Parser modifying file's access time

[Gerardo Hernandez]

Hi,

I’d like to undestand why I’m experiencing the following behavior and if it’s 
expected (as I was not expecting it to work like that). But basically when 
parsing files whose access time is <= to its change time it will update the 
Access time after processing the file.

Here is how I was able to reproduce the issue:

OS: Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS x64
Maven: 3.6.3
OpenJDK: 17.0.4 2022-07-19
Tika: 2.7.0

1.- Create text file
echo "Single file with text" > file.txt

2.- Check file.txt access time
              stat file.txt

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3.- Run java test app and specify file.txt as argument
               java -cp target/tika-example-1.0.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar 
TikaExample ~/testing/access/file.txt

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4.- Check file.txt access time again

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5.- Re-run java test app again

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6.- Check file.txt access time

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As you can see the access time was modified only after parsing the file the 
first time. This behavior was unexpected for me mostly because it only happens 
when Access is <= than Change, so if I re-run the java test app with the same 
file multiple times it will not change Access time anymore (until the file is 
edited/modified).

Example was compiled with:
           mvn clean compile assembly:single

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TikaExample.java
Description: TikaExample.java