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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1992 Drew Eckhardt (drew@cs.colorado.edu), March 28, 1992 |
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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 | |
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| 460495ca | 30 | .TH PAUSE 2 2015-08-08 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" |
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31 | .SH NAME |
| 32 | pause \- wait for signal | |
| 33 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 34 | .B #include <unistd.h> | |
| 68e4db0a | 35 | .PP |
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36 | .B int pause(void); |
| 37 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| e511ffb6 | 38 | .BR pause () |
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39 | causes the calling process (or thread) to sleep |
| 40 | until a signal is delivered that either terminates the process or causes | |
| 41 | the invocation of a signal-catching function. | |
| 47297adb | 42 | .SH RETURN VALUE |
| b4692225 | 43 | .BR pause () |
| 33a0ccb2 | 44 | returns only when a signal was caught and the |
| c13182ef | 45 | signal-catching function returned. |
| 0bcb60ff | 46 | In this case, |
| b4692225 | 47 | .BR pause () |
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48 | returns \-1, and |
| 49 | .I errno | |
| 50 | is set to | |
| 51 | .\" .BR ERESTARTNOHAND . | |
| 52 | .BR EINTR . | |
| 53 | .SH ERRORS | |
| 54 | .TP | |
| 55 | .B EINTR | |
| 56 | a signal was caught and the signal-catching function returned. | |
| 47297adb | 57 | .SH CONFORMING TO |
| 497f6bc7 | 58 | POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, SVr4, 4.3BSD. |
| 47297adb | 59 | .SH SEE ALSO |
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60 | .BR kill (2), |
| 61 | .BR select (2), | |
| b4692225 | 62 | .BR signal (2), |
| ccd2b351 | 63 | .BR sigsuspend (2) |