C> Why should --help print the program name? I don't understand...

Well, all I know is the output doesn't look like the usual usage message.
In fact it looks like a different program's usage message repeated twice.

$ mysql_install_db --help|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr|head
     15 
      2 and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license
      2 Usage: /usr/sbin/mysqld [OPTIONS]
      2 This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
      2 Starts the MySQL database server
      2 For more help options (several pages), use mysqld --verbose --help
      2 Copyright (C) 2000 MySQL AB, by Monty and others
      2 /usr/sbin/mysqld  Ver 5.0.24-Debian_1-log for pc-linux-gnu on i486 
(Debian etc


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