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Manual Pages  — PAUSE

NAME

pause – stop until signal

CONTENTS

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

#include <unistd.h>

int
pause(void);

DESCRIPTION

Pause is made obsolete by sigsuspend(2).

The pause() function forces a process to pause until a signal is received from either the kill(2) function or an interval timer. (See setitimer(2).) Upon termination of a signal handler started during a pause(), the pause() call will return.

RETURN VALUES

Always returns -1.

ERRORS

The pause() function always returns:
[EINTR]
  The call was interrupted.

SEE ALSO

kill(2), select(2), sigsuspend(2)

HISTORY

A pause() syscall appeared in AT&T v6 .
PAUSE (3) June 4, 1993
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