If I had a choice of what you would be spending time on, it would be
getting strongops integrated with s-c-c. :-)

I have a longish list of SL code that is in poor shape in ways that are
quite noticeable, and these few lines of error checking code isn't on that
list.

If you do want to play around with this, make sure it works for strong-mq,
strong-cluster-control is the easiest use-case of the three.