--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/lib/sleep.c	Tue Dec 22 05:31:23 2009 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+/* Pausing execution of the current thread.
+   Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Written by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, 2007.
+
+   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 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
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   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, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+
+#include <config.h>
+
+/* Specification.  */
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#if (defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__) && ! defined __CYGWIN__
+
+# define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN  /* avoid including junk */
+# include <windows.h>
+
+unsigned int
+sleep (unsigned int seconds)
+{
+  unsigned int remaining;
+
+  /* Sleep for 1 second many times, because
+       1. Sleep is not interruptiple by Ctrl-C,
+       2. we want to avoid arithmetic overflow while multiplying with 1000.  */
+  for (remaining = seconds; remaining > 0; remaining--)
+    Sleep (1000);
+
+  return remaining;
+}
+
+#else
+
+ #error "Please port gnulib sleep.c to your platform, possibly using usleep() or select(), then report this to bug-gnulib."
+
+#endif