How to write data to existing process’s STDIN from external process?

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Your code will not work.
/proc/pid/fd/0 is a link to the /dev/pts/6 file.

$ echo ‘foobar’ > /dev/pts/6
$ echo ‘foobar’ > /proc/pid/fd/0

Since both the commands write to the terminal. This input goes to terminal and not to the process.

It will work if stdin intially is a pipe.
For example, test.py is :

#!/usr/bin/python

import os, sys
if __name__ == "__main__":
    print("Try commands below")
    print("$ echo 'foobar' > /proc/{0}/fd/0".format(os.getpid()))
    while True:
        print("read :: [" + sys.stdin.readline() + "]")
        pass

Run this as:

$ (while [ 1 ]; do sleep 1; done) | python test.py

Now from another terminal write something to /proc/pid/fd/0 and it will come to test.py

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