diff --git a/textproc/par/Makefile b/textproc/par/Makefile
index 238299d2229..1243746d246 100644
--- a/textproc/par/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/par/Makefile
@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
-# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.24 2019/07/12 20:50:10 sthen Exp $
-
 COMMENT=	paragraph reflow for email
 
 VERSION=	1.52
 DISTNAME=	Par${VERSION:S/.//}
 PKGNAME=	par-${VERSION}
-REVISION=	1
+REVISION=	2
 CATEGORIES=	textproc
 FIX_EXTRACT_PERMISSIONS=Yes
 
@@ -16,6 +14,7 @@ MAINTAINER=	Gregor Best <gbe@unobtanium.de>
 # custom
 PERMIT_PACKAGE=	Yes
 
+# uses pledge()
 WANTLIB += c
 
 MASTER_SITES=   ${HOMEPAGE}
diff --git a/textproc/par/patches/patch-par_c b/textproc/par/patches/patch-par_c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4e33f79063a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/par/patches/patch-par_c
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+Index: par.c
+--- par.c.orig
++++ par.c
+@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
+ #include <stdlib.h>
+ #include <string.h>
+ #include <wchar.h>
++#include <unistd.h>
+ 
+ #undef NULL
+ #define NULL ((void *) 0)
+@@ -730,6 +731,13 @@ int main(int argc, const char * const *argv)
+ /* Set the current locale from the environment: */
+ 
+   setlocale(LC_ALL,"");
++
++/* setlocale() needs "rpath", so do the syscall after it */
++
++  if (pledge("stdio", NULL) == -1) {
++    wcscpy(errmsg, L"pledge\n");
++    goto parcleanup;
++  }
+ 
+ /* Process environment variables: */
+ 
diff --git a/textproc/par/patches/patch-protoMakefile b/textproc/par/patches/patch-protoMakefile
index e343b14d642..456818c1e0b 100644
--- a/textproc/par/patches/patch-protoMakefile
+++ b/textproc/par/patches/patch-protoMakefile
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-$OpenBSD: patch-protoMakefile,v 1.1 2001/03/17 15:49:09 wilfried Exp $
 --- protoMakefile.orig	Thu Feb 24 06:15:08 2000
 +++ protoMakefile	Fri Mar 16 20:31:55 2001
 @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ E =
diff --git a/textproc/par/pkg/PLIST b/textproc/par/pkg/PLIST
index 8ac7ae29fe7..b76d2eedcbf 100644
--- a/textproc/par/pkg/PLIST
+++ b/textproc/par/pkg/PLIST
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-@comment $OpenBSD: PLIST,v 1.4 2009/06/25 00:33:41 jolan Exp $
 @conflict rancid-*
-bin/par
+@bin bin/par
 @man man/man1/par.1