Original post August 21, 2018: sudo gcore gives 'insufficient privilege' on a chrome tab process
I am only user on this macbook pro (high sierra) so I'm the only administrator.
Anytime I go into terminal and type "gcore PID" or "sudo gcore PID" I get the following:"gcore: insufficient privilege". (The actual PID I want is 7415)
The only reason I'm even attempting to do this is because yesterday I was filling out important information for a scholarship on a webpage in google chrome and an error occurred and I lost everything I typed. ....so I followed the instructions located here...https://superuser.com/questions/975744/how-do-i-recover-information-ive-typed-into-a-website-after-i-accidentally-lost
Yesterday I installed xcode, installed homebrew, and installed gcore. I also have user permission to read and write the folder "/etc" and the file "sudoers".
I have not deleted my chrome browsing data but I did restart my computer last night. I'm assuming the information I seek in the ram is gone?
Nonetheless I still want to figure out why the terminal says "gcore: insufficient privilege" after entering "sudo gcore 7415" when I am an administrator?
Thank you in advance to anyone who can answer this!