[chuck-users] Fifo with Chuck?

This is a built-in feature in csound on linux, that you can send score lines to a fifo that csound -L will pick up and execute. With chuck, I can open a fifo as a file, read it, send it a line of numbers -- but as soon as chuck has read the last number, it reads the eof and stops working. Is there a way to halt just short of the eof? I suppose I could add a dummy value at the end... but is there something less clumsy available?