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diff --git a/man2/pause.2 b/man2/pause.2 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..494528832 --- /dev/null +++ b/man2/pause.2 @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +.\" Hey Emacs! This file is -*- nroff -*- source. +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1992 Drew Eckhardt (drew@cs.colorado.edu), March 28, 1992 +.\" +.\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this +.\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are +.\" preserved on all copies. +.\" +.\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this +.\" manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the +.\" entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a +.\" permission notice identical to this one. +.\" +.\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this +.\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no +.\" responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from +.\" the use of the information contained herein. The author(s) may not +.\" have taken the same level of care in the production of this manual, +.\" which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working +.\" professionally. +.\" +.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by +.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. +.\" +.\" 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 1995-08-31 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +pause \- wait for signal +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B #include <unistd.h> +.sp +.B int pause(void); +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.B pause +library function causes the invoking process (or thread) to sleep +until a signal is received that either terminates it or causes it +to call a signal-catching function. +.\" The +.\" .B pause +.\" system call causes the invoking process to sleep until a signal +.\" is received. +.SH "RETURN VALUE" +The +.B pause +function only returns when a signal was caught and the +signal-catching function returned. In this case +.B 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 "CONFORMING TO" +SVr4, SVID, POSIX, X/OPEN, BSD 4.3 +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR kill (2), +.BR select (2), +.BR signal (2) |