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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2007-04-12 22:42:49 +0000
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2007-04-12 22:42:49 +0000
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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
.\" manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the
.\" entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
.\" permission notice identical to this one.
-.\"
+.\"
.\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this
.\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no
.\" responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
.\" have taken the same level of care in the production of this manual,
.\" which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working
.\" professionally.
-.\"
+.\"
.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
.\"
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ sigpause \- atomically release blocked signals and wait for interrupt
.BI "int sigpause(int " sig "); /* System V / Unix95 */"
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
-Don't use this function. Use
+Don't use this function.
+Use
.BR sigsuspend (2)
instead.
.LP
@@ -64,11 +65,12 @@ same name was solved by the
.BR \%sigsuspend (2)
function, that takes a
.I "sigset_t *"
-parameter (instead of an
+parameter (instead of an
.IR int ).
.LP
On Linux, this routine is a system call only on the Sparc (sparc64)
-architecture. Libc4 and libc5 only know about the BSD version.
+architecture.
+Libc4 and libc5 only know about the BSD version.
Glibc uses the BSD version unless _XOPEN_SOURCE is defined.
.\" .SH NOTE
.\" For the BSD version, one usually uses a zero