ls /root says "No such file or directory." instead of "Permission denied"

[GypsyCosmonaut]

I did ls on /root from my user expecting that the command would show "Permission Denied". Instead it prints "No such file or directory".

The coreutils ls command indicates that I do not have permission to list /root folder by printing "Permission Denied".

I am new to Go. And am looking at this project in order to learn. Could someone please fix it.

[Floweynt]

What OS are you doing running this command on? I'm aware that is is a linux type OS but, exactly which OS?

[GypsyCosmonaut]

It was Debian 9 at the time.

[Floweynt]

does /root exist? check with cd / and then run ls