Re: Fwd: [HEADS-UP] Rawhide: /tmp is now on tmpfs

[Jim Meyering]

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> It seems like we should default to /var/tmp in sort(1) and tac(1),
> as debian and fedora at least are probably moving to tmpfs for /tmp.
> I'll monitor the situation a bit before making the change.

Thanks.

Just to be clear, sort would continue to honor $TMPDIR, and
your suggested change would affect only those rare uses of sort
for which $TMPDIR is not already set?

i.e., in sort.c,

  -# define DEFAULT_TMPDIR "/tmp"
  +# define DEFAULT_TMPDIR "/var/tmp"