PAUSE(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						  PAUSE(3)

NAME
pause -- stop until signal LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc) 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 always returns: [EINTR] The call was interrupted. SEE ALSO
kill(2), poll(2), select(2), setitimer(2), sigsuspend(2) STANDARDS
The pause() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990 (``POSIX.1''). HISTORY
A pause() syscall appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX. BSD
June 4, 1993 BSD