Sed: couldn't open temporary file xyz: Permission denied when using VirtioFS

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I got the same issue when compiling a large project. It is a little difficult to replace all sed commands.
Finally, I found a solution:

Replace sed with older version, like 4.1.X

why this works?
Possible reasons:
in 4.1.X, sed uses mkstemp to create temporary file, which was replaced with mkostemp

test result as below

root@19e97b91ce9c:/home/tmp/test-sed# echo 'abc' > test.txt
root@19e97b91ce9c:/home/tmp/test-sed# sed-4.2.2 --version
sed-4.2.2 (GNU sed) 4.2.2
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Jay Fenlason, Tom Lord, Ken Pizzini,
and Paolo Bonzini.
GNU sed home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/>.
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>.
E-mail bug reports to: <bug-sed@gnu.org>.
Be sure to include the word ``sed'' somewhere in the ``Subject:'' field.
root@19e97b91ce9c:/home/tmp/test-sed# sed-4.2.2 -i '1 a0' test.txt
sed-4.2.2: couldn't open temporary file ./sed7MHt9t: Permission denied
root@19e97b91ce9c:/home/tmp/test-sed# sed-4.1.5 --version
GNU sed version 4.1.5
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE,
to the extent permitted by law.
root@19e97b91ce9c:/home/tmp/test-sed# sed-4.1.5 -i '1 a1' test.txt
root@19e97b91ce9c:/home/tmp/test-sed# cat test.txt
abc
1
root@19e97b91ce9c:/home/tmp/test-sed#
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