When using glob can't exclude all directs

Version

v23.4.0

Platform

Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.22631.0 x64

Subsystem

No response

What steps will reproduce the bug?

Create a folder and open it in your code editor (we use this as current working directory).

Make/create the files/folders shown below:

src
src\a
src\a\b
src\a\c
src\index.ts
src\zip.ts

Run the code below:

console.log(
    fs.globSync("src/**", {
        withFileTypes: true,
        cwd: process.cwd(),
        exclude: (dirent) => {
            console.log(dirent)
        },
    }),
)

How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?

.

What is the expected behavior? Why is that the expected behavior?

I expect the exclude function to receive all the output directs, so that they can be excluded. (See "Additional information" part).

Even with just returning true in exclude function, you can't exclude DirentFromStats from the result.

What do you see instead?

The first direct from output is missing in exclude. (See "Additional information" part).

Additional information

Exclude:

Dirent {
  name: 'a',
  parentPath: 'C:\\Users\\Babak\\Documents\\Code\\tosk\\src',
  path: 'C:\\Users\\Babak\\Documents\\Code\\tosk\\src',
  [Symbol(type)]: 2
}
Dirent {
  name: 'index.ts',
  parentPath: 'C:\\Users\\Babak\\Documents\\Code\\tosk\\src',
  path: 'C:\\Users\\Babak\\Documents\\Code\\tosk\\src',
  [Symbol(type)]: 1
}
Dirent {
  name: 'zip.ts',
  parentPath: 'C:\\Users\\Babak\\Documents\\Code\\tosk\\src',
  path: 'C:\\Users\\Babak\\Documents\\Code\\tosk\\src',
  [Symbol(type)]: 1
}
Dirent {
  name: 'b',
  parentPath: 'C:\\Users\\Babak\\Documents\\Code\\tosk\\src\\a',
  path: 'C:\\Users\\Babak\\Documents\\Code\\tosk\\src\\a',
  [Symbol(type)]: 2
}
Dirent {
  name: 'c',
  parentPath: 'C:\\Users\\Babak\\Documents\\Code\\tosk\\src\\a',
  path: 'C:\\Users\\Babak\\Documents\\Code\\tosk\\src\\a',
  [Symbol(type)]: 2
}

Output:

[
  DirentFromStats {
    name: 'src',
    parentPath: 'C:\\Users\\Babak\\Documents\\Code\\tosk',
    path: 'C:\\Users\\Babak\\Documents\\Code\\tosk',
    [Symbol(type)]: null,
    [Symbol(stats)]: Stats {
      dev: 1247631908,
      mode: 16822,
      nlink: 1,
      uid: 0,
      gid: 0,
      rdev: 0,
      blksize: 4096,
      ino: 1970324837878618,
      size: 0,
      blocks: 0,
      atimeMs: 1734234059936.9617,
      mtimeMs: 1734231659493.8164,
      ctimeMs: 1734231659493.8164,
      birthtimeMs: 1734197097735.2148
    }
  },
  Dirent {
    name: 'index.ts',
    parentPath: 'C:\\Users\\Babak\\Documents\\Code\\tosk\\src',
    path: 'C:\\Users\\Babak\\Documents\\Code\\tosk\\src',
    [Symbol(type)]: 1
  },
  Dirent {
    name: 'zip.ts',
    parentPath: 'C:\\Users\\Babak\\Documents\\Code\\tosk\\src',
    path: 'C:\\Users\\Babak\\Documents\\Code\\tosk\\src',
    [Symbol(type)]: 1
  },
  Dirent {
    name: 'a',
    parentPath: 'C:\\Users\\Babak\\Documents\\Code\\tosk\\src',
    path: 'C:\\Users\\Babak\\Documents\\Code\\tosk\\src',
    [Symbol(type)]: 2
  },
  Dirent {
    name: 'c',
    parentPath: 'C:\\Users\\Babak\\Documents\\Code\\tosk\\src\\a',
    path: 'C:\\Users\\Babak\\Documents\\Code\\tosk\\src\\a',
    [Symbol(type)]: 2
  },
  Dirent {
    name: 'b',
    parentPath: 'C:\\Users\\Babak\\Documents\\Code\\tosk\\src\\a',
    path: 'C:\\Users\\Babak\\Documents\\Code\\tosk\\src\\a',
    [Symbol(type)]: 2
  }
]

I expect the exclude function to receive all the output directs

I would not expect that. That is an internal implementation detail. If you're globbing for src/**, there's no reason for the exclude function to receive the src directory itself (although I suppose it could--again, it's an internal implementation detail).

@Trott

I expect the exclude function to receive all the output directs

I would not expect that. That is an internal implementation detail. If you're globbing for src/**, there's no reason for the exclude function to receive the src directory itself (although I suppose it could--again, it's an internal implementation detail).

Hey 👋

This is an unexpected behavior. It shouldn't work this way.

How is that src/** selects the src folder and shows it in the output but it isn't available in the exclude?

This is just a bug. I don't know what this implementation details is, but it is a bug.

So, can we open this back?

@Trott

@nodejs/fs Is the behavior here a bug? DirentFromStats doesn't appear to be documented so I'm not sure what to make of it. To me, the key question is this:

How is it that src/** selects the src folder and shows it in the output but it isn't available in the exclude?

...or maybe returning src makes perfect sense as ** matches nothing. But in that case, it should be passed to exclude for processing....

I'm not familiar with the globbing code, but I attempted a fix in #57420.

fs: apply exclude function to root path

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