this is fragile, slow as fuck, breaks constantly under high concurrency,
and completely unnecessary since ssh bypasses the stdio file descriptors
*anyway*. we do still check that we see ssh messages to ensure that none
of our subprocess handling messes with ssh's /dev/tty, but that's it now
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