when trying to to close session or conenction when the producer is already down, close call hangs forever

when trying to close the session on connection when producer is already down, the close call hangs forever and neither come out of the call nor throw any ex ception.

backtrace for the same is:

0x28bb33ed in activemq::core::ActiveMQConnection::syncRequest ()
from libactivemq-cpp.so.1
#1 0x28bb3949 in activemq::core::ActiveMQConnection::disposeOf ()
from libactivemq-cpp.so.1
#2 0x28bb3ce4 in activemq::core::ActiveMQConnection::disconnect ()
from libactivemq-cpp.so.1
#3 0x28bb7c9a in activemq::core::ActiveMQConnection::close ()
from libactivemq-cpp.so.1