Comment 2 for bug 69851

I updated the description a little bit to indicate it isn't just a cygwin shell, but it needs to be a non-standard terminal. Like gnome-terminal or rxvt.

I think Alexander found the right cause when he said that 'raw_input()' is tied directly to the console, rather than going through stdin/stdout.

Sort of like direct terminal access that ssh uses to ask you for your password, which is probably done for both security and so you can do: "ssh foo cat file | grep x" and still have it prompt you for your password.

I'm not sure what bzr should do. Most questions are benign and we could just use regular reading from stdin. But there are occasions where we are asking for a password.