1 .\" Copyright (c) 1992 Drew Eckhardt (drew@cs.colorado.edu), March 28, 1992
3 .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft
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
10 .TH PAUSE 2 2021-03-22 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
12 pause \- wait for signal
15 .RI ( libc ", " \-lc )
18 .B #include <unistd.h>
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.
29 returns only when a signal was caught and the
30 signal-catching function returned.
36 .\" .BR ERESTARTNOHAND .
41 a signal was caught and the signal-catching function returned.
43 POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, SVr4, 4.3BSD.