2.1.5.3 Streamname

  • Article

  • All Unicode characters are legal in a streamname component except the following:

    • The characters \ / :

    • Control character 0x00.

    • A streamname MUST be no more than 255 characters in length.

  • A zero-length streamname denotes the default stream.

See section 5 for additional information on alternate streams in the NTFS file system.