Docker creates the WORKDIR if it doesn't already exist. Garden does not.

[onsi]

This is coming out an issue surfaced in Lattice:
https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/lattice/issues/66

When spinning up a Docker container Docker always creates the requested working directory (whether it is part of the Dockerfile WORKDIR or specified via docker run -w /foo). Garden-Linux does not reproduce this behavior and, as a result, Docker images that specify nonexisting WORKDIRs fail with chdir: No such file or directory.

The most straightforward path forward is probably to emulate Docker's behavior (and document it). Thoughts?

[cf-gitbot]

We have created an issue in Pivotal Tracker to manage this. You can view the current status of your issue at: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/91550852.

[goonzoid]

Closing here since we have an issue in tracker with ongoing discussion.