[AGENT++] Socket file descriptor isn't closed

[Frank Fock]

Hi James,

I am investigating this and I will inform you as soon as I have any 
solution/fix/workaround.

Best regards,
Frank

James McDonnell wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Any suggestions on how to completely shut-down the previous connection?
>
>I'd actually like to be able to do this in situations where the master agent
>hasn't actually disappeared but some other stimulus has occurred that
>requires re-initializing the connection.
>
>James
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: agentpp-bounces at agentpp.org [mailto:agentpp-bounces at agentpp.org] On
>Behalf Of James McDonnell
>Sent: September 15, 2005 4:45 PM
>To: agentpp at agentpp.org
>Subject: [AGENT++] Socket file descriptor isn't closed
>
>Hi,
>
>I've created a sub-agent using AgentX 1.4.12c with the code setup to
>re-establish the connection as recommended on page 26 of
>http://www.agentpp.com/agentX++/AgentX++1.4.8.pdf.  This code seems to have
>a problem though in that it doesn't do a close on the file descriptor for
>the previous connection.  So even though that connection is terminated the
>file descriptor remains in use in the sub-agent.  Is there some way to fully
>shut down the previous connection?
>
>I also had another problem which you might wish to know about.  I'm using
>the code on a FreeBSD system and I found that the connect call in
>AgentXSlave::bind_tcp failed when compiled with SNMP_PP_IPv6 defined.  The
>connect function didn't seem to like the fact that sizeof(sockaddr_storage)
>was passed as the third parameter.  I changed my copy of the code to pass
>sizeof(sockaddr_in) or sizeof(sockaddr_in6) as appropriate.
>
>Thanks,
>James McDonnell
>
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