Merge pull request rust-lang-deprecated#15 from BurntSushi/fix-root-s…

…ymlink

Fix bug reading root symlink.

src/lib.rs

@@ -198,7 +198,8 @@ impl WalkDir {
     /// Create a builder for a recursive directory iterator starting at the
     /// file path `root`. If `root` is a directory, then it is the first item
     /// yielded by the iterator. If `root` is a file, then it is the first
-    /// and only item yielded by the iterator.
+    /// and only item yielded by the iterator. If `root` is a symlink, then it
+    /// is always followed.
     pub fn new<P: AsRef<Path>>(root: P) -> Self {
         WalkDir {
             opts: WalkDirOptions {
@@ -495,7 +496,7 @@ impl Iterator for Iter {
 
     fn next(&mut self) -> Option<Result<DirEntry>> {
         if let Some(start) = self.start.take() {
-            let dent = itry!(DirEntry::from_path(0, start));
+            let dent = itry!(DirEntry::from_link(0, start));
             if let Some(result) = self.handle_entry(dent) {
                 return Some(result);
             }
@@ -745,18 +746,6 @@ impl DirEntry {
             depth: depth,
         })
     }
-
-    fn from_path(depth: usize, pb: PathBuf) -> Result<DirEntry> {
-        let md = try!(fs::symlink_metadata(&pb).map_err(|err| {
-            Error::from_path(depth, pb.clone(), err)
-        }));
-        Ok(DirEntry {
-            path: pb,
-            ty: md.file_type(),
-            follow_link: false,
-            depth: depth,
-        })
-    }
 }
 
 impl Clone for DirEntry {

src/tests.rs

@@ -416,6 +416,33 @@ fn walk_dir_sym_2() {
     assert_tree_eq!(exp, got);
 }
 
+#[test]
+#[cfg(unix)]
+fn walk_dir_root_sym() {
+    let exp = td("foo", vec![
+        td("bar", vec![tf("a"), tf("b")]),
+        tl("bar", "alink"),
+    ]);
+    let tmp = tmpdir();
+    let tmp_path = tmp.path();
+    let tmp_len = tmp_path.to_str().unwrap().len();
+    exp.create_in(tmp_path).unwrap();
+
+    let it = WalkDir::new(tmp_path.join("foo/alink")).into_iter();
+    let mut got = it
+        .map(|d| d.unwrap().path().to_str().unwrap()[tmp_len+1..].into())
+        .collect::<Vec<String>>();
+    got.sort();
+    assert_eq!(got, vec!["foo/alink", "foo/alink/a", "foo/alink/b"]);
+
+    let it = WalkDir::new(tmp_path.join("foo/alink/")).into_iter();
+    let mut got = it
+        .map(|d| d.unwrap().path().to_str().unwrap()[tmp_len+1..].into())
+        .collect::<Vec<String>>();
+    got.sort();
+    assert_eq!(got, vec!["foo/alink/", "foo/alink/a", "foo/alink/b"]);
+}
+
 #[test]
 #[cfg(unix)]
 fn walk_dir_sym_detect_no_follow_no_loop() {