Function mysqlInitialized

cmd/sqlc-test-setup/main.go:697–705

mysqlInitialized checks if the MySQL data directory has been initialized. We use sudo ls because /var/lib/mysql is typically only readable by the mysql user, so filepath.Glob from a non-root process would silently fail.

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// We use sudo ls because /var/lib/mysql is typically only readable by the
// mysql user, so filepath.Glob from a non-root process would silently fail.
func mysqlInitialized() bool {
	out, err := exec.Command("sudo", "ls", "/var/lib/mysql").CombinedOutput()
	if err != nil {
		return false
	}
	// If the directory has any contents, consider it initialized.
	// mysqld --initialize-insecure requires an empty directory.
	return strings.TrimSpace(string(out)) != ""
}