Name
pause - wait for signalLibrary
Standard C library ( libc ", " -lc )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() 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
EINTR a signal was caught and the signal-catching function returned.
Standards
POSIX.1-2008.History
POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.3BSD.See Also
- kill(2),
- select(2),
- signal(2),
- sigsuspend(2)