[Nottingham] named pipes (fifo) help please

[Martin]

Folks,

I want to use a named pipe to let a second process read at random times 
the "latest results" from a first process...

What's the best/easiest way to avoid the first (writing) process 
blocking on the pipe if the second process doesn't read for a long time?

What I'm really after is just for the latest line of output to be picked 
up by the second process without risking a partial read if I use a text 
file for example instead of the pipe...


Any ideas?

(All in bash)

Cheers,
Martin

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Martin Lomas
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