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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] What mean "Error: Found prohibited APIs in ..." error during

From: Jirka Novak <j.novak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 09:12:49 +0100
Hi,

>>  I commited patch and pipeline failed because:
>>
>> ...
>> FAILED: ui/qt/CMakeFiles/checkAPI_ui-qt
>> ...
>> Error: Found prohibited APIs in utils/rtp_audio_silence_generator.cpp: open
>> Error: Found prohibited APIs in utils/rtp_audio_routing_filter.cpp: open
>>
>>  but message gives me no hint what to change.
> 
> Change calls to open() to call ws_open(), instead, so that, on Windows, they can handle UTF-8 pathnames (by turning them into UTF-16 pathnames and passing them to routines that take UTF-16 pathnames, rather than using various code page encodings for strings).
> 
> Also use ws_close() instead of close().  (The ws_ calls, on Windows, also call the Visual Studio C library routines that implement UN*X-style APIs, with an underscore preceding the UN*X API name.)

Thank you for explanation and I understand the reasons, but I don't
think it is possible in this case. Classes extending QIODevice where
open/close are parent methods I must call/override.
It looks that it is false positive check. Is there any way how to add
exception to check in this case?

						Best regards,

							Jirka Novak