diff --git a/headers/posix/unistd.h b/headers/posix/unistd.h
index 4b29b74ac1..8aea936ee5 100644
--- a/headers/posix/unistd.h
+++ b/headers/posix/unistd.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2004-2005, Haiku Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright 2004-2006, Haiku Inc. All Rights Reserved.
  * Distributed under the terms of the MIT License.
  */
 #ifndef _UNISTD_H_
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ extern long		pathconf(const char *path, int name);
 
 /* process functions */
 extern pid_t	fork(void);
+extern pid_t	vfork(void);
 extern int		execve(const char *path, char * const argv[], char * const envp[]);
 extern int		execl(const char *path, const char *arg, ...);
 extern int		execv(const char *path, char *const *argv);
@@ -143,8 +144,8 @@ extern pid_t	getsid(pid_t pid);
 extern pid_t	getpgid(pid_t pid);
 
 extern pid_t	setsid(void);
-extern int	setpgid(pid_t pid, pid_t pgid);
-extern int 	setpgrp(void);
+extern int		setpgid(pid_t pid, pid_t pgid);
+extern int		setpgrp(void);
 
 /* access permissions */				
 extern gid_t	getegid(void);
diff --git a/src/system/libroot/posix/unistd/fork.c b/src/system/libroot/posix/unistd/fork.c
index ee735dca7a..7936770a50 100644
--- a/src/system/libroot/posix/unistd/fork.c
+++ b/src/system/libroot/posix/unistd/fork.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2004-2005, Axel Dörfler, axeld@pinc-software.de. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright 2004-2006, Axel Dörfler, axeld@pinc-software.de. All rights reserved.
  * Distributed under the terms of the MIT License.
  */
 
@@ -164,3 +164,10 @@ fork(void)
 	return thread;
 }
 
+
+pid_t
+vfork(void)
+{
+	return fork();
+}
+