diff -uNr coreutils-9.2/lib/tmpdir.c coreutils-9.2.mod/lib/tmpdir.c
--- coreutils-9.2/lib/tmpdir.c	2023-03-13 18:12:12.000000000 +0000
+++ coreutils-9.2.mod/lib/tmpdir.c	2023-03-23 06:56:30.519517214 +0000
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 # ifdef _P_tmpdir /* native Windows */
 #  define P_tmpdir _P_tmpdir
 # else
-#  define P_tmpdir "/tmp"
+#  define P_tmpdir "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp"
 # endif
 #endif
 
@@ -135,8 +135,8 @@
 #endif
       if (direxists (P_tmpdir))
         dir = P_tmpdir;
-      else if (strcmp (P_tmpdir, "/tmp") != 0 && direxists ("/tmp"))
-        dir = "/tmp";
+      else if (strcmp (P_tmpdir, "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp") != 0 && direxists ("@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp"))
+        dir = "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp";
       else
         {
           __set_errno (ENOENT);
diff -uNr coreutils-8.32/src/mktemp.c coreutils-8.32.mod/src/mktemp.c
--- coreutils-8.32/src/mktemp.c	2020-01-01 16:13:12.000000000 +0200
+++ coreutils-8.32.mod/src/mktemp.c	2020-05-05 14:13:10.984279966 +0300
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@
           else if (dest_dir_arg && *dest_dir_arg)
             dest_dir = dest_dir_arg;
           else
-            dest_dir = "/tmp";
+            dest_dir = "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp";
 
           if (last_component (template) != template)
             die (EXIT_FAILURE, 0,
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@
           else
             {
               char *env = getenv ("TMPDIR");
-              dest_dir = (env && *env ? env : "/tmp");
+              dest_dir = (env && *env ? env : "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp");
             }
           if (IS_ABSOLUTE_FILE_NAME (template))
             die (EXIT_FAILURE, 0,
diff -uNr coreutils-8.32/src/sort.c coreutils-8.32.mod/src/sort.c
--- coreutils-8.32/src/sort.c	2020-01-01 16:33:34.000000000 +0200
+++ coreutils-8.32.mod/src/sort.c	2020-05-05 14:14:09.200728018 +0300
@@ -92,9 +92,7 @@
 
 #define UCHAR_LIM (UCHAR_MAX + 1)
 
-#ifndef DEFAULT_TMPDIR
-# define DEFAULT_TMPDIR "/tmp"
-#endif
+#define DEFAULT_TMPDIR "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp"
 
 /* Maximum number of lines to merge every time a NODE is taken from
    the merge queue.  Node is at LEVEL in the binary merge tree,
diff -uNr coreutils-9.4/src/split.c coreutils-9.4.mod/src/split.c
--- coreutils-9.4/src/split.c	2023-08-29 12:39:27.000000000 +0100
+++ coreutils-9.4.mod/src/split.c	2023-09-12 17:50:37.186340314 +0100
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@
       pid_t child_pid;
       char const *shell_prog = getenv ("SHELL");
       if (shell_prog == nullptr)
-        shell_prog = "/bin/sh";
+        shell_prog = "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/bin/sh";
       if (setenv ("FILE", name, 1) != 0)
         error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno,
                _("failed to set FILE environment variable"));