pause(2) System Calls Manual pause(2) NAME pause - wait for signal LIBRARY Standard C library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS #include 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 invocation 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. STANDARDS POSIX.1-2008. HISTORY POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.3BSD. SEE ALSO kill(2), select(2), signal(2), sigsuspend(2) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 pause(2)