NAME¶
pause - wait for signal
SYNOPSIS¶
#include <unistd.h>
int pause(void);
DESCRIPTION¶
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¶
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¶
- EINTR
- a signal was caught and the signal-catching function returned.
POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, SVr4, 4.3BSD.
SEE ALSO¶
kill(2),
select(2),
signal(2),
sigsuspend(2)
COLOPHON¶
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