syslog4j stops logging when rsyslog restarted

After a restart of the rsyslog daemon, syslog4j 0.9.46 can no longer successfully write to the syslog without restarting the java process. No exception is thrown and I see no way to check, via the API, whether logging is still working. Is there some way to get syslog4j to recover from a rsyslog restart, or at least throw an exception so that the connection can be manually restarted?

Sample code:

import java.util.Scanner;

import org.productivity.java.syslog4j.SyslogConstants;
import org.productivity.java.syslog4j.SyslogIF;
import org.productivity.java.syslog4j.impl.unix.socket.UnixSocketSyslog;
import org.productivity.java.syslog4j.impl.unix.socket.UnixSocketSyslogConfig;


public class SysLogging {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        UnixSocketSyslogConfig cfg = new UnixSocketSyslogConfig();
        cfg.setFacility(SyslogConstants.FACILITY_LOCAL1);
        cfg.removeAllMessageModifiers();
        cfg.setIdent(null);
        cfg.setThrowExceptionOnWrite(true);
        cfg.setWriteRetries(5);
        SyslogIF log = new UnixSocketSyslog();
        log.initialize(SyslogConstants.UNIX_SOCKET, cfg);

        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.println("type quit to quit, anything else to log");
        String line = scanner.nextLine();
        while(!line.equals("quit")) {
            log.info(line);
            System.out.println("type quit to quit, anything else to log");
            line = scanner.nextLine();
        }
        scanner.close();
    }
}

The code above works as you'd think until rsyslog is restarted. At that point no more messages appear in the syslog although everything seems to work otherwise.

Hack similar to this should help:

    SyslogIF log = new UnixSocketSyslog() {
        @Override
        protected void write(int level, byte[] message) throws SyslogRuntimeException {
            if (this.fd == -1)
                connect();
            if (this.fd == -1)
                return;
            ByteBuffer byteBuffer = ByteBuffer.wrap(message);
            int ret = this.libraryInstance.write(this.fd,byteBuffer,message.length);
            if (ret < 0) {
                shutdown();
                connect();
                if (this.fd == -1)
                    return;
                ret = this.libraryInstance.write(this.fd,byteBuffer,message.length);
            }
        }
    };