diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 9edbef2f..90314a68 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "BinaryBuilderBase"
 uuid = "7f725544-6523-48cd-82d1-3fa08ff4056e"
 authors = ["Elliot Saba <staticfloat@gmail.com>"]
-version = "1.2.1"
+version = "1.2.2"
 
 [deps]
 CodecZlib = "944b1d66-785c-5afd-91f1-9de20f533193"
diff --git a/src/DockerRunner.jl b/src/DockerRunner.jl
index 5ce37fc3..3488cd5d 100644
--- a/src/DockerRunner.jl
+++ b/src/DockerRunner.jl
@@ -212,21 +212,7 @@ function run_interactive(dr::DockerRunner, cmd::Cmd; stdin = nothing, stdout = n
 
     try
         mount_shards(dr; verbose=verbose)
-        if stdout isa IOBuffer
-            if !(stdin isa IOBuffer)
-                stdin = devnull
-            end
-            process = open(docker_cmd, "r", stdin)
-            @async begin
-                while !eof(process)
-                    write(stdout, read(process))
-                end
-            end
-            wait(process)
-            return success(process)
-        else
-            return success(run(docker_cmd))
-        end
+        return success(run(docker_cmd))
     finally
         unmount_shards(dr; verbose=verbose)
         # Cleanup permissions, if we need to.
diff --git a/src/Runner.jl b/src/Runner.jl
index 986163e2..14046a31 100644
--- a/src/Runner.jl
+++ b/src/Runner.jl
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ abstract type Runner; end
 
 export default_host_platform
 
+const AnyRedirectable = Union{Base.AbstractCmd, Base.TTY, IOStream, IOBuffer}
+
 # Host platform _must_ match the C++ string ABI of the binaries we get from the
 # repositories.  Note: when preferred_gcc_version=v"4" we can't really build for
 # that C++ string ABI :-(
diff --git a/src/UserNSRunner.jl b/src/UserNSRunner.jl
index 3ea57f44..181404c4 100644
--- a/src/UserNSRunner.jl
+++ b/src/UserNSRunner.jl
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ function UserNSRunner(workspace_root::String;
         sandbox_cmd = `$sandbox_cmd --verbose`
     end
     sandbox_cmd = `$sandbox_cmd --rootfs $(mpath)`
-    if cwd != nothing
+    if cwd !== nothing
         sandbox_cmd = `$sandbox_cmd --cd $cwd`
     end
 
@@ -182,7 +182,6 @@ function Base.read(ur::UserNSRunner, cmd; verbose=false)
     return collect_stdout(oc)
 end
 
-const AnyRedirectable = Union{Base.AbstractCmd, Base.TTY, IOStream}
 function run_interactive(ur::UserNSRunner, user_cmd::Cmd; stdin = nothing, stdout = nothing, stderr = nothing, verbose::Bool = false)
     warn_priviledged()
 
@@ -204,21 +203,7 @@ function run_interactive(ur::UserNSRunner, user_cmd::Cmd; stdin = nothing, stdou
 
     try
         mount_shards(ur; verbose=verbose)
-        if stdout isa IOBuffer
-            if !(stdin isa IOBuffer)
-                stdin = devnull
-            end
-            process = open(cmd, "r", stdin)
-            @async begin
-                while !eof(process)
-                    write(stdout, read(process))
-                end
-            end
-            wait(process)
-            return success(process)
-        else
-            return success(run(cmd))
-        end
+        return success(run(cmd))
     finally
         unmount_shards(ur)
     end
diff --git a/test/runners.jl b/test/runners.jl
index 7fd50339..ea2d9971 100644
--- a/test/runners.jl
+++ b/test/runners.jl
@@ -73,6 +73,23 @@ end
         end
     end
 
+    @testset "run_interactive" begin
+        platform = default_host_platform
+        io = IOBuffer()
+        @test run_interactive(preferred_runner()(mktempdir(); platform), `/bin/bash -c "echo hello world"`, stdout=io)
+        s = String(take!(io))
+        @test s == "hello world\n"
+        # Make sure that `run_interactive` consistently throws an error when the process fails,
+        # whatever is the type of `stdout`, or it consistently ignores failures if so requested.
+        # Ref: https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/BinaryBuilderBase.jl/pull/201#issuecomment-1003192121
+        cmd = `/bin/bash -c "false"`
+        @test_throws ProcessFailedException run_interactive(preferred_runner()(mktempdir(); platform), cmd)
+        @test_throws ProcessFailedException run_interactive(preferred_runner()(mktempdir(); platform), cmd; stdout=IOBuffer())
+        cmd = Cmd(`/bin/bash -c "false"`; ignorestatus=true)
+        @test !run_interactive(preferred_runner()(mktempdir(); platform), cmd)
+        @test !run_interactive(preferred_runner()(mktempdir(); platform), cmd; stdout=IOBuffer())
+    end
+
     if lowercase(get(ENV, "BINARYBUILDER_FULL_SHARD_TEST", "false")) == "true"
         @info("Beginning full shard test... (this can take a while)")
         platforms = supported_platforms()