NAME¶

pause - wait for signal

LIBRARY¶

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)