From 4f85c6dd30c9b20d7002d7408530408dd32f6d3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 22:41:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Explain the relationship to POSIX.

---
 lib/libc/compat-43/sigpause.2 | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/libc/compat-43/sigpause.2 b/lib/libc/compat-43/sigpause.2
index 331a6b34299e..2711d18bde53 100644
--- a/lib/libc/compat-43/sigpause.2
+++ b/lib/libc/compat-43/sigpause.2
@@ -75,6 +75,20 @@ set to
 .Xr sigprocmask 2 ,
 .Xr sigsuspend 2 ,
 .Xr sigvec 2
+.Sh STANDARDS
+The
+.Fn sigpause
+function is implemented for compatibility with historic
+.Bx 4.3
+applications.
+An incompatible interface by the same name, which used a single signal number
+rather than a mask, was present in
+.At V ,
+and was copied from there into the
+.Sy X/Open System Interfaces
+.Pq Tn XSI
+option of
+.St -p1003.1-2001 .
 .Sh HISTORY
 The
 .Fn sigpause