diff -urpN busybox-1.17.3/coreutils/sort.c busybox-1.17.3-sort/coreutils/sort.c
--- busybox-1.17.3/coreutils/sort.c	2010-10-09 21:57:13.000000000 +0200
+++ busybox-1.17.3-sort/coreutils/sort.c	2010-10-20 15:17:35.320293543 +0200
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ int sort_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, cha
 #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++)