PowerShell / PowerShell/vscode-powershell
debugging an external host should break at any statement
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Description
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Summary
I have seen video's of vcode/powershell where when attaching to a host powershell process (running any script) using an attach configuration that script stops where it currently was executing.
This does not happen in the current powershell version (7.4.6). It also does not happen when doing the attach manually using enter-psHostProcess followed by debug-runspace. But it works when using debug-runspace -breakall.
I have seen that breakAll is new sinds powershell 7.2. I expect that in the powershell extension when using an attach configuration the old version "debug-runspace" is used and not the new version "debug-runspace -breakall".
Proposed Design
Can this be changed back to it was before powershell 7.2 (or configured in the launch configuration)?
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Research direction
Start by reproducing an attach configuration against a host PowerShell process on PowerShell 7.4.6, then compare it with Enter-PSHostProcess followed by Debug-Runspace and Debug-Runspace -BreakAll. The work is done when attaching can break at the currently executing statement, either by using -BreakAll or by providing the requested launch-configuration choice.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- powershell, typescript
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100