Support for alternate data streams in NtCreateFile?

[Frédéric Delanoy]

Hi,

What is the support status of (NTFS) names streams in wine?
I only see include/winnt.h:4788:#define FILE_NAMED_STREAMS 0x00040000
but it doesn't seem to be used anywhere else in the code.
(there's probably no possible translation in most filesystems)

NtCreateFile (hence cmd) currently happily creates files/directories
with colons in them, while it probably shouldn't for most FS.

I'm asking this because ':' is normally disallowed in file/dirnames
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247(v=VS.85).aspx), and
was trying to add tests in ntdll/tests/file.c, except when named
streams are supported by the underlying FS.
Should I test the flags returned from GetVolumeInformation, and add
tests for both named-stream-allowed and non-named-stream allowed FSs?

Or should I assume that named streams won't ever be implemented and
assume colons are disallowed, without checking the FILE_NAMED_STREAMS
flag?

Frédéric

[Alexandre Julliard]

Frédéric Delanoy  writes:
> Hi,
>
> What is the support status of (NTFS) names streams in wine?
> I only see include/winnt.h:4788:#define FILE_NAMED_STREAMS 0x00040000
> but it doesn't seem to be used anywhere else in the code.
> (there's probably no possible translation in most filesystems)

It's kind of supported, by simply not doing anything special and
creating separate files.