[MESOS-6722] Agent tries to use POSIX paths for the variable data runtime directory.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0
• Component/s: agent
• Labels: agent microsoft
• Epic Link: windows
• Assignee: Andrew Schwartzmeyer
• Reporter: Alex Clemmer
• Shepherd: Joseph Wu
• Created: 05/Dec/16 21:44
• Updated: 16/Dec/16 02:30
• Resolved: 16/Dec/16 02:30

Description

When the agent boots up, it checks `os::user` in an attempt to set the `runtime_dir`. Essentially, if the user is `root`, it will put this directory somewhere in `/var`, and if not, somewhere in `/temp`. This is mainly to avoid permissions issues.

Since `os::user` is not implemented on Windows, this crashes us and prevents connecting to the master.

We should change this to set the directory intelligently on Windows.

Issue Links

• duplicates: MESOS-6677 Error in Windows agent's Flags::runtime_dir CLI