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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2022 18:57:05 +0300

> From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2022 08:40:16 -0700
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], Visuwesh <[email-masked]>
> 
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> >> No, because this will change a long-standing behavior (of waiting
> >> indefinitely).  But we can add a new flag --timeout=NNN to let people
> >> specify a timeout if they want.
> 
> Hmm, is that so bad though?  I'm not sure I see what problem it could
> cause.  Do people actually want and rely on the indefinite waiting?

They can rely on more than 5 or 10 sec of waiting, yes.