/proc filesystem

[Lukas Eppler <debian@fear.ch>]

There is a nice trick to avoid cut/copy/paste of large text portions:

cat filename > /proc/1234/fd/3

while 1234 is the process number of a telnet process. fd/3 is the file
descriptor for the channel linked to the keyboard. Works perfectly on a
suse distribution, seems not to work with debian! I get a

bash: /proc/4125/fd/3: Permission denied

probably helpful: on debian file gives

$ file /proc/4125/fd/3
/proc/4125/fd/3: broken symbolic link to [0000]:184934

while on the suse box it gives

godot@fintower:~$ file /proc/21144/fd/3
/proc/21144/fd/3: broken symbolic link to [0000]:0

any clues?
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