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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 | .\" | |
79e6b3c8 | 5 | .\" @(#)pause.3 6.3 (Berkeley) %G% |
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e3800388 | 7 | .TH PAUSE 3 "" |
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8 | .UC 4 |
9 | .SH NAME | |
10 | pause \- stop until signal | |
11 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
12 | .B pause() | |
13 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
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14 | .ft B |
15 | Pause is made obsolete by sigpause(3). | |
16 | .ft R | |
17 | .PP | |
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18 | .I Pause |
19 | never returns normally. | |
20 | It is used to give up control while waiting for | |
21 | a signal from | |
22 | .IR kill (2) | |
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23 | or an interval timer, see |
24 | .IR setitimer (2). | |
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25 | Upon termination of a signal handler started during a |
26 | .I pause, | |
27 | the | |
28 | .I pause | |
29 | call will return. | |
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30 | .SH "RETURN VALUE |
31 | Always returns \-1. | |
32 | .SH ERRORS | |
33 | .I Pause | |
34 | always returns: | |
35 | .TP 15 | |
36 | [EINTR] | |
37 | The call was interrupted. | |
38 | .SH "SEE ALSO | |
39 | kill(2), select(2), sigpause(2) |