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pause.2: Small rewordings of DESCRIPTION. 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.\" Modified 1995 by Mike Battersby (mib@deakin.edu.au)
.\" Modified 2000 by aeb, following Michael Kerrisk
.\"
.TH PAUSE 2 1995-08-31 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH PAUSE 2 2008-10-06 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
pause \- wait for signal
.SH SYNOPSIS
@ -36,13 +36,9 @@ pause \- wait for signal
.B int pause(void);
.SH DESCRIPTION
.BR pause ()
causes the invoking process (or thread) to sleep
until a signal is received that either terminates it or causes it
to call a signal-catching function.
.\" The
.\" .B pause
.\" system call causes the invoking process to sleep until a signal
.\" is received.
causes the calling process (or thread) to sleep
until a signal is delivered that either terminates the process or causes
the invocation of a signal-catching function.
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
.BR pause ()
only returns when a signal was caught and the