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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)


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 (CTR+C], or CTRL+R) but I can't think of a better way to do that.