If you start a shell
When you attempt to write (in a different process) to the same tty (as either
Actually changing where fd[0-2] point after starting a process is fairly complicated, but not impossible. Reptyr is a free open source application that modifies an existing process so it's fd[0-2] point to a different tty (as well as some other stuff). This is accomplished through the ptrace framework. The post also mentions other softwares that do the same thing, and that it can be done through gdb.
Depending on what you actually wanted to accomplish, you might find Reptyr or some other software does what you need. Otherwise, you can look at/copy/modify the source code and find out how they do the trick.
Addendum:
This contains a few illustrating diagrams, in particular the third schematic from the top.
I suspect this is not possible. AFAIK, without modifying something in kernel space, it's impossible to read the input from a tty (or pty) that is not the current tty. Even root can't do it. I spent some time looking into this and I was unable to find out how to do it, but I did find lots of sources claiming it was impossible. This appears to have been a design decision to increase security/privacy of users.
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sh
, and get the pid $pid
you can find the file descriptors as you describe. An example:$ ls -l /proc/29201/fd
total 0
lrwx------ 1 eroen users 64 Mar 22 15:52 0 -> /dev/pts/2
lrwx------ 1 eroen users 64 Mar 22 15:52 1 -> /dev/pts/2
lrwx------ 1 eroen users 64 Mar 22 15:52 2 -> /dev/pts/2
lrwx------ 1 eroen users 64 Mar 22 15:52 255 -> /dev/pts/2
You will notice that 1
, 2
and 3
are all symlinks to the same tty (a chardev). In other words, the input
to the process is read from the same device node as the outputs are
written to.When you attempt to write (in a different process) to the same tty (as either
/proc/$pid/fd/0
or /dev/pts/?
you accomplish exactly the same thing as the process itself does when
it writes data to it's output; the data shows up in the terminal window.Actually changing where fd[0-2] point after starting a process is fairly complicated, but not impossible. Reptyr is a free open source application that modifies an existing process so it's fd[0-2] point to a different tty (as well as some other stuff). This is accomplished through the ptrace framework. The post also mentions other softwares that do the same thing, and that it can be done through gdb.
Depending on what you actually wanted to accomplish, you might find Reptyr or some other software does what you need. Otherwise, you can look at/copy/modify the source code and find out how they do the trick.
Addendum:
This contains a few illustrating diagrams, in particular the third schematic from the top.
I suspect this is not possible. AFAIK, without modifying something in kernel space, it's impossible to read the input from a tty (or pty) that is not the current tty. Even root can't do it. I spent some time looking into this and I was unable to find out how to do it, but I did find lots of sources claiming it was impossible. This appears to have been a design decision to increase security/privacy of users.
http://gengwg.blogspot.com/
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