diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0ca27b2254..f0d4c794e4 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Sat Jun 28 15:32:57 2014  Tanaka Akira  <akr@fsij.org>
+
+	* lib/webrick/utils.rb (create_listeners): Close socket objects.
+
 Sat Jun 28 13:58:48 2014  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* eval.c (setup_exception): should not overwrite SystemStackError
diff --git a/lib/webrick/utils.rb b/lib/webrick/utils.rb
index 4f43a5f1f8..f3290ce53e 100644
--- a/lib/webrick/utils.rb
+++ b/lib/webrick/utils.rb
@@ -70,7 +70,9 @@ module WEBrick
       sockets = Socket.tcp_server_sockets(address, port)
       sockets = sockets.map {|s|
         s.autoclose = false
-        TCPServer.for_fd(s.fileno)
+        ts = TCPServer.for_fd(s.fileno)
+        s.close
+        ts
       }
       return sockets
     end