This was fixed by the following commit in newt's upstream git repo. This patch applies cleanly to the debian package.
From 576609273215a0bc2fb0390124c026b63a309f70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mlichvar <mlichvar>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 13:15:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] - cope with backward system time jumps (#240691)
---
form.c | 11 +++++++----
newt.spec | 1 +
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/form.c b/form.c
index 12df175..075c13d 100644
--- a/form.c
+++ b/form.c
@@ -942,16 +942,19 @@ void newtFormRun(newtComponent co, struct newtExitStruct
* es) {
if (form->timer) {
/* Calculate when we next need to return with a timeout. Do
this inside the loop in case a callback resets the timer. */
- if (!form->lastTimeout.tv_sec && !form->lastTimeout.tv_usec)
- gettimeofday(&form->lastTimeout, NULL);
+ gettimeofday(&now, 0);
+
+ if ((!form->lastTimeout.tv_sec && !form->lastTimeout.tv_usec) ||
+ now.tv_sec < form->lastTimeout.tv_sec ||
+ (now.tv_sec == form->lastTimeout.tv_sec &&
+ now.tv_usec < form->lastTimeout.tv_usec))
+ form->lastTimeout = now;
nextTimeout.tv_sec = form->lastTimeout.tv_sec +
(form->timer / 1000);
nextTimeout.tv_usec = form->lastTimeout.tv_usec +
(form->timer % 1000) * 1000;
- gettimeofday(&now, 0);
-
if (now.tv_sec > nextTimeout.tv_sec) {
timeout.tv_sec = timeout.tv_usec = 0;
} else if (now.tv_sec == nextTimeout.tv_sec) {
diff --git a/newt.spec b/newt.spec
index ca10eec..66280cf 100644
--- a/newt.spec
+++ b/newt.spec
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
%{_libdir}/libnewt.a
%changelog
+- cope with backward system time jumps (#240691)
- free helplines and windows in newtFinished, check for overflow (#239992)
- add release to -devel and -static requires (#238784)
- fix cursor positioning when setting entry or checkbox flags
--
1.5.6
--
see shy jo
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