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Is it possible to i/o to a running process?
I have multiple game servers running like this:
cd /path/to/game/server/binary
./binary arg1 arg2 ... argn &
Is it possible to write a message to a server if i know the process id?
Something like this would be handy:
echo "quit" > process1234
Where process1234 is the process (with sid 1234).
The game server is not a binary written by me, but it is a Call of Duty binary. So i can’t change anything to the code.
Yes, you can start up the process with a pipe as its stdin and then write to the pipe. You can used a named or anonymous pipe.
Normally a parent process would be needed to do this, which would create an anonmyous pipe and supply that to the child process as its stdin – popen() does this, many libraries also implement it (see Perl’s IPC::Open2 for example)
Another way would be to run it under a pseudo tty, which is what “screen” does. Screen itself may also have a mechanism for doing this.