I need to figure out how to terminate a thread while it is blocked trying to
create a COM object via interop.
In a worker thread, I do something like this:
Type t = null;
Object activatedObject = null;
Legacy.IScheduled comObject = null;
t = Type.GetTypeFromProgID(ProgID);
activatedObject = Activator.CreateInstance(t);
comObject = (Legacy.IScheduled) activatedObject;
t.InvokeMember("Execute", BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null,
activatedObject,
while (Marshal.ReleaseComObject(comObject) > 0);
comObject = null;
while (Marshal.ReleaseComObject(activatedObject) > 0);
activatedObject = null;
But the COM object I am calling is an out-of-process COM server written in
VB. If the .exe is busy or hung, the call to Activator.CreateInstance never
returns. I need to kill the worker thread if it hangs on this line, but
Thread.Abort doesn't work, since the ThreadAbortException isn't raised while
the thread is busy.
In .Net 1.1, I did this:
Thread t = new Thread(new ThreadStart(_thread.Abort));
t.Start();
Thread.Sleep(1000);
if (null != _thread)
{
_thread.Abort();
_thread = null;
}
_thread is the worker thread I need to kill. I spawned off a new thread
that called abort on the worker thread, waited a second, and called abort
from the main thread. This is super ugly, but it seemed to work, because
the worker thread would die. But when I recompiled my code for .Net 2.0,
this quit working. The call to _thread.Abort never returns, presumably
because it is blocking, waiting for the worker thread to stop blocking on
the call to the Activator.
So, any ideas how to do this? What I really need is a timeout mechanism on
the call to Activator.CreateInstance, but there isn't one. Is there another
way to approach this? I could convert the worker thread to a worker
process, and just kill the process, or do something with AppDomains, but I
was hoping for a less dramatic solution. Thoughts?
- Christopher 2 3487
Christopher Carnahan wrote: I need to figure out how to terminate a thread while it is blocked trying to create a COM object via interop.
In a worker thread, I do something like this:
Type t = null; Object activatedObject = null; Legacy.IScheduled comObject = null;
t = Type.GetTypeFromProgID(ProgID); activatedObject = Activator.CreateInstance(t); comObject = (Legacy.IScheduled) activatedObject; t.InvokeMember("Execute", BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null, activatedObject, while (Marshal.ReleaseComObject(comObject) > 0); comObject = null; while (Marshal.ReleaseComObject(activatedObject) > 0); activatedObject = null;
But the COM object I am calling is an out-of-process COM server written in VB. If the .exe is busy or hung, the call to Activator.CreateInstance never returns. I need to kill the worker thread if it hangs on this line, but Thread.Abort doesn't work, since the ThreadAbortException isn't raised while the thread is busy.
In .Net 1.1, I did this:
Thread t = new Thread(new ThreadStart(_thread.Abort)); t.Start();
Thread.Sleep(1000);
if (null != _thread) { _thread.Abort(); _thread = null; }
_thread is the worker thread I need to kill. I spawned off a new thread that called abort on the worker thread, waited a second, and called abort from the main thread. This is super ugly, but it seemed to work, because the worker thread would die. But when I recompiled my code for .Net 2.0, this quit working. The call to _thread.Abort never returns, presumably because it is blocking, waiting for the worker thread to stop blocking on the call to the Activator.
So, any ideas how to do this? What I really need is a timeout mechanism on the call to Activator.CreateInstance, but there isn't one. Is there another way to approach this? I could convert the worker thread to a worker process, and just kill the process, or do something with AppDomains, but I was hoping for a less dramatic solution. Thoughts?
- Christopher
You could try calling Thread.Interrupt. But I'm not sure if the
Interrupt() will work in unmanaged code.
"Christopher Carnahan" <cg********@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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|I need to figure out how to terminate a thread while it is blocked trying
to
| create a COM object via interop.
|
| In a worker thread, I do something like this:
|
| Type t = null;
| Object activatedObject = null;
| Legacy.IScheduled comObject = null;
|
| t = Type.GetTypeFromProgID(ProgID);
| activatedObject = Activator.CreateInstance(t);
| comObject = (Legacy.IScheduled) activatedObject;
| t.InvokeMember("Execute", BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null,
| activatedObject,
| while (Marshal.ReleaseComObject(comObject) > 0);
| comObject = null;
| while (Marshal.ReleaseComObject(activatedObject) > 0);
| activatedObject = null;
|
| But the COM object I am calling is an out-of-process COM server written in
| VB. If the .exe is busy or hung, the call to Activator.CreateInstance
never
| returns. I need to kill the worker thread if it hangs on this line, but
| Thread.Abort doesn't work, since the ThreadAbortException isn't raised
while
| the thread is busy.
|
| In .Net 1.1, I did this:
|
| Thread t = new Thread(new ThreadStart(_thread.Abort));
| t.Start();
|
| Thread.Sleep(1000);
|
| if (null != _thread)
| {
| _thread.Abort();
| _thread = null;
| }
|
| _thread is the worker thread I need to kill. I spawned off a new thread
| that called abort on the worker thread, waited a second, and called abort
| from the main thread. This is super ugly, but it seemed to work, because
| the worker thread would die. But when I recompiled my code for .Net 2.0,
| this quit working. The call to _thread.Abort never returns, presumably
| because it is blocking, waiting for the worker thread to stop blocking on
| the call to the Activator.
|
| So, any ideas how to do this? What I really need is a timeout mechanism
on
| the call to Activator.CreateInstance, but there isn't one. Is there
another
| way to approach this? I could convert the worker thread to a worker
| process, and just kill the process, or do something with AppDomains, but I
| was hoping for a less dramatic solution. Thoughts?
|
| - Christopher
A thread that currently blocks in unmanaged code cannot be aborted by
Thread.Abort, this was so in V1 and is still the same in V2, so I assume
that the thread wasn't really blocking when it "worked" on V1.
All you can do is terminate the process, or better try to fix the out-proc
server, servers that block indefinitely are broken, it's not up to the
caller process (the client) to fix it.
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