From 8793959e82e055ca063fb1d724eb12eec0afd701 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Ruderich Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 01:51:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] README: Update. --- README | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 88d96b2..3416100 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,7 +1,9 @@ README ====== -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 @@ -23,7 +25,9 @@ include: 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). DEPENDENCIES -- 2.43.2