<p>Hrm, it has been so long I don't really remember. I don't remember it ever trying to get data from <code>~/.my.cnf</code>. My initial comment doesn't seem to suggest that it tried to get data from there either before or after looking at the strace output.</p>

<p>What makes you think that?</p>

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