UserDefinedFileAttributeView

A file attribute view that provides a view of a file's user-defined attributes, sometimes known as extended attributes. User-defined file attributes are used to store metadata with a file that is not meaningful to the file system. It is primarily intended for file system implementations that support such a capability directly but may be emulated. The details of such emulation are highly implementation specific and therefore not specified.

This FileAttributeView provides a view of a file's user-defined attributes as a set of name/value pairs,