NAME
pause —
stop until signal
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 may set the global
variable errno to the following error:
- [
EINTR] - The call was interrupted.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
A pause() system call appeared in
Version 6 AT&T UNIX.