Persistent connection to named pipe

[Kevin D. Clark]

Michael ODonnell writes:

> I'm now working with a cantankerous old app that can't easily be
> modified and it'd be handy to have multiple sequential invocations of
> that app each spew some logging data into a FIFO (without blocking)
> so it could be processed by a single persistent instance of a filter
> connected to the output of that FIFO.  I'm therefore about to dredge
> up my little utility and put it back into service in this situation
> but before I do I wonder if anybody knows of something that's part
> of the standard Gnu/Linux stuff that already solves this problem.

(dd's "noerror" option didn't do what you wanted here)

How about:

    (while true ; do cat ; done ) </tmp/FIFO

Regards,

--kevin
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