PAUSE(3) Library Functions Manual PAUSE(3) NAME pause — stop until signal LIBRARY Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS #include <unistd.h> int pause(void); DESCRIPTION Pause is made obsolete by sigsuspend(2). The pause() function forces a process to pause until a signal is received from either the kill(2) function or an interval timer. (See setitimer(2).) Upon termination of a signal handler started during a pause(), the pause() call will return. RETURN VALUES Always returns -1. ERRORS The pause() function always returns: [EINTR] The call was interrupted. SEE ALSO kill(2), select(2), sigsuspend(2) HISTORY A pause() syscall appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX. June 4, 1993