diff --git a/ndk/sources/android/libportable/Android.mk b/ndk/sources/android/libportable/Android.mk
index 1e0c79ae9..aa46755fe 100644
--- a/ndk/sources/android/libportable/Android.mk
+++ b/ndk/sources/android/libportable/Android.mk
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ libportable_arch_src_files += \
 			arch-mips/eventfd.c \
 			arch-mips/fcntl.c \
 			arch-mips/filefd.c \
+			arch-mips/flags.c \
 			arch-mips/inotify.c \
 			arch-mips/ioctl.c \
 			arch-mips/mmap.c \
diff --git a/ndk/sources/android/libportable/arch-mips/flags.c b/ndk/sources/android/libportable/arch-mips/flags.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c55fe86a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ndk/sources/android/libportable/arch-mips/flags.c
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2012, The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <fcntl_portable.h>
+
+#define PORTABLE_TAG "flags_portable"
+#include <log_portable.h>
+
+
+/* __sflags is an internal bionic routine but the symbol is exported and there are callers... */
+extern int __sflags(const char *, int *);
+
+int
+__sflags_portable(const char *mode, int *optr)
+{
+    int rv;
+    int nflags, pflags;
+
+    ALOGV(" ");
+    ALOGV("%s(mode:%p, optr:%p) {", __func__, mode, optr);
+
+    rv = __sflags(mode, &nflags);
+
+    /* error - no change to *optr */
+    if (rv == 0)
+        goto done;
+
+    pflags = nflags & O_ACCMODE;
+    if (nflags & O_CREAT)
+        pflags |= O_CREAT_PORTABLE;
+    if (nflags & O_TRUNC)
+        pflags |= O_TRUNC_PORTABLE;
+    if (nflags & O_APPEND)
+        pflags |= O_APPEND_PORTABLE;
+
+    /* Set *optr to portable flags */
+    *optr = pflags;
+
+done:
+    ALOGV("%s: return(rv:%d); }", __func__, rv);
+    return rv;
+}