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PAUSE
Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (2) Updated: 2015-08-08 Index
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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)
COLOPHON
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Index
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