SIGPAUSE
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BSD 4
NAME
sigpause
- atomically release blocked signals and wait for interrupt
SYNOPSIS
Fd #include <signal.h>
Ft int
Fn sigpause int sigmask
DESCRIPTION
This interface is made obsolete by
sigsuspend(2).
Fn Sigpause
assigns
Fa sigmask
to the set of masked signals
and then waits for a signal to arrive;
on return the set of masked signals is restored.
Fa Sigmask
is usually 0 to indicate that no
signals are to be blocked.
Fn Sigpause
always terminates by being interrupted, returning -1 with
errno
set to
EINTR
SEE ALSO
sigsuspend(2),
kill(2),
sigaction(2),
sigprocmask(2),
sigblock(2),
sigvec(3)
HISTORY
The
Fn sigpause
function call appeared in
BSD 4.2
and has been deprecated.
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