Do not fork for a subshell if it is the last thing this shell is doing

(EV_EXIT). The fork is still done as normal if any traps are active.

In many cases, the fork can be avoided even without this change by using {}
instead of (), but in practice many scripts use (), likely because the
syntax is simpler.

Example:
  sh -c '(/bin/sleep 10)& sleep 1;ps -p $! -o comm='
Now prints "sleep" instead of "sh". $! is more useful this way.
Most shells (dash, bash, pdksh, ksh93, zsh) seem to print "sleep" for this.

Example:
  sh -c '( ( ( (ps jT))))'
Now shows no waiting shell processes instead of four.
Most shells (dash, bash, pdksh, ksh93, zsh) seem to show zero or one.

PR:		bin/74404
Approved by:	ed (mentor) (implicit)

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