PAUSE(2)                                            Linux Programmer's Manual                                           PAUSE(2)



NAME
       pause - wait for signal

SYNOPSIS
       #include <unistd.h>

       int pause(void);

DESCRIPTION
       pause() causes the calling process (or thread) to sleep until a signal is delivered that either terminates the process or
       causes the invocation of a signal-catching function.

RETURN VALUE
       pause() only returns when a signal was caught and the signal-catching function returned.  In this  case  pause()  returns
       -1, and errno is set to EINTR.

ERRORS
       EINTR  a signal was caught and the signal-catching function returned.

CONFORMING TO
       SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.

SEE ALSO
       kill(2), select(2), signal(2), sigsuspend(2)

COLOPHON
       This  page  is  part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, and information about
       reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



Linux                                                      2008-10-06                                                   PAUSE(2)