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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 re-
       ceived 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 reim-
       plemeted	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	14.3			 April 3, 2022			      PAUSE(3)

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