diff --git a/src/unix.rs b/src/unix.rs
index 85cbc8fe0..b4467e264 100644
--- a/src/unix.rs
+++ b/src/unix.rs
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ pub extern crate libc;
 extern crate mio;
 extern crate mio_uds;
 
+use std::collections::hash_map::HashMap;
 use std::cell::UnsafeCell;
 use std::io;
 use std::io::prelude::*;
@@ -50,6 +51,9 @@ struct Globals {
     sender: UnixStream,
     receiver: UnixStream,
     signals: Vec<SignalInfo>,
+    // A count of how many signal streams are registered on the same event loop instance
+    // so that we can avoid deregistering our receiver stream prematurely
+    pollfd_register_count: Mutex<HashMap<RawFd, usize>>,
 }
 
 impl Default for SignalInfo {
@@ -76,6 +80,7 @@ fn globals() -> &'static Globals {
                 sender: sender,
                 receiver: receiver,
                 signals: (0..SIGNUM).map(|_| Default::default()).collect(),
+                pollfd_register_count: Mutex::new(HashMap::new()),
             };
             GLOBALS = Box::into_raw(Box::new(globals));
         });
@@ -191,14 +196,30 @@ impl Evented for EventedReceiver {
         events: Ready,
         opts: PollOpt,
     ) -> io::Result<()> {
-        let fd = globals().receiver.as_raw_fd();
+        let globals = globals();
+        let fd = globals.receiver.as_raw_fd();
+
+        // NB: we must try registering with the event loop regardless of our
+        // reference count. If the event loop descriptor is closed, we won't
+        // get any notifications to clean up our map, so if a new event loop
+        // descriptor collides with an entry in our map, we want to make sure
+        // we don't accidentally skip the registration.
         match EventedFd(&fd).register(poll, token, events, opts) {
-            Ok(()) => Ok(()),
+            Ok(()) => {}
             // Due to tokio-rs/tokio-core#307
-            Err(ref e) if e.kind() == io::ErrorKind::AlreadyExists => Ok(()),
-            Err(e) => Err(e),
+            Err(ref e) if e.kind() == io::ErrorKind::AlreadyExists => {},
+            Err(e) => return Err(e),
         }
+
+        *globals.pollfd_register_count
+            .lock()
+            .expect("poisoned")
+            .entry(poll.as_raw_fd())
+            .or_insert(0) += 1;
+
+        Ok(())
     }
+
     fn reregister(
         &self,
         poll: &MioPoll,
@@ -210,8 +231,23 @@ impl Evented for EventedReceiver {
         EventedFd(&fd).reregister(poll, token, events, opts)
     }
     fn deregister(&self, poll: &MioPoll) -> io::Result<()> {
-        let fd = globals().receiver.as_raw_fd();
-        EventedFd(&fd).deregister(poll)
+        let globals = globals();
+
+        let mut guard = globals.pollfd_register_count
+            .lock()
+            .expect("poisoned");
+        let ref_count = guard.entry(poll.as_raw_fd()).or_insert(1);
+        *ref_count -= 1;
+
+        // Only deregister if we're the last stream listening for this signal
+        // on this event loop. Otherwise, if multiple streams are opened for
+        // the same signal and one of them is closed, the remainder will starve.
+        if *ref_count == 0 {
+            let fd = globals.receiver.as_raw_fd();
+            EventedFd(&fd).deregister(poll)
+        } else {
+            Ok(())
+        }
     }
 }