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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 10:08:21 +0300

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

There is a (built-in) timeout, but it's way too long AFAIK.  And we
don't handle it any different from any other error: we exit.