PAUSE(2)                             SysV                             PAUSE(2)



NAME
     pause - suspend process until signal

SYNOPSIS
     pause ()

DESCRIPTION
     pause suspends the calling process until it receives a signal whose
     action is to terminate the process on one that has an associated signal
     handler. Signals that are ignored by the process have no effect.

DIAGNOSTICS
     If the signal causes termination of the calling process, pause will not
     return.

     If the signal is caught by the calling process and control is returned
     from the signal-catching function (see signal(2)), the calling process
     resumes execution from the point of suspension - with a return value of
     -1 from pause and errno set to EINTR.

ERRORS
     The pause function fails if:

     [EINTR]   The signal is caught by the calling process and control is
               returned from the signal-catching function.

SEE ALSO
     alarm(2), kill(2), signal(2), sigpause(2), wait(2).