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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement | |
| 3 | .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. | |
| 4 | .\" | |
| 5 | .\" @(#)sigpause.2 4.1 (Berkeley) %G% | |
| 6 | .\" | |
| 7 | .TH PAUSE 2 | |
| 8 | .UC 4 | |
| 9 | .SH NAME | |
| 10 | pause \- stop until signal | |
| 11 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 12 | .B pause() | |
| 13 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 14 | .I Pause | |
| 15 | never returns normally. | |
| 16 | It is used to give up control while waiting for | |
| 17 | a signal from | |
| 18 | .IR kill (2) | |
| 19 | or | |
| 20 | .IR alarm (2). | |
| 21 | Upon termination of a signal handler started during a | |
| 22 | .I pause, | |
| 23 | the | |
| 24 | .I pause | |
| 25 | call will return. | |
| 26 | .SH SEE ALSO | |
| 27 | kill(1), kill(2), alarm(2), sigsys(2), signal(2), sigset(3), setjmp(3) | |
| 28 | .SH "ASSEMBLER (PDP-11)" | |
| 29 | (pause = 29.) | |
| 30 | .br | |
| 31 | .B sys pause |