We use a distinct context initialisation function to specify
all sockets derived therefrom will be thread safe.

However the inheritance is done exclusively in the C interface.
This is not really correct, but it is chosen to minimise
interference with the existing C++ code, including any
construct or other calls within the C++ code base.
Semantically the C++ code should be unchanged,
physically some data structures and extra methods are
provided by they're only used from the C binding.