With this patch, build-moz-smoke.pl will output what a binary did to turn the tree orange -- rather than just telling you it "crashed or quit", it'll either say "exited with status X" or "died on signal Y". The patch also cleans up some useless code in the binary execution: turning off buffering in Perl doesn't carry over after exec(), unfortunately. (I've posted a comment about this on netscape.public.mozilla.builds and .unix.) (I wasn't sure whether this patch should go in bugzilla for the browser or webtools; I hope this is okay.)

This is in the part of tinderbox that leaf has more knowledge of than I do.

Sorry this took so long, i'll work on this today.

yeah, i still need to do this, setting to M7, since this isn't blocking anyone

moving to m8. not a blocker for m7

clearing the milestone flag on this. leaf, had you had a chance to look at the attachment? will this work? if you don't know, please shove over to briano.

I don't get the status of the closed process, but i do get some meaningful output. When someone has time, a better solution is to check for a core file, and get a stack trace of it. I'm not going to get to this before my vacation, though, so i'm going to later this.

LATER is deprecated per bug 35839.

is this still an issue or can it be resolved/fixed or wontfix?

i think we report exit status now, this patch is way old, I think mark wontfix.

this was fixed a while ago.