1.\" $NetBSD: pause.3,v 1.7 1997/05/16 16:03:53 kleink Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 15.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 16.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 17.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 18.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 19.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 20.\" without specific prior written permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 23.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 24.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 25.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" @(#)pause.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 35.\" 36.Dd June 4, 1993 37.Dt PAUSE 3 38.Os BSD 4 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm pause 41.Nd stop until signal 42.Sh SYNOPSIS 43.Fd #include <unistd.h> 44.Ft int 45.Fn pause void 46.Sh DESCRIPTION 47.Bf -symbolic 48Pause is made obsolete by sigsuspend(2). 49.Ef 50.Pp 51The 52.Fn pause 53function 54forces a process to pause until 55a signal is received from either the 56.Xr kill 2 57function 58or an interval timer. 59(See 60.Xr setitimer 2 . ) 61Upon termination of a signal handler started during a 62.Fn pause , 63the 64.Fn pause 65call will return. 66.Sh RETURN VALUES 67Always returns \-1. 68.Sh ERRORS 69The 70.Fn pause 71function 72always returns: 73.Bl -tag -width Er 74.It Bq Er EINTR 75The call was interrupted. 76.El 77.Sh SEE ALSO 78.Xr kill 2 , 79.Xr select 2 , 80.Xr setitimer 2 , 81.Xr sigsuspend 2 82.Sh STANDARDS 83The 84.Fn pause 85function conforms to 86.St -p1003.1-90 . 87.Sh HISTORY 88A 89.Fn pause 90syscall 91appeared in 92.At v6 . 93