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 sig
- nal 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.
- BSD June 4, 1993