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diff --git a/usr/src/lib/libc/gen/pause.3 b/usr/src/lib/libc/gen/pause.3
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--- a/usr/src/lib/libc/gen/pause.3
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@@ -2,30 +2,38 @@
 .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
 .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
 .\"
 .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
 .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
 .\"

-.\"    @(#)pause.3     4.1 (Berkeley) %G%
+.\"    @(#)pause.3     6.2 (Berkeley) 4/10/89

 .\"
 .\"

-.TH PAUSE 2 
+.TH PAUSE 3 "April 10, 1989"

 .UC 4
 .SH NAME
 pause \- stop until signal
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B pause()
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .UC 4
 .SH NAME
 pause \- stop until signal
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B pause()
 .SH DESCRIPTION

+.ft B
+Pause is made obsolete by sigpause(3).
+.ft R
+.PP

 .I Pause
 never returns normally.
 It is used to give up control while waiting for
 a signal from
 .IR kill (2)
 .I Pause
 never returns normally.
 It is used to give up control while waiting for
 a signal from
 .IR kill (2)

-or
-.IR alarm (2).
+or an interval timer, see
+.IR setitimer (2).

 Upon termination of a signal handler started during a
 .I pause,
 the
 .I pause
 call will return.
 Upon termination of a signal handler started during a
 .I pause,
 the
 .I pause
 call will return.

-.SH SEE ALSO
-kill(1), kill(2), alarm(2), sigsys(2), signal(2), sigset(3), setjmp(3)
-.SH "ASSEMBLER (PDP-11)"
-(pause = 29.)
-.br
-.B sys pause
+.SH "RETURN VALUE
+Always returns \-1.
+.SH ERRORS
+.I Pause
+always returns:
+.TP 15
+[EINTR]
+The call was interrupted.
+.SH "SEE ALSO
+kill(2), select(2), sigpause(2)