ptrace errors are misleading

From: Victor Zandy (zandy@cs.wisc.edu)
Date: Tue May 23 2000 - 09:54:08 EST

    On x86 Linux 2.2 and 2.3 ptrace sets errno to ESRCH ("no such
process") when the process is not being traced or when it is not
stopped (arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c).

    Shouldn't it return EPERM instead?

Vic Zandy

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