NAME

pause − stop until signal

SYNOPSIS

int pause(void);

DESCRIPTION

Pause suspends the calling process until delivery of a signal whose action is either to execute a signal-catching function or to terminate the process. 

If the action is to terminate the process, pause never returns. 

If the action is to execute a signal-catching function, pause returns after the signal-catching function returns. 

RETURN VALUE

Always returns −1. 

ERRORS

Pause always returns:

[EINTR] The call was interrupted. 

SEE ALSO

alarm(2), kill(2), select(2), setitimer(2), sigpause(2), wait(2)

4th Berkeley Distribution  —  August 1, 1992