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diff --git a/man2/pause.2 b/man2/pause.2 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0e7bbcd --- /dev/null +++ b/man2/pause.2 @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1992 Drew Eckhardt (drew@cs.colorado.edu), March 28, 1992 +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.\" Modified by Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de) +.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 14:48:00 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.\" Modified 1995 by Mike Battersby (mib@deakin.edu.au) +.\" Modified 2000 by aeb, following Michael Kerrisk +.\" +.TH pause 2 2023-03-30 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +pause \- wait for signal +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <unistd.h> +.PP +.B int pause(void); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +.BR pause () +causes the calling process (or thread) to sleep +until a signal is delivered that either terminates the process or causes +the invocation of a signal-catching function. +.SH RETURN VALUE +.BR pause () +returns only when a signal was caught and the +signal-catching function returned. +In this case, +.BR pause () +returns \-1, and +.I errno +is set to +.\" .BR ERESTARTNOHAND . +.BR EINTR . +.SH ERRORS +.TP +.B EINTR +a signal was caught and the signal-catching function returned. +.SH STANDARDS +POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.3BSD. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR kill (2), +.BR select (2), +.BR signal (2), +.BR sigsuspend (2) |