PAUSE(2,L)                  AIX Technical Reference                  PAUSE(2,L)



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pause



PURPOSE

Suspends a process until a signal is received.

SYNTAX

int pause ( )

DESCRIPTION

The pause system call suspends the calling process until it receives a signal.
The signal must not be one that is ignored by the calling process.  pause does
not affect the action taken upon the receipt of a signal.

If the signal received causes the calling process to terminate, then the pause
system call does not return.

If the signal is caught by the calling process and control is returned from the
signal-catching function, then the calling process resumes execution from the
point of suspension; the pause system call returns a value of -1 and sets errno
to EINTR.  (For information about signal-catching functions, see "sigaction,
sigvec, signal.")

RELATED INFORMATION

In this book:  "alarm,"  "kill, kill3, killpg," "sigaction, sigvec, signal,"
and  "wait, waitpid."























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