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pause(3)

NAME

     pause -- stop until signal

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 Version 6 AT&T UNIX.

FreeBSD 5.4			 June 4, 1993			   FreeBSD 5.4

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