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SIGPAUSE(2)						      BSD System Calls Manual						       SIGPAUSE(2)

NAME
sigpause -- atomically release blocked signals and wait for interrupt
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <signal.h> int sigpause(int sig);
DESCRIPTION
This interface is made obsolete by sigsuspend(2). Sigpause() assigns sig to the set of masked signals and then waits for a signal to arrive; on return the set of masked signals is restored. Sig is usually 0, indicating that no signals are to be blocked. Sigpause() always terminates by being interrupted, returning -1 with errno set to EINTR.
COMPATIBILITY
sigpause() now takes a signal value and not a mask. This often appears as a hang in sigpause$UNIX2003 or with sigpause() returning with errno set to EINVAL. Use sigsuspend() with signal masks.
SEE ALSO
kill(2), sigaction(2), sigblock(2), sigprocmask(2), sigsuspend(2), sigvec(2)
HISTORY
The sigpause() function call appeared in 4.2BSD and has been deprecated.
BSD
June 2, 1993 BSD
Related Man Pages
sigpause(3) - centos
sigpause(3) - suse
sigblock(3ucb) - sunos
sigmask(3ucb) - sunos
sigpause(3) - v7
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