[AGENT++] Use of non thread safe getservbyname in AgentXSlave::bind_tcp() & AgentXMaster::bind_tcp() (agentx.cpp)

[michael.carr at bt.com]

Frank, Jochen, anyone?  Surely this must non thread safe problem should
be addressed?

> _____________________________________________ 
> From: 	Carr,M,Michael,JGFTX C  
> Sent:	15 May 2009 12:14
> To:	Agentpp mailing list
> Subject:	Use of non thread safe getservbyname in
> AgentXSlave::bind_tcp() & AgentXMaster::bind_tcp() (agentx.cpp)
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> As per the subject title, surely this should not be used since it's
> not thread safe?  An alternative, which may not be available for all
> targets/compilers, is getservbyname_r.  Looking at other similar
> functions like gethostbyname I see that config_snmp_pp.h has a series
> of #defines to cater for the situation where the thread safe version
> is available, should this also be applied in this case?
> 
> Also, after looking on the web some say that the getaddrinfo function
> should be used instead?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
>