ssh: fix flakey ssh errors on BSD systems
This is a trivial backport of c037fd655b47 performed by
augie@google.com, but the change is still really Durham's not mine, so
I [augie] am leaving him as the author.
Test issue2761
$ hg init
$ touch to-be-deleted
$ hg add
adding to-be-deleted
$ hg ci -m first
$ echo a > to-be-deleted
$ hg ci -m second
$ rm to-be-deleted
$ hg diff -r 0
Same issue, different code path
$ hg up -C
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ touch does-not-exist-in-1
$ hg add
adding does-not-exist-in-1
$ hg ci -m third
$ rm does-not-exist-in-1
$ hg diff -r 1