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You have ReadTimeout and WriteTimeout, make use of them.
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You have ReadTimeout and WriteTimeout, make use of them.

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setting timeouts is fine for normal operation but I want to be able to shutdown the program at will so I need to interrupt the blocked read or write - does setting ReadTimeout to zero during a blocked read make it return immediately? 
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setting timeouts is fine for normal operation but I want to be able to shutdown the program at will so I need to interrupt the blocked read or write - does setting ReadTimeout to zero during a blocked read make it return immediately?

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Is it thread safe to call the close method of a network stream while the another thread is using the stream and blocked on the read method?<br />
What I am after is the best way to interrupt a read or write that is blocked waiting to receive or send data. I of course need to do this from another thread. 
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Is it thread safe to call the close method of a network stream while the another thread is using the stream and blocked on the read method?
What I am after is the best way to interrupt a read or write that is blocked waiting to receive or send data. I of course need to do this from another thread. 

is the close method on networkstream thread safe?

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