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1 | .\" Hey Emacs! This file is -*- nroff -*- source. |
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| 3 | .\" Copyright (c) 1992 Drew Eckhardt (drew@cs.colorado.edu), March 28, 1992 | |
| 4 | .\" | |
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14 | .\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this |
| 15 | .\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no | |
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22 | .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by |
| 23 | .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. | |
| 24 | .\" | |
| 25 | .\" Modified by Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de) | |
| 26 | .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 14:48:00 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) | |
| 27 | .\" Modified 1995 by Mike Battersby (mib@deakin.edu.au) | |
| 28 | .\" Modified 2000 by aeb, following Michael Kerrisk | |
| 29 | .\" | |
| 30 | .TH PAUSE 2 1995-08-31 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" | |
| 31 | .SH NAME | |
| 32 | pause \- wait for signal | |
| 33 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 34 | .B #include <unistd.h> | |
| 35 | .sp | |
| 36 | .B int pause(void); | |
| 37 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 38 | The | |
| e511ffb6 | 39 | .BR pause () |
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40 | library function causes the invoking process (or thread) to sleep |
| 41 | until a signal is received that either terminates it or causes it | |
| 42 | to call a signal-catching function. | |
| 43 | .\" The | |
| 44 | .\" .B pause | |
| 45 | .\" system call causes the invoking process to sleep until a signal | |
| 46 | .\" is received. | |
| 47 | .SH "RETURN VALUE" | |
| 48 | The | |
| b4692225 | 49 | .BR pause () |
| fea681da | 50 | function only returns when a signal was caught and the |
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51 | signal-catching function returned. |
| 52 | In this case | |
| b4692225 | 53 | .BR pause () |
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54 | returns \-1, and |
| 55 | .I errno | |
| 56 | is set to | |
| 57 | .\" .BR ERESTARTNOHAND . | |
| 58 | .BR EINTR . | |
| 59 | .SH ERRORS | |
| 60 | .TP | |
| 61 | .B EINTR | |
| 62 | a signal was caught and the signal-catching function returned. | |
| 63 | .SH "CONFORMING TO" | |
| 97c1eac8 | 64 | SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001. |
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65 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| 66 | .BR kill (2), | |
| 67 | .BR select (2), | |
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68 | .BR signal (2), |
| 69 | .BR sigsuspend (2). |