Why does Console.In.ReadLineAsync block?

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daryal provided the answer here
http://smellegantcode.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/a-boring-discovery/

It seems ReadLineAsync is not actually doing what it’s supposed to do. Bug in the framework.

My solution is to use ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem in a loop so each call to ReadLineAsync is done on a new thread.

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