test_when_finished does nothing in a subshell because the change to
test_cleanup does not affect the parent.

There is no POSIX way to detect that we are in a subshell ($$ and $PPID
are specified to remain unchanged), but we can detect it on Bash and
fall back to ignoring the bug on other shells.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <j...@keeping.me.uk>
---
 t/test-lib-functions.sh | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/t/test-lib-functions.sh b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
index 0e80f37..6dffb8b 100644
--- a/t/test-lib-functions.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
@@ -736,6 +736,11 @@ test_seq () {
 # what went wrong.
 
 test_when_finished () {
+       # We cannot detect when we are in a subshell in general, but by
+       # doing so on Bash is better than nothing (the test will
+       # silently pass on other shells).
+       test "${BASH_SUBSHELL-0}" = 0 ||
+       error "bug in test script: test_when_finished does nothing in a 
subshell"
        test_cleanup="{ $*
                } && (exit \"\$eval_ret\"); eval_ret=\$?; $test_cleanup"
 }
-- 
2.5.0.466.g9af26fa

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