diff --git a/src/go/build/deps_test.go b/src/go/build/deps_test.go
index 1105de16daa343a56f21f8a275edf94dbb8be055..af91fd662aa67912b3f2aca737f1e5eab5c81923 100644
--- a/src/go/build/deps_test.go
+++ b/src/go/build/deps_test.go
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ var pkgDeps = map[string][]string{
 
 	"internal/poll":    {"L0", "internal/race", "syscall", "time", "unicode/utf16", "unicode/utf8", "internal/syscall/windows"},
 	"internal/testlog": {"L0"},
-	"os":               {"L1", "os", "syscall", "time", "internal/poll", "internal/syscall/windows", "internal/testlog"},
+	"os":               {"L1", "os", "syscall", "time", "internal/poll", "internal/syscall/windows", "internal/syscall/unix", "internal/testlog"},
 	"path/filepath":    {"L2", "os", "syscall", "internal/syscall/windows"},
 	"io/ioutil":        {"L2", "os", "path/filepath", "time"},
 	"os/exec":          {"L2", "os", "context", "path/filepath", "syscall"},
diff --git a/src/internal/syscall/unix/empty.s b/src/internal/syscall/unix/empty.s
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7151ab838bd6eeebbed9ba8a063f6e9f5640876a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/internal/syscall/unix/empty.s
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+// Copyright 2018 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// This file is here just to make the go tool happy. It allows
+// empty function declarations (no function body).
+// It is used with "go:linkname".
diff --git a/src/internal/syscall/unix/nonblocking.go b/src/internal/syscall/unix/nonblocking.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..818e9c91a56999eb06115c6527e3f75d06cebe96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/internal/syscall/unix/nonblocking.go
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+// Copyright 2018 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// +build darwin dragonfly freebsd linux netbsd openbsd solaris
+
+package unix
+
+import (
+	"syscall"
+	_ "unsafe" // for go:linkname
+)
+
+//go:linkname syscall_fcntl syscall.fcntl
+func syscall_fcntl(fd int, cmd int, arg int) (val int, err error)
+
+func IsNonblock(fd int) (nonblocking bool, err error) {
+	flag, err := syscall_fcntl(fd, syscall.F_GETFL, 0)
+	if err != nil {
+		return false, err
+	}
+	return flag&syscall.O_NONBLOCK != 0, nil
+}
diff --git a/src/internal/syscall/unix/nonblocking_nacl.go b/src/internal/syscall/unix/nonblocking_nacl.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ff67c75e81a020463f5d85300f819135213957dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/internal/syscall/unix/nonblocking_nacl.go
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+// Copyright 2018 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package unix
+
+func IsNonblock(fd int) (nonblocking bool, err error) {
+	return false, nil
+}
diff --git a/src/os/exec/exec_test.go b/src/os/exec/exec_test.go
index ed2a55557d549356ffe454a6b68a9724740c1ac2..61ffcafcd5e67bb0b00867d2be9da4aa76c32676 100644
--- a/src/os/exec/exec_test.go
+++ b/src/os/exec/exec_test.go
@@ -404,6 +404,12 @@ var testedAlreadyLeaked = false
 // stdin, stdout, stderr, epoll/kqueue, maybe testlog
 func basefds() uintptr {
 	n := os.Stderr.Fd() + 1
+	// The poll (epoll/kqueue) descriptor can be numerically
+	// either between stderr and the testlog-fd, or after
+	// testlog-fd.
+	if poll.PollDescriptor() == n {
+		n++
+	}
 	for _, arg := range os.Args {
 		if strings.HasPrefix(arg, "-test.testlogfile=") {
 			n++
diff --git a/src/os/file_unix.go b/src/os/file_unix.go
index fc6cad38d94e8213306da4090aef39ba7e72602d..ed7e8cb31c1d0adee446091c6d7f0c620b1b4ae8 100644
--- a/src/os/file_unix.go
+++ b/src/os/file_unix.go
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ package os
 
 import (
 	"internal/poll"
+	"internal/syscall/unix"
 	"runtime"
 	"syscall"
 )
@@ -74,9 +75,15 @@ func (f *File) Fd() uintptr {
 
 // NewFile returns a new File with the given file descriptor and
 // name. The returned value will be nil if fd is not a valid file
-// descriptor.
+// descriptor. On Unix systems, if the file descriptor is in
+// non-blocking mode, NewFile will attempt to return a pollable File
+// (one for which the SetDeadline methods work).
 func NewFile(fd uintptr, name string) *File {
-	return newFile(fd, name, kindNewFile)
+	kind := kindNewFile
+	if nb, err := unix.IsNonblock(int(fd)); err == nil && nb {
+		kind = kindNonBlock
+	}
+	return newFile(fd, name, kind)
 }
 
 // newFileKind describes the kind of file to newFile.
@@ -86,6 +93,7 @@ const (
 	kindNewFile newFileKind = iota
 	kindOpenFile
 	kindPipe
+	kindNonBlock
 )
 
 // newFile is like NewFile, but if called from OpenFile or Pipe
@@ -109,11 +117,14 @@ func newFile(fd uintptr, name string, kind newFileKind) *File {
 	// Don't try to use kqueue with regular files on FreeBSD.
 	// It crashes the system unpredictably while running all.bash.
 	// Issue 19093.
+	// If the caller passed a non-blocking filedes (kindNonBlock),
+	// we assume they know what they are doing so we allow it to be
+	// used with kqueue.
 	if runtime.GOOS == "freebsd" && kind == kindOpenFile {
 		kind = kindNewFile
 	}
 
-	pollable := kind == kindOpenFile || kind == kindPipe
+	pollable := kind == kindOpenFile || kind == kindPipe || kind == kindNonBlock
 	if err := f.pfd.Init("file", pollable); err != nil {
 		// An error here indicates a failure to register
 		// with the netpoll system. That can happen for
diff --git a/src/os/os_unix_test.go b/src/os/os_unix_test.go
index 51294ec41950ac2eef791533967ed43c0bfcaa3c..54f121ef4c2d5d41b14bf56172f4d7b53aaedd6c 100644
--- a/src/os/os_unix_test.go
+++ b/src/os/os_unix_test.go
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"syscall"
 	"testing"
+	"time"
 )
 
 func init() {
@@ -224,3 +225,56 @@ func TestMkdirStickyUmask(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("unexpected mode %s", mode)
 	}
 }
+
+// See also issues: 22939, 24331
+func newFileTest(t *testing.T, blocking bool) {
+	p := make([]int, 2)
+	if err := syscall.Pipe(p); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("pipe: %v", err)
+	}
+	defer syscall.Close(p[1])
+
+	// Set the the read-side to non-blocking.
+	if !blocking {
+		if err := syscall.SetNonblock(p[0], true); err != nil {
+			syscall.Close(p[0])
+			t.Fatalf("SetNonblock: %v", err)
+		}
+	}
+	// Convert it to a file.
+	file := NewFile(uintptr(p[0]), "notapipe")
+	if file == nil {
+		syscall.Close(p[0])
+		t.Fatalf("failed to convert fd to file!")
+	}
+	defer file.Close()
+
+	// Try to read with deadline (but don't block forever).
+	b := make([]byte, 1)
+	// Send something after 100ms.
+	timer := time.AfterFunc(100*time.Millisecond, func() { syscall.Write(p[1], []byte("a")) })
+	defer timer.Stop()
+	file.SetReadDeadline(time.Now().Add(10 * time.Millisecond))
+	_, err := file.Read(b)
+	if !blocking {
+		// We want it to fail with a timeout.
+		if !IsTimeout(err) {
+			t.Fatalf("No timeout reading from file: %v", err)
+		}
+	} else {
+		// We want it to succeed after 100ms
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("Error reading from file: %v", err)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestNewFileBlock(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	newFileTest(t, true)
+}
+
+func TestNewFileNonBlock(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	newFileTest(t, false)
+}