Hello Nick!
You might also write debug info not to STDERR, but to a file. I think
debugging is a feature turned on voluntarily. So you can just inform the user
on startup, that debugging info is written to "bristol-PROC_ID-debug" or
something like that. Pine works that way.
Kindly yours
Julien
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