| SYD-PAUSE(1) | General Commands Manual | SYD-PAUSE(1) |
syd-pause - Block forever (until signaled), optionally ignoring selected signals
syd-pause [ -t ] [ -h ] [ -a ] [ -q ] [ -b ] [ -i ] [ -p signals ]
syd-pause is a tiny, long-lived process that simply waits until it is terminated by a signal. By default, it honors all standard termination signals; options allow you to ignore specific signals so the process continues running when they are delivered. This is useful as a minimal placeholder, supervisor target, or synchronization sentinel in service pipelines and sandboxes.
| --help | Display help. |
| -t | Ignore SIGTERM. |
| -h | Ignore SIGHUP. |
| -a | Ignore SIGALRM. |
| -q | Ignore SIGQUIT. |
| -b | Ignore SIGABRT. |
| -i | Ignore SIGINT. |
| -p signals | Ignore the comma-separated list of signal numbers given in signals (e.g. -p 1,2,3,15). |
| Numbers must be valid per signal(7). This flag can be combined with the short flags above. |
On normal termination by a signal, syd-pause exits 0. On errors syd-pause exits with the corresponding errno(3) value.
syd(1), syd(2), syd(5), syd-ofd(1), s6-pause(1), pause(2)
Maintained by Ali Polatel. Up-to-date sources can be found at https://gitlab.exherbo.org/sydbox/sydbox.git and bugs/patches can be submitted to https://gitlab.exherbo.org/groups/sydbox/-/issues. Discuss in #sydbox on Libera Chat or in #sydbox:mailstation.de on Matrix.
| 2025-11-14 |