diff --git a/src/time/clock_getcpuclockid.c b/src/time/clock_getcpuclockid.c
index 8a0e2d4c..bce1e8ab 100644
--- a/src/time/clock_getcpuclockid.c
+++ b/src/time/clock_getcpuclockid.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ int clock_getcpuclockid(pid_t pid, clockid_t *clk)
 	struct timespec ts;
 	clockid_t id = (-pid-1)*8U + 2;
 	int ret = __syscall(SYS_clock_getres, id, &ts);
+	if (ret == -EINVAL) ret = -ESRCH;
 	if (ret) return -ret;
 	*clk = id;
 	return 0;