utimens: work around glibc rounding bug on older Linux kernels

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+2010-12-27  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
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+       utimens: work around glibc rounding bug on older Linux kernels
+       * lib/utimens.c (fdutimens): If invoking futimesat or futimes
+       on Linux with a glibc whose utimes might not work, then work
+       around a longstanding glibc bug involving rounding rather than
+       truncated time stamps.  Reported for Linux 2.4.21 by Bruno Haible in
+       <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2010-11/msg00113.html>.
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 2010-12-26  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
        inet_ntop: Hide mismatch of declaration on NonStop Kernel.