Why is FileStream not closed by XmlReader

Question

So I am using the FileStream inside XmlReader

using (XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(new FileStream(archivePath, FileMode.Open), readerSettings))
{
    reader.close()
}

However, the file feed into the XmlReader is still in the lock state after the using scope, weird, I thought the XmlReader is going to close the FileStream for me, is it not?

Thanks for help.

Answer 1

Have you tried this?

using(var stream = new FileStream(archivePath, FileMode.Open))
using(var reader = XmlReader.Create(stream, readerSettings))
{

}

I couldn't find anything in the documentation that explicitly stated that the XmlReader would call dispose on the underlying stream when it was disposed. Also, I always use it as shown above and I have never encountered a problem.

Browsing through reflector I also find no instances where it calls Dispose() on the stream when creating a XmlTextReaderImpl. The XmlTextReaderImpl does not implement Dispose() and its Close() method looks like this:

internal void Close(bool closeInput)
{
    if (this.parsingFunction != ParsingFunction.ReaderClosed)
    {
        while (this.InEntity)
        {
            this.PopParsingState();
        }
        this.ps.Close(closeInput);
        this.curNode = NodeData.None;
        this.parsingFunction = ParsingFunction.ReaderClosed;
        this.reportedEncoding = null;
        this.reportedBaseUri = string.Empty;
        this.readState = ReadState.Closed;
        this.fullAttrCleanup = false;
        this.ResetAttributes();
    }
}