diff --git a/os/osinit.c b/os/osinit.c
index ab9c1d657..47061bb2b 100644
--- a/os/osinit.c
+++ b/os/osinit.c
@@ -224,17 +224,6 @@ OsInit(void)
 #endif
 
 #if !defined(XQUARTZ)    /* STDIN is already /dev/null and STDOUT/STDERR is managed by console_redirect.c */
-# if defined(__APPLE__)
-        int devnullfd = open(devnull, O_RDWR, 0);
-        assert(devnullfd > 2);
-
-        dup2(devnullfd, STDIN_FILENO);
-        dup2(devnullfd, STDOUT_FILENO);
-        close(devnullfd);
-# elif !defined(__CYGWIN__)
-        fclose(stdin);
-        fclose(stdout);
-# endif
         /*
          * If a write of zero bytes to stderr returns non-zero, i.e. -1,
          * then writing to stderr failed, and we'll write somewhere else