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SubjectRe: Header files and interfaces
DateWed, 24 Jun 1998 12:27:07 +0100
FromPhilip Blundell <>
>The obvious answer - "net-tools is broken" - isn't the whole truth
>because before libc6 started messing it all up, you could reasonably

Actually, in this case net-tools really is almost completely to blame.  It 
used the presence or absence of OLD_SIOCSIFARP to decide whether or not 
SIOCSIFARP actually referred to the "old" or "new" variant.  This would have 
gone wrong under libc5 as well if the OLD ioctl was deleted in some future 
kernel.

(It's also fixed in net-tools now, in case you were wondering)

p.



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