NAME
pause —
stop until signal
LIBRARY
library “libc”
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
HISTORY
A pause() syscall appeared in
Version 6 AT&T UNIX.