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 ### Ignoring subprocesses
 The following command will ignore subprocesses started by the debugged process.
 ```console
--m debugpy --listen localhost:5678 --pid 12345 --config-subProcess False
+-m debugpy --listen localhost:5678 --pid 12345 --configure-subProcess False
 ```