Issues

• Fix all TOCTOU and long path issues with cap-std

  BurntSushi/walkdir#213 · Filter by author Ericson2314 opened on Jun 22, 2026
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• TOCTOU race allows symlink traversal even when follow_links is disabled

  BurntSushi/walkdir#209 · Filter by author DepthFirstDisclosures opened on Oct 31, 2025
  1

• Extracting the relative path

  BurntSushi/walkdir#204 · Filter by author konstin opened on Nov 14, 2024

• Does sort_by_key really need 'static lifetime?

  BurntSushi/walkdir#202 · Filter by author dbarnett opened on Sep 9, 2024
  3

• Find all git repositories

  BurntSushi/walkdir#201 · Filter by author Yingrjimsch opened on Aug 26, 2024

• filter_entry().filter_entry() is broken

  BurntSushi/walkdir#192 · Filter by author obsgolem opened on Dec 6, 2023
  2

• sort_by_file_name doesn't appear to be working

  BurntSushi/walkdir#182 · Filter by author ShayBox opened on Jun 1, 2023
  2

• "Input/output error" while there is a long filename

  BurntSushi/walkdir#181 · Filter by author rj-linjia opened on May 6, 2023
  1

• Please add a method to walk entries in case-insensitive alphabetical order

  enhancementhelp wanted
  BurntSushi/walkdir#172 · Filter by author lucatrv opened on Feb 8, 2023
  3

• filter_entry misbehaves when contents_first is enabled

  BurntSushi/walkdir#171 · Filter by author selendym opened on Feb 4, 2023
  5

• Follows macOS/APFS "firmlinks" even with .follow_links(false)

  question
  BurntSushi/walkdir#169 · Filter by author hippietrail opened on Nov 1, 2022
  6

• contents_first(false) still calls readdir before emitting the parent directory

  bug
  BurntSushi/walkdir#168 · Filter by author UhhhWaitWhat opened on Aug 24, 2022
  1

• Fix & Improve doc comment on some structures

  BurntSushi/walkdir#167 · Filter by author minghu6 opened on Aug 21, 2022

• Inconsistent behaviour of skip_current_dir when combined with same_file_system (false) and symlinks to other file-systems

  BurntSushi/walkdir#166 · Filter by author cipriancraciun opened on Aug 20, 2022
  7

• Parent directory appears out of order with contents_first(true) in certain circumstances

  BurntSushi/walkdir#163 · Filter by author danielparks opened on Aug 9, 2022
  6

• Example code to skip hidden files breaks WalkDir::new(".")

  BurntSushi/walkdir#154 · Filter by author kpcyrd opened on Sep 7, 2021
  1

• MSRV should be 1.40

  BurntSushi/walkdir#153 · Filter by author lemmih opened on Jul 25, 2021
  1

• example replaced by walkdir-list, but README not updated

  BurntSushi/walkdir#152 · Filter by author lmfont opened on Jul 4, 2021
  1

• Add "choosing between walkdir and std::fs::read_dir" section to the docs

  BurntSushi/walkdir#150 · Filter by author matklad opened on Jul 3, 2021

• Contents first order issue

  enhancement
  BurntSushi/walkdir#140 · Filter by author silasb opened on Sep 12, 2020
  2

• Incorrect doc for IntoIter::skip_current_dir(&mut self)?

  BurntSushi/walkdir#138 · Filter by author andrewhickman opened on Jul 23, 2020

• [feature] Create a try_filter_entry()

  enhancementhelp wanted
  BurntSushi/walkdir#131 · Filter by author zicklag opened on Nov 11, 2019
  5

  

• FilterEntry::filter_entry has a suboptimal signature

  bug
  BurntSushi/walkdir#130 · Filter by author CAD97 opened on Sep 30, 2019
  2

• Error from reading a directory without permission doesn't give path

  help wantedquestion
  BurntSushi/walkdir#126 · Filter by author metsuke0 opened on Jul 26, 2019
  2

• Compare performance vs std::fs::read_dir

  enhancement
  BurntSushi/walkdir#120 · Filter by author joshtriplett opened on Apr 28, 2019
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