Abnormal Thread Termination

I have a problem in my multithreaded application. The problem is
reproducible
very rarely, only once in 6000 similar execution (through same code path).

Problem: One of multiple threads gets abnormally terminated. It does not
goes through the try-catch-finally sequence. The mehtod gets hanged and
the
object used inside the method gets collected by GC.

Bacground about the application: I am using COM-Interop. The threads are
created in unmanaged code which calls methods from managed code. One of
the
thread abnormally terminates when executing .NET method.

Observation: I have observed that the thread terminates only in those
methods where I am using IO Stream operation.

As I said this is very rare and the same code works fine except once or
twice in 6000 executions.

This is the code under which thread terminates mostly.

<CODE>

// I am generating log file for comments, to see the actual execution path
public string GetRequestFile(string strFileName)
{
// Log method enterd
StreamReader reader = null;
try
{
reader = new StreamReader(strFileName);
return reader.ReadToEnd();
}
catch(Exception exc)
{
// Log error occurred
throw;
}
finally
{
if(reader != null)
reader.Close();
// Log finally executed
}
}

<CODE>

Please let me know if there is any similar bug reported under .NET I/O
Stream operation.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Cheers,
Rahul Anand

stop cross posting, you already got two replies in the other newsgroup. did
you check these solutions before posting here?

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I have a problem in my multithreaded application. The problem is
reproducible
very rarely, only once in 6000 similar execution (through same code path).

Problem: One of multiple threads gets abnormally terminated. It does not
goes through the try-catch-finally sequence. The mehtod gets hanged and
the
object used inside the method gets collected by GC.

Bacground about the application: I am using COM-Interop. The threads are
created in unmanaged code which calls methods from managed code. One of
the
thread abnormally terminates when executing .NET method.

Observation: I have observed that the thread terminates only in those
methods where I am using IO Stream operation.

As I said this is very rare and the same code works fine except once or
twice in 6000 executions.

This is the code under which thread terminates mostly.

<CODE>

// I am generating log file for comments, to see the actual execution path
public string GetRequestFile(string strFileName)
{
// Log method enterd
StreamReader reader = null;
try
{
reader = new StreamReader(strFileName);
return reader.ReadToEnd();
}
catch(Exception exc)
{
// Log error occurred
throw;
}
finally
{
if(reader != null)
reader.Close();
// Log finally executed
}
}

<CODE>

Please let me know if there is any similar bug reported under .NET I/O
Stream operation.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Cheers,
Rahul Anand