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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's your process, why shouldn't you be able to write to it? Vi is certainly doing it...

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You do need to be root to do it to arbitrary processes.