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SIGPAUSE(2)		 DragonFly System Calls Manual		   SIGPAUSE(2)

NAME
     sigpause -- atomically release blocked signals and wait for interrupt

LIBRARY
     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <signal.h>

     int
     sigpause(int sigmask);

DESCRIPTION
     This interface is made obsolete by sigsuspend(2).

     The sigpause() function 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.	The sigmask argument is usually 0 to indicate that no signals
     are to be blocked.  The sigpause() function always terminates by being
     interrupted, returning -1 with errno set to EINTR

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

HISTORY
     The sigpause() function appeared in 4.2BSD and has been deprecated.

DragonFly 4.7			 June 2, 1993			 DragonFly 4.7