or an exception is thrown.</p></div>
  <div class="jd-tagdata">
      <h5 class="jd-tagtitle">Returns</h5>
      <ul class="nolist"><li>the byte read or -1 if either the end of the last stream in the
         sequence has been reached or this input stream sequence is
         closed.</li></ul>
  </div>
  <div class="jd-tagdata">
      <h5 class="jd-tagtitle">Throws</h5>
      <table class="jd-tagtable">  
        <tr>
            <th><a href="../../../reference/java/io/IOException.html">IOException</a></td>