Enhancement: Customizable file system oterator implementation

[arilou]

This patch introduces the capability to implement custom iterators for file system traversal. This flexibility is particularly beneficial for applications requiring specialized handling of file systems, such as iterating over archive formats (e.g., tar, zip) or employing alternative traversal logic. For instance, this feature addresses community requests for functionality to avoid following symbolic links during file system operations.

With this update, developers can tailor file system iteration to better meet their specific application needs.

[tgross35]

Thank you for the interest! However, I am going to close this because it seems beyond the scope of what glob wants to do (it's pretty much a Rust version of Python's glob, or glob(3)). Aside from that, there isn't any demonstration of how to use this in the PR, or tests.

You may be interested in https://docs.rs/wax/latest/wax/ which provides much more control over traversal.

[arilou]

Hi thank you for the reply, I have no issue adding tests and example if that will help perhaps accepting this PR.

Wax does seems to be nice but it does not fit what I was trying to achieve here.

Are you still open for this type of change?