Ok, so I've googled and searched here but have not found the answer, I know I must be missing something simple. I have an open line where I open a Unix named pipe for reading. The problem is the open of the pipe hangs until data is sent into the pipe. I'm not reading it at this time, just trying to open it, here is the sub that opens the pipe 
sub open_named_pipe
{
  my $INFILE = shift;
  open (IN_FH,"<$INFILE") || die "Cannot open input file $INFILE for r
+eading!\n";
  IN_FH->autoflush(1);
  return \*IN_FH;
}

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How do I just open this and then continue on?

In reply to open ($FH,"<named pipe") blocking by gnu@perl

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