On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:47:10 +0100
Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> wrote:
> > For some reason, sort generates temporary files in /var/tmp instead of /tmp.
> > As /var/tmp is not cleaned regularly or on boot, this means that any left
> > over files (eg due to crashes) will be left in /var/tmp forever.
> > Also sort cannot use the data on subsequent invocations, which makes the
> > persistence of the data meaningless.
> >
> > This bug is market as important because this violates the FHS. This would
> > require a severity of serious, but IMHO the impact of this bug is too
> > low to justify such a high severity.
>
> Thanks for the report, but I think this must be due to your environment.
> Sort honors the $TMPDIR environment variable, and if it is set to /var/tmp,
> then that would explain what you're seeing.
Blub...
You are right. Although i had a quick look in the script that TMPDIR is
not set, i didn't print the enviroment and thus didn't catch that
TMPDIR was set before...
closing the bug.
Thanks a lot
Attila Kinali
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