diff --git a/src/util/fdlist.c b/src/util/fdlist.c
index 5b80ce9d..83381025 100644
--- a/src/util/fdlist.c
+++ b/src/util/fdlist.c
@@ -64,6 +64,47 @@ int fdlist_new_consume_fds(FDList **listp, const int *fds, size_t n_fds) {
         return r;
 }
 
+/**
+ * fdlist_new_dup_fds() - create fdlist and duplicate FDs
+ * @listp:              output for new fdlist
+ * @fds:                FD array to duplicate
+ * @n_fds:              array size of @fds
+ *
+ * This is the same as fdlist_new_with_fds() but duplicates the FDs. That is,
+ * the caller retains the FDs, and an independent copy of each FD will be owned
+ * by the new object.
+ *
+ * Return: 0 on success, negative error code on failure.
+ */
+int fdlist_new_dup_fds(FDList **listp, const int *fds, size_t n_fds) {
+        _c_cleanup_(fdlist_freep) FDList *list = NULL;
+        size_t i;
+        int r, *p;
+
+        r = fdlist_new_with_fds(&list, fds, n_fds);
+        if (r)
+                return error_trace(r);
+
+        p = fdlist_data(list);
+        for (i = 0; i < n_fds; ++i) {
+                p[i] = fcntl(p[i], F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC, 3);
+                if (p[i] < 0) {
+                        r = -errno;
+                        while (i > 0) {
+                                --i;
+                                p[i] = c_close(p[i]);
+                        }
+                        return error_origin(r);
+                }
+        }
+
+        list->consumed = true;
+
+        *listp = list;
+        list = NULL;
+        return 0;
+}
+
 /**
  * fdlist_free() - free fdlist
  * @list:               fdlist to operate on, or NULL
diff --git a/src/util/fdlist.h b/src/util/fdlist.h
index 233ffc08..e42cdc2c 100644
--- a/src/util/fdlist.h
+++ b/src/util/fdlist.h
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ struct FDList {
 
 int fdlist_new_with_fds(FDList **listp, const int *fds, size_t n_fds);
 int fdlist_new_consume_fds(FDList **listp, const int *fds, size_t n_fds);
+int fdlist_new_dup_fds(FDList **listp, const int *fds, size_t n_fds);
 FDList *fdlist_free(FDList *list);
 void fdlist_truncate(FDList *list, size_t n_fds);
 int fdlist_steal(FDList *list, size_t index);
diff --git a/src/util/test-fdlist.c b/src/util/test-fdlist.c
index 5e71df93..9785a550 100644
--- a/src/util/test-fdlist.c
+++ b/src/util/test-fdlist.c
@@ -85,9 +85,56 @@ static void test_consumer(void) {
         l = fdlist_free(l);
 }
 
+static void test_dup(void) {
+        int r, prev, p[2], expected[2];
+        FDList *l;
+
+        /*
+         * Verify that the `dup' feature of FDList objects actually duplicates
+         * the passed FDs and closes them on destruction. We use epoll-fds as
+         * examples here, though any FD would work.
+         *
+         * We use the fact that FD spaces are sparse to verify that a given FD
+         * was actually properly closed.
+         */
+
+        prev = epoll_create1(EPOLL_CLOEXEC);
+        c_assert(prev >= 0);
+
+        p[0] = epoll_create1(EPOLL_CLOEXEC);
+        c_assert(p[0] >= 0);
+        c_assert(p[0] == prev + 1);
+
+        p[1] = epoll_create1(EPOLL_CLOEXEC);
+        c_assert(p[1] >= 0);
+        c_assert(p[1] == prev + 2);
+
+        r = fdlist_new_dup_fds(&l, p, C_ARRAY_SIZE(p));
+        c_assert(!r);
+
+        expected[0] = prev + 3;
+        expected[1] = prev + 4;
+
+        c_assert(fdlist_count(l) == C_ARRAY_SIZE(p));
+        c_assert(!memcmp(fdlist_data(l), expected, sizeof(expected)));
+
+        fdlist_truncate(l, 0);
+
+        r = epoll_create1(EPOLL_CLOEXEC);
+        c_assert(r == prev + 3);
+        close(r);
+
+        close(p[1]);
+        close(p[0]);
+        close(prev);
+
+        l = fdlist_free(l);
+}
+
 int main(int argc, char **argv) {
         test_setup();
         test_dummy();
         test_consumer();
+        test_dup();
         return 0;
 }