Why the access time of a file does not change in stat outout in RHEL6 even though cat command reads the content of file?

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Issue

  • The stat command report the same access time. However the access time should change because the cat command reads the contents of the file.

  • This issue was noticed only on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 systems and release 5.6 or other versions does not show such problem.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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