Why the access time of a file does not change in stat outout in RHEL6 even though cat command reads the content of file?
Issue
-
The
statcommand report the same access time. However the access time should change because thecatcommand reads the contents of the file. -
This issue was noticed only on
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3systems and release 5.6 or other versions does not show such problem.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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