[ale] Named Pipe

[David Corbin]

I have an application for which a named pipe seems like the right answer on 
several fronts, but what I don't want is for the writing application to block 
if there is noone reading it.  I just want one application to stream data to 
the pipe, and have some other application be able to jump in 'mid-stream' and 
start processing the input data.

Is this possible with linux named pipes?