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One downside here is that if the file is really that long for the original question to be a highlighted concern, then this does not facilitate the programmer to implement 'message pumping' / cancellation etc from the executing thread, through a long blocking call.

Grant Thomas
– Grant Thomas

2011-06-17 09:32:50 +00:00
Commented Jun 17, 2011 at 9:32
@Mr. Disappointment: Very true. I was actually going to edit my answer to mention that, but got distracted. It's also possible in that situation that the OP might still want to read the entire stream, but buffer it into multiple byte[] arrays, or a composite collection of some kind.

LukeH
– LukeH

2011-06-17 09:46:02 +00:00
Commented Jun 17, 2011 at 9:46

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