From 3f8a830963eb9676b91c2a24c17ad4f8331069d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Cox <andrewcox@fb.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 21:18:19 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix DefaultChannelPipeline.first() so that it returns null
 when only the sentinel handlers remain (this is how
 DefaultChannelPipeline.last() works already)

---
 .../src/main/java/io/netty/channel/DefaultChannelPipeline.java  | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/transport/src/main/java/io/netty/channel/DefaultChannelPipeline.java b/transport/src/main/java/io/netty/channel/DefaultChannelPipeline.java
index 3efe734423..6697f13fff 100755
--- a/transport/src/main/java/io/netty/channel/DefaultChannelPipeline.java
+++ b/transport/src/main/java/io/netty/channel/DefaultChannelPipeline.java
@@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ final class DefaultChannelPipeline implements ChannelPipeline {
     @Override
     public ChannelHandler first() {
         DefaultChannelHandlerContext first = head.next;
-        if (first == null) {
+        if (first == head) {
             return null;
         }
         return first.handler();