I'm with you T. One of the guys defending Chris, very smart guy, but think he is misguided, he is on windows which does not have the issue says:
I wonder how he determined it's looking at the "last accessed" date. That would indeed be wrong operation. Chris, that should be easy to determine.
For what it's worth, on Windows the very same concepts apply (though the implementation is of course different), and I have never seen it myself nor heard anyone else claim this problem has happened to them on Windows. I'm not all-knowing, but it seems to me to be Mac-specific.
By the way, I think in context the word "touch" has more specific meaning than he has led you to believe. "Touching" a file in the Unix world usually means changing its modification date, not the last accessed date.
