pause(2) — Linux manual page

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pause(2)                   System Calls Manual                  pause(2)

NAME top

       pause - wait for signal

LIBRARY top

       Standard C library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS top

       #include <unistd.h>

       int pause(void);

DESCRIPTION top

       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 top

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

ERRORS top

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

STANDARDS top

       POSIX.1-2008.

HISTORY top

       POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.3BSD.

SEE ALSO top

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

Linux man-pages 6.04           2023-03-30                       pause(2)

Pages that refer to this page: pmsleep(1), alarm(2), ptrace(2), sigaction(2), signal(2), sigprocmask(2), sigsuspend(2), syscalls(2), wait(2), sigset(3), sigvec(3), signal(7), signal-safety(7)