pipes

I have a basic question about pipes...

I have an app that will read an instrument about 10x a second. The data read will take about 12 bytes.

It would be easiest for me from a programming standpoint write the app so it simply dumps the data into a pipe, and any other app that needs the data will read it from the pipe.

It's quite possible that this app might be dumping data into the pipe for days without anyone reading it.

The data is realtime; once it's read it has no time value at all, so I really don't care if it goes into a bit bucket.

Is it possible to set up a pipe so that the data just "falls out" if no one is reading it? Or do I have the possibility of a buffer overflow that would cause a crash somewhere?

Thanks,

--Yan
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