How to terminate a worker thread correctly in c#

Question

Problem statement

I have a worker thread that basically scans a folder, going into the files within it, and then sleeps for a while. The scanning operat

Answer 1

Another alternative is to use events:

private ManualResetEvent _event = new ManualResetEvent(false);


public void Run() 
{
 while (true)
 {
    DoSomethingThatTakesSeveralSeconds();
    if (_event.WaitOne(timeout))
      break;
 }
}

public void Stop() 
{
   _event.Set();
   thread.Join();
}