fix(single-instance): use a proper background thread to accept and receive unix socket streams #3037
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Previously this has blocked a whole tokio worker thread. Causing issues with task wakeups etc. We should never use blocking i/o operations inside an async task, that's why this PR moves that logic to a separate background thread. Alternatively we could still utilize an async thread but we'd have to use the async aware UnixListener and co. which would require us to pull in a whole async runtime in.
(There are still some things unknown to me because technically tokio should've been able to schedule the task on a different worker thread due to work stealing. But tokio-console shows that the hung task is still stuck in scheduling. EDIT: Ah I think this behavior I am seeing might be the lifo optimization and it being non-stealable)