PAUSE(3) | Library Functions Manual | PAUSE(3) |
pause
— stop until
signal
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
#include
<unistd.h>
int
pause
(void);
Pause is made obsolete by sigsuspend(2).
The
pause
()
function causes the calling thread 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.
Always returns -1.
The pause
() function always returns:
EINTR
]A pause
() syscall appeared in
Version 6 AT&T UNIX.
June 4, 1993 | macOS 14.6 |