GNU bug report logs - #50849
28.0.50; Proposal for Emacs daemon to signal when being busy

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 14:28:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Found in version 28.0.50

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>, 50849 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50849: 28.0.50; Proposal for Emacs daemon to signal when being busy
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 07:56:17 +0200
Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> 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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