diff --git a/tokio/Cargo.toml b/tokio/Cargo.toml
index 6c915ecd3e4..658bf9f99b9 100644
--- a/tokio/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tokio/Cargo.toml
@@ -109,11 +109,11 @@ tracing = { version = "0.1.29", default-features = false, features = ["std"], op
 backtrace = { version = "0.3.58" }
 
 [target.'cfg(unix)'.dependencies]
-libc = { version = "0.2.149", optional = true }
+libc = { version = "0.2.168", optional = true }
 signal-hook-registry = { version = "1.1.1", optional = true }
 
 [target.'cfg(unix)'.dev-dependencies]
-libc = { version = "0.2.149" }
+libc = { version = "0.2.168" }
 nix = { version = "0.29.0", default-features = false, features = ["aio", "fs", "socket"] }
 
 [target.'cfg(windows)'.dependencies.windows-sys]
diff --git a/tokio/src/signal/unix.rs b/tokio/src/signal/unix.rs
index 740a01fa284..31e2905c02d 100644
--- a/tokio/src/signal/unix.rs
+++ b/tokio/src/signal/unix.rs
@@ -26,22 +26,12 @@ impl Init for OsStorage {
         #[cfg(not(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "illumos")))]
         let possible = 0..=33;
 
-        // On Linux, there are additional real-time signals available.
-        #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+        // On Linux and illumos, there are additional real-time signals
+        // available. (This is also likely true on Solaris, but this should be
+        // verified before being enabled.)
+        #[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "illumos"))]
         let possible = 0..=libc::SIGRTMAX();
 
-        // On illumos, signal numbers go up to 41 (SIGINFO). The list of signals
-        // hasn't changed since 2013. See
-        // https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/master/usr/src/uts/common/sys/iso/signal_iso.h.
-        //
-        // illumos also has real-time signals, but this capability isn't exposed
-        // by libc as of 0.2.167, so we don't support them at the moment. Once
-        // https://github.com/rust-lang/libc/pull/4171 is merged and released in
-        // upstream libc, we should switch the illumos impl to do what Linux
-        // does.
-        #[cfg(target_os = "illumos")]
-        let possible = 0..=41;
-
         possible.map(|_| SignalInfo::default()).collect()
     }
 }
diff --git a/tokio/tests/signal_realtime.rs b/tokio/tests/signal_realtime.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c95d7fdb30e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tokio/tests/signal_realtime.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+#![warn(rust_2018_idioms)]
+#![cfg(feature = "full")]
+#![cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "illumos"))]
+#![cfg(not(miri))] // No `sigaction` in Miri.
+
+mod support {
+    pub mod signal;
+}
+
+use support::signal::send_signal;
+
+use futures::stream::{FuturesUnordered, StreamExt};
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+use tokio::signal::unix::{signal, SignalKind};
+use tokio::time::{sleep, Duration};
+use tokio_test::assert_ok;
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn signal_realtime() {
+    // Attempt to register a real-time signal for everything between SIGRTMIN
+    // and SIGRTMAX.
+    let signals = (libc::SIGRTMIN()..=libc::SIGRTMAX())
+        .map(|signum| {
+            let sig = assert_ok!(
+                signal(SignalKind::from_raw(signum)),
+                "failed to create signal for SIGRTMIN+{} (signal {})",
+                signum - libc::SIGRTMIN(),
+                signum
+            );
+            (signum, sig)
+        })
+        .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+
+    eprintln!(
+        "registered {} signals in the range {}..={}",
+        signals.len(),
+        libc::SIGRTMIN(),
+        libc::SIGRTMAX()
+    );
+
+    // Now send signals to each of the registered signals.
+    for signum in libc::SIGRTMIN()..=libc::SIGRTMAX() {
+        send_signal(signum);
+    }
+
+    let futures = signals
+        .into_iter()
+        .map(|(signum, mut sig)| async move {
+            let res = sig.recv().await;
+            (signum, res)
+        })
+        .collect::<FuturesUnordered<_>>();
+
+    // Ensure that all signals are received in time -- attempt to get whatever
+    // we can.
+    let sleep = std::pin::pin!(sleep(Duration::from_secs(5)));
+    let done = futures.take_until(sleep).collect::<HashMap<_, _>>().await;
+
+    let mut none = Vec::new();
+    let mut missing = Vec::new();
+    for signum in libc::SIGRTMIN()..=libc::SIGRTMAX() {
+        match done.get(&signum) {
+            Some(Some(())) => {}
+            Some(None) => none.push(signum),
+            None => missing.push(signum),
+        }
+    }
+
+    if none.is_empty() && missing.is_empty() {
+        return;
+    }
+
+    let mut msg = String::new();
+    if !none.is_empty() {
+        msg.push_str("no signals received for:\n");
+        for signum in none {
+            msg.push_str(&format!(
+                "- SIGRTMIN+{} (signal {})\n",
+                signum - libc::SIGRTMIN(),
+                signum
+            ));
+        }
+    }
+
+    if !missing.is_empty() {
+        msg.push_str("missing signals for:\n");
+        for signum in missing {
+            msg.push_str(&format!(
+                "- SIGRTMIN+{} (signal {})\n",
+                signum - libc::SIGRTMIN(),
+                signum
+            ));
+        }
+    }
+
+    panic!("{}", msg);
+}