diff --git i/compat.h w/compat.h
index 2819b0e..349865e 100644
--- i/compat.h
+++ w/compat.h
@@ -193,4 +193,7 @@ long long	 strtonum(const char *, long long, long long, const char **);
 # include "compat/vis.h"
 #endif
 
+#define SOCK_CLOEXEC 0
+#define SOCK_NONBLOCK 0
+
 #endif	/* COMPAT_H */
diff --git i/kamid/client.c w/kamid/client.c
index 33e0206..063c698 100644
--- i/kamid/client.c
+++ w/kamid/client.c
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ qid_update_from_sb(struct qid *qid, struct stat *sb)
 	 * Theoretically (and hopefully!) this should be a 64 bit
 	 * number.  Unfortunately, 9P uses 32 bit timestamps.
 	 */
-	qid->vers = sb->st_mtim.tv_sec;
+	qid->vers = sb->st_mtime;
 
 	if (S_ISREG(sb->st_mode))
 		qid->type = QTFILE;
@@ -1477,8 +1477,8 @@ serialize_stat(const char *fname, struct stat *sb, struct evbuffer *evb)
 	np_write32(evb, sb->st_dev);		/*	dev[4]		*/
 	np_qid(evb, &qid);			/*	qid[13]		*/
 	np_write32(evb, mode);			/*	mode[4]		*/
-	np_write32(evb, sb->st_atim.tv_sec);	/*	atime[4]	*/
-	np_write32(evb, sb->st_mtim.tv_sec);	/*	mtime[4]	*/
+	np_write32(evb, sb->st_atime);	/*	atime[4]	*/
+	np_write32(evb, sb->st_mtime);	/*	mtime[4]	*/
 
 	/* special case: directories have size 0 */
 	if (qid.type & QTDIR)
diff --git i/kamid/control.c w/kamid/control.c
index 9fef9a5..dd44435 100644
--- i/kamid/control.c
+++ w/kamid/control.c
@@ -67,12 +67,14 @@ control_init(const char *path)
 	int			 fd;
 	mode_t			 old_umask;
 
-	if ((fd = socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM | SOCK_CLOEXEC | SOCK_NONBLOCK,
+	if ((fd = socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM,
 	    0)) == -1) {
 		log_warn("%s: socket", __func__);
 		return (-1);
 	}
 
+        fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, fcntl(fd, F_GETFL, 0) | O_NONBLOCK | O_CLOEXEC);
+
 	memset(&sun, 0, sizeof(sun));
 	sun.sun_family = AF_UNIX;
 	strlcpy(sun.sun_path, path, sizeof(sun.sun_path));