From ec013f3a17beaa475c18e8cf5e93970800e2f94a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeffery Weston <Jeffery.Weston@nrl.navy.mil>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 14:34:53 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix assert error on late-joining subscriber after publisher
 has filled NORM buffer

---
 src/norm_engine.cpp | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/norm_engine.cpp b/src/norm_engine.cpp
index fbda2f3f..1e3ae179 100644
--- a/src/norm_engine.cpp
+++ b/src/norm_engine.cpp
@@ -557,8 +557,7 @@ void zmq::norm_engine_t::recv_data (NormObjectHandle object)
                 char syncFlag;
                 unsigned int numBytes = 1;
                 if (!NormStreamRead (stream, &syncFlag, &numBytes)) {
-                    // broken stream (shouldn't happen after seek msg start?)
-                    zmq_assert (false);
+                    // broken stream (can happen on late-joining subscriber)
                     continue;
                 }
                 if (0 == numBytes) {