Github user jpeach commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/trafficserver/pull/1218#discussion_r87948595 --- Diff: plugins/background_fetch/configs.cc --- @@ -44,8 +44,13 @@ BgFetchConfig::readConfig(const char *config_file) snprintf(file_path, sizeof(file_path), "%s/%s", TSInstallDirGet(), config_file); file = TSfopen(file_path, "r"); if (nullptr == file) { - TSError("[%s] invalid config file", PLUGIN_NAME); - return false; + TSDebug(PLUGIN_NAME, "Failed to open config file %s, trying config path", config_file); + snprintf(file_path, sizeof(file_path), "%s/%s", TSConfigDirGet(), config_file); + file = TSfopen(file_path, "r"); + if (NULL == file) { + TSError("[%s] invalid config file", PLUGIN_NAME); + return false; + } --- End diff -- This should be: ```C if (*config_file == '/') { file = TSfopen(config_file, "r"); } else { file = path.join(TSConfigDirGet(), config_file); } ``` By trying the given path without qualification you allow operators to accidentally depend on the current working directory. The pseudocode above is what all the other plugins do, and I think that it is worth being consistent with this.
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