SIOCIFCREATE and SIOCIFCREATE2 difference

Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim ihsan at grep.my
Sat Feb 23 14:32:01 UTC 2013


Hi,

What's the internal difference between these two ioctl socket flags? I've looked at sockio.h and notice that they refer to different identifiers.

I've created gif(4) via both flags and they both seem to work.

Why prefer one over the other?

ihsan


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