Re: [Hamlib-developer] Feature request: User friendly version of errors

[George B. <geo...@gm...>]

Funny, we were just discussing this internally...


You probably want to use perror2(), which doesn't add the stack trace.


On 8/31/25 5:58 PM, Peter Marks wrote:
> Dear Hamlib developers,
>
> I don’t seem to be able to create a feature request ticket on 
> sourceforge. The button is dim.
>
> When hamlib reports an error, typically a timeout talking to the 
> radio, the error string returned by rigerror() is very detailed and 
> includes a stack trace.
>
> const char* rigerror 
> <https://hamlib.sourceforge.net/manuals/1.2.15/group__rig.html#ga675d0903517323b2689446d9513fc8db> 
> 	( 	int 	/errnum/ 	) 	
>
> get string describing the error code
>
>
> I’m involved in the FreeDV <https://freedv.org> project which uses 
> hamlib. We show the error string and find that it is intimidating to 
> users. They sometimes report that FreeDV has “crashed”.
>
> It would be great if there was a second version of the error string 
> with just the bit that the user needs. “Timeout talking to rig” for 
> example.
>
> Many thanks for your great work.
>
> Peter
> VK3TPM
>
>
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