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.\" $OpenBSD: sigpause.3,v 1.14 2013/07/17 05:42:10 schwarze Exp $
.\"
.Dd $Mdocdate: July 17 2013 $
.Dt SIGPAUSE 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm sigpause
.Nd atomically release blocked signals and wait for interrupt
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In signal.h
.Ft int
.Fn sigpause "int sigmask"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Sy This interface is made obsolete by
.Xr sigsuspend 2 .
.Pp
.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
.Va errno
set to
.Er EINTR .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr kill 2 ,
.Xr sigaction 2 ,
.Xr sigprocmask 2 ,
.Xr sigsuspend 2 ,
.Xr sigblock 3 ,
.Xr sigvec 3
.Sh HISTORY
A
.Fn sigpause
system call first appeared in
.Bx 4.2 .
In
.Bx 4.3 Reno ,
it was reimplemented as a wrapper around
.Xr sigsuspend 2 .
The old system call was kept for compatibility until
.Ox 4.9 .
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