diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 64b82c9..060f534 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -23,3 +23,6 @@ You can install it from Python Package Index (PyPI):
 
     daemon = Daemonize(app="test_app", pid=pid, action=main)
     daemon.start()
+
+## File descriptors
+Daemonize object's constructor understands the optional argument **keep_fds** which can contain a list of fds which should remain open. TODO: explain it more.
diff --git a/daemonize.py b/daemonize.py
index c74b86a..09f1170 100644
--- a/daemonize.py
+++ b/daemonize.py
@@ -16,11 +16,14 @@ class Daemonize(object):
     - app: contains the application name which will be sent to syslog
     - pid: path to the pidfile
     - action: your custom function which will be executed after daemonization.
+    - keep_fds: optional list of fds which should remain open
     """
-    def __init__(self, app, pid, action):
+    def __init__(self, app, pid, action, keep_fds=None):
         self.app = app
         self.pid = pid
         self.action = action
+        if keep_fds:
+            self.keep_fds = keep_fds
         # Initialize logging.
         self.logger = logging.getLogger(self.app)
         self.logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
@@ -72,7 +75,8 @@ class Daemonize(object):
             # Uh oh, there was a problem.
             sys.exit(1)
 
-        # Close file descriptors
+        # Close all file descriptors, except the ones mentioned in
+        # self.keep_fds.
         devnull = "/dev/null"
         if hasattr(os, "devnull"):
             # Python has set os.devnull on this system, use it instead
@@ -80,10 +84,11 @@ class Daemonize(object):
             devnull = os.devnull
 
         for fd in range(resource.getrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE)[0]):
-            try:
-                os.close(fd)
-            except OSError:
-                pass
+            if fd not in self.keep_fds:
+                try:
+                    os.close(fd)
+                except OSError:
+                    pass
 
         os.open(devnull, os.O_RDWR)
         os.dup(0)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index eeabd63..c7508cf 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
 setup(
     name="daemonize",
-    version="2.0",
+    version="2.1",
     py_modules=["daemonize"],
     author="Ilya A. Otyutskiy",
     author_email="sharp@thesharp.ru",