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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1992 Drew Eckhardt (drew@cs.colorado.edu), March 28, 1992 |
| 2 | .\" | |
| 5fbde956 | 3 | .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft |
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4 | .\" |
| 5 | .\" Modified by Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de) | |
| 6 | .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 14:48:00 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) | |
| 7 | .\" Modified 1995 by Mike Battersby (mib@deakin.edu.au) | |
| 8 | .\" Modified 2000 by aeb, following Michael Kerrisk | |
| 9 | .\" | |
| 45186a5d | 10 | .TH PAUSE 2 2021-03-22 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" |
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11 | .SH NAME |
| 12 | pause \- wait for signal | |
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13 | .SH LIBRARY |
| 14 | Standard C library | |
| 8fc3b2cf | 15 | .RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) |
| fea681da | 16 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| c7db92b9 | 17 | .nf |
| fea681da | 18 | .B #include <unistd.h> |
| 68e4db0a | 19 | .PP |
| fea681da | 20 | .B int pause(void); |
| c7db92b9 | 21 | .fi |
| fea681da | 22 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| e511ffb6 | 23 | .BR pause () |
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24 | causes the calling process (or thread) to sleep |
| 25 | until a signal is delivered that either terminates the process or causes | |
| 26 | the invocation of a signal-catching function. | |
| 47297adb | 27 | .SH RETURN VALUE |
| b4692225 | 28 | .BR pause () |
| 33a0ccb2 | 29 | returns only when a signal was caught and the |
| c13182ef | 30 | signal-catching function returned. |
| 0bcb60ff | 31 | In this case, |
| b4692225 | 32 | .BR pause () |
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33 | returns \-1, and |
| 34 | .I errno | |
| 35 | is set to | |
| 36 | .\" .BR ERESTARTNOHAND . | |
| 37 | .BR EINTR . | |
| 38 | .SH ERRORS | |
| 39 | .TP | |
| 40 | .B EINTR | |
| 41 | a signal was caught and the signal-catching function returned. | |
| 3113c7f3 | 42 | .SH STANDARDS |
| 497f6bc7 | 43 | POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, SVr4, 4.3BSD. |
| 47297adb | 44 | .SH SEE ALSO |
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45 | .BR kill (2), |
| 46 | .BR select (2), | |
| b4692225 | 47 | .BR signal (2), |
| ccd2b351 | 48 | .BR sigsuspend (2) |