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Subject: SIOCIFCREATE and SIOCIFCREATE2 difference
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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=