How do I wait until a console application is idle?

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I have a console application that starts up, hosts a bunch of services (long-running startup), and then waits for clients to call into it. I have integration tests that start this console application and make "client" calls. How do I wait for the console application to complete its startup before making the client calls?

I want to avoid doing Thread.Sleep(int) because that's dependent on the startup time (which may change) and I waste time if the startup is faster.

Process.WaitForInputIdle works only on applications with a UI (and I confirmed that it does throw an exception in this case).

I'm open to awkward solutions like, have the console application write a temp file when it's ready.

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