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"It may be that the command is checking slowed down / confused by the capturing of it's STDOUT. it might be looking for a tty or something similar."
I guess that's the best idea I've heard so far for why it might behave like that. Anyone here know if restarting networking in Debian involves some kind of tty checking?

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