Codespaces - global npm module requiring node-gyp rebuild ( jq ) fails - EACCES ERROR

[dehru]

• VSCode Version: June 2020 (1.47.0-insider)
• OS Version: June 2020 (version 1.47) - Insiders Build

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Create a new environment
2. Try to globally install an npm module that requires an OS specific rebuild ( node-gyp )
   npm i -g jq
3. node-gyp throws EACCES error during post install build step

> node-gyp rebuild

gyp WARN EACCES current user ("nobody") does not have permission to access the dev dir "/root/.cache/node-gyp/12.18.1"
gyp WARN EACCES attempting to reinstall using temporary dev dir "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/jq/node_modules/contextify/.node-gyp"
gyp WARN install got an error, rolling back install
gyp WARN install got an error, rolling back install
gyp ERR! configure error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/jq/node_modules/contextify/.node-gyp'
gyp ERR! System Linux 5.3.0-1028-azure
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/jq/node_modules/contextify
gyp ERR! node -v v12.18.1
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v5.1.0
gyp ERR! not ok 
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: contextify@0.1.15 (node_modules/jq/node_modules/contextify):
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: contextify@0.1.15 install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Exit status 1

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

Version: 1.47.0-insider
Commit: b9d7ec9
Date: 2020-06-19T22:25:04.581Z (6 days ago)
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.97 Safari/537.36

[dehru]

Moving to the vsonline issues.