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
STANDARDS
The pause
() function conforms to
IEEE Std 1003.1-1990 (“POSIX.1”).
HISTORY
A pause
() syscall appeared in
Version 6 AT&T UNIX.