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+.\" 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)