NAME

pause − stop until signal

USAGE

pause()

DESCRIPTION

Pause never returns normally.  It causes a program to give up control and wait for a signal from kill(2) or an interval timer; see setitimer(2).  When a signal handler that was started during a pause terminates, the pause call will return. 

RETURN VALUE

This function always returns -1. 

ERRORS

Pause always sets errno to:

[EINTR] The call was interrupted. 

RELATED INFORMATION

kill(2), select(2), sigpause(2)