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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"fs.glob returns no matches when `--allow-fs-read` is used","articleBody":"### Version\n\n22.22.1 (22.x), 24.14.0 (24.x), 25.8.1 (25.x)\n\n### Platform\n\n```text\nLinux louiellan-IdeaPad-3-15ITL6 6.14.0-37-generic #37~24.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Nov 20 10:25:38 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux\n```\n\n### Subsystem\n\nfs, permission\n\n### What steps will reproduce the bug?\n\n**Create the file**\n\nsample1.js \n```js\nconst fs = require('fs')\nconsole.log(fs.globSync('somedir/*'));\n```\n\n\nDirectory Structure\n```\nsomedir\n|--\u003e file1.js\nsample1.js\n```\n\n**Run the following commands:**\n```\nnode --permission --allow-fs-read=somedir/ ./sample1.js\n```\n\n### How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?\n\nThe bug consistently reproduces if the --allow-fs-read is given a specific directory such as `somedir/`, but not with the allow all `*`\n\n### What is the expected behavior? Why is that the expected behavior?\n\n\n1. `fs.globSync` should return matches as it has a read access to that given directory\n2. asynchronous `fs.glob` (also from `node:fs/promises`) returns matches to that given directory\n\n---\n\n**Code snippet for checking `fs.glob` working as intended**\nsample2.js \n_(works just fine - for comparison)_\n```js\nconst fsPromise = require('fs/promises'); \n(async () =\u003e {\nfor await (const entry of fsPromise.glob('somedir/*')) {\n    console.log(entry);\n}})();\n```\n\nsample3.js\n_(works just fine - for comparison)_\n```js\nconst fs = require('node:fs');\nfs.glob('somedir/*', (err, matches) =\u003e {\n    if (err) throw err;\n    console.log(matches);\n});\n```\n\nRunning the files\n```\nnode --permission --allow-fs-read=somedir/ ./sample2.js\nnode --permission --allow-fs-read=somedir/ ./sample3.js\n```\n\n### What do you see instead?\nEmpty matches\n```\n[]\n```\n\n### Additional information\n\ncame across this when @RafaelGSS suggested to include permission model tests while using glob on --watch-path\nRefs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/59478","author":{"url":"https://github.com/louiellan","@type":"Person","name":"louiellan"},"datePublished":"2026-01-24T00:16:00.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":5},"url":"https://github.com/61499/node/issues/61499"}