Bug 43777

Summary:	access time is not updates after file has been opened
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Nikolei Steinhage <nikolei>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	spider
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Nikolei Steinhage 2004-03-05 00:52:59 UTC

using stat (of coreutils or perl) gives the time, a file was last accessed. but the timestamp is not beeing updated when a file is opened only for reading.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. stat foo
2. cat foo
3. stat foo

Actual Results:  
access time does not change although file was accessed in step 2. so no 
difference is shown by stat between step 1 and 3.

Expected Results:  
in step 3, stat should show a different access time compared to stat in step 1, 
because in step 2, the file was opend for reading.

gentoo system is up-to-date. 
bug occurs both on reiserfs and ext2. 
bug reproducable with stat of coreutils and stat of perl.
seems to be a bug in /lib/libc.so.6

Comment 1 Spider (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-05 01:01:37 UTC

please put in the outpput of "mount"  (complete)  sounds very much like you have the "noatime"  mount flag enabled

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-03-05 06:34:31 UTC

re-open with the output of `mount` like spider asked please