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| [9] | 1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
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| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement
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| 3 | .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
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| 4 | .\"
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| 5 | .\" @(#)pause.3c 6.1 (Berkeley) 5/9/85
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| 6 | .\"
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| 7 | .TH PAUSE 2 "May 9, 1985"
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| 8 | .UC 4
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| 9 | .SH NAME
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| 10 | pause \- stop until signal
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| 11 | .SH SYNOPSIS
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| 12 | .nf
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| 13 | .ft B
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| 14 | #include <unistd.h>
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| 15 |
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| 16 | int pause(void)
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| 17 | .ft R
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| 18 | .fi
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| 19 | .SH DESCRIPTION
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| 20 | .B Pause
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| 21 | never returns normally.
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| 22 | It is used to give up control while waiting for
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| 23 | a signal from
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| 24 | .BR kill (2)
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| 25 | or the alarm timer, see
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| 26 | .BR alarm (2).
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| 27 | Upon termination of a signal handler started during a
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| 28 | .B pause,
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| 29 | the
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| 30 | .B pause
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| 31 | call will return.
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| 32 | .SH "RETURN VALUE
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| 33 | Always returns \-1.
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| 34 | .SH ERRORS
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| 35 | .B Pause
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| 36 | always returns:
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| 37 | .TP 15
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| 38 | [EINTR]
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| 39 | The call was interrupted.
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| 40 | .SH "SEE ALSO
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| 41 | .BR alarm (2),
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| 42 | .BR kill (2),
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| 43 | .BR sigsuspend (2).
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