Hi all,

I am trying to attach dbx to a running process.
When I issue the command -
$ dbx process_name process_pid
I get -
Cannot attach to process 2333 -- Permission denied.

What could be the reason for the error?

Thanks and regards,
SK

In article <83dee709.0401132128.22111a82@posting.google.com>,
 sk_ind12@rediffmail.com (SK) wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to attach dbx to a running process.
> When I issue the command -
> $ dbx process_name process_pid
> I get -
> Cannot attach to process 2333 -- Permission denied.
> 
> What could be the reason for the error?

Unless you're the superuser, you can only attach to a process running 
under your UID.  So either the process was started by another user, or 
it's running setuid to another user.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA