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PAUSE(2) Linux Programmer's Manual 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  invoca-
     tion 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

     This  page  is  part of release 4.16 of the Linux man-pages project.  A
     description of the project, information about reporting bugs,  and  the
     latest     version     of     this    page,    can    be    found    at
     https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

Linux 2015-08-08 PAUSE(2)

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