On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:54 AM, Pádraig Brady <P@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > One possible issue is that stale sort tmp files could persist > in /var/tmp for 30 days even after a reboot. > > I'm going to err on the side of leaving sort(1) as is > and using /tmp by default, as detailed at: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2012-09/msg00139.html > > In summary, sort(1) only needs stateless storage, > so lets keep it more abstract and default to /tmp, > rather than worrying about system specifics. It also needs storage larger than the available virtual memory, doesn't it?. AFAICS using /tmp is more or less equivalent to specifying --buffer-size=[infinity] , which doesn't make sense for sort. I do appreciate that there is nothing sort can do to get a reliable cross-platform default. Mirek -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
