✅ Cancel stream read

I'm running a Task that constantly reads some data off a (named pipe) stream when it's present.

while (_shouldRun)
{
    // .. the below is in another method, but this is the idea
    using (var reader = new BinaryReader(_receiveStream, encoding, true))
    {
        identifier = reader.ReadUInt16();
        ushort lenght = reader.ReadUInt16();
        data = reader.ReadBytes(lenght);
    }
}

while (_shouldRun)
{
    // .. the below is in another method, but this is the idea
    using (var reader = new BinaryReader(_receiveStream, encoding, true))
    {
        identifier = reader.ReadUInt16();
        ushort lenght = reader.ReadUInt16();
        data = reader.ReadBytes(lenght);
    }
}

the

_shouldRun

_shouldRun

indicates whether the task should continue, I set this to

false

false

when it needs to stop
The issue is that the read operation on the stream is infinitely blocking, so I'm never sure if my Task will end properly

Can I stop a blocking stream read operation from another thread in some way?

C#•3y ago•

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Tim

✅ Cancel stream read

I'm running a Task that constantly reads some data off a (named pipe) stream when it's present.

while (_shouldRun)
{
    // .. the below is in another method, but this is the idea
    using (var reader = new BinaryReader(_receiveStream, encoding, true))
    {
        identifier = reader.ReadUInt16();
        ushort lenght = reader.ReadUInt16();
        data = reader.ReadBytes(lenght);
    }
}

while (_shouldRun)
{
    // .. the below is in another method, but this is the idea
    using (var reader = new BinaryReader(_receiveStream, encoding, true))
    {
        identifier = reader.ReadUInt16();
        ushort lenght = reader.ReadUInt16();
        data = reader.ReadBytes(lenght);
    }
}

the

_shouldRun

_shouldRun

indicates whether the task should continue, I set this to

false

false

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