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1.. title:: clang-tidy - portability-restrict-system-includes
2
3portability-restrict-system-includes
4====================================
5
6Checks to selectively allow or disallow a configurable list of system headers.
7
8For example:
9
10In order to **only** allow `zlib.h` from the system you would set the options
11to `-*,zlib.h`.
12
13.. code-block:: c++
14
15  #include <curses.h>       // Bad: disallowed system header.
16  #include <openssl/ssl.h>  // Bad: disallowed system header.
17  #include <zlib.h>         // Good: allowed system header.
18  #include "src/myfile.h"   // Good: non-system header always allowed.
19
20In order to allow everything **except** `zlib.h` from the system you would set
21the options to `*,-zlib.h`.
22
23.. code-block:: c++
24
25  #include <curses.h>       // Good: allowed system header.
26  #include <openssl/ssl.h>  // Good: allowed system header.
27  #include <zlib.h>         // Bad: disallowed system header.
28  #include "src/myfile.h"   // Good: non-system header always allowed.
29
30Since the options support globbing you can use wildcarding to allow groups of
31headers.
32
33`-*,openssl/*.h` will allow all openssl headers but disallow any others.
34
35.. code-block:: c++
36
37  #include <curses.h>       // Bad: disallowed system header.
38  #include <openssl/ssl.h>  // Good: allowed system header.
39  #include <openssl/rsa.h>  // Good: allowed system header.
40  #include <zlib.h>         // Bad: disallowed system header.
41  #include "src/myfile.h"   // Good: non-system header always allowed.
42
43Options
44-------
45
46.. option:: Includes
47
48   A string containing a comma separated glob list of allowed include
49   filenames. Similar to the -checks glob list for running clang-tidy itself,
50   the two wildcard characters are `*` and `-`, to include and exclude globs,
51   respectively. The default is `*`, which allows all includes.
52