From eb8992a750d9b9d9ff4dd4e66835d01972fc2999 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dirk Zimoch <dirk.zimoch@psi.ch>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 12:08:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] epicsSocketCountUnsentBytes returns -1 on failure

---
 src/libCom/log/logClient.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/libCom/log/logClient.c b/src/libCom/log/logClient.c
index 4e647bd83..476634c5f 100644
--- a/src/libCom/log/logClient.c
+++ b/src/libCom/log/logClient.c
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ static int epicsSocketCountUnsentBytes(SOCKET sock) {
     if (ioctl(sock, TIOCOUTQ, &unsent) == 0)
         return unsent;
 #endif
-    return 0;
+    return -1;
 }
 
 /* 
@@ -292,8 +292,11 @@ void epicsShareAPI logClientFlush ( logClientId id )
         logClientClose ( pClient );
     }
     else if ( nSent > 0 && pClient->nextMsgIndex > 0 ) {
-        pClient->backlog = epicsSocketCountUnsentBytes ( pClient->sock );
-        nSent -= pClient->backlog;
+        int backlog = epicsSocketCountUnsentBytes ( pClient->sock );
+        if (backlog >= 0) {
+            pClient->backlog = backlog;
+            nSent -= backlog;
+        }
         pClient->nextMsgIndex -= nSent;
         if ( nSent > 0 && pClient->nextMsgIndex > 0 ) {
             memmove ( pClient->msgBuf, & pClient->msgBuf[nSent],