diff --git a/lang/php/5.3/Makefile b/lang/php/5.3/Makefile
index f84d6c74e8e..cb801c86e70 100644
--- a/lang/php/5.3/Makefile
+++ b/lang/php/5.3/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.16 2011/09/16 10:31:21 espie Exp $
+# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.17 2011/11/17 12:52:27 robert Exp $
 
 PV=		5.3
 V=		${PV}.8
@@ -21,4 +21,11 @@ WANTLIB-fpm=		${WANTLIB-main}
 RUN_DEPENDS-fpm=	${RUN_DEPENDS-main} \
 			php-${V}:lang/php/${PV}
 
+# pcntl
+MULTI_PACKAGES+=	-pcntl
+COMMENT-pcntl=		PCNTL extensions for php5
+CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	--enable-pcntl=shared
+LIB_DEPENDS-pcntl=
+WANTLIB-pcntl=
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/lang/php/5.3/pkg/DESCR-pcntl b/lang/php/5.3/pkg/DESCR-pcntl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7b5d76cb852
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lang/php/5.3/pkg/DESCR-pcntl
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Process Control support in PHP implements the Unix style of process
+creation, program execution, signal handling and process termination.
+Process Control should not be enabled within a web server environment
+and unexpected results may happen if any Process Control functions
+are used within a web server environment.
diff --git a/lang/php/5.3/pkg/PLIST-pcntl b/lang/php/5.3/pkg/PLIST-pcntl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..74d7a9049d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lang/php/5.3/pkg/PLIST-pcntl
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+@comment $OpenBSD: PLIST-pcntl,v 1.1 2011/11/17 12:52:27 robert Exp $
+@conflict php5-pcntl->=5.2
+@conflict pecl-pctnl-*
+@pkgpath www/pecl-pcntl
+lib/php-${PV}/modules/pcntl.so
+share/examples/php-${PV}/pcntl.ini
+@sample ${SYSCONFDIR}/php-${PV}.sample/pcntl.ini
diff --git a/lang/php/Makefile.inc b/lang/php/Makefile.inc
index c0933bef219..1278f1d50c5 100644
--- a/lang/php/Makefile.inc
+++ b/lang/php/Makefile.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $OpenBSD: Makefile.inc,v 1.22 2011/11/08 10:25:48 sthen Exp $
+# $OpenBSD: Makefile.inc,v 1.23 2011/11/17 12:52:27 robert Exp $
 
 # This port currently only works with archs supporting dynamic loading
 # and has Apache that supports DSO's.
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ pre-configure:
 		${WRKSRC}/scripts/phpize.in \
 		${WRKSRC}/scripts/php-config.in
 
-.for i in ${MULTI_PACKAGES:N-main:N-fastcgi:N-fpm:S/-//g}
+.for i in ${MULTI_PACKAGES:N-main:N-fastcgi:N-fpm:N-pcntl:S/-//g}
 MODULE_NAME-${i}=	${i}
 DESCR-${i}=		${.CURDIR}/../files/DESCR-${i}
 MESSAGE-${i}=		${.CURDIR}/../files/MESSAGE-ext