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NAME¶
pause - wait for signal
LIBRARY¶
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS¶
#include <unistd.h>
int pause(void);
DESCRIPTION¶
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¶
pause() returns only 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.
STANDARDS¶
POSIX.1-2008.
HISTORY¶
POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.3BSD.
SEE ALSO¶
2024-05-02 | Linux man-pages (unreleased) |