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diff --git a/lib/timespec.h b/lib/timespec.h
index 2c32a23db..74d5749df 100644
--- a/lib/timespec.h
+++ b/lib/timespec.h
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 /* timespec -- System time interface
 
-   Copyright (C) 2000, 2002, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright (C) 2000, 2002, 2004-2005, 2007, 2009-2011 Free Software
+   Foundation, Inc.
 
-   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-   any later version.
+   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+   (at your option) any later version.
 
    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
@@ -13,59 +14,50 @@
    GNU General Public License for more details.
 
    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-   along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
-   Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  */
+   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
 
 #if ! defined TIMESPEC_H
 # define TIMESPEC_H
 
-/* You must include config.h before including this file.  */
+# include <time.h>
 
-# include <sys/types.h>
-# if TIME_WITH_SYS_TIME
-#  include <sys/time.h>
-#  include <time.h>
-# else
-#  if HAVE_SYS_TIME_H
-#   include <sys/time.h>
-#  else
-#   include <time.h>
-#  endif
-# endif
+/* Return negative, zero, positive if A < B, A == B, A > B, respectively.
 
-# if ! HAVE_STRUCT_TIMESPEC
-/* Some systems don't define this struct, e.g., AIX 4.1, Ultrix 4.3.  */
-struct timespec
-{
-  time_t tv_sec;
-  long tv_nsec;
-};
-# endif
+   For each time stamp T, this code assumes that either:
+
+     * T.tv_nsec is in the range 0..999999999; or
+     * T.tv_sec corresponds to a valid leap second on a host that supports
+       leap seconds, and T.tv_nsec is in the range 1000000000..1999999999; or
+     * T.tv_sec is the minimum time_t value and T.tv_nsec is -1; or
+       T.tv_sec is the maximum time_t value and T.tv_nsec is 2000000000.
+       This allows for special struct timespec values that are less or
+       greater than all possible valid time stamps.
 
-# ifdef ST_MTIM_NSEC
-#  define ST_TIME_CMP_NS(a, b, ns) ((a).ns < (b).ns ? -1 : (a).ns > (b).ns)
-# else
-#  define ST_TIME_CMP_NS(a, b, ns) 0
-# endif
-# define ST_TIME_CMP(a, b, s, ns) \
-   ((a).s < (b).s ? -1 : (a).s > (b).s ? 1 : ST_TIME_CMP_NS(a, b, ns))
-# define ATIME_CMP(a, b) ST_TIME_CMP (a, b, st_atime, st_atim.ST_MTIM_NSEC)
-# define CTIME_CMP(a, b) ST_TIME_CMP (a, b, st_ctime, st_ctim.ST_MTIM_NSEC)
-# define MTIME_CMP(a, b) ST_TIME_CMP (a, b, st_mtime, st_mtim.ST_MTIM_NSEC)
+   In all these cases, it is safe to subtract two tv_nsec values and
+   convert the result to integer without worrying about overflow on
+   any platform of interest to the GNU project, since all such
+   platforms have 32-bit int or wider.
 
-# ifdef ST_MTIM_NSEC
-#  define TIMESPEC_NS(timespec) ((timespec).ST_MTIM_NSEC)
-# else
-#  define TIMESPEC_NS(timespec) 0
-# endif
+   Replacing "(int) (a.tv_nsec - b.tv_nsec)" with something like
+   "a.tv_nsec < b.tv_nsec ? -1 : a.tv_nsec > b.tv_nsec" would cause
+   this function to work in some cases where the above assumption is
+   violated, but not in all cases (e.g., a.tv_sec==1, a.tv_nsec==-2,
+   b.tv_sec==0, b.tv_nsec==999999999) and is arguably not worth the
+   extra instructions.  Using a subtraction has the advantage of
+   detecting some invalid cases on platforms that detect integer
+   overflow.
 
-# if ! HAVE_DECL_NANOSLEEP
-/* Don't specify a prototype here.  Some systems (e.g., OSF) declare
-   nanosleep with a conflicting one (const-less first parameter).  */
-int nanosleep ();
-# endif
+   The (int) cast avoids a gcc -Wconversion warning.  */
+
+static inline int
+timespec_cmp (struct timespec a, struct timespec b)
+{
+  return (a.tv_sec < b.tv_sec ? -1
+          : a.tv_sec > b.tv_sec ? 1
+          : (int) (a.tv_nsec - b.tv_nsec));
+}
 
-int gettime (struct timespec *);
+void gettime (struct timespec *);
 int settime (struct timespec const *);
 
 #endif