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Feature #2497

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error messages usability improvement

Added by Victor Julien almost 6 years ago. Updated about 1 year ago.

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Many error messages have been written with very minimal context. Often they only make sense if the file name and function name are logged as well, which is not enabled by default in RELEASE-mode.

Maybe it would be useful to add a new set of SCLogError/SCLogWarning calls that include:
- subsystem name (e.g. stream-tcp, log-pcap)
- affected config options name, if applicable (e.g. stream.midstream)

In output this could be used to give more context to the user.


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Related to Suricata - Optimization #3160: clean up error codesClosedVictor JulienActions
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