pause(2)                                                 pause(2)



     NAME
          pause - suspend process until signal

     SYNOPSIS
          pause()

     DESCRIPTION
          pause suspends the calling process until it receives a sig-
          nal.  The signal must be one that is not currently set to be
          ignored by the calling process.

          If the signal causes termination of the calling process,
          pause will not return.

          When a signal is caught by the calling process, the behavior
          of pause will vary according to flags set by setcompat(2) or
          set42sig(3).  If the COMPAT_SYSCALLS flag is set when con-
          trol is returned from the signal catching function, then the
          process will once again pause; otherwise, the calling pro-
          cess will resume as described below.

     ERRORS
          If the signal is caught by the calling process and control
          is returned from the signal-catching function (see sig-
          nal(3)), the calling process resumes execution from the
          point of suspension; the return value of pause will be set
          to -1 and errno will be set to EINTR.

     SEE ALSO
          alarm(2), kill(2), wait(2), signal(3).

























     April, 1990                                                     1