# How to send to/receive from channel without blocking?

**URL:** <https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/how-to-send-to-receive-from-channel-without-blocking/18603>\
**Category:** Language Design\
**Created:** [July 28, 2020, 4:25am UTC](https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/how-to-send-to-receive-from-channel-without-blocking/18603 "2020-07-28T04:25:17Z")\
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> [@nickallendev](#):
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> I’m guessing you want the initial `send` and “request-consumer” and “response-consumer” to run in parallel in different coroutines.

The idea is for all three to launch at the same time, but then wait for `response-consumer` until success or timeout. I don’t care about `request-consumer`, it can do whatever it can within the given time, then get cancelled by the timeout. Is that possible?

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