sipp cannot find infindex by path

[sergey-safarov]

I cannot start sipp with -infindex options and absolute path

[root@localhost sipp]# cd /etc/sipp/
[root@localhost sipp]# sipp -inf data.csv -infindex /etc/sipp/data.csv 0 -i 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1
2019-05-21	06:23:52.795210	1558419832.795210: Could not find file for -infindex: /etc/sipp/data.csv.

But csv file exist

[root@localhost sipp]# cat /etc/sipp/data.csv
RANDOM
3444333;45678*#;100000;10000
222222;456;8000;10000
333;678;60000;10000

Also failed command with relative path

[root@localhost sipp]# sipp -inf data.csv -infindex ../sipp/data.csv 0 -i 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1
2019-05-21	06:25:38.682625	1558419938.682625: Could not find file for -infindex: ../sipp/data.csv.

Same command with filename only is correct.

[root@Nieblestim_RS02 sipp]# sipp -inf data.csv -infindex data.csv 0 -i 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1

[wdoekes]

This is a documentation issue I guess.

Only basename of the supplied files are stored and -infindex references that, so the following does work:

sipp -inf ../sipp/data.csv -infindex data.csv 0

This was done intentionally in 3672ad8:

commit 3672ad87e3360d91e2e8dc4022ddd78a62fdeae9
Author: Charles P. Wright <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Jul 11 18:39:07 2008 +0000

    Fix: Don't require full path name for file= in field parameter.
    
    git-svn-id: svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/sipp/code/sipp/trunk@499 60913f6b-29f6-41b8-8391-1ad2d2d6c344

So, I'm reluctant to undo that.