Debug Falco with sudo gdb in VSCode

launch.json

{
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    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "(gdbsudo) Launch",
            "type": "cppdbg",
            "request": "launch",
            "program": "${workspaceFolder}/build/userspace/falco/falco",
            "args": [
                "-r",
                "rules/falco_rules.yaml",
                "-o"
            ],
            "stopAtEntry": true,
            "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
            "environment": [],
            "externalConsole": false,
            "MIMode": "gdb",
            "miDebuggerPath": "/usr/bin/gdbsudo",
            "setupCommands": [
                {
                    "description": "Enable pretty-printing for gdb",
                    "text": "-enable-pretty-printing",
                    "ignoreFailures": true
                }
            ],
        }
    ]
}

You can find gdbsudo here 👉 https://gist.github.com/leogr/36dd0c03ee6ad82412b64d965108f993