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"
