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Unfriendly traceback when sampling from an unknown PID #142654

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Bug description:

./python -m profiling.sampling attach -1

This produces:

OSError: Cannot open process memory map file '/proc/-1/maps' for PID -1 section search: No such file or directory

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/keming/GitHub/cpython/Lib/runpy.py", line 196, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
                     "__main__", mod_spec)
  File "/home/keming/GitHub/cpython/Lib/runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
    ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/keming/GitHub/cpython/Lib/profiling/sampling/__main__.py", line 64, in <module>
    main()
    ~~~~^^
  File "/home/keming/GitHub/cpython/Lib/profiling/sampling/cli.py", line 592, in main
    handler(args)
    ~~~~~~~^^^^^^
  File "/home/keming/GitHub/cpython/Lib/profiling/sampling/cli.py", line 620, in _handle_attach
    collector = sample(
        args.pid,
    ...<8 lines>...
        opcodes=args.opcodes,
    )
  File "/home/keming/GitHub/cpython/Lib/profiling/sampling/sample.py", line 327, in sample
    profiler = SampleProfiler(
        pid,
    ...<7 lines>...
        collect_stats=realtime_stats,
    )
  File "/home/keming/GitHub/cpython/Lib/profiling/sampling/sample.py", line 39, in __init__
    self.unwinder = _remote_debugging.RemoteUnwinder(
                    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
        self.pid, all_threads=self.all_threads, mode=mode, native=native, gc=gc,
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        opcodes=opcodes, skip_non_matching_threads=skip_non_matching_threads,
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        cache_frames=True, stats=collect_stats
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    )
    ^
RuntimeError: Failed to find the PyRuntime section in process -1 on Linux platform

This is similar to #139940

CPython versions tested on:

CPython main branch

Operating systems tested on:

Linux

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  1. added a commit that references this issue on Dec 13, 2025
  2. added a commit that references this issue on Dec 17, 2025
  3. added a commit that references this issue on Dec 20, 2025
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