Anon,
This is almost scary. Abigail-II said that this loop will never end, and he is quite right. This almost looks like the dreaded (( Infinite Loop ))

  while(1)
  {
    #...do something...
    sleep(10);
  }
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You are basically asking "Is 1 actually 1?". The answer of course is Yes, so do something and sleep for ten seconds. There are a couple of sure fire ways you can get out of this;
1) return if you are in a sub routine
or..
2) exit for anything else.

One other way I can think of is to make 1 no longer equal to 1, but I don't think you'll have much luck. Maybe post what the 'do something' section of you code is doing. That will give us more to work on.

Kristofer Hoch

Note: Updated to accurately apply pronouns to the Abigail-II antecedant