Vscode-cpptools: Suggestion: Debugger > Detach

[niklas-ourmachinery]

You can attach the Debugger to a running process with an attach entry in launch.json, but as far as I can tell, there is no corresponding way to detach the debugger (similar to Visual Studio's Debug > Detach All).

There are a number of scenarios where this can be useful, e.g:

• When debugging client-server code you may want to switch the debugger between the client and the server process, without killing any of the processes.

• For hot-reloading of DLLs, you may want to detach the debugger so that it releases its file locks, allowing you to rebuild DLLs and PDBs.

[WardenGnaw]

For attach, the only option should be detach.

To help investigate why detach is not working for you could you answer the following questions:

• Which OS are you on?
• What is the version of VsCode that you have?
• Which version of the cpptool-extension are you using?

[johnknoop]

It would be nice with a Detach option even if you didn't attach to a running process, but started it using Debug.

[WardenGnaw]

VSCode will need to add a way to detach the process in the UI. At the moment, they only support terminating a process.

[polyval]

@WardenGnaw Could you please tell me how can I change the behavior of the stop button so that it can detach the gdb from the process rather than terminate it. I can hit the pause button then input “-exec detach” to do it, I guess there must be somewhere in the code that I can customize the behavior. Can you help me with that? Thanks.

[WardenGnaw]

VS Code now has a way to contribute to the debug toolbar.

This feature will need to register a command that sends a disconnect request to the debug adapter.