pause(2)

NAME

   pause - wait for signal

SYNOPSIS

   #include <unistd.h>

   int pause(void);

DESCRIPTION

   pause()  causes the calling process (or thread) to sleep until a signal
   is  delivered  that  either  terminates  the  process  or  causes   the
   invocation of a signal-catching function.

RETURN VALUE

   pause()  returns  only when a signal was caught and the signal-catching
   function returned.  In this case, pause() returns -1, and errno is  set
   to EINTR.

ERRORS

   EINTR  a signal was caught and the signal-catching function returned.

CONFORMING TO

   POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, SVr4, 4.3BSD.

SEE ALSO

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

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