Re: Initiate command in another shell session?

On 2025-03-14, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:

On 2025-03-13, Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:
>

On some systems, opening a tty and calling ioctl(fd, TIOCSTI, ptr),
where ptr is a char*, will cause the single character *p to appear
as if it had been typed.

>
I associate TIOCSTI with csh(1)'s filename expansion feature, but

Seriously? Is this what I think it is: that csh tromboned out characters
to the TTY driver to get the OS to type in the expansion as if the user
typed it?

Wow, ... I see considering only csh *programming* to be harmful was
an overly optimistic view.

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