From 6e11b5ae1ff033381e74a91aa36574698995630b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Victor M. Alvarez" <vmalvarez@virustotal.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2025 16:47:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix: implement the `--no-follow-symlinks` option in Windows.

Until now this option was working only on POSIX systems.
---
 cli/yara.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cli/yara.c b/cli/yara.c
index e5902cb9..9b6829e2 100644
--- a/cli/yara.c
+++ b/cli/yara.c
@@ -500,6 +500,14 @@ static int scan_dir(const char_t* dir, SCAN_OPTIONS* scan_opts)
     {
       _sntprintf(path, YR_MAX_PATH, _T("%s\\%s"), dir, FindFileData.cFileName);
 
+      // If symbolic links must not be followed, and this entry is a symbolic
+      // link, ignore it and continue with the next one.
+      if (!scan_opts.follow_symlinks && 
+          FindFileData.dwFileAttribute & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT) 
+      {
+        continue;
+      }
+
       if (!(FindFileData.dwFileAttributes & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY))
       {
         LARGE_INTEGER file_size;