diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 37b3ef35..7576ba07 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
 
 * Fixed #1850 - detection issues with tweetnacl/libsodium.
 
+* Fixed #1877 - Avoid terminating connections prematurely
+
 
 0MQ version 4.1.4 stable, released on 2015/12/18
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diff --git a/src/session_base.cpp b/src/session_base.cpp
index 86bfd8ff..e8f90764 100644
--- a/src/session_base.cpp
+++ b/src/session_base.cpp
@@ -454,7 +454,8 @@ void zmq::session_base_t::process_term (int linger_)
         //  TODO: Should this go into pipe_t::terminate ?
         //  In case there's no engine and there's only delimiter in the
         //  pipe it wouldn't be ever read. Thus we check for it explicitly.
-        pipe->check_read ();
+        if (!engine)
+            pipe->check_read ();
     }
 
     if (zap_pipe != NULL)