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I have rolled some code into the maint-0-8 branch (and HEAD) 
implementing handling of this. The unit tests run, but I've not tried to 
actually *use* a .my.cnf file, so I don't know if that part works.

Bruce, I would appreciate if you could verify that it works with a .my.cnf 
file.