Dunno about clojure, but in javaland you would submit jobs through an 
executor and then wait for all tasks on the executor to finish, blocking 
the main thread.

A bit of googling, and you can alter the core.async 
executor: http://stackoverflow.com/a/18779688/22992
And then you can await for its 
shutdown: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1250655/22992

On Saturday, August 6, 2016 at 5:38:24 AM UTC+1, Richard Möhn wrote:
>
> I'm using core.async. In my application the main thread creates a few 
> channels, starts a few go blocks and that's it. When I run it as a 
> stand-alone (i.e. not in the REPL), it starts those go blocks and then 
> exits. After being surprised initially, I understand why this happens: the 
> main thread has nothing more to do, so it terminates and with it the 
> application.
>
> However, I want the application to run until it receives SIGTERM, for 
> example. My current solution is to have a channel wait-for-exit and the 
> main thread does a
> (<!! wait-for-exit)
> after starting its go routines and the signal handler does a
> (put! wait-for-exit :ok)
> This blocks the main thread until the signal handler is called and the 
> application shut down.
>
> It also wastes the resources allocated to the main thread. (Which is only 
> a little bit of RAM, as far as I know, so not too bad.) What is the usual 
> way to solve this problem? Let the main thread do the work of one of the go 
> routines?
>
> Best,
>
> Richard
>

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