diff --git a/headers/posix/string.h b/headers/posix/string.h
index 8e29ca49fe..b5b918f9c7 100644
--- a/headers/posix/string.h
+++ b/headers/posix/string.h
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ extern "C" {
 extern void		*memchr(const void *source, int value, size_t length);
 extern int		memcmp(const void *buffer1, const void *buffer2, size_t length);
 extern void		*memcpy(void *dest, const void *source, size_t length);
+extern void		*memccpy(void *dest, const void *source, int stopByte, size_t length);
 extern void		*memmove(void *dest, const void *source, size_t length);
 extern void		*memset(void *dest, int value, size_t length);
 
diff --git a/src/system/libroot/posix/string/Jamfile b/src/system/libroot/posix/string/Jamfile
index 72dd1e4d2e..3de1379cad 100644
--- a/src/system/libroot/posix/string/Jamfile
+++ b/src/system/libroot/posix/string/Jamfile
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ KernelMergeObject posix_string.o :
 	bcopy.c
 	bzero.c
 	ffs.cpp
+	memccpy.c
 	memchr.c
 	memcmp.c
 	memcpy.c
diff --git a/src/system/libroot/posix/string/memccpy.c b/src/system/libroot/posix/string/memccpy.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fbe4970413
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/system/libroot/posix/string/memccpy.c
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2005, Haiku Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Distributed under the terms of the MIT license.
+ */ 
+
+
+#include <SupportDefs.h>
+
+#include <string.h>
+
+
+void *
+memccpy(void *_dest, const void *_source, int stopByte, size_t length)
+{
+	if (length) {
+		const uint8 *source = (const uint8 *)_source;
+		uint8 *dest = (uint8 *)_dest;
+
+		do {
+			if ((*dest++ = *source++) == (uint8)stopByte)
+				return dest;
+		} while (--length != 0);
+	}
+
+	return NULL;
+}
+