the glob() method does not follow symlinks

[danol-px]

This results in different behaviour vs other glob methods in e.g. glob or pathlib:

from fsspec.implementations.local import LocalFileSystem
import glob

fs = LocalFileSystem()
fs.mkdir('original/target_dir')
fs.mkdir('new')
fs.touch('original/target_dir/example_file.txt')
fs.symlink('original/target_dir', 'new/link')

print(fs.glob('original/*/example_file.txt'))
print(fs.glob('new/*/example_file.txt'))
print(glob.glob('new/*/example_file.txt'))

Output:

[original/target_dir/example_file.txt']
[]
['new/link/example_file.txt']

[martindurant]

fsspec tries to be have the same generic behaviour across different storage backends, and I suppose we haven't considered links (which only exist for local). I assume that something in LocalFileSystem can be tunes to account for links, if you would like to look into it.