pause(2) — Linux manual page

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | ERRORS | CONFORMING TO | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

PAUSE(2)                  Linux Programmer's Manual                 PAUSE(2)

NAME top

       pause - wait for signal

SYNOPSIS top

       #include <unistd.h>

       int pause(void);

DESCRIPTION top

       pause() causes the calling process (or thread) to sleep until a
       signal is delivered that either terminates the process or causes the
       invocation of a signal-catching function.

RETURN VALUE top

       pause() returns only when a signal was caught and the signal-catching
       function returned.  In this case, pause() returns -1, and errno is
       set to EINTR.

ERRORS top

       EINTR  a signal was caught and the signal-catching function returned.

CONFORMING TO top

       POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, SVr4, 4.3BSD.

SEE ALSO top

       kill(2), select(2), signal(2), sigsuspend(2)

COLOPHON top

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Linux                            2015-08-08                         PAUSE(2)

Pages that refer to this page: pmpause(1) , pmsleep(1) , alarm(2) , ptrace(2) , rt_sigaction(2) , rt_sigprocmask(2) , rt_sigsuspend(2) , sigaction(2) , signal(2) , sigprocmask(2) , sigsuspend(2) , syscalls(2) , wait(2) , waitid(2) , waitpid(2) , sigblock(3) , siggetmask(3) , sighold(3) , sigignore(3) , sigmask(3) , sigrelse(3) , sigset(3) , sigsetmask(3) , sigvec(3) , signal(7) , signal-safety(7)