Changes within symlinked directories aren't detected by chokidar

[adityavohra7]

I'm using bower link to link a package foo into a service. This creates a few symlinks:

service (master) $ ls -lha bower_components/ 
...
drwxr-xr-x  5 avohra users 4.0K 2016-03-16 19:51 bar/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 avohra users   45 2016-03-17 10:02 foo -> /nail/home/avohra/.local/share/bower/links/foo
...

and

service (master) $ ls -lha /nail/home/avohra/.local/share/bower/links/
...
lrwxrwxrwx 1 avohra users   45 2016-03-17 10:16 foo -> /abs/path/to/package/foo/
...

Within my service, I have chokidar set up to watch some JS files as follows:

...
chokidar \
    'assets/js/**/*.js' 'bower_components/**/*.js' 'closure_config.js' \
    -c 'invoke-closure closure_config.js' \
    --follow-symlinks \
    --verbose
...

I'm unable to get chokidar to detect changes in JS files within the package foo's directory. I know chokidar follows symlinked files. Does it also follow symlinked directories?

[sdcoca]

I have the same issue which I suposse is causing this other karma autowatch issue

• I isolated it to be happening only in a Virtual Machine (Ubuntu with vagrant&vbox) running on my Mac.
• I run 'chokidar -s' on a file under a symlinked directory in the VM.
• Modify it with an editor within the VM.
• I did not use globs to remove the possibility of it being the #406 issue above.
• The changes in the file under the symlink are detected only once. Any later changes are not detected.
• Same issue running chokidar and editing the file straight on Mac (no VM involved) works all OK.