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PAUSE(3)		     Library Functions Manual			PAUSE(3)

NAME
     pause -- stop until signal

LIBRARY
     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <unistd.h>

     int
     pause(void);

DESCRIPTION
     Pause is made obsolete by sigsuspend(2).

     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), select(2), sigsuspend(2)

HISTORY
     A	pause()  system  call  first  appeared	in  the  Programmer's  Workbench
     (PWB/UNIX) and was then ported to Version 7 AT&T  UNIX.   It  was	reimple-
     mented  as  a  wrapper around the sigpause() and sigblock() system calls in
     4.2BSD, and around the sigsuspend(2) and  sigprocmask(2)  system  calls  in
     4.3BSD-Reno.

FreeBSD ports 15.quarterly	  April 3, 2022 			PAUSE(3)

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