end of stream vs !DataAvailable

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Ryan Liu - 02 Apr 2008 16:40 GMT

Hi,

For NetworkStream,
what is difference between
ReadByte() return -1 indicates "end of stream"

and DataAvailable = false?

Thanks a lot!

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Jon Skeet [C# MVP] - 02 Apr 2008 16:48 GMT

> For NetworkStream,
> what is difference between
> ReadByte() return -1 indicates "end of stream"
>
> and DataAvailable = false?

I *believe* DataAvailable can return false even if the stream isn't
finished. For instance, if you've got an open network connection but
the other end hasn't sent anything, DataAvailable will return false,
but ReadByte will block until it gets more data (or the other end
closes the connection).

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