Can I set a timeout for a InputStream's read() function?

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Published on 2010-04-14T14:41:28Z Indexed on 2010/04/14 14:43 UTC
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I have a DataInputStream that I obtained from a Socket. Is there any way I can set a timeout for dis.read(...)? Currently I spawn a new thread to do the read. While the parent thread does a thread.join(timeout) to wait before interrupting it. I am aware of nio, but I don't think I want to refactor that much at this point. Thanks.

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