pause(2) - Linux man page

Name

pause - wait for signal

Synopsis

#include <unistd.h>

int pause(void);

Description

The pause() library function causes the invoking process (or thread) to sleep until a signal is received that either terminates it or causes it to call a signal-catching function.

Return Value

The pause() function 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).

Referenced By

alarm(2), sigaction(2), sigprocmask(2), sigset(3), sigvec(3), syscalls(2), wait(2)