Veritas™ File System 5.0.1 Programmer's Reference Guide

Named data streams
This chapter includes the following topics:
■ About named data streams
■ Uses for named data streams
■ Named data streams application programming interface
■ Listing named data streams
■ Namespace for named data streams
■ Behavior changes in other system calls
■ Querying named data streams
■ Application programming interface
■ Command reference
About named data streams
Named data streams associate multiple data streams with a file. The default
unnamed data stream can be accessed through the file descriptor returned by the
open() function called on the file name. The other data streams are stored in an
alternate name space associated with the file.
Note: Named data streams are also known as named attributes.
Figure 4-1 illustrates the alternate namespace associated with a file.
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