diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9f40e4089f..7b31cd1316 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
   (#[1703](https://github.com/nix-rust/nix/pull/1703))
 - Added `ptrace::read_user` and `ptrace::write_user` for Linux.
   (#[1697](https://github.com/nix-rust/nix/pull/1697))
+- Added `from_sigset_t_unchecked()` to `signal::SigSet`.
+  (#[1741](https://github.com/nix-rust/nix/pull/1741))
 
 ### Changed
 
diff --git a/src/sys/signal.rs b/src/sys/signal.rs
index 9a4e90e4ce..a039201fb7 100644
--- a/src/sys/signal.rs
+++ b/src/sys/signal.rs
@@ -619,6 +619,15 @@ impl SigSet {
             Signal::try_from(signum.assume_init()).unwrap()
         })
     }
+
+    /// Converts a `libc::sigset_t` object to a [`SigSet`] without checking  whether the `libc::sigset_t`
+    /// is already initialized. Objects of type`libc::sigset_t` must be initialized by calling either
+    /// [`sigemptyset(3)`](https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/sigemptyset.3p.html) or
+    /// [`sigfillset(3)`](https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/sigfillset.3p.html)
+    /// before being used. In other case, the results are undefined.
+    pub unsafe fn from_sigset_t_unchecked(sigset: libc::sigset_t) -> SigSet {
+        SigSet { sigset }
+    }
 }
 
 impl AsRef<libc::sigset_t> for SigSet {
@@ -1344,4 +1353,22 @@ mod tests {
             assert_eq!(mask.wait().unwrap(), SIGUSR1);
         }).join().unwrap();
     }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_from_sigset_t_unchecked() {
+        let src_set = SigSet::empty();
+        let set = unsafe { SigSet::from_sigset_t_unchecked(src_set.sigset) };
+
+        for signal in Signal::iterator() {
+            assert!(!set.contains(signal));
+        }
+
+        let src_set = SigSet::all();
+        let set = unsafe { SigSet::from_sigset_t_unchecked(src_set.sigset) };
+
+        for signal in Signal::iterator() {
+            assert!(set.contains(signal));
+        }
+    }
+
 }