NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | ERRORS | CONFORMING TO | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

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PAUSE(2)                      Linux Programmer's Manual                      PAUSE(2)

NAME         top

       pause - wait for signal

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <unistd.h>

       int pause(void);

DESCRIPTION         top

       pause() causes the calling process (or thread) to sleep until a signal is
       delivered that either terminates the process or causes the invocation of a
       signal-catching function.

RETURN VALUE         top

       pause() 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         top

       EINTR  a signal was caught and the signal-catching function returned.

CONFORMING TO         top

       SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.

SEE ALSO         top

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

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of release 3.32 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/.

Linux                                 2008-10-06                             PAUSE(2)

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