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+# debuglog - backport of util.debuglog() from node v0.11
+
+To facilitate using the `util.debuglog()` function that will be available when
+node v0.12 is released now, this is a copy extracted from the source.
+
+## require('debuglog')
+
+Return `util.debuglog`, if it exists, otherwise it will return an internal copy
+of the implementation from node v0.11.
+
+## debuglog(section)
+
+* `section` {String} The section of the program to be debugged
+* Returns: {Function} The logging function
+
+This is used to create a function which conditionally writes to stderr
+based on the existence of a `NODE_DEBUG` environment variable. If the
+`section` name appears in that environment variable, then the returned
+function will be similar to `console.error()`. If not, then the
+returned function is a no-op.
+
+For example:
+
+```javascript
+var debuglog = util.debuglog('foo');
+
+var bar = 123;
+debuglog('hello from foo [%d]', bar);
+```
+
+If this program is run with `NODE_DEBUG=foo` in the environment, then
+it will output something like:
+
+ FOO 3245: hello from foo [123]
+
+where `3245` is the process id. If it is not run with that
+environment variable set, then it will not print anything.
+
+You may separate multiple `NODE_DEBUG` environment variables with a
+comma. For example, `NODE_DEBUG=fs,net,tls`.