date: make %N work without -lrt on glibc

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/coreutils/date.c b/coreutils/date.c
index 8f9aff8b0..c737f09f3 100644
--- a/coreutils/date.c
+++ b/coreutils/date.c
@@ -93,6 +93,9 @@
 //config:         MMDDhhmm[[YY]YY][.ss] format.
 
 #include "libbb.h"
+#if ENABLE_FEATURE_DATE_NANO
+# include <sys/syscall.h>
+#endif
 
 enum {
         OPT_RFC2822   = (1 << 0), /* R */
@@ -208,7 +211,9 @@ int date_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
 #endif
         } else {
 #if ENABLE_FEATURE_DATE_NANO
-                clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &ts);
+                /* libc has incredibly messy way of doing this,
+                 * typically requiring -lrt. We just skip all this mess */
+                syscall(__NR_clock_gettime, CLOCK_REALTIME, &ts);
 #else
                 time(&ts.tv_sec);
 #endif