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

[Miloslav Trmač]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:54 AM, Pádraig Brady <P at draigbrady.com> wrote:
> One possible issue is that stale sort tmp files could persist
> in /var/tmp for 30 days even after a reboot.
>
> I'm going to err on the side of leaving sort(1) as is
> and using /tmp by default, as detailed at:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2012-09/msg00139.html
>
> In summary, sort(1) only needs stateless storage,
> so lets keep it more abstract and default to /tmp,
> rather than worrying about system specifics.

It also needs storage larger than the available virtual memory,
doesn't it?.  AFAICS using /tmp is more or less equivalent to
specifying --buffer-size=[infinity] , which doesn't make sense for
sort.

I do appreciate that there is nothing sort can do to get a reliable
cross-platform default.
    Mirek