From 932d41af6a887e30aa2920fb3551a91fa4ef14b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: DeeJanuz <45082401+DeeJanuz@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:22:29 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Keep the installer's build steps from reading its answers

Commands run during the install (distrobox, ssh) read stdin, so answers
typed ahead or piped in were swallowed and the questions fell back to their
defaults. Only the questions read stdin now.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 install.sh | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/install.sh b/install.sh
index 90af605..f2b0a75 100755
--- a/install.sh
+++ b/install.sh
@@ -23,13 +23,17 @@ for arg in "$@"; do
   esac
 done
 
+# Only the questions read from the terminal (or whatever stdin is); the build steps get
+# no input, so they can't swallow typed-ahead or piped answers.
+exec 3<&0 </dev/null
+
 step() { printf '\n\033[1m== %s\033[0m\n' "$*"; }
 ask() {  # ask "question" default(y|n)
   [ "$assume_yes" = 1 ] && [ "$2" = y ] && return 0
   [ "$assume_yes" = 1 ] && return 1
   local hint answer
   hint=$([ "$2" = y ] && echo "Y/n" || echo "y/N")
-  read -r -p "$1 [$hint] " answer
+  read -r -p "$1 [$hint] " answer <&3 || answer=
   answer=${answer:-$2}
   [[ $answer =~ ^[Yy] ]]
 }