> 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.
However, if you can run sort like this
env TMPDIR=/tmp sort ...
and show that it still writes to files in /var/tmp, please do let us know.
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