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Support to attach to an electron spawned node process using the picker

See original GitHub issue

Currently you cannot attach to an electron spawned node process like the TypeScript server using the picker, that is using a launch config like:

        {
            "type": "node",
            "request": "attach",
            "name": "Attach to process",
            "processId": "${command:PickProcess}",
            "port": 5859,
            "protocol": "legacy"

        }

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:6 (6 by maintainers)

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weinandcommented, Sep 12, 2017

@auchenberg previous versions of Electron did not support the SIGUSR1 approach of bringing node into debug mode (even if it was not launched with a --debug or --inspect flag).

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Tyriarcommented, Aug 27, 2021

I own the process explorer now but I think this aligns more with one of the debug area owners, I’d be more than willing to review a PR though.

Here is the process explorer context menu code: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/a3cb14be7f2cceadb17adf843675b1a59537dbbd/src/vs/code/electron-sandbox/processExplorer/processExplorerMain.ts#L426-L426