sequential write test not working correctly

When running the sequential write test, no data is written.

/tmp/sysbench-0.5 --test=fileio --file-num=1 --file-total-size=1M --file-test-mode=seqwr --max-time=60 --max-requests=1000 --num-threads=1 --init-rng=on --file-fsync-freq=1 run
sysbench 0.5: multi-threaded system evaluation benchmark

Running the test with following options:
Number of threads: 1
Random number generator seed is 0 and will be ignored

Threads started!

Operations performed: 0 reads, 0 writes, 1001 Other = 1001 Total
Read 0b Written 0b Total transferred 0b (0b/sec)
    0.00 Requests/sec executed

Test execution summary:
    total time: 0.0013s
    total number of events: 0
    total time taken by event execution: 0.0000s
    per-request statistics:
         min: 18446744073709.55ms
         avg: 0.00ms
         max: 0.00ms

Threads fairness:
    events (avg/stddev): 0.0000/0.00
    execution time (avg/stddev): 0.0000/0.00

real 0m0.012s
user 0m0.002s
sys 0m0.004s