Best approach to wait for closing the channel

[Christian (VuuRWerK) Seifert]

Hi,

I search for a good and serious way to wait for closing the channel.
So I want to do something like to join the Listener-Thread to suspend
my main-thread. At the moment I do the following:
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try {
  while (_isRunning) {
    Thread.sleep(5); // :(
  }
} catch (InterruptedException ex) {
  logger.error(ex, ex);
}
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It works, of course, but I guess I come to the "bad-programmers"-hell
for that :(
Has someone any suggestions to prevent me from this place?

Thanks in advance!

- Christian