diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index b234ba7..fe33485 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ module github.com/jstarks/npiperelay
 
 go 1.13
 
-require golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20200625212154-ddb9806d33ae
+require golang.org/x/sys v0.5.0
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 06d6848..ce01524 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
 golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20200625212154-ddb9806d33ae h1:Ih9Yo4hSPImZOpfGuA4bR/ORKTAbhZo2AbWNRCnevdo=
 golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20200625212154-ddb9806d33ae/go.mod h1:h1NjWce9XRLGQEsW7wpKNCjG9DtNlClVuFLEZdDNbEs=
+golang.org/x/sys v0.5.0 h1:MUK/U/4lj1t1oPg0HfuXDN/Z1wv31ZJ/YcPiGccS4DU=
+golang.org/x/sys v0.5.0/go.mod h1:oPkhp1MJrh7nUepCBck5+mAzfO9JrbApNNgaTdGDITg=
diff --git a/npiperelay.go b/npiperelay.go
index 08cbaab..e9c9a06 100644
--- a/npiperelay.go
+++ b/npiperelay.go
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import (
 const cERROR_PIPE_NOT_CONNECTED syscall.Errno = 233
 
 var (
-	poll            = flag.Bool("p", false, "poll until the the named pipe exists")
+	poll            = flag.Bool("p", true, "poll until the the named pipe exists")
 	closeWrite      = flag.Bool("s", false, "send a 0-byte message to the pipe after EOF on stdin")
 	closeOnEOF      = flag.Bool("ep", false, "terminate on EOF reading from the pipe, even if there is more data to write")
 	closeOnStdinEOF = flag.Bool("ei", false, "terminate on EOF reading from stdin, even if there is more data to write")
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ func dialPipe(p string, poll bool) (*overlappedFile, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
+	var errCount int
 	for {
 		h, err := windows.CreateFile(&p16[0], windows.GENERIC_READ|windows.GENERIC_WRITE, 0, nil, windows.OPEN_EXISTING, windows.FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED, 0)
 		if err == nil {
@@ -36,6 +37,11 @@ func dialPipe(p string, poll bool) (*overlappedFile, error) {
 			time.Sleep(200 * time.Millisecond)
 			continue
 		}
+		if err != nil && errCount < 200 {
+			time.Sleep(200 * time.Millisecond)
+			errCount++
+			continue
+		}
 		return nil, &os.PathError{Path: p, Op: "open", Err: err}
 	}
 }