diff --git a/editors/vim-share/distinfo b/editors/vim-share/distinfo
index 6fa997ff8..0f4479613 100644
--- a/editors/vim-share/distinfo
+++ b/editors/vim-share/distinfo
@@ -9,3 +9,4 @@ SHA1 (patch-auto_configure) = 58a0d41f257d39f61d7705c65737bd9bcb3bf719
 SHA1 (patch-configure) = ae5970dec6d557d81da8a8f1da36d05ddc59ca56
 SHA1 (patch-feature.h) = 6fc4b6c07d33af4df44e12af8d1148931a848ef4
 SHA1 (patch-link.sh) = 24db881cea873330a8a3bf672f6135d0835651fd
+SHA1 (patch-zz-minix-a) = af3bc9cf81a9990230518f1e2a59316654ae6563
diff --git a/editors/vim-share/patches/patch-zz-minix-a b/editors/vim-share/patches/patch-zz-minix-a
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..693be6597
--- /dev/null
+++ b/editors/vim-share/patches/patch-zz-minix-a
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+--- src/os_unix.c.orig	Wed Nov 30 08:12:38 2016
++++ src/os_unix.c	Wed Nov 30 08:17:39 2016
+@@ -5392,8 +5392,10 @@
+ 
+     /* TODO: have an option to only kill the process, not the group? */
+     job_pid = job->jv_pid;
++#if !defined(__minix)
+     if (job_pid == getpgid(job_pid))
+ 	job_pid = -job_pid;
++#endif /* !defined(__minix) */
+ 
+     kill(job_pid, sig);
+