diff --git a/debug/org.eclipse.debug.core/core/org/eclipse/debug/core/model/RuntimeProcess.java b/debug/org.eclipse.debug.core/core/org/eclipse/debug/core/model/RuntimeProcess.java
index 9e457accd3d..aa9d830cb69 100644
--- a/debug/org.eclipse.debug.core/core/org/eclipse/debug/core/model/RuntimeProcess.java
+++ b/debug/org.eclipse.debug.core/core/org/eclipse/debug/core/model/RuntimeProcess.java
@@ -166,6 +166,22 @@ public RuntimeProcess(ILaunch launch, Process process, String name, Map<String,
 		launch.addProcess(this);
 		fMonitor.start();
 		fireCreationEvent();
+		startStreams();
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Called after notification that this runtime process is created to start
+	 * the reading of streams. Must be overridden if a custom
+	 * {@link IStreamsProxy} instance is provided by
+	 * {@link #createStreamsProxy()} that do not extends {@link StreamsProxy}
+	 * and does not start the stream reading in any other mean.
+	 *
+	 * @since 3.23
+	 */
+	protected void startStreams() {
+		if (fStreamsProxy instanceof StreamsProxy impl) {
+			impl.startMonitoring(fThreadNameSuffix);
+		}
 	}
 
 	private static String getPidInfo(Process process, ILaunch launch) {
@@ -389,7 +405,7 @@ protected IStreamsProxy createStreamsProxy() {
 		if (charset == null) {
 			charset = Platform.getSystemCharset();
 		}
-		return new StreamsProxy(getSystemProcess(), charset, fThreadNameSuffix);
+		return new StreamsProxy(getSystemProcess(), charset);
 	}
 
 	/**
diff --git a/debug/org.eclipse.debug.core/core/org/eclipse/debug/internal/core/StreamsProxy.java b/debug/org.eclipse.debug.core/core/org/eclipse/debug/internal/core/StreamsProxy.java
index 4c636238aaf..0806eb53d18 100644
--- a/debug/org.eclipse.debug.core/core/org/eclipse/debug/internal/core/StreamsProxy.java
+++ b/debug/org.eclipse.debug.core/core/org/eclipse/debug/internal/core/StreamsProxy.java
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
 
 
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 
 import org.eclipse.debug.core.model.IBinaryStreamMonitor;
@@ -33,43 +35,75 @@ public class StreamsProxy implements IBinaryStreamsProxy {
 	/**
 	 * The monitor for the output stream (connected to standard out of the process)
 	 */
-	private OutputStreamMonitor fOutputMonitor;
+	private final OutputStreamMonitor fOutputMonitor;
 	/**
 	 * The monitor for the error stream (connected to standard error of the process)
 	 */
-	private OutputStreamMonitor fErrorMonitor;
+	private final OutputStreamMonitor fErrorMonitor;
 	/**
 	 * The monitor for the input stream (connected to standard in of the process)
 	 */
-	private InputStreamMonitor fInputMonitor;
+	private final InputStreamMonitor fInputMonitor;
 	/**
 	 * Records the open/closed state of communications with
 	 * the underlying streams.  Note: fClosed is initialized to
 	 * <code>false</code> by default.
 	 */
 	private boolean fClosed;
+	private boolean started;
 
 	/**
 	 * Creates a <code>StreamsProxy</code> on the streams of the given system
-	 * process.
+	 * process and starts the monitoring.
 	 *
 	 * @param process system process to create a streams proxy on
 	 * @param charset the process's charset or <code>null</code> if default
 	 * @param suffix Thread name suffix
 	 */
-	@SuppressWarnings("resource")
 	public StreamsProxy(Process process, Charset charset, String suffix) {
+		this(process, charset);
+		startMonitoring(suffix);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Creates a <code>StreamsProxy</code> on the streams of the given system
+	 * process, monitoring must be started separately.
+	 *
+	 * @param process system process to create a streams proxy on
+	 * @param charset the process's charset or <code>null</code> if default
+	 */
+	@SuppressWarnings("resource")
+	public StreamsProxy(Process process, Charset charset) {
 		if (process == null) {
-			return;
+			fOutputMonitor = new OutputStreamMonitor(InputStream.nullInputStream(), charset);
+			fErrorMonitor = new OutputStreamMonitor(InputStream.nullInputStream(), charset);
+			fInputMonitor = new InputStreamMonitor(OutputStream.nullOutputStream(), charset);
+		} else {
+			fOutputMonitor = new OutputStreamMonitor(process.getInputStream(), charset);
+			fErrorMonitor = new OutputStreamMonitor(process.getErrorStream(), charset);
+			fInputMonitor = new InputStreamMonitor(process.getOutputStream(), charset);
 		}
-		fOutputMonitor = new OutputStreamMonitor(process.getInputStream(), charset);
-		fErrorMonitor = new OutputStreamMonitor(process.getErrorStream(), charset);
-		fInputMonitor = new InputStreamMonitor(process.getOutputStream(), charset);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Starts the monitoring of streams using the given suffix
+	 *
+	 * @param suffix
+	 */
+	public void startMonitoring(String suffix) {
+		start();
 		fOutputMonitor.startMonitoring("Output Stream Monitor" + suffix); //$NON-NLS-1$
 		fErrorMonitor.startMonitoring("Error Stream Monitor" + suffix); //$NON-NLS-1$
 		fInputMonitor.startMonitoring("Input Stream Monitor" + suffix); //$NON-NLS-1$
 	}
 
+	private synchronized void start() {
+		if (started) {
+			throw new IllegalStateException("Already started!"); //$NON-NLS-1$
+		}
+		started = true;
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Creates a <code>StreamsProxy</code> on the streams of the given system
 	 * process.
@@ -78,7 +112,7 @@ public StreamsProxy(Process process, Charset charset, String suffix) {
 	 * @param encoding the process's encoding or <code>null</code> if default
 	 * @deprecated use {@link #StreamsProxy(Process, Charset, String)} instead
 	 */
-	@Deprecated
+	@Deprecated(forRemoval = true, since = "2025-06")
 	public StreamsProxy(Process process, String encoding) {
 		// This constructor was once removed in favor of the Charset variant
 		// but Bug 562653 brought up a client which use this internal class via
@@ -178,4 +212,5 @@ public void write(byte[] data, int offset, int length) throws IOException {
 			throw new IOException();
 		}
 	}
+
 }