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Auto Attach Child Processes

Auto Attach Child Processes

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Allows to auto attach child processes
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Auto Attach Child Processes

Visual Studio Extension allowing auto attaching child processes (currently only using codelldb)

Requirements

For now you need CodeLLDB for it to work

how to use

Add "autoAttachChildProcess": true to launch configuration you want to allow auto attaching

examples:

{
    "type": "lldb",
    "request": "attach",
    "name": "Attach",
    "autoAttachChildProcess": true,
    "pid": "${command:pickMyProcess}"
},
{
    "type": "lldb",
    "request": "launch",
    "name": "Debug",
    "program": "${workspaceFolder}/a.out",
    "args": [],
    "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
    "autoAttachChildProcess": true
}

Known Issues

Working only with codelldb fow now

Release Notes

0.0.1

Initial release of auto attaching codelldb

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