diff --git a/Sources/ContainerBuild/Globber.swift b/Sources/ContainerBuild/Globber.swift
index 9b3011b3..96e7095a 100644
--- a/Sources/ContainerBuild/Globber.swift
+++ b/Sources/ContainerBuild/Globber.swift
@@ -83,19 +83,17 @@ public class Globber {
     /// (same as a regular file) so pattern components after it never match —
     /// mirrors the containment check `BuildFSSync` applies before reading.
     ///
-    /// Children are named by their resolved (physical) path, not by `url`, so
-    /// that `walk(root:includePatterns:)`'s later filter — which is driven by
-    /// `Archiver.compress`'s own physical directory walk — reliably finds a
-    /// matching entry regardless of whether that walk itself follows `url`'s
-    /// symlink. `url` is separately inserted into `results` so the symlink
-    /// entry is still present in the tar for the builder to resolve the
-    /// original path against.
+    /// Children are named by appending each entry's basename onto `dir`
+    /// rather than using `contentsOfDirectory(at:)`'s own URLs, which silently
+    /// re-resolve `dir` (e.g. `/tmp` → `/private/tmp`) even when `dir` itself
+    /// isn't a symlink, breaking the lexical `parentOf` containment checks
+    /// downstream.
     private func children(of url: URL) -> [URL] {
         // TODO: modifying object state and returning results is odd, rework
         guard let dir = self.resolvedDirectory(of: url) else { return [] }
         if url.isSymlink { self.results.insert(url) }
-        return (try? FileManager.default.contentsOfDirectory(at: dir, includingPropertiesForKeys: nil))
-            ?? []
+        let names = (try? FileManager.default.contentsOfDirectory(atPath: dir.path)) ?? []
+        return names.map { dir.appendingPathComponent($0) }
     }
 
     /// Recursive form of ``children(of:)``, used once a full pattern (or `**`)
diff --git a/Tests/ContainerBuildTests/BuildFSSyncTests.swift b/Tests/ContainerBuildTests/BuildFSSyncTests.swift
index 5d6d607d..e48195ff 100644
--- a/Tests/ContainerBuildTests/BuildFSSyncTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/ContainerBuildTests/BuildFSSyncTests.swift
@@ -256,6 +256,34 @@ import Testing
         #expect(leaked.isEmpty, "walk() returned non-symlink URLs that physically resolve outside the context: \(leaked)")
     }
 
+    // MARK: - walk(): plain subdirectory contents under a symlinked ancestor
+    //
+    // Globber.children(of:) used to list directories via
+    // contentsOfDirectory(at:), which silently resolves /tmp to /private/tmp
+    // even for a non-symlink child. That made walk()'s parentOf() check
+    // reject every entry found by descending into a plain subdirectory, so
+    // "COPY foodir /dest" tarred an empty directory while
+    // "COPY foodir/payload /dest/payload" worked fine.
+
+    @Test func testWalkUnderSymlinkedAncestor() async throws {
+        // Root the context directly under /tmp (a symlink to /private/tmp on
+        // macOS) to reproduce the bug precisely.
+        let tmpBase = URL(fileURLWithPath: "/tmp").appendingPathComponent(UUID().uuidString)
+        let ctx = tmpBase.appendingPathComponent("context")
+        try fm.createDirectory(at: ctx, withIntermediateDirectories: true)
+        defer { try? fm.removeItem(at: tmpBase) }
+
+        let subdir = ctx.appendingPathComponent("foodir")
+        try fm.createDirectory(at: subdir, withIntermediateDirectories: true)
+        try write("payload", to: subdir.appendingPathComponent("payload.txt"))
+
+        let fssync = try BuildFSSync(ctx)
+        let infos = try await walkJSON(fssync, followPaths: ["foodir"])
+
+        let payload = infos.first { $0.name == "foodir/payload.txt" }
+        #expect(payload != nil, "expected foodir/payload.txt to be included when COPYing a directory glob, got: \(infos.map { $0.name })")
+    }
+
     // MARK: - walk(): JSON/FileInfo metadata paths
     //
     // walk() has two response formats: a tar stream (the primary data path,