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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: csh question
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Date: 21 Mar 91 10:06:49 GMT
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In article <1991Mar21.005808.12432@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, dbert@pogo.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Douglas Siebert) writes:
|> Now, is there any way to pipe some output to that process in
|> some way so that it will be like the process itself received that as input?
|> Either through redirecting that process' standard input from the outside
|> or piping some output some way directly to that process?

  If you want to muck around in the kernel address space and do gross, hideous
things to convince the process to get its input from somewhere else
temporarily, or to push input into the input queue of the process, then sure.

  If you started the process with some sort of session manager like pty,
possibly.

  Otherwise, almost certainly not.

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