README
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-coloredstderr is a small library which uses 'LD_PRELOAD' to color stderr.
+coloredstderr is a small library which uses 'LD_PRELOAD' to color stderr. It
+``follows'' dups, has minimal performance overhead and can ignore certain
+binaries (requires /proc).
Like all solutions using 'LD_PRELOAD' it only works with dynamically linked
Most other existing solutions use a second process which colors its input and
pipe stderr to it. However this creates different runtime behaviour resulting
in a different ordering of the output. Partial lines (no newline) also often
-cause problems.
+cause problems. coloredstderr handles these cases correctly.
+
+coloredstderr is licensed under GPL 3 (or later).
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