Translations:KDevelop5/Manual/Debugging programs/22/en

Attaching a debugger to a running program is not allowed by default on most Linux distributions. To do so, you first need to know a little about PTRACE system that is used for debugging. Generally, the default setting is a scope of "1", which limits PTRACE to direct child processes only (e.g. "gdb name-of-program" and "strace -f name-of-program" work, but gdb's "attach" and "strace -fp $PID" do not). A PTRACE scope of "0" is the more permissive mode.