Funny command line option for the day

I needed to start mysql without privileges after a database restore today, and while confirming the correct option which was –skip-grant-tables I came across an option which made me laugh.

$ mysqld --verbose --help
...
  --sporadic-binlog-dump-fail
                      Option used by mysql-test for debugging and testing of
                      replication.
...

And here is the Official Manual Entry

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