diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index cbdf1b3fc..0f79bd3fb 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -309,6 +309,11 @@ Fixed bugs:
    command failed.
    Bugzilla Report 46340.
 
+ * DirectoryScanner's slow-scanning algorithm that is used when you
+   ask for excluded or not-included files and/or directories could
+   miss some files and directories in the presence of recursive
+   exclude patterns.
+
 Other changes:
 --------------
 
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/DirectoryScanner.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/DirectoryScanner.java
index 476b855ea..d5a777504 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/DirectoryScanner.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/DirectoryScanner.java
@@ -1116,7 +1116,7 @@ public class DirectoryScanner
     private void processSlowScan(String[] arr) {
         for (int i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
             TokenizedPath path  = new TokenizedPath(arr[i]);
-            if (!couldHoldIncluded(path)) {
+            if (!couldHoldIncluded(path) || contentsExcluded(path)) {
                 scandir(new File(basedir, arr[i]), path, false);
             }
         }
diff --git a/src/tests/antunit/taskdefs/sync-test.xml b/src/tests/antunit/taskdefs/sync-test.xml
index 1dbdbe5f2..7ac988bcb 100644
--- a/src/tests/antunit/taskdefs/sync-test.xml
+++ b/src/tests/antunit/taskdefs/sync-test.xml
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
     <au:assertFileDoesntExist file="${output}/b/c"/>
   </target>
 
-  <target name="xtestPreserveEmptyOverridesDefault" depends="setUp">
+  <target name="testPreserveEmptyOverridesDefault" depends="setUp">
 
     <sync todir="${output}">
       <fileset dir="${input}"/>
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
     <au:assertFileExists file="${output}/b/c"/>
   </target>
 
-  <target name="xtestPreserveEmptyOverrulesIncludeEmpty" depends="setUp">
+  <target name="testPreserveEmptyOverrulesIncludeEmpty" depends="setUp">
 
     <sync todir="${output}" includeEmptyDirs="true">
       <fileset dir="${input}"/>
diff --git a/src/tests/junit/org/apache/tools/ant/DirectoryScannerTest.java b/src/tests/junit/org/apache/tools/ant/DirectoryScannerTest.java
index 6d4bcca1b..59b8ff25d 100644
--- a/src/tests/junit/org/apache/tools/ant/DirectoryScannerTest.java
+++ b/src/tests/junit/org/apache/tools/ant/DirectoryScannerTest.java
@@ -25,9 +25,11 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.SymbolicLinkUtils;
 
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.TreeSet;
-import java.util.Iterator;
 
 /**
  * JUnit 3 testcases for org.apache.tools.ant.DirectoryScanner
@@ -532,4 +534,25 @@ public class DirectoryScannerTest extends BuildFileTest {
         }
     }
 
+    public void testRecursiveExcludes() throws Exception {
+        DirectoryScanner ds = new DirectoryScanner();
+        ds.setBasedir(new File(getProject().getBaseDir(), "tmp"));
+        ds.setExcludes(new String[] {"**/beta/**"});
+        ds.scan();
+        List dirs = Arrays.asList(ds.getExcludedDirectories());
+        assertEquals(2, dirs.size());
+        assertTrue("beta is excluded",
+                   dirs.contains("alpha/beta".replace('/', File.separatorChar)));
+        assertTrue("gamma is excluded",
+                   dirs.contains("alpha/beta/gamma".replace('/',
+                                                            File.separatorChar)));
+        List files = Arrays.asList(ds.getExcludedFiles());
+        assertEquals(2, files.size());
+        assertTrue("beta.xml is excluded",
+                   files.contains("alpha/beta/beta.xml"
+                                  .replace('/', File.separatorChar)));
+        assertTrue("gamma.xml is excluded",
+                   files.contains("alpha/beta/gamma/gamma.xml"
+                                  .replace('/', File.separatorChar)));
+    }
 }