emacs-daemon startup freezes if file has auto-save data

Question

I set up desktop.el so that emacs automatically reopens all files on startup that were left open last time I killed emacs.

Now when I start emacs as a daemon and one of the reopened files has auto-save-data, the daemon displays the usual auto-save-data-message ("...file has auto save data...") and waits for confirmation - but does not continue the initialization. Without confirmation the daemon will stay in this state and new connections (eg via emacsclient -c) are accepted but not processed.

Is there a way to disable confirmations during the daemons startup?