/proc/PID/fd/0 design "bug"

Lars Marowsky-Bree (lmb@pointer.teuto.de)
Sun, 21 Dec 1997 13:49:54 +0100


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Hi,

stdin of any process is accessible via /proc/PID/fd/0.

So I guess you should be able to enter arbitrary text into any running
program by doing "echo COMMAND >>/proc/PID/fd/0".

This doesn't work. (2.0.32) It should work at least for tty based process.

Is this a bug or intentionally?

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