How to keep a .NET console app running?
- by intoorbit
Consider a Console application that starts up some services in a separate thread. All it needs to do is wait for the user to press Ctrl+C to shut it down.
Which of the following is the better way to do this?
static ManualResetEvent _quitEvent = new ManualResetEvent(false);
static void Main() {
Console.CancelKeyPress += delegate {
_quitEvent.Set();
};
// kick off asynchronous stuff
_quitEvent.WaitOne();
// cleanup/shutdown and quit
}
Or this, using Thread.Sleep(1):
static bool _quitFlag = false;
static void Main() {
Console.CancelKeyPress += delegate {
_quitFlag = true;
};
// kick off asynchronous stuff
while (!_quitFlag) {
Thread.Sleep(1);
}
// cleanup/shutdown and quit
}
