how to suspend a process

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <10269:Feb1821:14:1591 at kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>This is a matter of opinion. Some people believe that the shell should
>handle all tty mode changes, including restoring modes after a stop or
>termination.

I would go further than this, and assert that an optimal design would
not require the switched task to be aware of task switching at all.