Support for pause(2)

[philiprowlands]

BPO	46800
Nosy	@zware

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title = 'Support for pause(2)'
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[philiprowlands]

Went looking for os.pause() but found nothing in the docs, bpo, or Google.
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/pause.2.html

Obviously not a popular syscall, but I have a use case for it.

[zware]

See signal.pause: https://docs.python.org/3/library/signal.html#signal.pause