NAME
sigpause - atomically release blocked signals and wait for
interrupt
SYNOPSIS
sigpause(sigmask)
int sigmask;
DESCRIPTION
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
now to be blocked. Sigpause always terminates by being
interrupted, returning -1 with errno set to EINTR.
In normal usage, a signal is
blocked using sigblock(2), to begin a
critical section, variables modified on the occurrence of
the
signal are examined to determine that there is no work to be
done,
and the process pauses awaiting work by using sigpause with
the
mask returned by sigblock.
SEE ALSO
sigblock(2), sigvec(2)