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32.\" @(#)pause.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
33.\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/gen/pause.3,v 1.8 2001/10/01 16:08:51 ru Exp $
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35.Dd June 4, 1993
36.Dt PAUSE 3
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm pause
40.Nd stop until signal
41.Sh LIBRARY
42.Lb libc
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.In unistd.h
45.Ft int
46.Fn pause void
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48.Sy Pause is made obsolete by
49.Xr sigsuspend 2 .
50.Pp
51The
52.Fn pause
53function
54forces a process to pause until
55a signal is received from either the
56.Xr kill 2
57function
58or an interval timer.
59(See
60.Xr setitimer 2 . )
61Upon termination of a signal handler started during a
62.Fn pause ,
63the
64.Fn pause
65call will return.
66.Sh RETURN VALUES
67Always returns \-1.
68.Sh ERRORS
69The
70.Fn pause
71function
72always returns:
73.Bl -tag -width Er
74.It Bq Er EINTR
75The call was interrupted.
76.El
77.Sh SEE ALSO
78.Xr kill 2 ,
79.Xr select 2 ,
80.Xr sigsuspend 2
81.Sh HISTORY
82A
83.Fn pause
84syscall
85appeared in
86.At v6 .