Heiner - 2011-07-26

Currently it's difficult to process runtimes' output because stdout and stderr
are reserved to the called program. If e.g. the AWK script "evaluate_statistics.awk"
is used for processing runtimes' output, the following command could be used:

    $ runtimes -o stat.log somecommand >/dev/null 2>&1
    $ awk -f evaluate_statistics stat.log

If only the statistics are relevant, the use of a temporary file is complicated.

Could "runtimes" get a new option (e.g. '-s' for "silence") where the output of
the started programs gets ignored, and "runtimes" uses stdout and stderr for
its own purpose? Example:

    $ runtimes -s somecommand | awk -f evaluate_statistics.awk

In this case "runtimes -s somecommand" would completely "silence" the command
by ignoring its stdout and stderr, and runtimes would print its statistics
directly to standard output.