Safely timeout ReadLine on a network stream

Question

How can I safely timeout the following code?

var client = new TcpClient("localhost", 6000);
new StreamReader(client.GetStream()).ReadLine(); // close the client if no line arrives after 5 seconds...

Previously I had a timer running on another thread which called client.Close() if the timeout expired, but I don't think calling client.Close() like that is thread-safe?

Answer 1

You can use the builtin ReceiveTimeout property.