[CentOS] What's the point of 'service mysqld reload'?

Hi,

I've been looking at /etc/init.d/mysql init script and saw that 'reload' spits 
out just 'exit 3' and doesn't actually do anything else.

I'm talking here about stock MySQL on CentOS 6.5.

What's the reason to do this? It seems quite misleading!

Regards,
Martin