I’m trying to create an effiecent way to shut down my console application. To do this I have a while loop in my program’s main method waiting for a request to shutdown.

var rebootAfterClose = false;  while (true) {     var input = Console.ReadKey();      if (input.Key == ConsoleKey.C && input.Modifiers == ConsoleModifiers.Control)     {         break;     }      if (input.Key != ConsoleKey.R || input.Modifiers != ConsoleModifiers.Control)     {         continue;     }      rebootAfterClose = true;      break; }  Server?.Stop(rebootAfterClose); 

I then have these methods, the stop is the one that gets called, Dispose gets called in Stop().

public void Dispose() {     if (Disposing)     {         return;     }      Disposing = true;      BaseHandler.PlayerHandler.Dispose();      ConsoleUpdater.Dispose();     SocketHandler.Dispose(); }  public void Stop(bool restart) {     Task.Factory.StartNew(() =>     {         var shutdownMessage = PlusEnvironment.GetLanguageManager().TryGetValue("server.shutdown.message");         var shutdownPacket = new BroadcastMessageAlertComposer(shutdownMessage);          Program.Server.BaseHandler.PlayerHandler.SendPacketToPlayers(shutdownPacket);          ConsoleUpdater.Stop();          Console.Clear();         Console.WriteLine();         Console.Title = "Stopping...";          Logger.Warn("Server is " + (restart ? "rebooting" : "shutting down") + "....");          Thread.Sleep(5000);          // not sure if I should use this instead? : Task.Delay(5000);          Dispose();          if (restart)         {             Process.Start(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);         }          Environment.Exit(0);     }); } 

I used a thread as I didn’t want to block the thread with the 5 second delay. I’m currently looking to just tidy this mechanism up as I am really new to multithreading and just want to know if I did okay, I appreciate everyone who contributes a comment or answer.

Another thing I’m worried about is the while (true) loop in my main method, is there any better way to do this? I need to avoid closing the console application on any other key other than the ones in the while loop (CTRL&C, or CTRL&R) but I can’t think of a better way to do that.