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1.1       root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
                      2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
                      3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
                      4: .\"
                      5: .\"    @(#)pause.3c    6.1 (Berkeley) 5/9/85
                      6: .\"
                      7: .TH PAUSE 3C "May 9, 1985"
                      8: .UC 4
                      9: .SH NAME
                     10: pause \- stop until signal
                     11: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     12: .B pause()
                     13: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     14: .I Pause
                     15: never returns normally.
                     16: It is used to give up control while waiting for
                     17: a signal from
                     18: .IR kill (2)
                     19: or an interval timer, see
                     20: .IR setitimer (2).
                     21: Upon termination of a signal handler started during a
                     22: .I pause,
                     23: the
                     24: .I pause
                     25: call will return.
                     26: .SH "RETURN VALUE
                     27: Always returns \-1.
                     28: .SH ERRORS
                     29: .I Pause
                     30: always returns:
                     31: .TP 15
                     32: [EINTR]
                     33: The call was interrupted.
                     34: .SH "SEE ALSO
                     35: kill(2), select(2), sigpause(2)

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