The main topic of bug#48002 is not a bug in Coreutils; it's about the bug-reporting process, and this would better be addressed in another forum. One possible forum would be gnu-misc-disc...@gnu.org.
A while back I merged GNU Coreutils bug reports 47059, 47883, and 48002.
I now see that that was a mistake as they're about three different
issues. So, I'm unmerging the bug reports and will look at each separately.
- bug#47883: sort -o loses data when it crashes Peter van Dijk
- bug#47883: sort -o loses data when it crashes Paul Eggert
- bug#48002: Gnu design flaw fixes hindered by Gnu (... L A Walsh
- bug#47883: sort -o loses data when it crashes Paul Eggert
- bug#48002: unmerging separate bug reports abou... Paul Eggert
