Exclude symbolic links - phpmd freezes when a full wordpress installation even if excluding the symbolic link

[jcvignoli]

• PHPMD version: 2.14
• PHP Version: 8.2.10
• Installation type: composer
• Operating System / Distribution & Version: Ubuntu

Current Behavior

PHPMD freezes when parsing a symbolic link to a wordpress installation. I tried to launch phpmd with
vendor/bin/phpmd -vvv
but the only info I get is "ResultCache is not enabled." Then it remains at this point with no further info on screen.

Expected Behavior

To be able to exclude symbolic links

Steps To Reproduce:

The symbolic link is excluded with the following pattern
.src/wordpress/.
I also tried
src/wordpress/
and also took the trailing slash off with no luck.

I removed the symbolic link and phpmd could normaly run.

The symbolic link links towards a full wordpress installation, probably get stuck when parsing so many files.

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[AJenbo]

.src/wordpress/.

Looks like you are missing a slash here, it should probably be ./src/wordpress/., since . just means "relative to current" you could just have ./src/wordpress

[jcvignoli]

./src/wordpress doesn't work.
I've been able to unfreeze phpmd by using
wordpress/*
but then it reports another symbolic links that are inside the folder wordpress.
I had to add them into the exclude pattern, and most surprisingly, I had to use the full path to make it work.
wordpress/symboliclink/*
didn't work, while
fullpathofsymboliclink/*
did.
I keep this open, even if I solved my issue, I think weird the way phpmd exclude paths.
It's very different from other static analysis tools.