On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:23:35 +0100, Chris Withers wrote: >>> ...then the output is indeed captured. So, what is svn doing >>> differently? How is it escaping its jail? >> >> maybe it does not read from stdin but directly from /dev/tty > > But why only the request for auth credentials? So that you can do e.g.: ssh remotehost command arg arg ... <infile >outfile