pause(2) vs. sigpause(3)

Blair P. Houghton bhoughto at cmdnfs.intel.com
Wed Oct 31 12:22:14 AEST 1990


Is there a difference between `pause()' and `sigpause(0)'?

I can't see one.

Why obsoleted a perfectly simple system call with a
library function?

(BTW, neither of them is ANSI C; I don't know which might
be in POSIX).

				--Blair
				  "Golly.  Another one.  But then,
				   nobody ever answered my first..."



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