Steps to reproduce:

1. start a zabbix agent, for example:

   sudo docker run --name some-zabbix-agent -e ZBX_ACTIVE_ALLOW=false -e ZBX_ACTIVESERVERS="" -e ZBX_DEBUGLEVEL=4 -e ZBX_SERVER_HOST=127.0.0.1 zabbix/zabbix-agent2:7.2.7-ubuntu
   

2. do a zabbix_get with key vfs.dir.get for any non-empty directory and count the returned occurences, for example:

   sudo docker exec -it some-zabbix-agent zabbix_get -s 127.0.0.1 -k 'vfs.dir.get[/usr/sbin/zabbix-agent2-plugin]' | python3 -m json.tool | grep pathname | cat -n
   

   which returns

        1            "pathname": "/usr/sbin/zabbix-agent2-plugin/mssql",
        2            "pathname": "/usr/sbin/zabbix-agent2-plugin/mongodb",
        3            "pathname": "/usr/sbin/zabbix-agent2-plugin/nvidia-gpu",
        4            "pathname": "/usr/sbin/zabbix-agent2-plugin/postgresql",
        5            "pathname": "/usr/sbin/zabbix-agent2-plugin/ember-plus",
   

3. set the last modification time of any of the files in the directory to unix timestamp zero (1970-01-01T00:00:00Z)

   sudo docker exec -itu 0 some-zabbix-agent touch -d @0 /usr/sbin/zabbix-agent2-plugin/mssql
   

4. repeat step two, the output has one less entry than in step 2

        1            "pathname": "/usr/sbin/zabbix-agent2-plugin/mongodb",
        2            "pathname": "/usr/sbin/zabbix-agent2-plugin/nvidia-gpu",
        3            "pathname": "/usr/sbin/zabbix-agent2-plugin/postgresql",
        4            "pathname": "/usr/sbin/zabbix-agent2-plugin/ember-plus"
   

5. (optional), verify that the missing file still exists
   sudo docker exec -it some-zabbix-agent zabbix_get -s 127.0.0.1 -k 'vfs.file.get[/usr/sbin/zabbix-agent2-plugin/mssql]' | python3 -m json.tool` returns
   which returns

   {
       "basename": "mssql",
       "pathname": "/usr/sbin/zabbix-agent2-plugin/mssql",
       "dirname": "/usr/sbin/zabbix-agent2-plugin",
       "type": "file",
       "user": "root",
       "group": "root",
       "permissions": "0755",
       "uid": 0,
       "gid": 0,
       "size": 7612824,
       "time": {
           "access": null,
           "modify": "1970-01-01T00:00:00Z",
           "change": "2025-05-26T17:12:44.289446205Z"
       },
       "timestamp": {
           "access": null,
           "modify": 0,
           "change": 1748279564
       }
   }
   

6. (optional) set the last modification time of the file in the directory to unix timestamp one (1970-01-01T00:00:01Z)
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   sudo docker exec -itu 0 some-zabbix-agent touch -d @1 /usr/sbin/zabbix-agent2-plugin/mssql
   

7. (optional) notice the file is again listed

   sudo docker exec -it some-zabbix-agent zabbix_get -s 127.0.0.1 -k 'vfs.dir.get[/usr/sbin/zabbix-agent2-plugin]' | python3 -m json.tool | grep pathname | cat -n
   

   which returns

        1            "pathname": "/usr/sbin/zabbix-agent2-plugin/mssql",
        2            "pathname": "/usr/sbin/zabbix-agent2-plugin/mongodb",
        3            "pathname": "/usr/sbin/zabbix-agent2-plugin/nvidia-gpu",
        4            "pathname": "/usr/sbin/zabbix-agent2-plugin/postgresql",
        5            "pathname": "/usr/sbin/zabbix-agent2-plugin/ember-plus",
   

Result:
Output at step 2 differs from output at step 4
Expected:
Output at step 2 matches output at step 4