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NAME

       pause - suspend a process until a signal arrives.

SYNOPSIS

       #include <unistd.h>

       int pause (void);

DESCRIPTION

       This function is obsoleted by sigpause(2).

       The  pause function forces a process to pause until any signal arrives.
       Upon termination of a signal handler started during a pause, the  pause
       call will return.

RETURN VALUES

       Always returns -1.

ERRORS

       The pause function always returns:

              EINTR  The call was interrupted.

SEE ALSO

       kill(2), select(2), sigpause(2)

HISTORY

       A pause syscall appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.



GNO                             29 January 1997                       PAUSE(3)