SIGPAUSE(3POSIX)

🦋 SIGPAUSE(3POSIX) — bestie edition 🦋

okay so this little cutie lives in the POSIX Programmer's Manual, and honestly? she's short but she's important. Let's get into it 💅

✨ PROLOG ✨

Real talk first, bestie, because this part matters:

• This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.
• The Linux implementation of this interface may differ — so if you're on Linux, go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the actual deets, fr fr.
• ...or the interface may not be implemented on Linux at all. Yeah. It's giving "check before you commit." 🙈

👑 NAME 👑

sigpause — remove a signal from the signal mask and suspend the thread

like... she unmasks a signal and then puts your thread to sleep. main character energy, honestly. 😴✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <signal.h>

int sigpause(int sig);

one function, one int argument, no notes. iconic. 🎀

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Refer to sighold().

that's it. that's the whole description. she's not gonna repeat herself, and honestly? respect. go read sighold() bestie, it's all over there. 🫶

💀 COPYRIGHT 💀

Okay so this is the "don't sue us" section, and we're keeping every word because that's just how it is:

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.

In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. (so if there's beef, the original wins, no cap.)

The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

and that's the whole page, babes — short, sweet, and she said what she said. 💜

IEEE/The Open Group — 2017 — SIGPAUSE(3POSIX) ✨ that's the source, the version, and the date, all wrapped up with a bow. bye bestie, go read sighold() 🎀🦋