function matchDirectory(entries: IDirectoryEntry[]) {
			self.directoriesWalked++;
			const hasSibling = glob.hasSiblingFn(() => entries.map(entry => entry.basename));
			for (let i = 0, n = entries.length; i < n; i++) {
				const entry = entries[i];
				const { relativePath, basename } = entry;

				// Check exclude pattern
				// If the user searches for the exact file name, we adjust the glob matching
				// to ignore filtering by siblings because the user seems to know what she
				// is searching for and we want to include the result in that case anyway
				if (excludePattern.test(relativePath, basename, filePattern !== basename ? hasSibling : undefined)) {
					continue;
				}

				const sub = pathToEntries[relativePath];
				if (sub) {
					matchDirectory(sub);
				} else {
					self.filesWalked++;
					if (relativePath === filePattern) {
						continue; // ignore file if its path matches with the file pattern because that is already matched above
					}

					self.matchFile(onResult, entry);
				}

				if (self.isLimitHit) {
					break;
				}
			}
		}

	private doWalk(folderQuery: IFolderQuery, relativeParentPath: string, files: string[], onResult: (result: IRawFileMatch) => void, done: (error: Error) => void): void {
		const rootFolder = folderQuery.folder;

		// Execute tasks on each file in parallel to optimize throughput
		const hasSibling = glob.hasSiblingFn(() => files);
		flow.parallel(files, (file: string, clb: (error: Error, result: {}) => void): void => {

			// Check canceled
			if (this.isCanceled || this.isLimitHit) {
				return clb(null, undefined);
			}

			// Check exclude pattern
			// If the user searches for the exact file name, we adjust the glob matching
			// to ignore filtering by siblings because the user seems to know what she
			// is searching for and we want to include the result in that case anyway
			let currentRelativePath = relativeParentPath ? [relativeParentPath, file].join(path.sep) : file;
			if (this.folderExcludePatterns.get(folderQuery.folder.fsPath).test(currentRelativePath, file, this.config.filePattern !== file ? hasSibling : undefined)) {
				return clb(null, undefined);
			}

			// Use lstat to detect links
			let currentAbsolutePath = [rootFolder.fsPath, currentRelativePath].join(path.sep);
			fs.lstat(currentAbsolutePath, (error, lstat) => {
				if (error || this.isCanceled || this.isLimitHit) {
					return clb(null, undefined);
				}

				// If the path is a link, we must instead use fs.stat() to find out if the
				// link is a directory or not because lstat will always return the stat of
				// the link which is always a file.
				this.statLinkIfNeeded(currentAbsolutePath, lstat, (error, stat) => {
					if (error || this.isCanceled || this.isLimitHit) {
						return clb(null, undefined);
					}

					// Directory: Follow directories
					if (stat.isDirectory()) {
						this.directoriesWalked++;

						// to really prevent loops with links we need to resolve the real path of them
						return this.realPathIfNeeded(currentAbsolutePath, lstat, (error, realpath) => {
							if (error || this.isCanceled || this.isLimitHit) {
								return clb(null, undefined);
							}

							if (this.walkedPaths[realpath]) {
								return clb(null, undefined); // escape when there are cycles (can happen with symlinks)
							}

							this.walkedPaths[realpath] = true; // remember as walked

							// Continue walking
							return extfs.readdir(currentAbsolutePath, (error: Error, children: string[]): void => {
								if (error || this.isCanceled || this.isLimitHit) {
									return clb(null, undefined);
								}

								this.doWalk(folderQuery, currentRelativePath, children, onResult, err => clb(err, undefined));
							});
						});
					}

					// File: Check for match on file pattern and include pattern
					else {
						this.filesWalked++;
						if (currentRelativePath === this.filePattern) {
							return clb(null, undefined); // ignore file if its path matches with the file pattern because checkFilePatternRelativeMatch() takes care of those
						}

						if (this.maxFilesize && types.isNumber(stat.size) && stat.size > this.maxFilesize) {
							return clb(null, undefined); // ignore file if max file size is hit
						}

						this.matchFile(onResult, { base: rootFolder.fsPath, relativePath: currentRelativePath, basename: file, size: stat.size });
					}

					// Unwind
					return clb(null, undefined);
				});
			});
		}, (error: Error[]): void => {
			if (error) {
				error = arrays.coalesce(error); // find any error by removing null values first
			}

			return done(error && error.length > 0 ? error[0] : null);
		});
	}