Use this:

  (exit $fail); exit
not this:
  exit $fail

8 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/tests/rm/deep-1 b/tests/rm/deep-1
index 44d7c9407..fc000f2ca 100755
--- a/tests/rm/deep-1
+++ b/tests/rm/deep-1
@@ -45,4 +45,4 @@ echo done
 # Make sure all of $tmp was deleted.
 test -d $tmp && fail=1
 
-exit $fail
+(exit $fail); exit
diff --git a/tests/rm/f-1 b/tests/rm/f-1
index da79b7229..4e72f575c 100755
--- a/tests/rm/f-1
+++ b/tests/rm/f-1
@@ -23,4 +23,4 @@ fi
 fail=0
 rm -f $tmp/no-such-file || fail=1
 
-exit $fail
+(exit $fail); exit
diff --git a/tests/rm/hash b/tests/rm/hash
index 25d92f5a0..505cb9bd2 100755
--- a/tests/rm/hash
+++ b/tests/rm/hash
@@ -37,4 +37,4 @@ fail=0
 
 rm -r t || fail=1
 
-exit $fail
+(exit $fail); exit
diff --git a/tests/rm/i-1 b/tests/rm/i-1
index 099c1bd95..b0b90ce3a 100755
--- a/tests/rm/i-1
+++ b/tests/rm/i-1
@@ -36,4 +36,4 @@ test -f $tmp/a && fail=1
 
 rm -rf $tmp
 
-exit $fail
+(exit $fail); exit
diff --git a/tests/rm/ir-1 b/tests/rm/ir-1
index 19a875290..c127a1cdf 100755
--- a/tests/rm/ir-1
+++ b/tests/rm/ir-1
@@ -54,4 +54,4 @@ esac
 
 rm -rf $tmp $test.I
 
-exit $fail
+(exit $fail); exit
diff --git a/tests/rm/r-2 b/tests/rm/r-2
index f341b303b..f4ddeb650 100755
--- a/tests/rm/r-2
+++ b/tests/rm/r-2
@@ -47,4 +47,4 @@ fi
 # Compare expected and actual output.
 cmp t/E t/O || fail=1
 
-exit $fail
+(exit $fail); exit
diff --git a/tests/rm/r-3 b/tests/rm/r-3
index 96cb8844a..1a5c07313 100755
--- a/tests/rm/r-3
+++ b/tests/rm/r-3
@@ -39,4 +39,4 @@ fail=0
 rm -rf $tmp || fail=1
 test -d $tmp && fail=1
 
-exit $fail
+(exit $fail); exit
diff --git a/tests/rm/sunos-1 b/tests/rm/sunos-1
index 0cb731114..e00a61baa 100755
--- a/tests/rm/sunos-1
+++ b/tests/rm/sunos-1
@@ -35,4 +35,4 @@ $RM -r '' > /dev/null 2>&1 && fail=1
 cd ..
 rm -rf $tmp
 
-exit $fail
+(exit $fail); exit