Subject: Re: bug#50849: 28.0.50; Proposal for Emacs daemon to signal when being busy

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 07:56:17 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> The problem in these situations is that AFAIU the daemon doesn't even
> know that emacsclient is trying to connect, because it (the daemon)
> doesn't process connection requests when it's busy.

Perhaps emacsclient could have a timeout here?  I'm not sure what a
reasonable timeout would be, though, but perhaps that can be a command
line switch so that the user can decide.

(I haven't looked at the code; perhaps it has a timeout already.)

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