diff --git a/src/kernel/libroot/posix/string/Jamfile b/src/kernel/libroot/posix/string/Jamfile
index 9c3fe3bf0c..d1a4e51146 100644
--- a/src/kernel/libroot/posix/string/Jamfile
+++ b/src/kernel/libroot/posix/string/Jamfile
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ KernelMergeObject posix_string.o :
 	memcpy.c
 	memmove.c
 	memset.c
+	stpcpy.c
 	strcasecmp.c
 	strcasestr.c
 	strcat.c
diff --git a/src/kernel/libroot/posix/string/stpcpy.c b/src/kernel/libroot/posix/string/stpcpy.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..13f29cb680
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/kernel/libroot/posix/string/stpcpy.c
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+/*
+** Copyright 2004, Axel Dörfler, axeld@pinc-software.de. All rights reserved.
+** Distributed under the terms of the Haiku License.
+*/
+
+
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
+
+/* This is not a POSIX function, but since BeOS exports it, we need to, as well. */
+
+char *
+stpcpy(char *dest, char const *src)
+{
+	while ((*dest++ = *src++) != '\0')
+		;
+
+	return dest - 1;
+}
+