Re: [PATCH] run.in: Default to running the poke binary

[John Darrington]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 11:08:06AM +0100, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
     
     Hi John.
     
          # Now run the program
         -exec "$@"
         +if test $# -eq 0; then
         +    exec poke
         +else
         +    exec "$@"
         +fi
     
     I don't like this change.  That script has clear semantics as it is now:
     set the environment and run the given command-line.  Specializing it
     this way may be confusing.


I see your point of view.  However it's not particularly useful to have "./run" 
doing - absolutely nothing.
Would this patch be clearer?

diff --git a/run.in b/run.in
index 7c0c031d..a97621bd 100644
--- a/run.in
+++ b/run.in
@@ -43,4 +43,4 @@ MALLOC_PERTURB_=$random_val
 export MALLOC_CHECK_ MALLOC_PERTURB_
 
 # Now run the program
-exec "$@"
+exec "${@:-poke}"

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