26.x: backport #28784 ("rpc: keep .cookie if it was not generated") #29503
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v26 introduced a regression in that starting a
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twice may have the second instance delete the cookie file of the first, making it impossible to communicate with it.Not a big deal but it's annoying, only an issue for 26.0, and the patch is trivial.