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# Stream.Status.reading

Data is being read from the stream. This status would be returned if code on another thread were to call [`streamStatus`](/documentation/Foundation/Stream/streamStatus) on the stream while a [`read(_:maxLength:)`](/documentation/Foundation/InputStream/read(_:maxLength:)) call ([`InputStream`](/documentation/Foundation/InputStream)) was in progress.

```
case reading
```

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