diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 6cf972d9..65d44f7e 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -777,3 +777,6 @@ Javier Marcet <lists@marcet.info>
 
 Peter Waechtler <pwaechtler@mac.com>
  for adding channels for DVB-T Hannover (Germany) to channels.cont.terr
+
+Robert Bartl <robert@bartl.priv.at>
+ for reporting a hangup in SVDRP when the client disappears without sending QUIT
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index c31330d7..afdb726f 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -2336,3 +2336,6 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   to Lauri Tischler and Ragnar Sundblad).
 - Added channels for DVB-T Hannover (Germany) to channels.cont.terr (thanks to
   Peter Waechtler).
+- Fixed a hangup in SVDRP when the client disappears without sending QUIT (thanks
+  to Robert Bartl for reporting this one). The problem was introduced in version
+  1.2.2 through the fix for an occasional "Broken pipe" error in SVDRP connections.
diff --git a/svdrp.c b/svdrp.c
index 625b7f83..c2c65948 100644
--- a/svdrp.c
+++ b/svdrp.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
  * and interact with the Video Disk Recorder - or write a full featured
  * graphical interface that sits on top of an SVDRP connection.
  *
- * $Id: svdrp.c 1.53 2003/07/26 10:57:33 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: svdrp.c 1.54 2003/08/30 09:35:00 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "svdrp.h"
@@ -1104,6 +1104,8 @@ bool cSVDRP::Process(void)
               isyslog("lost connection to SVDRP client");
               Close();
               }
+           else
+              break;
            }
      if (Setup.SVDRPTimeout && time(NULL) - lastActivity > Setup.SVDRPTimeout) {
         isyslog("timeout on SVDRP connection");