CreateProcess + CREATE_SUSPENDED flag equivalent in Linux?

Question

I'm wondering if there's a way to start process suspended?

Similar to CreateProcess + CREATE_SUSPENDED in windows:

CreateProcessA(
        NULL, 
        CmdLine, 
        NULL, 
        NULL, 
        FALSE, 
        CREATE_SUSPENDED,
        NULL, 
        "C:\\Windows\\System32\\", 
        &si, 
        &pi);

ptrace seems to support PTRACE_ATTACH only, there's no way to start a process and suspend it directly, any ideas?

EDIT

I need to be able to catch process like this,

int main()
{
   exit(0);
}

So the shell approach will not work, as the process quits really fast.