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gh-138122: Skip threads on EPERM in blocking mode profiler (GH-143368)

When using blocking mode in the remote debugging profiler, ptrace calls
to seize threads can fail with EPERM if the thread has exited between
listing and attaching, is in a special kernel state, or is already being
traced. Previously this raised a RuntimeError that was caught by the
Python sampling loop,and retried indefinitely since EPERM is
a persistent condition that will not resolve on its own.

Treat EPERM the same as ESRCH by returning 1 (skip this thread) instead
of -1 (fatal error). This allows profiling to continue with the threads
that can be traced rather than entering an endless retry loop printing
the same error message repeatedly.
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Pablo Galindo Salgado committed
27434c68f8c9d8f5e3e1708948a339999172a4bc
Parent: 2c39b9d
Committed by GitHub <noreply@github.com> on 1/3/2026, 2:37:16 PM