[Shepherd] Should 'herd status' block for a long-running timer?

[Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.]

Hi,

Are 'herd status' and 'herd status NAME' supposed to block on
long-running timers like this one?  [1]  Thanks!

Kind regards
Felix

[1] 
https://codeberg.org/lechner/system-config/src/commit/313b333d1e87477a3c1455e6a73485d9e348b7e2/host/wallace-server/operating-system.scm#L565-L665