Translations:KDevelop5/Manual/Debugging programs/10/en

Sometimes, one wants to debug a program that's already running. One scenario for this is debugging parallel programs using MPI, or for debugging a long running background process. To do this, go to the menu entry Run -> Attach to Process, which will open a window like the one above. Select the program you wish to attach to and then click Attach. If you fail to attach to the process and get the following result: