--- trunk/mkinitrd-magellan/busybox/coreutils/sort.c	2010/05/30 11:32:42	984
+++ trunk/mkinitrd-magellan/busybox/coreutils/sort.c	2010/12/15 21:33:41	1179
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@
 #if ENABLE_FEATURE_SORT_BIG
 	/* Open output file _after_ we read all input ones */
 	if (option_mask32 & FLAG_o)
-		xmove_fd(xopen3(str_o, O_WRONLY, 0666), STDOUT_FILENO);
+		xmove_fd(xopen3(str_o, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666), STDOUT_FILENO);
 #endif
 	flag = (option_mask32 & FLAG_z) ? '\0' : '\n';
 	for (i = 0; i < linecount; i++)