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• --symbolic-links , --skip-symbolic-links 

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Enable or disable symbolic link support. On Unix, enabling symbolic links means that you can link a MyISAM  index file or data file to another directory with the INDEX DIRECTORY  or DATA DIRECTORY option of the CREATE TABLE  statement. If you delete or rename the table, the files that its symbolic links point to also are deleted or renamed. See Section 8.12.2.2, “Using Symbolic Links for MyISAM Tables on Unix” . 

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This option has no meaning on Windows. 

• --sysdate-is-now 

## Note 

Symbolic link support, along with the --symbolic-links  option that controls it, is deprecated; you should expect it to be removed in a future version of MySQL. In addition, the option is disabled by default. The related have_symlink  system variable also is deprecated; expect it be removed in a future version of MySQL. 

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SYSDATE()  by default returns the time at which it executes, not the time at which the statement in which it occurs begins executing. This differs from the behavior of NOW() . This option causes SYSDATE()  to be a synonym for NOW() . For information about the implications for binary logging and replication, see the description for SYSDATE()  in Section 12.7, “Date and Time Functions”  and for SET TIMESTAMP  in Section 5.1.8, “Server System Variables” . 

• --tc-heuristic-recover={COMMIT|ROLLBACK} 

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