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| | 28 | .\" @(#)pause.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 |
| | 29 | .\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/gen/pause.3,v 1.9 2007/01/09 00:27:54 imp Exp $ |
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| | 31 | .Dd June 4, 1993 |
| | 32 | .Dt PAUSE 3 |
| | 33 | .Os |
| | 34 | .Sh NAME |
| | 35 | .Nm pause |
| | 36 | .Nd stop until signal |
| | 37 | .Sh LIBRARY |
| | 38 | .Lb libc |
| | 39 | .Sh SYNOPSIS |
| | 40 | .In unistd.h |
| | 41 | .Ft int |
| | 42 | .Fn pause void |
| | 43 | .Sh DESCRIPTION |
| | 44 | .Sy Pause is made obsolete by |
| | 45 | .Xr sigsuspend 2 . |
| | 46 | .Pp |
| | 47 | The |
| | 48 | .Fn pause |
| | 49 | function |
| | 50 | forces a process to pause until |
| | 51 | a signal is received from either the |
| | 52 | .Xr kill 2 |
| | 53 | function |
| | 54 | or an interval timer. |
| | 55 | (See |
| | 56 | .Xr setitimer 2 . ) |
| | 57 | Upon termination of a signal handler started during a |
| | 58 | .Fn pause , |
| | 59 | the |
| | 60 | .Fn pause |
| | 61 | call will return. |
| | 62 | .Sh RETURN VALUES |
| | 63 | Always returns \-1. |
| | 64 | .Sh ERRORS |
| | 65 | The |
| | 66 | .Fn pause |
| | 67 | function |
| | 68 | always returns: |
| | 69 | .Bl -tag -width Er |
| | 70 | .It Bq Er EINTR |
| | 71 | The call was interrupted. |
| | 72 | .El |
| | 73 | .Sh SEE ALSO |
| | 74 | .Xr kill 2 , |
| | 75 | .Xr select 2 , |
| | 76 | .Xr sigsuspend 2 |
| | 77 | .Sh HISTORY |
| | 78 | A |
| | 79 | .Fn pause |
| | 80 | syscall |
| | 81 | appeared in |
| | 82 | .At v6 . |
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