how do i make a program wait indefinitely

[Uri Lavi]

The best way is to wait on AutoResetEvent or ManualResetEvent and once the input is constructed, to signal those events

Uri

[Vivek Vijayan]

cant we do without using thread???

This code was posted by me...

[Uri Lavi]

It seems to me that your desired result is to be interrupted once the input is received. Interruption by definition means context-switching (threads). You can apply a different approach (which is not a good design), by checking a boolean variable in a while loop. As stated this isn't desired as: 1. You will waste the cpu cycles 2. You will have threads anyway 3. You will need to deal with the race condition by applying locks - as one thread will read the boolean whereas another thread will write.

Uri

[Baeltazor]

I always thought it was cin << ReadKey(); ...Or has my memory gone KABOOM! again?

[riced]

That's C++. :-D

Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis

[PIEBALDconsult]

Are you sure you don't want a Windows Service?

[Lost User]

You don't need a lock for a bool though, just make it volatile and be careful when reading it (copy to local first)

[Lost User]

Input from what, the network? If so, just do a blocking read without timeout?

[Vivek Vijayan]

yes from network how do i block read??

This code was posted by me...

[Lost User]

If you make a NetworkStream, a normal Read should be blocking - I think. But don't trust me on this one, go to MSDN and check..