pause(2)                                                 pause(2)



NAME
     pause - suspends a process until signal

SYNOPSIS
     pause()

DESCRIPTION
     pause suspends the calling process until it receives a
     signal.  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
     control is returned from the signal catching function, then
     the process will once again pause; otherwise, the calling
     process will resume as described in the next section.

STATUS MESSAGES AND VALUES
     If the signal is caught by the calling process and control
     is returned from the signal-catching function (see
     signal(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)

























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