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NAME
       pause - wait for signal


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.


CONFORMING TO
       SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.


SEE ALSO
       kill(2), select(2), signal(2), sigsuspend(2)


COLOPHON
       This  page  is  part  of  release 3.54 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, and
       information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.