Maybe you can use a named pipe instead?
I don't know whether the "writer" would be blocked if there is no reader.

2010/1/14 Dennis J. <dennisml@conversis.de>:
> Hi,
> Is there a nginx equivalent to apaches CustomLog directive with the "|"
> prefix so it logs into stdin of another program/script? I need to do
> real-time processing of the access log data and I'm wondering how I can
> accomplish this once I switch to nginx.
>
> Regards,
>  Dennis
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