June 04, 2020 Recently, I was working on a patch for a popular open-source project, and discovered that the test suite was failing intermittently. A closer look revealed that the last access time for some files in the project folder were changing unexpectedly, and this was causing a test to fail. (The failing test was not related to my patch.) Looking at the project code, it seemed impossible for it to be unexpectedly accessing those files during the test in question. Running the test case under...