Gulp v5.0.0 does not work if the root folder contains too many files (Works in Gulp v4.0.2)

[Jan Živković]

What were you expecting to happen?

The script to work with Gulp v5.0.0

What actually happened?

Gulp v5.0.0 starts up, then throws error RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded.

Please give us a sample of your gulpfile

const { src, dest, parallel, series, watch } = require("gulp");
function streamTask() {
  return src(["pdf/**"]);
}
exports.default = streamTask;

Terminal output / screenshots

Gulp v5.0.0:

Gulp v4.0.2:

Please provide the following information:

• OS & version [e.g. MacOS Catalina 10.15.4]: Linux Manjaro 23.1.4
• node version (run node -v): v21.7.2
• npm version (run npm -v): 10.5.0

Additional information

I created a sample project with the above gulpfile and the following package.json:

{
  "name": "test",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "scripts": {
    "dev": "gulp"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "devDependencies": {
    "gulp": "^5.0.0"
  }
}

In the root folder I have the following structure:

test/pdf/*  // Contains 50 pdf files
test/media/* // Contains approx 84000 random files (images, pdf, videos, etc...)
test/package.json
test/gulpfile.js

Command used to get file count in root folder: find . -type f | wc -l, result: 84039

If I simply change the gulp version from "gulp": "^5.0.0" to "gulp": "^4.0.2" the project works as intended.

[Blaine Bublitz]

This is a duplicate of gulpjs/glob-stream#125, please follow that issue for updates.