Situation:

I have three tasks in which the thirdOne should be launched by launch.json as a preLaunchTask.
The pre-requisite for the thirdTask is the secondTask should execute.

Problem:

The third task needs secondTask to execute because, the second one will execute a peice of code which will trigger a node, which ideally shouldn’t be closed or expected to be closed by me. The thirdTask will look for PID of the specific node and if it is not there, will throw a error and exits.

But the secondTask won’t exit becuase the particular code is running and won’t exit till we manually close it or clean it in some way. But I don’t want to change the script2.sh.

tasks.json

{
    "version": "2.0.0",
    "tasks": [
        {
            "label": "firstTask",
            "command": "cmd1",
            "type": "shell"
        },
        {
            "label": "secondTask",
            "command": "${workspaceFolder}/script2.sh",
            "type": "process",
        },
        {
            "label": "thirdTask",
            "command": "${workspaceFolder}/script3.sh",
            "type": "shell",
            "dependsOn":["secondTask"],
        }
    ]
}