delve/Documentation/usage/dlv_attach.md
Alessandro Arzilli caf6df0eb9
Documentation,cmd/dlv: clean up command line usage help (#3395)
Due to some very old mistakes too many of Delve's flags are declared as
persistent on cobra's root command. For example the headless flag is a
global flag but does not apply to connect, dap or trace; the backend
flag does not apply to replay, core and dap; etc.

Almost all global flags should have been declared as local flags on
individual subcommands. Unfortunately we can not change this without
breaking backwards compatibility, for example:

   dlv --headless debug

would not parse if headless was a flag of debug instead of a global
flag.

Instead we alter usage function and the markdown generation script to
strategically hide the flags that don't apply.

Fixes #2361
2023-08-09 10:37:55 -07:00

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dlv attach

Attach to running process and begin debugging.

Synopsis

Attach to an already running process and begin debugging it.

This command will cause Delve to take control of an already running process, and begin a new debug session. When exiting the debug session you will have the option to let the process continue or kill it.

dlv attach pid [executable] [flags]

Options

      --continue                 Continue the debugged process on start.
  -h, --help                     help for attach
      --waitfor string           Wait for a process with a name beginning with this prefix
      --waitfor-duration float   Total time to wait for a process
      --waitfor-interval float   Interval between checks of the process list, in millisecond (default 1)

Options inherited from parent commands

      --accept-multiclient               Allows a headless server to accept multiple client connections via JSON-RPC or DAP.
      --allow-non-terminal-interactive   Allows interactive sessions of Delve that don't have a terminal as stdin, stdout and stderr
      --api-version int                  Selects JSON-RPC API version when headless. New clients should use v2. Can be reset via RPCServer.SetApiVersion. See Documentation/api/json-rpc/README.md. (default 1)
      --backend string                   Backend selection (see 'dlv help backend'). (default "default")
      --check-go-version                 Exits if the version of Go in use is not compatible (too old or too new) with the version of Delve. (default true)
      --headless                         Run debug server only, in headless mode. Server will accept both JSON-RPC or DAP client connections.
      --init string                      Init file, executed by the terminal client.
  -l, --listen string                    Debugging server listen address. (default "127.0.0.1:0")
      --log                              Enable debugging server logging.
      --log-dest string                  Writes logs to the specified file or file descriptor (see 'dlv help log').
      --log-output string                Comma separated list of components that should produce debug output (see 'dlv help log')
      --only-same-user                   Only connections from the same user that started this instance of Delve are allowed to connect. (default true)

SEE ALSO

  • dlv - Delve is a debugger for the Go programming language.