On Wednesday 22 December 2010 16:42, David Henderson wrote: > Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > 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). > > > Oh I was referring the busybox only. At this point, that's all we're > using that interacts with /proc. The other binaries don't have a need to.
I think the usefulness of such option will be too limited and added complexity outweights the usefulness. Why do you not mount proc on /proc? -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
