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-rw-r--r--t/test-lib-functions.sh5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/t/test-lib-functions.sh b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
index 0e80f377ce..6dffb8bcde 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"
}