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PAUSE

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUE
ERRORS
CONFORMING TO
SEE ALSO

NAME

pause ? wait for signal

SYNOPSIS

#include <unistd.h>

int pause(void);

DESCRIPTION

The pause system call causes the invoking process to sleep until a signal is received.

RETURN VALUE

pause always returns ?1, and errno is set to ERESTARTNOHAND.

ERRORS

EINTR

signal was received.

CONFORMING TO

SVr4, SVID, POSIX, X/OPEN, BSD 4.3

SEE ALSO

kill(2), select(2), signal(2)


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