diff --git a/headers/posix/sched.h b/headers/posix/sched.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..679dc2447a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/headers/posix/sched.h
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2008, Haiku Inc. All rights reserved.
+ * Distributed under the terms of the MIT license.
+ */
+#ifndef _SCHED_H_
+#define _SCHED_H_
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+extern int sched_yield(void);
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif  /* _SCHED_H_ */
diff --git a/src/system/libroot/posix/Jamfile b/src/system/libroot/posix/Jamfile
index 1d1020b53d..a30fc4d0f6 100644
--- a/src/system/libroot/posix/Jamfile
+++ b/src/system/libroot/posix/Jamfile
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ MergeObject posix_main.o :
  	inttypes.c
  	poll.c
  	$(PWD_BACKEND)
+ 	scheduler.cpp
 	semaphore.cpp
  	syslog.cpp
  	termios.c
diff --git a/src/system/libroot/posix/scheduler.cpp b/src/system/libroot/posix/scheduler.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ea88da6224
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/system/libroot/posix/scheduler.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2008, Andreas Färber, andreas.faerber@web.de
+ * Distributed under the terms of the MIT license.
+ */
+
+#include <sched.h>
+
+#include <syscalls.h>
+
+
+int
+sched_yield(void)
+{
+	_kern_thread_yield();
+	return 0;
+}
+