John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> schrieb am Fr., 18. Nov. 2016 um 19:44 Uhr:

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Maybe the foreground "daemon" mode should be triggered by a flag named
> --headless, since that's what it really is.

That does sound more descriptive.

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=4944 suggested "--server". (Just for completeness; I don't care as long the functionality itself exists.)