It was kept so as not to break compilation of user code (overriding a function that doesn't exist in the base class). But as Marcus Tillmanns pointed out in a qtcreator code review, it can't work because QDirListing calls the virutal engine->beginEntryList(QDirListing::IteratorFlags). Removing beginEntryList(QDir::Filters) and getting a compile-timer error is better than the code failing silently in user code (all sub-classes of QAbstractFileEngine in qtbase have been already ported). QDir::entryList() isn't affected because it calls QAbstractFileEngine::entryList() which has an overload that works with QDir::Filters. Pick-to: 6.8 Change-Id: I3cb18402f602ac78a6b29be57e59febb2b9db7c0 Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>