NAME

pause — stop until signal

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

#include <unistd.h>

int
pause(void);

DESCRIPTION

The pause() function forces a process to pause until a signal is received from either the kill(2) function or an interval timer. (See setitimer(2).) Upon termination of a signal handler started during a pause(), the pause() call will return.

RETURN VALUES

Always returns -1.

ERRORS

The pause() function always returns:

[EINTR]

The call was interrupted.

SEE ALSO

kill(2), poll(2), select(2), setitimer(2), sigsuspend(2)

STANDARDS

The pause() function conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-1990 (“POSIX.1”).

HISTORY

A pause() syscall appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.