grep: fix "grep -r PATTRN SYMLINK_TO_DIR"

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

2 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/findutils/grep.c b/findutils/grep.c
index f1b6dc694..b9621384e 100644
--- a/findutils/grep.c
+++ b/findutils/grep.c
@@ -668,7 +668,7 @@ static int grep_dir(const char *dir)
         int matched = 0;
         recursive_action(dir,
                 /* recurse=yes */ ACTION_RECURSE |
-                /* followLinks=no */
+                /* followLinks=command line only */ ACTION_FOLLOWLINKS_L0 |
                 /* depthFirst=yes */ ACTION_DEPTHFIRST,
                 /* fileAction= */ file_action_grep,
                 /* dirAction= */ NULL,
diff --git a/testsuite/grep.tests b/testsuite/grep.tests
index 323b3849d..f6d9f2105 100755
--- a/testsuite/grep.tests
+++ b/testsuite/grep.tests
@@ -171,6 +171,26 @@ testing "grep -w word match second word" \
         "bword,word\n""wordb,word\n""bwordb,word\n" \
         ""
 
+# -r on symlink to dir should recurse into dir
+mkdir -p grep.testdir/foo
+echo bar > grep.testdir/foo/file
+ln -s foo grep.testdir/symfoo
+testing "grep -r on symlink to dir" \
+        "grep -r . grep.testdir/symfoo" \
+        "grep.testdir/symfoo/file:bar\n" \
+        "" ""
+rm -Rf grep.testdir
+
+# But -r on dir/symlink_to_dir should not recurse into symlink_to_dir
+mkdir -p grep.testdir/foo
+echo bar > grep.testdir/foo/file
+ln -s foo grep.testdir/symfoo
+testing "grep -r on dir/symlink to dir" \
+        "grep -r . grep.testdir" \
+        "grep.testdir/foo/file:bar\n" \
+        "" ""
+rm -Rf grep.testdir
+
 # testing "test name" "commands" "expected result" "file input" "stdin"
 #   file input will be file called "input"
 #   test can create a file "actual" instead of writing to stdout