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I found another solution after reading through the Unix Socket FAQ. At the beginning of the loop I do: 
my $error_code = $socket->sockopt(SO_ERROR);

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On FreeBSD this returns a value other than zero if there has been an error on the socket, so I am able to trap that and exit gracefully if an error occurs on the socket.
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