Prevent mysqld --verbose --help from writing to empty datadir #78
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From 5.7.6 and on, running mysqld --verbose --help will fully initialize innodb. If datadir is empty and writeable (with the default setup it's not writeable) this will create certain files there, causing the following initialization step to fail.
Using --innodb-read-only prevents this from happening, which should fix issue #69.