problem on such systems, you should use the @code{--host} option to name
		using a MySQL version prior to 3.23.27 that uses MIT-pthreads
		(@code{localhost} connections are made using Unix sockets, which were not
		supported by MIT-pthreads at that time). To avoid this problem on such
		systems, you should use the @code{--host} option to name
		the server host explicitly. This will make a TCP/IP connection to the
		@code{mysqld} server. In this case, you must have your real hostname in
		@code{user} table entries on the server host. (This is true even if you are
		@@ -46526,7 +46529,7 @@ error might occur:
		You are running on a system that uses MIT-pthreads.
		If you are running on a system that doesn't have native threads,
		@code{mysqld} uses the MIT-pthreads package. @xref{Which OS}. However,
		all MIT-pthreads versions doesn't support Unix sockets. On a system
		not all MIT-pthreads versions support Unix sockets. On a system
		without sockets support you must always specify the hostname explicitly
		when connecting to the server. Try using this command to check the
		connection to the server: