Catching a direct redirect to /dev/tty

Question

I\'m working on an application controller for a program that is spitting text directly to /dev/tty.

This is a production application controller that must be able to

Answer 1

 screen -D -m yourEvilProgram

should work. Much time passed sinced I used it, but if you need to read some of its output it could even be possible that you could utilize some sockets to read it.

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