diff --git a/libc/calls/calls.h b/libc/calls/calls.h
index 23437afa1..02fadd5eb 100644
--- a/libc/calls/calls.h
+++ b/libc/calls/calls.h
@@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ int symlinkat(const char *, int, const char *);
 int sync_file_range(int, int64_t, int64_t, unsigned);
 int sys_ptrace(int, ...);
 int sysctl(const int *, unsigned, void *, size_t *, void *, size_t);
+int sysctlbyname(const char *, size_t, void *, size_t *, void *, size_t);
 int tgkill(int, int, int);
 int tkill(int, int);
 int tmpfd(void);
diff --git a/tool/net/redbean.c b/tool/net/redbean.c
index 7587b960c..af02731b1 100644
--- a/tool/net/redbean.c
+++ b/tool/net/redbean.c
@@ -7174,8 +7174,32 @@ static int WindowsReplThread(void *arg, int tid) {
   return 0;
 }
 
+static int IsRosetta() {
+  if(!IsXnu()) {
+    return 0;
+  }
+
+  int ret = 0;
+  size_t size = sizeof(ret);
+
+  if(sysctlbyname("sysctl.proc_translated", sizeof("sysctl.proc_translated"), &ret, &size, NULL, 0) == -1) {
+    if(errno == ENOENT)
+      return 0;
+    return -1;
+  }
+
+  return ret;
+}
+
 static void InstallSignalHandler(int sig, void *handler) {
   struct sigaction sa = {.sa_sigaction = handler};
+
+  if(IsRosetta()) {
+    // mitigate Rosetta signal handling strangeness
+    // https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/455
+    sa.sa_flags = SA_SIGINFO;
+  }
+
   CHECK_NE(-1, sigaction(sig, &sa, 0));
 }