pause

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



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 sig-
       nal-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, SVID, POSIX, X/OPEN, BSD 4.3

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



Linux				  1995-08-31			     PAUSE(2)