Debug: Attach to Node Process: cannot enable debug mode for process (Error: kill EPERM)

[x-yuri]

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

• VS Code Version: 1.86.2
• OS Version: Arch Linux

Steps to Reproduce:

a.js:

debugger

$ code --disable-extensions

$ docker run --rm -itv "$PWD/a.js:/a.js" -p 9229:9229 alpine:3.19 \
    sh -euxc 'apk add nodejs && node --inspect-brk=0.0.0.0 a.js'

• Ctrl-Shift-P
• Debug: Attach to Node Process
• Choose the node --inspect-brk process and you'll see:

With the following command it works (I assume here that you're running under UID 1000):

$ docker run --rm -itv "$PWD/a.js:/a.js" -p 9229:9229 alpine:3.19 \
    sh -euxc 'apk add nodejs shadow && useradd a \
        && su a -c "node --inspect-brk=0.0.0.0 a.js"'

Is it really needed to have access to the process? Chromium DevTools for one doesn't need that. Then the following is rather out of scope, but what about remote debugging?..

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