ssh executing nsenter as remote command with interactive shell in golang to debug docker container

I am trying to automate debugging of docker containers on coreos. I want to have a script that connects to a host via ssh and exectues nsenter. That would be very convenient to jump directly into a container from my OSX box without doing a lot of stuff manually. I know that entering containers that way can be nasty, but if things are getting tough I would like to use such a tool. So here is what I have so far in golang.

I am able to create a interactive shell. Here I have the problem that things like reverse searching bash history using ctrl+R breaks the session. That code is commented below, thus not executed.

However, I am also able to execute a single command, here nsenter, but I receive the error stdin: is not a tty and nothing more happens. I am interested to know why stdin in my programm is not a tty and how I can achieve this.

Thanks

<!-- language: lang-go -->

package main
import (
"code.google.com/p/go.crypto/ssh"
"io/ioutil"
"log"
"os"
)
func privateKey() ssh.Signer {
buf, err := ioutil.ReadFile("./id_rsa")
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
key, err := ssh.ParsePrivateKey(buf)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
return key
}
func main() {
privateKey := privateKey()
// Create client config
config := &ssh.ClientConfig{
User: "core",
Auth: []ssh.AuthMethod{
ssh.PublicKeys(privateKey),
},
}
// Connect to ssh server
conn, err := ssh.Dial("tcp", "myhost.com:22", config)
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("unable to connect: %s", err)
}
defer conn.Close()
// Create a session
session, err := conn.NewSession()
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("unable to create session: %s", err)
}
session.Stdout = os.Stdout
session.Stderr = os.Stderr
session.Stdin = os.Stdin // How can session.Stdin be a tty?
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Stuff for interactive shell
// Set up terminal modes
//modes := ssh.TerminalModes{
//  ssh.ECHO:          1,     // enable echoing
//  ssh.TTY_OP_ISPEED: 14400, // input speed = 14.4kbaud
//  ssh.TTY_OP_OSPEED: 14400, // output speed = 14.4kbaud
//}
// Request pseudo terminal
//if err := session.RequestPty("xterm-256color", 80, 40, modes); err != nil {
//  log.Fatalf("request for pseudo terminal failed: %s", err)
//}
// Start remote shell
//if err := session.Shell(); err != nil {
//  log.Fatalf("failed to start shell: %s", err)
//}
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Stuff for executing remote command
// 2202 in my example is actually the pid of a running container
if err := session.Run("sudo nsenter --target 2202 --mount --uts --ipc --net --pid"); err != nil {
panic("Failed to run: " + err.Error())
}
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
session.Wait()
}

Super cool, I got it working, but there is still a magic I cannot comprehend. However, I changed my code as followed. The basic change leading to the correct pty behaviour, was the usage of the package "code.google.com/p/go.crypto/ssh/terminal". Using its MakeRaw(fd) seems to lead to side effects that enable the correct pty behaviour. Also thanks to the fleet project where I found the working example https://github.com/coreos/fleet/blob/master/ssh/ssh.go.

<!-- language: lang-go -->

// The following two lines makes the terminal work properly because of
// side-effects I don't understand.
fd := int(os.Stdin.Fd())
oldState, err := terminal.MakeRaw(fd)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
session.Stdout = os.Stdout
session.Stderr = os.Stderr
session.Stdin = os.Stdin
termWidth, termHeight, err := terminal.GetSize(fd)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
// Set up terminal modes
modes := ssh.TerminalModes{
ssh.ECHO:          1,     // enable echoing
ssh.TTY_OP_ISPEED: 14400, // input speed = 14.4kbaud
ssh.TTY_OP_OSPEED: 14400, // output speed = 14.4kbaud
}
// Request pseudo terminal
if err := session.RequestPty("xterm-256color", termHeight, termWidth, modes); err != nil {
log.Fatalf("request for pseudo terminal failed: %s", err)
}
if err := session.Run("sudo nsenter --target 2202 --mount --uts --ipc --net --pid"); err != nil {
// if the session terminated normally, err should be ExitError; in that
// case, return nil error and actual exit status of command
if exitErr, ok := err.(*ssh.ExitError); ok {
fmt.Printf("exit code: %#v\n", exitErr.ExitStatus())
} else {
panic("Failed to run: " + err.Error())
}
}
session.Close()
terminal.Restore(fd, oldState)