diff -urN busybox-1.7.0/networking/isrv.c busybox-1.7.0-gettimeofday_ns/networking/isrv.c
--- busybox-1.7.0/networking/isrv.c	2007-08-24 11:49:41.000000000 +0100
+++ busybox-1.7.0-gettimeofday_ns/networking/isrv.c	2007-09-06 17:39:55.000000000 +0100
@@ -21,20 +21,6 @@
 
 /* Helpers */
 
-/* Even if _POSIX_MONOTONIC_CLOCK is defined, this
- * may require librt */
-#if 0 /*def _POSIX_MONOTONIC_CLOCK*/
-static time_t monotonic_time(void)
-{
-	struct timespec ts;
-	if (clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &ts) != 0)
-		time(&ts.tv_sec);
-	return ts.tv_sec;
-}
-#else
-#define monotonic_time() (time(NULL))
-#endif
-
 /* Opaque structure */
 
 struct isrv_state_t {
@@ -258,7 +244,7 @@
 			/* this peer is gone */
 			remove_peer(state, peer);
 		} else if (TIMEOUT) {
-			TIMEO_TBL[peer] = monotonic_time();
+			TIMEO_TBL[peer] = monotonic_sec();
 		}
 	}
 }
@@ -335,7 +321,7 @@
 			break;
 
 		if (timeout) {
-			time_t t = monotonic_time();
+			time_t t = monotonic_sec();
 			if (t != CURTIME) {
 				CURTIME = t;
 				handle_timeout(state, do_timeout);
diff -urN busybox-1.7.0/runit/runsv.c busybox-1.7.0-gettimeofday_ns/runit/runsv.c
--- busybox-1.7.0/runit/runsv.c	2007-08-24 11:50:01.000000000 +0100
+++ busybox-1.7.0-gettimeofday_ns/runit/runsv.c	2007-09-06 17:39:55.000000000 +0100
@@ -33,6 +33,34 @@
 #include "libbb.h"
 #include "runit_lib.h"
 
+#if ENABLE_MONOTONIC_SYSCALL
+#include <sys/syscall.h>
+
+/* libc has incredibly messy way of doing this,
+ * typically requiring -lrt. We just skip all this mess */
+static void gettimeofday_ns(struct timespec *ts)
+{
+	syscall(__NR_clock_gettime, CLOCK_REALTIME, ts);
+}
+#else
+static void gettimeofday_ns(struct timespec *ts)
+{
+	if (sizeof(struct timeval) == sizeof(struct timespec)
+	 && sizeof(((struct timeval*)ts)->tv_usec) == sizeof(ts->tv_nsec)
+	) {
+		/* Cheat */
+		gettimeofday((void*)ts, NULL);
+		ts->tv_nsec *= 1000;
+	} else {
+		extern void BUG_need_to_implement_gettimeofday_ns(void);
+		BUG_need_to_implement_gettimeofday_ns();
+	}
+}
+#endif
+
+/* Compare possibly overflowing unsigned counters */
+#define LESS(a,b) ((int)((unsigned)(b) - (unsigned)(a)) > 0)
+
 static int selfpipe[2];
 
 /* state */
@@ -126,14 +154,6 @@
 	return 0;
 }
 
-#define LESS(a,b) ((int)((unsigned)(b) - (unsigned)(a)) > 0)
-
-#include <sys/syscall.h>
-static void gettimeofday_ns(struct timespec *ts)
-{
-	syscall(__NR_clock_gettime, CLOCK_REALTIME, ts);
-}
-
 static void update_status(struct svdir *s)
 {
 	ssize_t sz;