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PAUSE(3)		  OpenBSD Programmer's Manual		      PAUSE(3)

NAME
     pause - stop until signal

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 received
     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 may set the global variable errno to the following
     error:

     [EINTR]	   The call was interrupted.

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

HISTORY
     A pause() system call appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.

OpenBSD 4.9			 May 31, 2007			   OpenBSD 4.9

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