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@(#)pause.3 6.2 (Berkeley) 04/10/89
PAUSE 3 ""
C 4 NAME
pause - stop until signal
SYNOPSIS
pause() DESCRIPTION
Pause is made obsolete by sigpause(3).
Pause never returns normally. It is used to give up control while waiting for a signal from kill (2) or an interval timer, see setitimer (2). Upon termination of a signal handler started during a pause, the pause call will return.
"RETURN VALUE
Always returns -1.
ERRORS
Pause always returns:
15 [EINTR] The call was interrupted.
"SEE ALSO
kill(2), select(2), sigpause(2)