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PAUSE

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (2)
Updated: 1995-08-31
Index Return to Main Contents

NAME

pause - wait for signal

SYNOPSIS

#include <unistd.h>

int pause(void);

DESCRIPTION

The pause() library function causes the invoking process (or thread) to sleep until a signal is received that either terminates it or causes it to call a signal-catching function.

RETURN VALUE

The pause() function only returns 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

SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.

COLOPHON

This page is part of release 3.05 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.