1PAUSE(2)                   Linux Programmer's Manual                  PAUSE(2)
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NAME

6       pause - wait for signal
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SYNOPSIS

9       #include <unistd.h>
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11       int pause(void);
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DESCRIPTION

14       pause()  causes the calling process (or thread) to sleep until a signal
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RETURN VALUE

19       pause()  only  returns when a signal was caught and the signal-catching
20       function returned.  In this case pause() returns -1, and errno  is  set
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ERRORS

24       EINTR  a signal was caught and the signal-catching function returned.
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CONFORMING TO

27       SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
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SEE ALSO

30       kill(2), select(2), signal(2), sigsuspend(2)
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COLOPHON

33       This  page  is  part of release 3.22 of the Linux man-pages project.  A
34       description of the project, and information about reporting  bugs,  can
35       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
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