interp bgerror

interp bgerror path ?cmdPrefix?

From https://www.tcl-lang.org/man/tcl8.5/TclCmd/interp.htm :

When an error happens in a situation where it cannot be reported directly up the stack (e.g. when processing events in an update or vwait call) the error is instead reported through the background error handling mechanism. Every interpreter has a background error handler registered; the default error handler arranges for the bgerror command in the interpreter's global namespace to be called, but other error handlers may be installed and process background errors in substantially different ways.

A background error handler consists of a non-empty list of words to which will be appended two further words at invocation time. The first word will be the error message string, and the second will a dictionary of return options (this is also the sort of information that can be obtained by trapping a normal error using catch of course.) The resulting list will then be executed in the interpreter's global namespace without further substitutions being performed.

if { [catch {$cmd} err errdict] } {
     catch {[interp bgerror ""] $err $errdict}
   }