While researching the filesystem training I came across a particularly bad example I have given in my talks and slides about how rename() works, and I felt it's prudent that I own up to this mistake and publish the correction.

TL;DR:

My provided example of rename("./a", "./b") is …

I forgot to post about my talk here, so here it is for those who missed my tweet:

Unexpected, Unreasonable, Unfixable: Filesystem Attacks on macOS by Gergely Kalman

For those that missed the OBTS v6 conference and live stream, here are the slides of my talk:

Gergely Kalman: Unexpected Unreasonable Unfixable

There should be a video of the talk coming out on the official OBTS youtube channel as well.

As for me, I will publish a writeup for …