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<html> <head> <title>pause</title> <META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="pause"> </head> <body BGCOLOR="#ffffff" LINK="#0000ff" VLINK="#0000ff" ALINK="#0000ff" TEXT="#000000"> <center> <h1><b>pause</b></h1></center> <PRE> <STRONG><A HREF="/man2/PAUSE">PAUSE(2)</A></STRONG> Linux Programmer's Manual <STRONG><A HREF="/man2/PAUSE">PAUSE(2)</A></STRONG> NAME pause - wait for signal SYNOPSIS #include <unistd.h> int pause(void); DESCRIPTION pause() causes the calling process (or thread) to sleep until a signal is delivered that either terminates the process or causes the invoca- tion of a signal-catching function. RETURN VALUE pause() returns only when a signal was caught and the signal-catching function returned. In this case, pause() returns -1, and errno is set to EINTR. ERRORS EINTR a signal was caught and the signal-catching function returned. CONFORMING TO POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, SVr4, 4.3BSD. SEE ALSO <STRONG><A HREF="/man2/kill">kill(2)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="/man2/select">select(2)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="/man2/signal">signal(2)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="/man2/sigsuspend">sigsuspend(2)</A></STRONG> COLOPHON This page is part of release 5.05 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. Linux 2015-08-08 <STRONG><A HREF="/man2/PAUSE">PAUSE(2)</A></STRONG></PRE> <center> <h6>Man Pages Copyright Respective Owners. Site Copyright (C) 1994 - 2025 <a href="http://www.he.net">Hurricane Electric</a>. All Rights Reserved.</h6></center> </body> </html>