fix: Use message window for requestSingleInstanceLock #34279
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Description of Change
Fixes #34235
This PR updates the requestSingleInstanceLock API to use a message window on the second instance to receive data from the first instance. Therefore, when a second instance calls requestSingleInstanceLock:
second-instance
event, with which the user can send back an acknowledgement for the second instance to see.first-instance-ack
event.This message window flow is much better than the previous named pipe implementation that I wrote because we:
CC @deepak1556
Checklist
npm test
passesRelease Notes
Notes: Changed the acknowledgement-passing mechanism of the
app.requestSingleInstanceLock()
API andsecond-instance
event to fix a few regressions.