Monitor.Wait, Pulse - When worker thread should conditionally behave as an actual worker thread

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Published on 2010-05-12T11:37:34Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 12:04 UTC
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My particular scenario: - Main thread starts a worker thread. - Main thread needs to block itself until either worker thread is completed (yeah funny) or worker thread itself informs main thread to go on

Alright, so what I did in main thread:

wokerThread.Start(lockObj);
lock(lockObj)
 Monitor.Wait(lockObj);

Somewhere in worker thread:

if(mainThreadShouldGoOn)
 lock(lockObj)
  Monitor.Pulse(lockObj);

Also, at the end of worker thread:

lock(lockObj)
 Monitor.Pulse(lockObj);

So far, it's working perfect. But is it a good solution? Is there a better one?

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