fix: remove empty arguments from launcher

internal/node/launcher.sh

@@ -224,12 +224,12 @@ if [ "${EXPECTED_EXIT_CODE}" -eq "0" ]; then
   # handled by the node process.
   # If we had merely forked a child process here, we'd be responsible
   # for forwarding those OS interactions.
-  exec "${node}" "${LAUNCHER_NODE_OPTIONS[@]:-}" "${USER_NODE_OPTIONS[@]:-}" "${MAIN}" "${ARGS[@]:-}"
+  exec "${node}" "${LAUNCHER_NODE_OPTIONS[@]:-}" "${USER_NODE_OPTIONS[@]:-}" "${MAIN}" ${ARGS[@]+"${ARGS[@]}"}
   # exec terminates execution of this shell script, nothing later will run.
 fi
 
 set +e
-"${node}" "${LAUNCHER_NODE_OPTIONS[@]:-}" "${USER_NODE_OPTIONS[@]:-}" "${MAIN}" "${ARGS[@]:-}"
+"${node}" "${LAUNCHER_NODE_OPTIONS[@]:-}" "${USER_NODE_OPTIONS[@]:-}" "${MAIN}" ${ARGS[@]+"${ARGS[@]}"}
 RESULT="$?"
 set -e
 

internal/node/test/BUILD.bazel

@@ -335,3 +335,10 @@ nodejs_test(
     expected_exit_code = 55,
     templated_args = ["--node_options=--require=$(rlocation $(location :bootstrap_with_patch.js))"],
 )
+
+nodejs_test(
+    name = "binary_with_no_arguments",
+    data = ["empty_args_fail.js"],
+    entry_point = "empty_args_fail.js",
+    expected_exit_code = 0,
+)

internal/node/test/empty_args_fail.js

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+// Used to test that there is no empty argument
+// sent to the program when the argument list is empty.
+// Some programs do not handle empty arguments gracefully
+
+var theArgs = process.argv.slice(2);
+
+if (theArgs.length != 0) {
+  // Non-zero exit code if the argument list is not empty
+  process.exit(42)
+}