diff --git a/changes/bug5762 b/changes/bug5762
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a91f4dfedf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/bug5762
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+  o Minor bugfixes:
+    - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
+      their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
+      by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
diff --git a/src/common/compat.c b/src/common/compat.c
index fbb37ce031..1a03f5efc7 100644
--- a/src/common/compat.c
+++ b/src/common/compat.c
@@ -1013,10 +1013,11 @@ tor_accept_socket(tor_socket_t sockfd, struct sockaddr *addr, socklen_t *len)
   s = accept4(sockfd, addr, len, SOCK_CLOEXEC);
   if (SOCKET_OK(s))
     goto socket_ok;
-  /* If we got an error, see if it is EINVAL. EINVAL might indicate that,
+  /* If we got an error, see if it is ENOSYS. ENOSYS indicates that,
    * event though we were built on a system with accept4 support, we
-   * are running on one without. */
-  if (errno != EINVAL)
+   * are running on one without. Also, check for EINVAL, which indicates that
+   * we are missing SOCK_CLOEXEC support. */
+  if (errno != EINVAL && errno != ENOSYS)
     return s;
 #endif