in bug 650828 we generated pidfiles for the parent process runtestsremote but i'm finding instances of xpcshell that are still running even after the parent has been cleaned up. Since the parent of xpcshell is gone, the ppid returned for xpcshell is 1 so it's never found by my code that walks the parent/child list. We need to generate a pidfile for xpcshell also so I can clean it up if required.

this patch is tested locally and when using '--pidfile filename', we create filename and filename.xpcshell.

Comment on attachment 529747 [details] [diff] [review] add a --pidfile {filename}.xpcshell (1.0) any reason your ending the file without ".pid" ? Not a show stopper for this but would love if .pid was the final part after .xpcshell

updated patch to have .xpcshell.pid extension

Patch is working great in staging and I have filed bug 654756 to track the change needed on the Tegra side. Once that has landed you can land this patch as soon as possible.