POLA violation?: snmp renumbering stuff

[paul beard]

On Nov 23, 2003, at 6:00 PM, Dan Nelson wrote:

> I don't think snmp tables have any defined order.  I don't even know if
> the index for a particular resource is guaranteed to be stable across
> filesystem dismount/remounts.  Something like this should work:
>

My issue was that they shouldn't change once defined: otherwise, how 
can you reliably use something if it adopts different behavior with 
each new release/build?

After all, we're not talking about Windows here . . . .  ;-)

It would be useful if / were always 1, for example. It looks like, with 
the inclusion of RAM and swap in the table, / might be 3.

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