Bug report

Bug description:

Running python -m profiling.sampling run --subprocesses <...> on some code that spawns subprocesses will ignore any PermissionError thrown in the child processes when doing a attach to the process, since stderr is forwarded to /dev/null, and the process exits with error code 0 (my mistake, it does exit with exit code 1, just the call is in the helper function). This causes confusion as the only user-visible effect is that the subprocesses sampling data files are not created.

This can happen when the user / python executable / kernel doesn't have the CAP_SYS_PTRACE capability, so the run subcommand works fine, but any attach will fail, which is what happens with the child processes.

CPython versions tested on:

CPython main branch

Operating systems tested on:

Linux

Linked PRs

• gh-155031: repass permission errors on subprocesses to parent / user #155032