On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:19 PM, David Henderson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 21 December 2010 21:02, David Henderson wrote:
>
> Is there anyway for busybox to look for proc somewhere else other than
> root (e.g. /mnt/proc)?  I looked through the configuration for busybox
> again and the only option I can see (in 'make menuconfig') is: General
> Configuration -> Path to BusyBox executable.  However, this isn't for
> the proc fs.  Are there any patches that allow this option (or can one
> be made) to be in the configuration for BusyBox?
>
> Are you going to patch all other programs too?
> This is unrealistic.
> Just mount proc on /proc.
>
> Shouldn't this be just as easy as defining a variable for that location (set
> via the config menu) and just search and replace through the program code?

There are about two thousand instances of literal "/proc"
in many different packages:

http://www.google.com/codesearch?as_q=\%22%2Fproc\%22

If you want to mount proc elsewhere, you will need to patch
all or them (in the packages you use).

-- 
vda
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