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 $PPID
are specified to remain unchanged), but we can detect it on Bash and
fall back to ignoring the bug on other shells.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
t/test-lib-functions.sh | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/t/test-lib-functions.sh b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
index 0e80f37..6dffb8b 100644
--- a/t/test-lib-functions.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
@@ -736,6 +736,11 @@ test_seq () {
# what went wrong.
test_when_finished () {
+ # We cannot detect when we are in a subshell in general, but by
+ # doing so on Bash is better than nothing (the test will
+ # silently pass on other shells).
+ test "${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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