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  • The common practice is to remove a unix domain socket before binding to it. No try/finally, traps, etc could guard against your script just crashing or being killed by SIGKILL. Then the next instance will fail with EADDRINUSE when trying to bind to it. Commented Aug 11, 2019 at 20:58
  • @skozin's answer looks promising. Commented Apr 13, 2023 at 12:16