This doesn't matter for regular Babel, but it breaks the babel-local-interface
branch, which uses a TCP socket for communicating with the GUI.

No hello is -1, not 0.

We now remember the number of kernel routes from one call of check_xroutes
to the next to avoid calling down into the kernel multiple times.

This very slightly reduces the amount of jitter in some cases.

usleep doesn't handle large arguments portably.

Monotonic time is not stable across reboots.