diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
index 658d526..3f5fb69 100644
--- a/main.py
+++ b/main.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
+import os
 import socket
 import ssl
 import textwrap
@@ -144,6 +145,10 @@ def wrap_socket(server, file_descriptor):
     temp_socket = socket.fromfd(file_descriptor, socket.AF_INET,
                                 socket.SOCK_STREAM)
 
+    # fromfd() duplicates the file descriptor, we can close the one we got from
+    # weechat now since we use the one from our socket when calling hook_fd()
+    os.close(file_descriptor)
+
     # For python 2.7 wrap_socket() doesn't work with sockets created from an
     # file descriptor because fromfd() doesn't return a wrapped socket, the bug
     # was fixed for python 3, more info: https://bugs.python.org/issue13942