[CentOS] mysqld status discrepancy

Tue Jan 25 17:19:37 UTC 2011
ken <gebser at mousecar.com>

Bug, explainable, or expected??  Checking the status of mysqld as root,
then as a regular user:

# /etc/init.d/mysqld status
mysqld (pid 4806) is running...

$ /etc/init.d/mysqld status
mysqld dead but subsys locked