Pause(2)                  Oct. 1, 1991                   Pause(2)



NAME
     Pause - suspend process until a signal is received

SYNOPSIS
     void Pause();

DESCRIPTION
     Pause causes the calling process to go to sleep until a sig-
     nal  that  is  not being ignored or masked is received. If a
     signal handler has been established for that signal with the
     Psignal  system  call,  then  the  handler is invoked before
     Pause returns; if the handler does a longjmp to a  different
     point  in  the  program,  if it exits the program, or if the
     signal handler was set to SIG_DFL and the default action for
     the  signal  is  to  terminate  the process, then Pause will
     never return.

SEE ALSO
     Psigblock(2), Psignal(2), Psigsetmask(2)

BUGS
     There really should be a Psigpause system call that sets the
     signal  mask  and  pauses atomically; as it stands now, many
     programs may face a race condition whereby  a  signal  could
     arrive  between the time it's unmasked and the time Pause is
     called.





























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