SIGPAUSE

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (2)
Updated: 24 July 1993
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NAME

sigpause - atomically release blocked signals and wait for interrupt  

SYNOPSIS

#include <signal.h>

int sigpause(int sigmask );  

DESCRIPTION

This interface is made obsolete by sigsuspend(2).

Sigpause assigns sigmask to the set of masked signals and then waits for a signal to arrive; on return the set of masked signals is restored. Sigmask is usually 0 to indicate that no signals are to be blocked. Sigpause always terminates by being interrupted, returning -1 with errno set to EINTR  

HISTORY

The sigpause function call appeared in BSD 4.3 and has been deprecated.  

SEE ALSO

sigsuspend(2), kill(2), sigaction(2), sigprocmask(2), sigblock(2), sigvec(2)


 

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