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InnoDB show table status gets blocked

Yesterday I was going through the locks related code; and found that in 5.0; when you have a global read lock; then the SHOW TABLE STATUS actually gets blocked when it had its own read lock on the new session; and this is not the case with MySQL 5.1

For example; lets execute the following set of statements in two sessions with MySQL 5.0 (latest bazaar version with InnoDB enabled):

Session 1:

mysql> use test;
Database changed
mysql> drop table if exists t1;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.07 sec)
 
mysql> create table test.t1(c1 int)Engine=InnoDB;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
 
mysql> flush tables with read lock;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

Session 2:

mysql> use test
Database changed
mysql> lock table t1 read;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)
 
mysql> show …
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