--- a/config.h.in
+++ b/config.h.in
@@ -148,3 +148,15 @@
 
 /* Define to 1 if you need to in order for `stat' and other things to work. */
 #undef _POSIX_SOURCE
+
+/* taken from glibc unistd.h and fixes musl */
+#ifndef TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY
+#define TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY(expression) \
+  (__extension__                                                              \
+    ({ long int __result;                                                     \
+       do __result = (long int) (expression);                                 \
+       while (__result == -1L && errno == EINTR);                             \
+       __result; }))
+#endif
+
+
diff --git a/libglnx/glnx-dirfd.h b/libglnx/glnx-dirfd.h
index 0046ac8..79b9f6a 100644
--- a/libglnx/glnx-dirfd.h
+++ b/libglnx/glnx-dirfd.h
@@ -28,6 +28,16 @@
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <fcntl.h>
 
+/* taken from glibc unistd.h and fixes musl */
+#ifndef TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY
+#define TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY(expression) \
+  (__extension__                                                              \
+    ({ long int __result;                                                     \
+       do __result = (long int) (expression);                                 \
+       while (__result == -1L && errno == EINTR);                             \
+       __result; }))
+#endif
+
 G_BEGIN_DECLS
  
 /**

diff --git a/libglnx/glnx-fdio.h b/libglnx/glnx-fdio.h
index c0a7cc1..8f72920 100644
--- a/libglnx/glnx-fdio.h
+++ b/libglnx/glnx-fdio.h
@@ -35,6 +35,17 @@
 #include <glnx-macros.h>
 #include <glnx-errors.h>
 
+/* taken from glibc unistd.h and fixes musl */
+#ifndef TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY
+#define TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY(expression) \
+  (__extension__                                                              \
+    ({ long int __result;                                                     \
+       do __result = (long int) (expression);                                 \
+       while (__result == -1L && errno == EINTR);                             \
+       __result; }))
+#endif
+
+
 G_BEGIN_DECLS
 
 /* Irritatingly, g_basename() which is what we want

diff --git a/libglnx/glnx-xattrs.c b/libglnx/glnx-xattrs.c
index 79a14cd..ebb96d4 100644
--- a/libglnx/glnx-xattrs.c
+++ b/libglnx/glnx-xattrs.c
@@ -28,6 +28,16 @@
 #include <glnx-errors.h>
 #include <glnx-local-alloc.h>
 
+/* taken from glibc unistd.h and fixes musl */
+#ifndef TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY
+#define TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY(expression) \
+  (__extension__                                                              \
+    ({ long int __result;                                                     \
+       do __result = (long int) (expression);                                 \
+       while (__result == -1L && errno == EINTR);                             \
+       __result; }))
+#endif
+
 static GVariant *
 variant_new_ay_bytes (GBytes *bytes)
 {