From 546353526553873f9093ba838e74df181ce03be0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric House <xwords@eehouse.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 05:42:47 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] don't increase backoff if there wasn't actually anything to
 send.

---
 xwords4/common/comms.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xwords4/common/comms.c b/xwords4/common/comms.c
index e43c0c191..4e7bcb387 100644
--- a/xwords4/common/comms.c
+++ b/xwords4/common/comms.c
@@ -1263,9 +1263,9 @@ comms_resendAll( CommsCtxt* comms, XP_Bool force )
         XP_LOGF( "%s: aborting: %ld seconds left in backoff", __func__, 
                  comms->nextResend - now );
         success = XP_FALSE;
-    } else {
-        MsgQueueElem* msg;
 
+    } else if ( !!comms->msgQueueHead ) {
+        MsgQueueElem* msg;
 
         for ( msg = comms->msgQueueHead; !!msg; msg = msg->next ) {
             if ( 0 > sendMsg( comms, msg ) ) {