pause(2) vs. sigpause(3)

[Paul John Falstad]

In article <717 at inews.intel.com> bhoughto at cmdnfs.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>Is there a difference between `pause()' and `sigpause(0)'?
>
>I can't see one.

Neither can I.  They're the other way around on my system, though (SunOS).
pause(3) and sigpause(2).

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

What?

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