Process crash when using SerialPort or Socket objects and thread.Abort

The easiest way to demonstrate what this error is all about is to compile and run this code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;
using System.IO.Ports;

namespace ST
{
public class SerialTest
{
public static SerialPort m_port;

public static void ReadFromPort()
{
byte []buffer=new byte[10];
try
{
m_port.Read(buffer, 0, 10);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine("Read thread exception: "+e.ToString());
}
}

public static void Main()
{
m_port = new SerialPort("COM1");
m_port.Open();
m_port.ReadTimeout = 100000;

Thread thread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(ReadFromPort));

Console.WriteLine("Starting (read)thread.");
thread.Start();

Thread.Sleep(500);

try
{
Console.WriteLine("Thread Abort.");
thread.Abort();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine("Main thread exception: "+e.ToString());
}

Thread.Sleep(500);

Console.WriteLine("Not here.");
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}

Pay

attention on " thread.Abort();" call. The "m_port.Read" has a large

timeout and during this rading (that is executin in another thread) we

call Abort on that thread. Serial port returns an exception, but that

exception cannot be captured and the process is killed.

Seems

like the problem is in implementation of the SerialPort class. But it

seems to work fine if we close the port before we call thread.Abort.

Then the exception can be captured.

Can this issue be resolved

so that the thrown exception can be captured? Without closing the

serial port before aborting the thread.

Thanks.

[1813 byte] By [ZUTI] at [2007-12-26]